Flexible Leadership: Responding to What Makes Each Employee Tick

Purpose Statement

Connections Inc. EAP Leadership Development training 2016 gives leaders the knowledge and skills to lead collaborative and productive teams.  “Flexible Leadership: Responding to What Makes Each Employee Tick” will overview some currently popular stereo typing: the Boomer mystified by Facebook; the Millennial who wears flip-flops in the office; the Traditionalist (born prior to 1946) who seemingly won’t ever retire; the cynical Gen Xer who’s only out for himself; and the Gen 2020er — born after 1997 — who appears surgically attached to her smartphone.

While generational stereotypes abound – according to one researcher, “They are just not true. There is no evidence that 35-year-old managers today are any different from 35-year-old managers a generation ago.”

Supervisors and managers must lead cooperative teams that “move beyond the labels.” This program will teach workplace leaders to use the strategies of Emotional Intelligence to understand themselves, build influence in relationships, and most effectively influence productivity and cooperation.

Objectives

Participating Leadership staff will:

  1. Glean an overview of popular generational ‘types’ and understand the limitations of labeling
  2. Apply the principles of Emotional Intelligence (EI)
  3. Practice flexible leadership with employees having backgrounds different than their own
  4. Understand Addiction – a disease of loneliness

Outline

  1. Gleaning an overview of popular generational ‘types’
  2. A data driven review of generational models
  3. Emotional Intelligence and the practice of flexible leadership
    1. Diverse backgrounds and reading emotional messages
    2. Enhancing influence & collaboration

(15 minute break)

  1. Addiction – the disease of loneliness
  2. Walking beside chemical abuse with Emotional Intelligence
    1. Caring without enabling
    2. Intelligent intervention & drug tests
    3. Optimizing successful outcomes

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Presenter:

Andy Visser (MA, Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Certified Employee Assistance Professional) is Senior Consultant and Chief Executive Officer of Connections Inc. Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Connections founded in 1988, is an independent, brokerage style Employee Assistance Program serving a wide range of manufacturing, health-care, agri-business and educational organizations. Andy has specifically developed programs promoting management level usage of the EAP referral as a behavior risk management tool. He has led the Connections team to evolve employee assistance as an integral player in optimizing productivity at work