Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online
Length: 1 day
Target Audience: Middle Managers, Senior Leaders
Learning Objectives:
This course takes an in-depth look at 5 key transformational leadership skills and provides practical tools and strategies for workplace application. Content is based on Kouzes and Posner’s 5 practices of exemplary leadership.
Key Topics:
- The Evolution of Leadership
- From Great Man Theory through Transformational Leadership
- Situational Leadership approaches
- Developing a Leadership Philosophy (2-day version only)
- Aligning with business goals
- Walking the Talk: Aligning Words and Actions
- The role of truth telling in leadership
- Embracing vulnerability as a leader
- The imperative for modeling behaviours
- Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Sources of motivation
- Creating a motivating environment
- Crafting communications approaches using DiSC (2-day version only)*
- Influencing for commitment
- Challenging Organizational Processes and Innovation
- Focusing on results versus time
- Influencing skills to support innovation
- Creating space for intrapreneurs
- Employee Engagement and Empowerment
- Latest research in employee engagement
- Key levers of employee engagement
- Creating an employee engagement plan (2-day version only)
- Enlisting Hearts and Minds
- Pathways to inspiration
- Powerful communication that changes minds: 3 strategies
- Crafting your leadership message (2-day version only)
Note: This course requires the completion of an online psychometric tool.
Supplement Material
A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.
Benefits to the participants
Throughout the activities, the participants will gain a better understanding of the requirements to lead in the 21st century.
Course Evaluation
A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change.
