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The Course

Corporations need to nurture dynamic leaders who can help their employees to be innovative, enterprising, focused and fully productive. This course presents an opportunity for leaders to learn the management skills and leadership styles to enable them to maximise their own impact and effectiveness in the workplace, as well as giving them the insights and skills necessary to utilise the abilities of those who report to them. By focusing on real-life organisational issues and the circumstances of individual delegates, it will equip current and future leaders to meet the new and many challenges which accelerating globalisation is presenting to all organisations.

This highly interactive seminar will allow you to examine yourself, and your strengths and weaknesses. You will develop your communication, interpersonal and decision-making skills to enhance your leadership abilities to bring about change, innovation and enterprise. Delegates will also gain valuable insights into and feedback on their preferred behavioural, management and leadership styles.

Delegates will develop leadership skills based on the latest scientific findings on how make effective and creative decisions. You will also learn how to apply flexible leadership skills in a practical way to help your team achieve its goals.

The course not only provides delegates with the opportunity to explore the latest thinking in management and leadership excellence, but also offers the opportunity for test and instructor-based assessment against key leadership competencies. As such, final certification requires delegates to complete all modules of the course for the Certificate in Leadership and Management Excellence to be awarded.

The Structure

Module 1 - Leadership, Innovation & Enterprise Skills

Module 2 - Decisions, Dynamics & Leadership Styles

The Goals

This seminar aims to enable delegates to achieve the following objectives:

Develop appropriate management and leadership skills
Share your thinking, communicate your vision, purpose & direction
Inject passion to motivate people
Encourage employees to think outside the box of conformity
Cultivate and manage creativity
Gain a greater awareness of yourself and your full leadership potential
Refine your leadership styles for the benefit of your team and department
Develop adaptability in dealing with different people
Enhance decision making skills in employees
Apply effective decision making skills in solving problems

The Process

The seminar will combine presentations, together with group and syndicate discussion, with interactive practical exercises, supported by video material and case studies. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in relating the strategies of effective leadership to the particular needs of their workplace. They will also be encouraged to develop practical strategies to implement their learning back in the workplace.

The Benefits

Better understanding of the strategic context of the management role
Deepen personal insights on how to cultivate creativity in the organization
Enhance ability to motivate all employees and increase their productivity
Learn the essentials of creative and inspiring leadership
Build group cohesion and rapport
Learn how to cultivate key leadership styles for different situations and circumstances
Enhance personal growth and confidence in your leadership and management capabilities
Better understanding of how to lead others towards effective decision making
Manage relationships with others (superiors, peers and subordinates) with effective leadership style

The Results

Management skills for unleashing the potential of everyone
Leadership for a renewal of organisational culture
Leaders with the spirit of enterprise
Improved intra/inter departmental communication
Productivity focused workforce
Creative and innovative workforce
Confident and inspiring leadership
Enhance leadership through better understanding of leadership styles
Cultivate a more productive work environment
Professionals who have effective decision making skills

The Core Competencies

Participants will develop the following competencies:

Improve management and leadership skills
Develop more confidence in dealings with others
Apply emotional intelligence to understand others better
Utilize knowledge of behavioural styles to improve leadership
Help employees develop effective change management strategies
Be more knowledgeable about your leadership style & how to maximize its potential
Apply flexibility in various leadership situations
Learn how motivate and lead others better to improve their performance
Utilize understanding of personality styles to enhance your leadership
Apply leadership dynamics to understand others better
Encourage effective decision making skills in a variety of management situations

The Programme Content

Module 1:Leadership, Innovation & Enterprise Skills

Successful Leadership Styles

Inspirational leadership
Power of Influence
Understanding and developing others
Proactive Leadership
Delegation as a leadership style
Motivational leadership

Driving Radical Innovation

Lateral thinking
Systemic innovation
Leveraging the power of diversity
Cultivating creativity
Managing change creatively
Implementing innovation

Entrepreneurial Leadership

Optimizing your personal leadership strengths
Becoming an environmental change agent
Developing personal empowerment
Using transformational vocabulary
Maximizing essential communication principles
Understanding the 3 major levels of communication

Accountable Communication

What is accountability
Improving personal credibility
Leading with integrity
Sharpen your communication skills
Listening with the heart
Inspiring and guiding the team

Developing Emotionally Intelligent Organizations

Building bonds
Cooperation & team building
Forging emotionally intelligent teams
Resolving conflicts using emotional intelligence
Organizational awareness
Leading emotionally intelligent organizations

Module 2:Decisions, Dynamics & Leadership Styles

Developing Emotionally Intelligent Organizations

How Perception influences our leadership style
Understanding our personality
Personality and leadership style
Improving our strengths & managing our weaknesses
Maximizing our interpersonal relationship with others
Removing emotional and mental blind spots

Developing Decision Making Skills

Using your left brain & right brain to make decisions
Split brain theory for developing effective problem solving skills
Developing openness to new ideas in making decisions
Promoting idea mobility in teams
Understanding the creative solving process in individuals and teams
IDEAL problem solving approach

Applying Effective Decision Making Skills in the Workplace

Encouraging creative problem solving for continuous improvement
Removing blocks to creative problem solving
Convergent versus Divergent Thinking
Divergent Thinking Skills for solving problems
Using SCAMPER techniques to approach problem solving
Applying SCAMPER techniques to make effective decisions

Overcoming Mental Blocks to Decision Making

Challenging self-imposed assumptions
Metaphorical thinking
Increasing new ideas
Getting people behind your ideas
Evaluating new ideas
Creative leadership

Effective Leadership to Develop Dynamic Problem Solving in the Team

Ensuring alignment with corporate mission
Encouraging self-initiated activity
Endorsing Unofficial activity
Enhancing Serendipity
Importance of appreciating diverse stimuli
Practicing within-company communication for problem solving
Developing a personal action plan

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Day 5

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Certificate in Leadership & Management Excellence

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