leadership

Ideal for aspiring or recently appointed leaders or those who want to develop their management skills further, our Ultimate Leadership Development Program will help you improve your ability to influence, impact and instigate change in an organisation.

This comprehensive course will teach you how to build and lead teams effectively, implement cultural change, make executive decisions, and mitigate team dysfunction.

You will also learn about change management, accountability and ethics, and how to develop and use mindfulness, emotional intelligence and cultural intelligence to lead with influence.

Lead on!

Learning Outcomes

Outcomes achieved by undertaking a leadership development program include:

• Learning how to define, choose, build and motivate a successful team and make it work
• Studying barriers to developing people and identifying when your team isn’t working
• Gaining insights into leading with Executive Presence
• Understanding the role of gravitas and leading with judgement and decisiveness
• Exploring how to lead across cultures including how to be a culturally competent leader
• Understanding cultural intelligence
• Learning how to lead a customer-centric culture
• Studying how to retain and value customers
• Gaining insights into successful coaching in the workplace
• Understanding how to lead through motivation
• Learning about new leadership transitions, build a team and network and influence
• Exploring how to cultivate a networking mindset and establish a network identity
• Studying the social skills for networking and how to access networks
• Gaining insights into creating a successful business execution culture
• Understanding how to involve and empower people and execute an operational plan
• Learning how to innovate for business survival, overcome obstacles and leverage people’s creativity
• Exploring how to become a visionary leader and lead through the Challenge of Change
• Studying the attributes of an effective change leader and how to lead people through conflict
• Gaining insights into leading a virtual team, the role of technology and resolving challenges
• Understanding how to lead others through conflict
• Learning how to lead through setting and managing priorities
• Exploring leading through problem-solving and decision making
• Gaining an understanding of accountable leadership
• Studying how to foster accountability in the workplace
• Gaining insights to determine and establish accountability
• Understanding how to lead through disruption
• Learning how to face disruption as an opportunity
• Exploring how to foster the development of a company’s digital DNA
• Studying how to lay the foundation for being a digital leader and become a digital literate
• Gaining insights into using digital technology to engage and influence
• Understanding leadership styles including the Agile Leader
• Learning how to overcome agility obstacles and balance focus and agility
• Exploring how to lead in the digital era and adopt an appropriate mindset
• Studying how to become an emotionally intelligent leader
• Gaining insights into being a Mindful leader and develop clarity and focus
• Understanding how to lead with values and ethics and handle ethical dilemmas
• Learning how to influence and persuade others
• Studying how to understand an audience and make a case
• Gaining insights into getting agreement and successfully persuading others
• Understanding how to develop critical thinking and cognitive flexibility
• Learning how to access information, recognise assumptions, evaluate arguments and recognise bias
• Studying how to apply analytical techniques and the value of cognitive flexibility
• Gaining insights into how to analyse, adapt, act and use critical thinking to make a decision
• Understanding how to lead with strategic thinking
• Learning how to develop women leaders
• Exploring how to recognise gender biases and barriers
• Understanding how to achieve gender balance in leadership roles
• Studying how to close the gender leadership gap
• Gaining insights into negotiating to create opportunities

 

And more!

What is Agile Leadership?

Essential to business change, Agile leaders have the foresight and humility to understand they can’t tackle organisational problems alone. They work with individuals who love learning, inspire them to improve, and provide them with ample opportunities for development.

Agile leadership is based on concepts that support business transformation, and many of these are covered in any leadership development program. They include:

Encouraging action

Those who lead by example and engage in their own development not only drive and promote change, but inspire others. They work on themselves through action rather than words. They also exhibit empathetic and humble traits by demonstrating virtues like kindness, care and compassion. 

Quality thinking

Meaningful action results from high-quality thinking, and Agile leaders look at problems from different angles. They obtain input from those close to the problem to ensure they are in touch with reality when making decisions. They also allow for their own ‘thinking time’ in order to focus on the highest priorities that need tackling.

Effective feedback 

Although it’s sometimes seen as a negative experience, Agile leaders obtain feedback that is useful, timely and meaningful. This allows them to respond to the suggestions made in order to close the feedback loop. When giving their own feedback, they ensure that it is honest, open and respectful.

Finding meaning and purpose

Agile Leaders focus on building and sharing a common purpose, and their vision for change is applicable and meaningful to the organisation. They are aware of what is in the hearts and minds of their team and then work to align and unify those values to leverage inspired action.

The importance of emotion

Emotion is an important part of the human experience and something Agile leaders understand well. They encourage their team to work with their emotions to achieve more of their potential. They also encourage innovation and creativity by being open, honest, accessible and transparent.

Encouraging leadership

Realising leadership potential lies in everyone is vital to helping teams adapt and learn.  Agile leaders develop these capabilities by providing opportunities for people to display leadership. This is often achieved via mentoring and allows an organisation’s Agile culture to thrive.

Empowering individuals

Agile leaders recognise people work best when they are engaged, energised and enabled. They balance the needs and challenges of an organisation and recognise empowerment comes from exerting leadership behaviour that is based on the notion of continual change.

Communities that collaborate

One of the important roles of an Agile leader is to provide communities with the tools to operate efficiently, but allow them to function autonomously within their boundaries. They understand that positivity, generosity and gratitude are important to healthy work environments and encourage continual learning and development.

Fostering a culture of ideas 

Those that are close to a problem often know how best to solve it. Agile leaders are open to the ideas of all employees regardless of their position. They take time to listen to the opinions of others and encourage a continuous flow of creativity in order to solve problems and allow for improvement.

What is Mindful Leadership?

Learning about Mindful leadership is an important part of any leadership development program. It can be defined as ‘the cultivation of clarity, focus, compassion and creativity in the services of others’. Basically, it’s about being willing to put the interests of others before ourselves, and the notion of managers leading without ego.

Those who practise Mindful leadership are often more innovative, have better decision-making skills, improved strategic thinking, and foster integrity that inspires true greatness in others. It involves:

Leading by example

A Mindful leader doesn’t expect others to do things they are not willing to do themselves. They are aware their attitudes and behaviour will influence the culture of both the organisation and their team. A failure to do this can cause a deterioration of trust, and a disconnect between leaders and their employees.

Offering constant recognition 

Everyone likes to be recognised and appreciated for their hard work on a regular basis — and not just with a pay rise! Employees who are consistently supported by a Mindful leader will be more engaged, and more willing to support the philosophies and growth of an organisation. They will also be open to seeing negative feedback as an opportunity to improve.

Leading with humility

Humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself, it means you think of yourself less! It is certainly not a sign of weakness, and a Mindful leader is able to recognise their own weakness and is not afraid to ask for help when they need it. It also means they are open to receiving not-so-positive feedback and look at how they can improve their own shortcomings.

Communicating with compassion

Words are very impactful and Mindful leaders are able to communicate in a compassionate way while also being aware of their own emotions. Communication should be beneficial, honest and thoughtful in order to enhance the likelihood that it will be received well and result in a positive outcome.

Balancing emotions

Mindful leaders are able to reflect on their thoughts, behaviour and actions and improve their emotional intelligence. This allows them to be sympathetic to other’s needs and concerns and understand their perspectives. It also increases awareness and allows leaders to control emotions rather than be controlled by them.

 

Enhance your management capabilities by gaining an in-depth understanding of how to build and lead successful teams with our Ultimate Leadership Development Program!