Participants will develop the following leadership competencies:

• Determine best practices of effective leaders from sport, business through history and how to apply them today in your work environment
• Explore your leadership capabilities and areas for personal development
• Build a culture of vision, trust, credibility and open communication that encourages people to follow you and work harder
• Identify strategies for overcoming obstacles in the work environment that lead to higher performance and achieving results
• Further develop your skills in leading, managing, coaching and motivating staff at all levels

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

• Articulate an understanding of what leadership means for you, your department and your organization
• Determine your role as an effective leader in any organization – both within a team and managing a team or department
• Improve your skills of delegation, coaching and people development
• Learn the different physical, emotional, psychology needs that followers look from their leaders
• How best to sell your ideas, vision and plans with greater influence and persuasion
• Demonstrate the leadership core skills of Communication and Inspiration; Systems Thinking and Emotional Intelligence
• Use personal influence and develop political savvy to network and influence people effectively
• Describe a change management model for management and the process of planning, communicating and implementing change
• Develop a Personal and Professional Vision and Communicate it to all stakeholders
• Tap into and “inner power” to gain self-confidence and strength
• Get the most productivity out of each constituent (worker or other)

This dynamic leadership program for all managers, team leaders, executives, plus business and technical professionals. It is ideal for those that which to further develop their management and leadership capabilities

• Team leaders, especially those with people responsibility and direct reports
• Technical staff making the transition to the next in their career and seeking to improve their competence in leadership
• Supervisors who wish to increase their effectiveness and results
• Team leaders interested in further management development
• Managers who wish to evaluate and improve their performance with regard to leadership

DAY 1 -

LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE: WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

• The challenge to lead in today’s modern organization
• Lessons learned from powerful leaders of the past and present
• The changing role, responsibilities and nature of Leadership and the new skills needed for today and tomorrow.
• Leadership styles in modern organizations – including your organization
• The influence of followers on leadership
• Leadership models, methods and theories – over of the most popular schools of thought
• Self-assessment: Leadership Behaviors – defining your strength’s and areas to develop
• Three Lenses of Leadership

DAY 2 -

HOW A LEADER LEADS FROM IDEAS, PROBLEM-SOLVING, PLANNING AND PERSONAL POWER

• Ways to increase self-knowledge and self-reflection
• Understand how you think and becoming a “Systems Thinker”
• The character of a leader and how leadership from within and using this to create an environment of leadership
• Thinking outside the box – left/right brain thinking and using the six hats technique
• Finding creative solutions using creativity tools such as brainstorming, reverse brainstorming, Imagineering and mind mapping
• How to evaluate and select the best solution using formal analysis tools such as Pro’s and Con’s, Force field analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis and Feasibility/Capability Analysis

DAY 3 -

HOW A LEADER BUILDS TRUST AND FOLLOWERS

• What is trust and the benefits of a high trust environment
• How trust produces the competitive edge and leads to increase in performance and results
• Group influence, political savvy and effective Interpersonal Influence
• Emotional intelligence applied to leadership
• Coaching, delegation and reverse delegation for empowerment, people development and managing your own time and results
• Negotiating agreement using proven principles of effective negotiation

DAY 4 -

HOW A LEADER USES COMMUNICATION TO GAIN INFLUENCE

• The Art of Communication as a leader – in conversation, coaching, delegating, when writing and online.
• Building your skills as an effective communicator though engaging presentation and public speaking skills
• Successful coaching and reverse delegation
• The power of Vision, mission, purpose and goals
• Using language a word pictures to demonstrate your vision
• John Kotters Change management theory in practice

DAY 5 -

HOW A LEADER INFLUENCES PEOPLE

• The Motivating Leader
• How a Leader motivates themselves and others
• The need for achievement, power and affiliation
• Expectancy theory and motivation
• How a leader Creates an environment for self-motivation
• Personal Roadmap to Leadership
• Review of learning points

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.