The "Blue Ribbon" Recipe for Dietary Leadership

Food Service Directors are under considerable daily pressure and stress with customer satisfaction concerns, budget restraints, employee staffing issues and more. Where is there time to improve leadership skills? This session will provide the necessary ingredients needed to take your dietary team to the “top of their game”. Learn effective techniques in building team confidence, credibility and empowerment using key ingredients. Take the leadership test and discover your strengths, areas for improvement and leadership style. Discover how to build a team of leaders that reduces your workload and stress while improving productivity. Learn how to blend leadership styles for the ultimate success recipe. Put the fun back into being a leader! 

OBJECTIVES:At the completion of this program the participants will be able to: 

1.    Assess and identify the leadership style category in which they feel the most comfortable, and how to capitalize on that style.

2.    Become skilled at blending leadership/management styles to produce positive outcomes for themselves and their employees.

3.    Develop an action plan with set goals for improving leadership/management skills.

4.    Develop a leadership training program for employees.  

This 1½-hour session will utilize lecture, facilitated group discussion, humor, personal action planning, and a PowerPoint presentation.