Introduction

The programme opens by exploring key leadership skills and their application within organizations, delving into managing oneself as a leader, leading a team, fostering breakthroughs through innovative leadership, effective communication, and imparting leadership values to team members. This dynamic and highly informative advanced leadership programme aims to develop and enhance personal, team, and organizational leadership skills.

Participants will learn how to understand themselves and their leadership style, develop practical leadership skills, give timely and effective feedback, lead their organization to greater heights through innovative and creative ideas, and impart values through leadership by example.

Corporations need dynamic leaders to foster innovation, enterprise, focus, and productivity among employees. This course provides leaders with essential management skills and leadership styles to maximize their impact and effectiveness. By addressing real-life organizational issues, it equips current and future leaders to meet the challenges of accelerating globalization.

The interactive seminar allows participants to examine their strengths and weaknesses, develop communication, interpersonal, and decision-making skills, and gain insights into their preferred leadership styles. They will learn to apply flexible leadership skills to help their teams achieve goals and explore the latest thinking in management and leadership excellence.

Delegates will develop leadership skills based on scientific findings on effective decision-making and will undergo test and instructor-based assessments against key leadership competencies. Completion of all course modules is required to receive the Certificate in Leadership and Management Excellence.

Course Objectives

• Learn practical leadership tools and techniques that can be applied immediately.
• Understand the importance of leadership influence on the team.
• Develop effective communication skills.
• Identify ways to generate breakthrough ideas and methods for the team.
• Identify value-based leadership principles to apply in the workplace.
• Develop appropriate management and leadership skills.
• Share your thinking, communicate your vision, purpose & direction.
• Inject passion to motivate people.
• Encourage employees to think outside the box of conformity.
• Cultivate and manage creativity.
• Gain a greater awareness of yourself and your full leadership potential.
• Refine your leadership styles for the benefit of your team and department.
• Develop adaptability in dealing with different people.
• Enhance decision-making skills in employees.
• Apply effective decision-making skills in solving problems.

The Process

The seminar will combine presentations, group and syndicate discussions, interactive practical exercises, supported by video material and case studies. Delegates will be encouraged to actively participate in relating effective leadership strategies to their workplace needs. They will also be encouraged to develop practical strategies to implement their learning back in the workplace.

The Benefits

• Better understanding of the strategic context of the management role.
• Deepen personal insights on how to cultivate creativity in the organization.
• Enhance ability to motivate all employees and increase their productivity.
• Learn the essentials of creative and inspiring leadership.
• Build group cohesion and rapport.
• Learn how to cultivate key leadership styles for different situations and circumstances.
• Enhance personal growth and confidence in your leadership and management capabilities.
• Better understanding of how to lead others towards effective decision-making.
• Manage relationships with others (superiors, peers, and subordinates) with effective leadership style

The Results

• Management skills for unleashing the potential of everyone.
• Leadership for a renewal of organizational culture.
• Leaders with the spirit of enterprise.
• Improved intra/inter-departmental communication.
• Productivity-focused workforce.
• Creative and innovative workforce.
• Confident and inspiring leadership.
• Enhanced leadership through better understanding of leadership styles.
• Cultivate a more productive work environment.
• Professionals who have effective decision-making skills.

The Core Competencies

• Improve management and leadership skills.
• Develop more confidence in dealings with others.
• Apply emotional intelligence to understand others better.
• Utilize knowledge of behavioral styles to improve leadership.
• Help employees develop effective change management strategies.
• Be more knowledgeable about your leadership style & how to maximize its potential.
• Apply flexibility in various leadership situations.
• Learn how to motivate and lead others better to improve their performance.
• Utilize understanding of personality styles to enhance your leadership.
• Apply leadership dynamics to understand others better.
• Encourage effective decision-making skills in a variety of management situations.

Organisational Impact

• Increased knowledge and attitude towards the Leadership role.
• Greater self-starting employees, and hence less reliance on senior players.
• More effective teams.
• Increased creativity and innovation at all levels.
• Greater personal and team morale due to improved communication skills.

Personal Impact

• Improved self-awareness as a leader.
• Improved communication at all points in the hierarchy.
• Promotes leadership best-practice.
• Increased creativity and innovation.
• Encourages balance in all aspects of leadership.

The Programme Content

The Leadership Journey

• Leadership: What is true leadership, lessons from the past masters
• Modern leadership and its impact on business
• Human behavior, predictable outcomes
• The new business reality and its impact on us all
• Force field analysis and the comfort zone
• Employee mentality versus entrepreneurial spirit
• Leaders versus managers

Innovative Leadership

• Openness to innovative ideas
• Divergent thinking skills
• Removing blocks to creativity
• Understanding the creative process
• Metaphors and analogies for innovative thinking

Successful Leadership Styles

• Inspirational leadership
• Power of influence
• Understanding and developing others
• Proactive leadership
• Delegation as a leadership style
• Motivational leadership

Driving Radical Innovation

• Lateral thinking
• Systemic innovation
• Leveraging the power of diversity
• Cultivating creativity
• Managing change creatively
• Implementing innovation

Entrepreneurial Leadership

• Optimizing your personal leadership strengths
• Becoming an environmental change agent
• Developing personal empowerment
• Using transformational vocabulary
• Maximizing essential communication principles
• Understanding the 3 major levels of communication

Accountable Communication

• What is accountability
• Improving personal credibility
• Leading with integrity
• Sharpening your communication skills
• Listening with the heart
• Inspiring and guiding the team

Developing Emotionally Intelligent Organizations

• Building bonds
• Cooperation & team building
• Forging emotionally intelligent teams
• Resolving conflicts using emotional intelligence
• Organizational awareness
• Leading emotionally intelligent organizations

Developing Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence

• How perception influences our leadership style
• Understanding our personality
• Personality and leadership style
• Improving our strengths & managing our weaknesses
• Maximizing our interpersonal relationships with others
• Removing emotional and mental blind spots

Developing Decision-Making Skills

• Using your left brain & right brain to make decisions
• Split brain theory for developing effective problem-solving skills
• Developing openness to new ideas in making decisions
• Promoting idea mobility in teams
• Understanding the creative solving process in individuals and teams
• IDEAL problem-solving approach

Applying Effective Decision-Making Skills in the Workplace

• Encouraging creative problem-solving for continuous improvement
• Removing blocks to creative problem-solving
• Convergent versus divergent thinking
• Divergent thinking skills for solving problems
• Using SCAMPER techniques to approach problem-solving
• Applying SCAMPER techniques to make effective decisions

Overcoming Mental Blocks to Decision-Making

• Challenging self-imposed assumptions
• Metaphorical thinking
• Increasing new ideas
• Getting people behind your ideas
• Evaluating new ideas
• Creative leadership

Managing Myself as a Leader

• Importance of perception
• Intrapersonal & interpersonal skills for the leader
• Your preferred behavioral style
• Understanding the model for leadership
• Removing emotional blind-spots

Personal Leadership Challenge

• The dream
• The goals
• The style
• The accountability
• The payback

Creating Vision and Motivation

• The strangest secret
• How to create a vision
• How to harness the power of vision through visualization
• Psycho-cybernetics and its connection with vision
• Goal setting: the key to making vision a reality
• Positive mental attitude: gaining power from a strong vision
• Linking vision to mission and values

Communication for Leaders

• The positive influence of listening
• Sharpening your listening skills
• Body language
• Inspiring and guiding others
• Handling stress appropriately

Advanced Communication Skills

• Discover your communication style
• Identify other people’s communication style
• Learn how to motivate and influence each style
• Advanced questioning techniques
• Selling your ideas and vision
• How to get buy-in from others

Effective Leadership to Develop Dynamic Problem-Solving in the Team

• Ensuring alignment with corporate mission
• Encouraging self-initiated activity
• Endorsing unofficial activity
• Enhancing serendipity
• Importance of appreciating diverse stimuli
• Practicing within-company communication for problem-solving
• Developing a personal action plan

Leading a Team

• Dealing with others
• Understanding the stages of human development
• Optimizing the leader`s natural strengths
• Understanding team processes
• Building effective teams

Imparting Leadership Values

• Leading by example
• Resilience for sacrificial leadership
• Intentionality for self-motivation
• Interpersonal connections for persuasive leadership
• Integrity for accountable leadership

Inspirational Leadership

• Why some people are inspirational
• Human behavioral patterns and cultural differences
• Differing forms and styles of inspiration
• A decision? A skill? or something we are born with
• Lighting a fire under your people

Enabling and Encouraging Your People

• What is an enabler
• The skills required to become an enabler
• How giving away power gains you more
• Resistance to an enabling business culture
• Engaging your team to gain better results
• Recognition and rewards

Final Integration and Feedback

• Summary of key learnings
• Personal action plans
• Feedback and coaching sessions
• Preparing for the next steps in your leadership journey