LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT – ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATIONS

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Course Price: 11,500.00

Course Description

This course examines foundational principles and lays the framework for developing effective leadership skills. It takes a deep dive into advanced concepts and techniques and how they can be applied for success in the modern workplace. There are some traits that all great leaders have in common: presence, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and ethical values are a few. This course is designed for managers, supervisors, and individuals who would like to enhance these traits and advance their thinking, behavior, and actions to prepare for new leadership challenges.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Apply emotional intelligence competencies to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance
  • Develop a strong leadership presence by capitalizing on strengths and talents
  • Demonstrate flexibility in your leadership approach to maximize effectiveness
  • Shape your interactions with others
  • Develop the emotional intelligence of a team
  • Solve ethical dilemmas
  • Take intelligent, calculated risks to achieve strategic objectives
  • Take an active role in your leadership development

COURSE TOPICS INCLUDE

Defining Leadership

  • What is leadership
  • Trait vs. process leadership
  • Assigned vs. emergent leadership
  • Power-based leadership
  • The leadership-management continuum

Leadership and Power/Five bases of Power

  • Five bases of power
  • Reverent power
  • Expert power
  • Legitimate power
  • Reward Power
  • Coercive power
  • Leadership and management

Leading with Vision and Inspiration

  • What makes a good leader?
  • Is leadership a trait?
  • Historical shifts in trait perspective
  • 5-Factor Personality Model and Leadership
  • Neuroticism
  • Extraversion
  • Openness
  • Agreeableness
  • Conscientiousness
  • Emotional intelligence and leadership

Cultural Dimensions and Leadership

  • Meta-analysis of gender and leadership effectiveness
  • Cultural dimensions
  • Clusters of world cultures
  • Characteristics of clusters
  • Developing leadership with strategic thinking
  • Nested model framework

Committing to Leadership

  • Skills model of leadership
  • Blake-Mouton Grid
  • Balancing people and productivity
  • Situational leadership
  • Path-Goal theory

Transformational Leadership

  • Transformational leadership factors
  • Transformational leadership examples
  • Model the way
  • Inspire a shared vision
  • Challenge the process
  • Enable others to act
  • Encourage the heart

Team Leadership

  • Team leadership
  • Psychodynamic approach
  • Eric Berne and transactional analysis
  • Carl Jung and personality

Leadership Assessment

  • Assessment road map
  • Developmental readiness
  • Leadership architecture
  • How to accelerate leadership development
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