The ability and appreciation of setting clear, intentional, and strategically aligned goals is crucial in leading a high-performing team. This programme is to equip team leaders with the insights and practical tools needed to align team efforts with broader business strategies. It is through connecting vision to execution that team leaders and their teams can have a sharpened sense of purpose, and a clear roadmap for towards high performance.

Participants will first come to appreciate the essential link between their team’s goals and the strategic business objectives. To elevate team performance, it is imperative that leaders understand the connection of how their team can support the bigger picture of the organisation. This is doing work that is not just able completing task, but ensuring that goals lead to meaningful outcomes that drives the organisation forward.

Then, there has to be an examination of customized performance planning and goal setting. A ‘copy and paste’ approach to performance setting will inevitably lead to average performance. And so through interactive exercises, participants will explore why to obtain high team performance, a tailored approach to goal setting must be adopted, in order to engage, motivate, and challenge their teams.

In addition to performance planning and goal setting, maintaining ongoing, open 1:1 communication is required. Participants will explore and practice different types of 1:1 conversations, depending on their team’s performance needs. Whether it is performance setting, review, or improvement, these conversations are vital in keeping performance on track, and ensuring that each individual contributes to the team’s success.

Finally, the programme will go into why adopting a growth mindset can elevate team performance. By recognizing the importance of continuous learning and development through skillset and mindset, leaders can create an environment where team members feel empowered to grow, innovate, and overcome challenges towards higher levels of performance to drive both individual and team success.

Objective

At the end of this programme, participants will:

1. Appreciate that in order for them to lead their teams towards high performance levels, that they have to connect to the business strategies that their team is meant to achieve.
2. Go through and understand why performance planning and goal setting for their teams cannot be a ‘copy and paste’, especially if high performance is desired.
3. Practice having different types of 1:1 conversations that directly relate to the team’s performance plans and goals.
4. Recognise the importance of Growth mindset as a leverage to achieving higher levels of performance from the Team.

Outline

1 – Connecting business strategies.
• Opening and icebreaker
• Translate business strategies into business processes for your team, and determine KPIs for success.
• Crafting your team vision, and ensuring it includes the aspirations of your team members.

2 – Intricacies of delegation
• Understanding how delegation fits into the overall process of performance management process, and what does a leader have to do to successfully delegate outcomes.
• Assessing case studies on effective and ineffective delegation.
• Prepare a SMART individual development plan (IDP) to achieve the goals set for each team member, while allowing them to achieve their own personal and professional aspirations.

3 – The 1:1 conversation
• Having the initial 1 on 1 conversation for each team member to turn the team vision into reality through KPIs and goals setting.
• Having 1 on 1 conversations to determine root causes of individual and / or business performance gaps.
• Assess and measure actual individual performance against agreed business performance levels, with a plan for improvement.

4 – Growth mindset
• Actionable strategies to create a growth mindset culture and system within your team.
• Understanding the role of personal and professional goals in growth, resilience, and adaptability at work.
• Promote creativity, innovation, and learning within your team as an avenue for growth, within the context of the Performance management system.

Who should attend

• Emerging leaders who are experienced individual contributors, are already leading project teams, and are a step away from formally leading a team of their own.
• First Time Leaders who have been recently promoted to formally lead a team of their own, and need to get up to speed on what it means to lead and manage others.
• Experienced managers, Supervisors, and Team leaders looking to refresh their understand of the topic with new insights and research will also benefit.
• Experienced managers, supervisors, and team leaders who consciously want to create the team they have always wanted to lead, and have the appropriate team culture to support it.

Methodology

Interactive and experiential trainer-led workshop with participant-led small group discussions and case studies drawn from the First Time Leadership book co-authored by the trainer.

Each participant will receive a copy of Daniel’s First Time Leadership book as a post-workshop resource. The book contains 30 leadership principles revealed in stories based off real-life experiences of successful leaders from 37 countries.

Testimonial

Very knowledgeable, able to explain in simple terms. Most importantly how to do it.

Provides great content, gives sufficient examples and answers questions properly. All topics especially on trust, DISC behavior and delegation.

This course allows me to find my balance with leadership and management strategic skills in working with my team, including leaders above me. Daniel displayed professionalism in coaching through the sessions.

Daniel Lee's Profile

He Simplifies Employee Engagement for Team Leaders and Heads of Departments.

Over 20 years of working in Australia and Singapore, Daniel Lee has accumulated a vast experience and know-how in speaking, training, and coaching participants from different cultures and work backgrounds.

He started his career with the Singapore Police Force and achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant. After which he pursued his Masters in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. During that time, Daniel started his career in Human Resources, eventually focusing on Learning and Development across the Manufacturing, Professional services, and Facilities Management industries in Australia, and with Banking and Finance in Singapore.

From 2017 onwards, Daniel did a career switch with a focus on the education industry working with youths, and later from mid-2018 onwards, to working with adult learners. Daniel has run both in-house and public programmes for Accenture, American Express, PPG Industries, Bank of Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, BNP Paribas, Daimler Trucks, Bollore Logistics, DHL, Shiseido, Standard Chartered, Telkom Indonesia, Beam Suntory, Cornerstone, Singapore Police Force, UTAC, Nexia Singapore, and many more.

Having become a published author in 2021 with his book ‘First Time Leadership’, he knows that leadership is simply an amalgamation of a range of skillsets and mindsets. The key to unleashing one’s leadership is to realise that leadership competencies are interrelated, and to know how to employ them across the various people-related situations.

Since 2022, Daniel has been interviewing Heads of Departments in his latest research, leading from the Middle, to uncover what it takes to be an effective leader of leaders.

With deep theoretical understanding on team and organization leadership and its practical real-world applications, he takes the view that learners already subconsciously know how to achieve the desired outcomes. His role is to bring awareness to the learners, so they can become intentional professionals in their own fields. Daniel has received many positive testimonials from the programmes and workshops he has conducted.