Performance-Driven Leadership: Setting Goals, Having Conversations & Inspiring Growth

Aligning Team Goals with Business Strategy

Setting clear, intentional, and strategically aligned goals is crucial for leading high-performing teams. This programme equips team leaders with practical tools to align their team’s efforts with broader business strategies, ensuring a strong connection between vision and execution. Leaders will gain insights into how their team’s work contributes to organizational success, shifting from merely completing tasks to achieving meaningful outcomes that drive business growth.

Driving Performance Through Goal Setting and Growth Mindset

High performance requires a tailored approach to goal setting—simply replicating past strategies leads to average results. Through interactive exercises, participants will explore how customized performance planning engages, motivates, and challenges their teams. Additionally, maintaining ongoing 1:1 communication is essential for performance management, whether for setting expectations, reviewing progress, or driving improvement. The programme will also emphasize the power of a growth mindset, helping leaders foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation to unlock both individual and team potential.

By the end of this programme, participants will:

• Appreciate that in order for them to lead their teams towards high performance levels, that they have to connect to the business strategies that their team is meant to achieve.
• Go through and understand why performance planning and goal setting for their teams cannot be a ‘copy and paste’, especially if high performance is desired.
• Practice having different types of 1:1 conversations that directly relate to the team’s performance plans and goals.
• Recognise the importance of Growth mindset as a leverage to achieving higher levels of performance from the Team. 

This course is perfect for:

• Emerging leaders who are experienced individual contributors, are already leading project teams, and are a step away from formally leading a team of their own.
• First Time Leaders who have been recently promoted to formally lead a team of their own, and need to get up to speed on what it means to lead and manage others. 
• Experienced managers, Supervisors, and Team leaders looking to refresh their understand of the topic with new insights and research will also benefit.
• Experienced managers, supervisors, and team leaders who consciously want to create the team they have always wanted to lead, and have the appropriate team culture to support it.

1. Very knowledgeable, able to explain in simple terms. Most importantly how to do it.
2. Provides great content, gives sufficient examples and answers questions properly. All topics especially on trust, DISC behavior and delegation.
3. This course allows me to find my balance with leadership and management strategic skills in working with my team, including leaders above me. Daniel displayed professionalism in coaching through the sessions.

Over 20 years of working in Australia and Singapore, Daniel Lee has accumulated a vast experience and know-how in speaking, training, and coaching participants from different cultures and work backgrounds. 

He started his career with the Singapore Police Force and achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant. After which he pursued his Double Masters in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Then he continued on a career in the Human Resources industry across the Manufacturing, Professional services, and Facilities Management sectors in Australia, and with the Banking and Finance sector in Singapore. 

From 2017 onwards, Daniel did a career switch with a focus on the education industry working with youths, and later on from mid 2018 onwards, to working with adult learners. 

Currently with his signature programme, First Time Leadership, he enables team leaders to engage their team with effectiveness and Enthusiasm, resulting the outcomes of improved leader Confidence, higher employee Engagement, and reliable team Performance.

Having become a published author in 2021 with his book ‘First Time Leadership’, which he co-authored with Avi Liran, he knows that leadership is an amalgamation of skillsets and mindsets. His research allows him to reveal the science behind how leadership works, and walk others through the journey on how to become effective team leaders.

In 2022, Daniel began to interview Heads of Departments in his latest research, Leading from the Middle, to uncover what it takes to be an effective leader of leaders.

With an ever evolving understanding of team and organization leadership, along with its practical real world applications, Daniel takes the view that learners already subconsciously know how to achieve the desired outcomes. His role is to bring awareness to them, so they can become intentional professionals in their own fields. 

Daniel has received many positive client and participant testimonials and Google reviews from his work in the Leadership space.