THE LEAD TO SUCCEED PROGRAM

Leadership Makes The Difference!

Leadership development is central to Canada's productivity performance, and requires special attention from employers, unions, governments, educators, and others. As Canada emerges from the recession and workers retire in larger numbers, issues of skill shortages will recur unless we pay attention to workforce capacity and skills development.

At Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, our goal is to help our members make a difference for their business. Today that’s more important than ever before. The leadership challenges that senior executives face are more daunting than ever. Competition is ferocious. Budgets are tighter. Speed-to-market and speed-to-service timelines are shorter. Innovation is in great demand but in short supply. A focus on top line rather than bottom line is more important. Customer expectations continue to reach new levels. CME’s newly rebranded  Lead To Succeed program is designed to help you and your team leaders meet these challenges head on.
 

Lead to Succeed is a practical skill-based learning experience. It is designed to help manufacturing leaders develop their knowledge and skills, and come away with tools to support implementation. From strategic to tactical issues, you and your colleagues will be more capable and confident in dealing with the demands of your business.  Lead to Succeed is delivered in partnership with ACHIEVEBLUE™ Corporation, a Canadian based learning and consulting organization.

Call us at 416-236-3005 x. 201 and inquire about the CME Membership Preferred Rates.

PROGRAM  CONTENT AND OUTLINES

1. Vision Program
2. The Active Leadership Program
3. Continuous Improvement
4. Day to Day Improvement

Program Descriptions

Vision Program

The Vision program is delivered as a structured, facilitated immersion learning program that enables you to create compelling and actionable strategic organizational vision. This encompasses your core identity and values, the creation of a value proposition aligned to the unique needs of your marketplace and customers,identification of key resource focus areas,how and when you need to measure success, and how to communicate and support the vision with employees, suppliers, customers and shareholders.

Duration: 4.5 days

Outline

Fundamentals

  • Vision in Context: The Lead to Succeed ™ Model
  • The value of Vision

The Ideal Tomorrow

  • Describing The Ideal Tomorrow
  • Key elements of The Ideal Tomorrow

Today's Reality

  • Defining the as-is state with clarity and precision
  • How to perform a gap analysis between Today's Reality and The Ideal Tomorrow
  • Applying the ACHIEVEBLUE Planner™ to build a Keep / Stop / Start transition plan

Tomorrow's Reality

  • Developing an Actionable Vision Statement
  • Defining the strategic elements needed for success
  • Identifying Vision Objectives

Testing the Vision

  • Gathering input to the Vision from stakeholders
  • Analysing and leveraging stakeholder input
  • Enhancing and finalizing the Vision

Implementing the Vision

  • Developing the Vision Communication Plan
  • Developing the Vision Action Plan
  • Developing the Vision Review Plan

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The Active Leadership Program™

Intense competition coupled with flattened hierarchies, multi-dimensional teams and a diverse working environment characterize today's business climate. This reality requires a repertoire of leadership practices and skills for anyone responsible for getting results with and through others. Recent studies confirm the leader is the prime factor for creating a productive work environment and contributing to higher employee retention.

The Active Leadership program provides the concepts and the practices of Leadership in a high-impact learning-environment to help leaders effectively coach, empower and lead individuals and teams to higher levels of performance.

Duration: 3 days

Outline

The Vision Leader

  • Defining leadership
  • Upward feedback reports
  • Personal Vision
  • The Active Leadership Model™
  • Performance Analysis

Communicating With Emloyees

  • The communications cycle
  • Probing skills
  • Listening skills
  • Preparing communication
  • Personal needs analysis

Task Delegation

  • Analysing employee performance
  • Leadership styles
  • Delegation and assignment
  • Leading change

Coaching Employees

  • Assessing progress
  • Motivating employees
  • Principles of reward
  • Providing feedback

Developing Employees

  • Coaching and reinforcement
  • Improving performance
  • Building employee development plans

Team Leadership

  • Working with teams
  • Selecting team members
  • The Active Leadership Model™ and teams

Personal Development Planning

  • The Organization Priorities Framework™
  • The Employee Development Framework™
  • Personal development plan
  • Refining personal vision
  • Creating and monitoring your Personal Learning Summary

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The Continuous Improvement™ Program

Continuous Improvement provides process leaders and contributors with a structured approach to improving the outputs and the efficiencies of all key work processes so that customers, whether internal or external, get what they need when they need it at the cost they are prepared to pay. The course is designed around a core behavioural model called the Continuous Improvement Model™.

Duration: 3 days

 Introduction to Continuous Improvement

  • Lead to Succeed Model™
  • Internal & External Customers
  • The Continuous Improvement Model™
  • The CI Pathfinder
  • Customer Chain
  • Running Effective Meetings

Define the Issues, Opportunities & Problems

  • Key Action 1: Identify What You Do – Process Flowcharting
  • Key Action 2: Ask Customers to Rate What You Do – Customer Matrix & Customer Survey
  • Key Action 3: Prioritize What You Do – Customer Priority Summary

Establish the Results

  • Key Action 1: Decide What to Focus On – Performance Gap Worksheet
  • Key Action 2: Set Preliminary Results – Why 5 Worksheet & Cause & Effect Diagram
  • Key Action 3: Agree on Results

Identify the Alternative Actions

  • Key Action 1: Brainstorm Alternative Actions
  • Key Action 2: Review Alternative Actions & Eliminate Duplication

Select the Breakthrough Actions

  • Key Action 1: Select Alternative Actions for Prioritization
  • Key Action 2: Prioritize the Alternative Actions

Develop the Schedule

  • Key Action 1: Identify the Tasks
  • Key Action 2: Seek Input from Others
  • Key Action 3: Assign Responsibilities
  • Key Action 4: Develop the Scheduling Board

Implement the Schedule

  • Key Action 1: Assign Tasks to Those Responsible
  • Key Action 2: Ensure the Cooperation of Other Departments

Review Progress

  • Key Action 1: Determine the Type of Review
  • Key Action 2: Prepare for the Review
  • Key Action 3: Conduct the Review
  • Key Action 4: Follow-up the Review

 

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4. Day to Day Improvement

Duration: 1 day

Day-to-Day Improvement provides all front-line workers with information about each of the key models, principles and tools covered in the Lead to Succeed Program learning courses so that they are involved and informed.

Focus on the Customer

To be successful in a globally competitive market, organizations must deliver products and services that solve their customers' problems and exceed their expectations. This means that an organization must make a commitment to continuously look for ways to improve everything it does. This will ensure that its customers will receive quality products and services at competitive prices.

Definition of Continuous Improvement

The definition of continuous improvement may differ from one organization to the next. Individuals within the organization may even differ in their understanding of what the term means to their organization.

Key Elements of the Definition: Everyone working together, every day to make 1000 things 1% better, rather than just 1 thing 1000% better in order to satisfy the needs of the customer and the organization.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

The Vision

  • The Vision
  • Elements, Objectives, Expectations, Roles

Customers

  • Customer Focus
  • Internal & External Customers
  • Focus on Quality
  • Aligning the Vision to Customer Needs

People Skills – Leadership

  • The Active Leadership Model™
  • The Communication Cycle
  • Communication Factors

Process Skills – Continuous Improvement

  • The Continuous Improvement Model™
  • Steps & Key Actions
  • Summary
  • The Need for Change
  • The Role of Management

 Call us at 416-236-3005 and inquire about the CME Membership Preferred Rates.

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