International Certificate in Advanced Leadership Skills

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand various leadership methodologies and styles
• Comprehend management theories critical for leadership
• Understand how to align your leadership deliverables with organization's vision
• Get Equipped with management tools that enables you to map and track leadership specific situations
• Understand different types of change and its importance in the overall organizational standpoint
• Get a competitive edge over your peers for the next leadership role
• Master the people management skills enabling effective communication and collaborating
• Set-up high performance teams and identify the future leaders
• Mark your legacy in the organization

Course outline

360 degree Analysis and Awareness

• What are the different types of Leadership styles?
• How to identify the current Leadership of your organization?
• Critical analysis of the current leadership
• Identify your leadership style
• Validating your Leadership style with the current organizational goals

Realizing the Leadership VISION

• How to analyses the organization VISION?
• How to contribute towards the VISION?
• Setup S.M.A.R.T goals for your team
• How to interact with the existing Leaders in the organization?

How to enable Effective Communication and Collaboration?

• Importance of Communication and Collaboration
• How to communicate with Intent and Purpose?
• How to communicate with different organization levels/management?
• Embrace the new technology for communication and collaboration
• Identify and suggest best tools of communication and collaboration for your organization
• How to take and act on Feedback’s?

Building a highly Motivated Environment

• How to identify the motivational needs in your team and organization?
• Importance of Motivation in leadership’s success
• Behavioral analysis for individuals/team/leaders
• Reward Vs Returns Vs Punishment
• What is a “Motivating Environment”?
• Linking Motivation with performance

Setup High Performance Teams

• Surveillance vs Micromanagement
• Importance of diversity in a Team
• Identifying individuals to be included in the team
• Convey clear Key Performance Index
• How to allow team members to be a Team Leader?
• Filter Ideas and turn it into Actions

Embracing ‘Change’ and Effective Prioritization

• How to identify a Change?
• Overview of different types of Change?
• How to reduce resistance?
• Increase Change Acceptance
• How to evaluate Priorities?
• Prioritizing competing tasks
• How to avoid Laundry items in your Priority list?

Conflict Management

• How to identify different types and levels of Conflict?
• Identifying the core addressable issue
• How to depersonalize conflicts?
• Negotiation and finding the middle ground for best value
• Why Conflict is necessary for positive outcomes?

Nurturing the NextGen Leaders

• Importance of appraisals for your reports
• How to Mentor and Coach your subordinates?
• Identify potential candidates for leadership roles
• Prepare for the future by extending extra responsibility and setting up boundaries
• Importance of 360-degree feedback
• Equip next leaders with right tools and authority
• Demonstrate behavior and competency you expect
• Identify the leadership training needs

Leave a Legacy

• Why People in the organization are the most important asset?
• How to judicially invest in people?
• Why empowering is more important than absolute control?
• Strategy of Improvisation and Persuasion
• Create an environment of Innovation and High Performance