High Impact Leadership

• Directors
• Senior Managers
• Heads of Department
• Team Leaders
• Project Managers
• Sales Managers

• Allow participants to grasp the importance of authenticity to successful leadership and provide them with an opportunity to reflect on their own leadership authenticity.
• Empower participants with knowledge of the role followers play in successful leadership and how leaders can use this to elevate their own leadership practice.
• Raise participants’ levels of self-awareness and the importance to developing a balance between intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional quotient (EQ).
• Develop an understanding of the main stages in the human response to change and acquire the skills to manage these effectively to improve the likelihood of delivering a successful outcome.
• Equip participants with a set of personal skills that can lead them to create deeper connections with others through making some small changes to their own outlook on life.
• Develop the key skills of the successful negotiator and how these can be used in a range of situations.
• Develop in participants a balanced approach to influencing others with being manipulative and to being assertive without being seen as being aggressive.

Leadership Models & Theories

• What are models, theories, styles and strategies?
• Leadership styles and leadership strategies
• Hersey & Blanchard’s Situational leadership
• Action Centred Leadership
• Fiedler’s Contingency Theory
• Leadership relatability

Authentic Leadership

• Authentic leadership defined
• Academic approach
• Pseudo-authenticity
• Authentic leadership in Practice

Organisational Culture

• What is organisation culture?#
• Models of organisational culture
• Managing corporate politics
• Leadership and corporate politics
• Managing corporate politics

Followership

• Attributes of followers
• Leader-member exchange theory (LMX)
• LMX & organisational culture
• Aligning values of followers and leaders

Ethical Leadership

• Basic ethical frameworks – Universalism, Utilitarianism & Justice Theories
• Leadership and moral development
• Why do leaders not act ethically sometimes?
• Whistleblowing

Emotional Intelligence (EI)

• What is emotional intelligence?
• The nature of intelligence
• Goleman’s research
• The ‘dark side’ of emotional intelligence
• Criticisms of emotional intelligence

Change Management Core Competencies

• The psychology of change and the triggers for change
• Key competencies needed to manage change
• Supporting your employees through a change programme
• Why does change go wrong?

Leading & Managing Change

• Introduction to key change models
• Understanding people’s response to change
• Drivers for change and organisational culture
• Strategies for the successful change leader

Personal Effectiveness

• Personal learning styles and strategies
• Developing personal accountability
• Developing personas
• Self-mastery
• Schein’s career anchors

Negotiation Skills

• Pre-negotiation preparation on all aspects of the negotiation
• Styles, techniques and skills of a good negotiator
• Tricks people may play on you
• Close with a win-win result for all