"Empower Your Personal Leadership" is an one-day program that focuses on understanding effective management & leadership; assessing own management & leadership style; and establishing SMART goals and plans to strengthen self-management & self-leadership. This is part of DPU's personal empowerment / effectiveness programs.

1. EMPOWER YOUR
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
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In Ken Blanchard’s book “Leading At A
Higher Level,” he wrote “If empowerment
is to be successful, organizations and
leaders must develop self-leaders in the
workforce who have the skills to take
initiative. An organization filled with self-
leaders is an organization with an
empowered workforce.”
Ken then reiterated the need to train
people on self-leadership, which is about
developing individuals to pick up the ball
and run with it. He said that individual
learning is a key element of high-
performing organization and is essential to
self-leadership (or as we call it here,
personal leadership).
People in high-performing organizations
are regarded as “appreciating assets”
who grow more valuable with knowledge
and experience. They are developed by
these organizations through formal
training, mentoring and on-the-job
support.
Ken Blanchard then defined the three
critical skills of a self-leader as follows:
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Challenging assumed constraints. An
“assumed constraint” is a belief based on
past experience that limits current and
future experiences. Self-leadership teaches
the person to let go of the assumed
constraints.
Celebrating your points of power. According
to Ken, there are five sources of power:
position, personal, task, relationship and
knowledge. The key is to know your points of
power, and then expand them.
Collaborating for success. This is the time
when self-leaders take the initiative to get
the directions and support they need to
successfully achieve their goals.
It is important to maximize the “power in
you” because you cannot lead a team or
an organization unless you are able to
develop and lead yourself first. To develop
your strong leadership is to empower you –
to enable you to develop or grow the
people under your care, who will then help
you achieve set goals.
Source: http://www.depowerinu.com/blog/2012/10/maximize-the-
power-in-you/

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Why You Should Attend
To be successful, you must not only be a manager, you must
also be a leader. You have to demonstrate characteristics of
both.
For instance, managers are focused on operational
excellence, while leaders are strategic. Managers manage
the change, while leaders define & drive the change.
Managers are focused on “doing things right” while leaders
are focused on “doing the right things.”
To effectively manage and lead others, you must be able to
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manage and lead yourself first of all.
This one-day program will help you answer questions like: What
are the top qualities of a leader that will propel you to
succeed? Why are these leadership qualities important? How
can you improve to achieve the top leadership qualities critical
to your situation? How can you inspire, influence, energize and
lead others? How important is emotional intelligence in leading
and how can you become more emotionally intelligent?
“Most
of
all,
what
makes
the
course
really
effective
is
that
I
see
my
mentor
as
a
role
model.
Knowing
her
journey
and
relating
to
her
experiences
inspires
me.
I
have
not
only
gained
new
skill
and
knowledge
from
the
course.
Most
of
all,
I
found
a
mentor
and
sister
friend
in
Elaine.”
-­‐
BERNADETH
LUCANAS,
former
VP,
Credit
Suisse
(Singapore)
“I
learned
to
identify
what
I
need
to
improve
on
and
which
should
I
focus
on
more...I
have
a
better
understanding
of
myself
and
others.
I
learned
how
to
build
relationships
with
people
that
would
help
me
meet
my
objectives.”
-­‐
AILEEN
V,
a
senior
conference
producer

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EMPOWER
YOUR
PERSONAL
LEADERSHIP
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of this one-day program,
you will be able to:
¡ Understand the role of a
manager and a leader
¡ Understand the top qualities of
leaders from winning
organizations
¡ Come up with a personal action
plan to improve on the leadership
qualities critical to individual
situations
¡ Learn about the power of
influencing, communicating and
managing stakeholders, and
apply in real-life situations
¡ Understand the 5 dimensions of
emotional intelligence (EI)
according to Daniel Goleman,
and EI’s strong linkage to
leadership
¡ Assess own EI and come up with a
personal action plan to become
more emotionally intelligent
About Our Trainer
ELAINE CERCADO has 27 years of
professional history, which includes
working with diverse teams, from the fast
growing small & medium-sized businesses
to complex multi-national corporations, in
varied emerging and mature industries in
Asia-Pacific markets, such as IT, financial,
government, industrial, document
management, entertainment &
healthcare. Throughout her corporate
stints, she specialized in sales, business
development, general management,
people management, regional
operations, customer service, learning &
organizational development.
Elaine is ACTA-certified by WDA,
Singapore’s national certification for
trainers. She is also PMC (Practicing
Management Consultant)-certified by
Singapore Business Advisors & Consultants
Council. Elaine has MBA and BS Applied
Economics degrees.
Who Should Attend
• Leaders at all levels,
including
o Individual contributors
o High-potential team
members
o First-time supervisors
o Experienced managers
o Top /senior managers
o Business owners
• Leaders managing or
dealing with diverse teams
• Leaders from all companies
and industries, be it SMEs or
MNCs
Our
programs
offer highly
interactive
learning
activities for
the course
participants
to acquire
relevant
knowledge
and skills.

4. de’POWERinU Management Consultants LLP
Registration No. T08LL0335D
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30 Keppel Bay Drive #07-42
Singapore, 098650
Telephone +65 6271 0208
Website www.depowerinu.com
Email your queries or feedback to contact@depowerinu.com
Attention to: Elaine Cercado, Managing Director
EMPOWER YOUR
PERSONAL
LEADERSHIP