Course Outline

Module 1: The Leadership Challenge

• The Role of Feedback for Leadership Development
• Leadership in a VUCA World
• Your Leadership Style
  Questionnaire Analysis and in-depth discussions on your leadership profile completed on-line on three different profiles before the course. We will examine your results and identify how you can use them to become a powerful and authentic leader within your organization.
  • Which leadership behaviors come naturally to you?
  • Who do you need on your team?
  • How does your style affect your relationships?
  • How could your style create leadership problems for you?
• Listening for Leaders
  • The secret ingredient for building loyalty and respect
  • Listening beyond the words
  • Group exercise
  • Live Issues from the Workplace
  • Sharing personal mini ‘case studies’ on issues of current concern

Module 2: The Leadership Context

• Introduction to Strategy and the Organization
• Managing the environment
  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Understanding and prioritizing stakeholders – and their needs
  • Stakeholder Mapping
• Statements of vision and mission
  • Corporate values
  • Establishing objectives
  • We review your own organizational statements
  • The Power of Organizational Culture
• What is culture?
  • Different Types of Organizational Culture
  • Benign and toxic cultures
  • The leader’s role in making and breaking organizational cultures
  • Culture Web Exercise: Analyze your existing culture and identify where change is needed to reach your desired culture.
• Leading Employee Engagement
  • Creating a ‘great place to work’ to support and empower your people to get great results.

Module 3 : "Leaders Create Leaders"

• Nurturing a pipeline of leaders
• Developing a network of leaders at every level
• Working collaboratively and cooperatively

• Building High Performance Teams

A practical model that empowers and motivates team member to become self-managing

• Developing & Destroying Trust & Reputation
  • Personal relationships
  • Employee - Organization relationships
  • Customer - organization relationships
  • Society - organization relationships
• Strengthening Your Psychological Capital
  • Optimism
  • Hope
  • Resilience
  • Confidence
  • Mindfulness

Module 4: Leadership Communication

• Influencing Skills
  • Strategies for influence
  • Managing your personal power
  • Handling organizational politics
  • Managing upward
  • The yin and yang of communication
  • Flexing your leadership style for effective, credible communication
• Handling Difficult People and Difficult Situations
  • Follow the framework

• Inspirational Speaking
  • Adopt the secrets of the speech-writers
  • Have ‘stage’ presence
  • Make the most of your voice
  • Use body language
  • Find your passion

Module 5: Leading into the Future

• The Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • Innovation + Opportunity
  • Passion + Persuasion
  • Risk Taking + Ownership
• Leading Transformational Change
  • Case Study: NYPD
  • The nature of change
  • Why people resist change
• The 8 steps to successful organizational change
  • Making change stick
  • Maintaining commitment
  • Leaving a living legacy
• Personal Presentations
• Preparing to Return to the Workplace
• Compile Your Personal Leadership Development Plans
  • Identify the critical areas of your leadership that you can strengthen and build upon
  • Consider how to build new behaviors into your work life
  • Recognize the supporters that you have as a leader and how you can develop those relationships
  • Commit to the single most inspiring and energizing insight that you have had this week that will take your leadership to a new level