Leadership Skills

Leadership is a complex process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. This comprehensive course provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to create an environment that brings out the best in people, improving workers' attitude, morale and on-the-job performance. The course is designed to help leaders identify the most effective ways to transform their organizations. It focuses on helping leaders understand the leader’s role in their organization; understand the relationship between managerial style, competencies, managerial requirements and change.

Course Contents

§ Concepts of Leadership: Principles of Leadership, Factors of leadership, Attributes, Environment, Leadership Models

§ Trait Theory

§ Style/Behavioural Theory

§ Adair's Need Model

§ Contingency theories.

§ Leadership and Human Behavior: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Herzberg's Hygiene and Motivational Factors, Theory X and Theory Y, Expectancy Theory

§ Leadership and Character.

§ The Managerial Grid

§ Leadership and Teamwork.

§ Transactional and Transformational Leadership

§ Situational Leadership: Dimensions of Sustaining Leadership.

§ Leadership and Personality – MBTI and the Eneagram

In this course you will

§ Understand the relation between the personal characteristics behind leadership and the disciplines underpinning management

§ Enhance the processes and systems that sustain leadership and management especially in the high-performance organisations

§ Embed leadership characteristics across management and across organisations

§ Leadership development and management development

§     How can leadership be more effectively developed and how can the leadership process of groups be made more effective?

§     Learn various leadership styles and their impact on an organization

§     Determine how your behavior impacts leadership principles

§     Learn the leadership development needs of your team members

§     Learn appropriate leadership practices as developed in your personal action plan

§     Understand your style, approach and the results you achieve

§     Identify changes necessary for your personal leadership success

§     Become a "super leader" who recognizes the importance and potential of leading others to lead themselves.

§     Build a culture that promotes trust, integrity and high performance

§     Improve performance through empowerment

§     Proven ways to increase your effectiveness

§     How to lead individuals and groups

§     Keys to developing your influence and leadership power