MANAGEMENT 421

SANS Leadership and Management Competencies

Leadership is a capability that must be learned and developed to better ensure organizational success. The more techniques we learn, the better our leadership capability becomes. It is brought primarily through selfless devotion to the organization and staff, tireless effort in setting the example, and the vision to see and effectively use available resources toward the end goal. Leaders and followers influence each other toward the goal, identified through a two-way street where all parties perform their function to reach the overall objective.

Leadership entails the ability to persuade team members to accomplish their objectives while removing obstacles and resistance, and facilitates the well-being of the team in support of the organizations mission. Grooming effective leaders is critical to all types of organizations, as the most effective teams are cohesive teams that work together toward common goals with camaraderie and can-do spirit!

Our focus is purely leadership-centric, we are not security-centric or technology-centric with this training opportunity. We help an individual develop leadership skills that apply to commercial business, non-profit, not-for-profit, or other organization. This course is designed to develop existing and new supervisors and managers who aspire to go beyond being the boss and build leadership skills to enhance their organizational climate through team-building to enhance the organizational mission through growth in productivity, workplace attitude / satisfaction, and staff and customer relationships.

The manager/supervisor will learn vital, up-to-date knowledge and skills required to shift team paradigms to create a more positive and cooperative atmosphere in the workplace. Essential leadership topics covered in this management track include: Leadership Development, Coaching and Training, Employee Involvement, Conflict Resolution, Change Management, Vision Development, Motivation, Communication Skills, Self-Direction, Brainstorming Techniques, Benefits, and the ten core Leadership competencies. In a nutshell, this course covers critical processes that should be employed to develop the skills and techniques to select, train, equip, and develop a team into a single cohesive unit with defined roles that operate together in harmony toward team-objective accomplishment. There are three goals for this course:

• Establish a minimum standard for knowledge, skills, and abilities required to develop leadership.
• Understand and leverage the motivational requirements of employees.
• Establish a baseline understanding of the skills necessary to migrate from being a manager to being a leader.

Author Statement

Our goal in the development of this workshop is to ensure the well-rounded student is provided a basic understanding of skills and techniques necessary to become solid leaders in any situation. I felt that to ensure that our students can lead teams in any situation; we needed to provide a course completely focused on the development of leadership skills through understanding of processes and techniques, driven home by topic-specific labs.
- Stephen Northcutt