Introduction :
The programme opens by exploring the key leadership skills and how to apply them in the organization. Using this initial analysis, the programme explores managing yourself as a leader, leading a team, creating breakthroughs through innovative leadership, communicating effectively with others, and imparting leadership values to your team members. This dynamic and highly informative advanced leadership programme aims to develop and enhance your personal, team, and organizational leadership skills.
In this Programme, You Will Learn How to
- Understand yourself and your leadership style
- Develop practical leadership skills to lead others
- Give timely and effective feedback to your team members
- Lead your organization to greater heights through innovative and creative ideas
- Impart values to your team members via leadership by example
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
Training Methodology
The programme uses case studies, interactive and engaging exercises, video clips, and real-world examples from world-class practices in leadership excellence.
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
Programme Outline
Self-Leadership and Team 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
- Leading a Team
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- Dealing with others
- Understanding the stages of human development
- Optimizing the leader`s natural strengths
- Understanding team processes
- Building effective teams
- 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 and Visionary Leadership
Innovative Leadership
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- Openness to innovative ideas
- Divergent thinking skills
- Removing blocks to creativity
- Understanding the creative process
- Metaphors and analogies for innovative thinking
Creating Vision and Motivation
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- 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
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- The positive influence of listening
- Sharpening your listening skills
- Body language
- Inspiring and guiding others
- Handling stress appropriately
Advanced Communication Skills
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- 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
Inspirational Leadership and Enabling Your Team
- 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
Personal Leadership Challenge
- The dream
- The goals
- The style
- The accountability
- The payback
Final Integration and Feedback
- Summary of key learnings
- Personal action plans
- Feedback and coaching sessions
- Preparing for the next steps in your leadership journey