Leadership skills

 

 

 

Exceeded my expectations – excellent learning environment – self and group assessment was challenging, but so useful.

Our flagship leadership development course. Usually delivered over three days as part of broader leadership development programme involving 360 degree feedback, action learning and individually tailored learning activities, this course is designed to transform your beliefs about what you are capable of.

It's one of the few courses we know of anywhere that combines the hard business discipline of articulating a great vision with the soft people skills needed to win commitment and deliver results.

What is leadership?

  • Leadership v management
  • The four key qualities of a great business leader
  • What authenticity means and why you need it
  • The new economy and leading in tough times
  • Execution and leadership for results
  • How to build an enduringly successful organisation
  • Your leadership journey
  • Presence and purpose

Understanding vision

  • Vision, mission and hallucination – what's the difference?
  • Why a vision is essential to enduring success
  • What values are and why your company probably has too many
  • How to determine the values that really matter
  • Good enough never is – what continuous improvement really means

Discovering your vision

  • Analysing your business's strategic position
  • Porter's five forces and Weirsema's three disciplines
  • How to use scenario planning to think about the future of your business
  • Good to great – the hedgehog concept and how to involve your team in articulating the vision

Communicating your vision

  • What makes communication powerful, memorable and moving?
  • Twenty practical tips for powerful communication
  • Conscious decisions v automatic habits – why human beings do what they do.

Seven keys to influence

  • How to develop presence
  • Why you need to be trustworthy
  • Using your expertise
  • Herd instinct and how to harness it with comparisons
  • Understanding that loss is more motivational than gain
  • Storytelling and the hero's journey
  • Consistency and the power of belief

Five influencing styles

  • Pros and cons of the different styles
  • Enhancing your negotiation technique
  • Decision making, problem solving and creativity
  • Why coaching works

Change

  • Leading large scale organisational change
  • Using projects to deliver the vision
  • The psychology of change
  • Creating a sense of urgency
  • Understanding the transitional zone
  • Black swans and recognising the unpredictable
  • Systems theory and the point of leverage
  • Avoiding the most common pitfalls of organisational change
  • Role modelling, storytelling, sanctions and rewards – how to change your organisational culture

Authenticity

  • Presence not charisma – what you need and how to develop it
  • What integrity really means
  • Surviving in the murky world of organisational politics
  • Taking tough decisions
  • What is means to be a truly authentic leader

Focusing your energy where it matters

  • Manage your energy, not just your time
  • Ten tips to double your productivity
  • When the going gets tough – how to stay on track when there's huge pressure to be distracted
  • How to be a success at work and go home on time

Developing yourself

  • Having the courage to face your shortcomings and seek feedback
  • Ofman's quadrants and how you overuse your strengths
  • How to change your limiting beliefs