Leadership Course

Leadership. Inspiring and enabling organisations to create and realise optimal value.

COVID-19 update: arrangement of our courses

We are now delivering courses online and in-person. Please check the delivery format of each class before enrolling.

Please note that course materials (excluding prescribed texts) are shared electronically within 48 hours of course commencement. Printing is not available.

In today's fast-paced world, strong leadership skills are essential for professionals at all levels. Explore your leadership edge in this dynamic two-day leadership course. You'll discover how to build thriving teams, gain insight into empowering and motivating others and learn to take purposeful, skillful action as a leader. Plus, you'll uncover your unique leadership strengths as you explore contemporary leadership theory and practice. No matter what your current role, LEAD will inspire you to step into leadership with true confidence and know-how. If you are an emerging leader, have leadership aspirations, or want to become better acquainted with the latest trends in leadership, this is the leadership course for you.

Aims

This interactive leadership course aims to build your understanding of your leadership role and equip you to guide your organisation to higher performance, while increasing your authentic leadership presence.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• identify your leadership strengths, so you can bring your Best Self to the task of leading others
• reflect on your own performance as a leader and create a plan for enhancing your leadership effectiveness
• practice skills to influence and manage challenges as a leader
• assess the stage and needs of your team to support peak performance
• actively support the development of a flourishing organisational culture.

Content

Topic 1: Defining your leadership role

Discover what it means to be a leader in today's world. Discuss the difference between formal and informal leadership. Explore concepts of leadership theory and how they might apply to your own practice. Before the course begins, you will complete your Leadership Circle assessment. During this first module, you’ll discover more about where your leadership growth edge is and explore startegies to build on current strengths.

Topic 2: Leading self

Assess your behaviours and underlying assumptions as a leader, using the Leadership Circle (TLC) free self assessment tool. Then explore the power and purpose of your role, to support your leadership journey and build your focus and impact as a leader.

Topic 3: Leading others

Leading others effectively and ethically requires a combination of skills, knowledge and experience. It involves understanding how to influence with integrity, appropriately delegating tasks and using your authority wisely. In this session, you will learn a key technique to manage and understand others in the workplace.

Topic 4: Leading teams

Develop an understanding of the stages of team development and startegies for each stage. Identify where your team is from an enagement perspective and develop startegies to align individual performance to the work of the whole team and organisation. You will also cover a simple feedback tool that allows to support ongoing development.

Topic 5: Leading culture

As a leader, you need to understand the importance of workplace culture and cultural competence. Discover how to create a positive and inclusive environment that values everyone’s contributions. Link your own leadership to the culture of your team and across your organisation.

Topic 6: Integrating your leadership skills

Develop your action plan for continuing to reflect, learn and thrive as a leader.

Intended audience

Aspiring leaders and managers, or those new to leadership and management roles.

Prerequisites

None

Delivery mode

• Face-to-face, presenter-taught training
• Online training via the platform Zoom

Delivery style

This course is interactive and based on experiential learning. The models and tools covered will vary according to the needs and interests of the group.You will be involved in group conversations, discussing and applying your learning, and completing written exercises. There will be constant opportunities to ask questions and and gain insight into solving your particular challenges.

You will get the most from this course if you are:

• willing to contribute to group discussions
• confident communicating verbally in English
• comfortable participating in role-play style activities.

Materials

All course materials are provided electronically (via Dropbox). Printing services are not provided.

Before the course

Please complete the online Leadership Circle: Self-Assessment before class. Once you have your report and graph, watch the following video:

• Creative vs Reactive Jan 20, 2016 The Leadership Circle 1min.45

Review your report and make notes based on what you have learnt from watching the video. We will discuss these findings in class.

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