When you are responsible for managing people, whether as a senior manager, project manager, or supervisor, you want to be the leader that others will follow.

"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him." - Cicero

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do"
 - Andrew Carnegie

If you want the best out of your people, you owe it to them to model the best in yourself. This is the goal of Structured Methods Applications training -- to help you define and refine your leadership/management skills so you can motivate and inspire your employees to be the best they can be.

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."  - Ray Kroc

Leadership Criteria: Teamwork! Productivity! Creativity!

Companies today are looking for Leader/Managers who can motivate their employees to:

  • Streamline operations
  • Accomplish more with less
  • Create new and profitable ideas
  • Generate quality products and services
  • Work together as a team

This means that if you want to succeed as a Leader/Manager in today's business environment, it is essential that you possess leadership traits that bring out the best in the people around you.

The Leadership Performance Criteria developed by SMA is simple, flexible, and allows you to use all or part of the criteria. It gives you the opportunity to examine and recognize strengths and shore up weaknesses. During these workshops, you learn:.

  • To use Leadership Criteria to achieve personal/corporate goals.
  • That Productivity includes processes.
  • That the writing process is part of the planning process which is part of the life cycle/design-build process-- all integrated.
  • The measures that are included in each of these processes.
  • Simple steps to make these processes work for you.
  • That Teamwork means respect, influencing, listening, and other "people skills."
  • Creativity tools to catch fleeting thoughts, ideas, organize, plan
  • How to use rewards to build teamwork, avoid competition, achieve goals.

More reasons you should attend:

  • Productivity strategies help you cut through red tape, save time, money, and effort, and make better decisions.
  • Creativity techniques simplify planning and procedures.
  • "Cookbook" management practices allow you to easily manage and oversee a project of any size, type, or complexity.
  • Communication skills help you decrease fears, encourage discussion, stimulate idea sharing, and achieve the results you want.
  • Various and flexible rewards and fun motivate people to achieve goals.

A key benefit to these courses is that they are designed so that your performance lessons are applicable to any management system (s) that your organization employs, including ISO, FDA, military and more.

JT will take you step-by-step through each of the processes of using an effective Leadership Criteria. Following lecture segments, you'll break into team workshops so you'll have an opportunity to immediately practice techniques just presented. In addition, you'll be given a simulated performance example that will serve as a memorable case study you can recall later as a reference. Audience examples are welcomed.

To have a better understanding of how these performance measures and rewards can work for you, check out the link "Projects".

 

Top Reasons to Use Performance Criteria
for Leaders

Profits: The leadership performance market is full of fabulous methods to improve performance. Here is a simplified approach that links criteria, measures, and rewards to give you the potential to build enormous profits.

Rewards tied to Performance: Establishing performance criteria (ex. Teamwork), using a simple, clear, measure (ex. producing an agreed upon document or action) and rewarding the team (ex. fun) will assure people that achieving corporate and personal goals is do-able and will be rewarded. Ask yourself: What are your rewarding now?

Huge Inventory: There are several performance tools and methods you can use. Most every type of situation and problem can be solved using one or more of these methods. For example, Want more productivity? Reward people for simplicity. Want more teamwork? Reward people for speaking and acting with respect, for learning from mistakes, for working together and for listening.

Simple Measures: These performance criteria use simple, engineering-based measures which have long been used in various industries. For example, puzzled with Six Sigma or SOX complexity? Simplify the approach. Having trouble developing ideas? Use mind mapping. Who is responsible for what? Use Responsibility Matrix.

Buyers Market: Purchasing performance criteria training for leaders assures you of highly motivated customers. Many  owners are anxious to have their senior managers learn and be rewarded for the benefits that these methods bring. Be the right example to follow! Train now!