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Today’s leader challenges employees to achieve high performance in a volatile and uncertain environment. This requires more than just management. In this course, you will learn to spark motivation and provide a work context of trust and growth. You will actively work on enhancing your authority as a leader, promoting ownership of business priorities and leading by example.

We believe that you can only lead others if you are able to lead yourself. In this course, we will strengthen leadership skills by aligning your values, talents and ambition with a personal leadership style. Building on the insights of renowned leadership thinkers, you will expand your range of essential leadership skills and actively experiment with their effectiveness.

Session Outline

After this course participants, will:
  1. Have strengthened vision of effective leadership and created a vision for future leadership
  2. Know the essentials of effective leadership (creating commitment & ownership, managing performance and switching in leadership styles) and how to apply them in your actual work practice
  3. Be (more) aware of personal values, talents and ambition and how to align these with their leadership style
  4. Understand the impact of values, beliefs and ambition on the motivation of employees
  5. Be more aware of personal leadership style and its effect on others

Pre-course preparation
  1. Ask a peer manager and/or line manager for feedback about your leadership skills.
  2. In consultation with your manager, identify 2-3 development goals relating to your leadership skills.

Personal Leadership
 1. Aligning your values    
     1.1 Beliefs and ambition with effective leadership within your organization{C}·        
 2. Motivation:
     2.1 Sparking your employees’ motivation by tapping into their values and ambition
 3. Basic leadership skills:
     3.1 Active listening, giving feedback, focus on performance and flexibility in behaviour
     3.2Adapting your leadership style appropriately to different people and situations

Manage performance
 1. Navigating management between different cultures
     1.1 Understanding the effect of culture within an organization
     1.2 Manage different cultures at the same time
 2. Leading by example
      2.1 Sharing and advising on real life cases

Your individual leadership statement
 1. What it means to be accountable
 2. Your SMART goals

Agenda

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Registration
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Starts
3:00 PM - 3:05 PM
Tea Break
3:05 PM - 5:30 PM
Session Ends

Speakers

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    Schouten China /

    https://www.schoutenglobal.com/

    Together with Schouten China, the American Chamber of Commerce in Suzhou is offering a full range of award winning trainings. With offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen Schouten China stands alone in its ability to fuse broad strategic development resources with the expertise of over 700 professional consultants, trainers and coaches located around the world.

    Being ‘world-class’ is no longer good enough. It’s now simply the minimum requirement to be able to play in today’s market. Schouten China stands alone in its ability to fuse broad strategic development resources with the expertise of over 700 consultants, trainers and
    coaches located around the world. In 2016 Schouten China has been recognized as the number one coaching and training service provider in Greater China by HRoot, China’s largest HR body.

    Schouten China is part of Schouten Global, the leading global provider of talent development solutions, with over 36 years of experience in guiding global and local organizations to develop their management and future leaders.

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Tickets

Member Ticket
Member Price RMB 360
Employee Ticket
Standard Price RMB 550
Non-Member Ticket
Standard Price RMB 1,000

Registration

  • All registrations shall be made online before the session. For full-day sessions, payment also shall be made before the session.
  • For half-day sessions, AmCham Shanghai members are eligible to attend free of charge with Training Credit*; AmCham Shanghai members without Training Credit are eligible to attend at “Member Rate”; Employees who work at AmCham Shanghai member companies are eligible to attend at "Employee Rate".
  • For full-day sessions, AmCham Shanghai members are eligible to attend at “Member Rate”; Employees who work at AmCham Shanghai member companies are eligible to attend at “Employee Rate”; Non-members are eligible to attend at “Non-Member Rate”.
  • Limited spaces are available and attendance will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Members please bring your membership card and non-members bring your business card upon check-in at the training session.
Walk-in and Cancellation Policy
  • This session requires confirmation of attendance in advance. If you attend this session without prior registration, you will be charged an RMB50 "walk-in" fee as member and RMB100 as employee.
  • Cancellation: If you need to cancel your registration for a half-day session, please notify us at (86 512) 6999 5295 or email Suzhou@amcham-shanghai.org no less than 24 hours in advance. If you need to cancel your registration for a full-day session, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the session for a full refund. Cancellation made within two weeks before the session will not be refundable.
  • To ensure that you have a seat, please come to the session on time. Open seats will be released to other guests 15 minutes after the session starts.
*What is Training Credit?
As an extra offer to all AmCham Shanghai members, each member will be granted with ONE Training Credit with their valid membership term. Members are able to use the Training Credit to register for the training session they are interested in, free of charge. The Training Credit can only be used by the member him/herself. The Training Credit is not transferrable or refundable for cash.