DAY 1 -
LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE: WHAT DO THEY MEAN?
- The challenge to lead in today’s modern organization
- Lessons learned from powerful leaders of the past and present
- The changing role, responsibilities and nature of Leadership and the new skills needed for today and tomorrow.
- Leadership styles in modern organizations – including your organization
- The influence of followers on leadership
- Leadership models, methods and theories – over of the most popular schools of thought
- Self-assessment: Leadership Behaviors – defining your strength’s and areas to develop
- Three Lenses of Leadership
DAY 2 -
HOW A LEADER LEADS FROM IDEAS, PROBLEM-SOLVING, PLANNING AND PERSONAL POWER
- Ways to increase self-knowledge and self-reflection
- Understand how you think and becoming a “Systems Thinker”
- The character of a leader and how leadership from within and using this to create an environment of leadership
- Thinking outside the box – left/right brain thinking and using the six hats technique
- Finding creative solutions using creativity tools such as brainstorming, reverse brainstorming, Imagineering and mind mapping
- How to evaluate and select the best solution using formal analysis tools such as Pro’s and Con’s, Force field analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis and Feasibility/Capability Analysis
DAY 3 -
HOW A LEADER BUILDS TRUST AND FOLLOWERS
- What is trust and the benefits of a high trust environment
- How trust produces the competitive edge and leads to increase in performance and results
- Group influence, political savvy and effective Interpersonal Influence
- Emotional intelligence applied to leadership
- Coaching, delegation and reverse delegation for empowerment, people development and managing your own time and results
- Negotiating agreement using proven principles of effective negotiation
DAY 4 -
HOW A LEADER USES COMMUNICATION TO GAIN INFLUENCE
- The Art of Communication as a leader – in conversation, coaching, delegating, when writing and online.
- Building your skills as an effective communicator though engaging presentation and public speaking skills
- Successful coaching and reverse delegation
- The power of Vision, mission, purpose and goals
- Using language a word pictures to demonstrate your vision
- John Kotters Change management theory in practice
DAY 5 -
HOW A LEADER INFLUENCES PEOPLE
- The Motivating Leader
- How a Leader motivates themselves and others
- The need for achievement, power and affiliation
- Expectancy theory and motivation
- How a leader Creates an environment for self-motivation
- Personal Roadmap to Leadership
- Review of learning points