Leading With Impact: Leveraging Your Leadership

Surveys of top executives have confirmed that leadership skills are considered the most important factor in a manager’s career progress – rated above intelligence, knowledge or job skills.

Leveraging Your Leadership is a top-rated program for professional executives who are serious about achieving peak performance in their role as leader, communicator and change agent.

What You Will Learn

• Enhance your knowledge of major personal and professional leadership strategies
• Design your own personalized leadership model
• Explore 10 major leverage points in leadership
• Learn what has changed in leadership and how strong leaders adapt
• Arm yourself with new ways to think on your feet and prepare for crucial meetings, whether it’s with three people or three hundred
• Understand the conditions under which all your team can perform independently and effectively toward a common objective
• Use new tools to speed up decision making and problem solving
• Identify your leadership strengths and development opportunities
• Become aware of the interplay between organization culture and your leadership styles
• Learn how to become a change agent who encourages innovation
• ### Pre-Work Leadership Package

Your learning begins as soon as you register:

• Receive a leader impact 360º assessment tool
• Complete four leadership strategy exercises
• Plus our Leveraging Your Leadership take-home resource binder

Course content details

1. Introduction and Overview of Leadership

• Increasing your understanding of leadership
• What organizations require of leaders in the 21st century
• Things you want to do to ensure long-term success

2. Characteristics of Effective Leadership

• Why Leadership Is Not Management
• Evolution of leadership theory
• Key leadership competencies
• 6 leadership styles and when to use them
• Tips on building interpersonal relationships
• Ideas on effective team leadership
• Developing your leadership philosophy

3. Critical Thinking and Reflection

• Cognitive psychology vs. personality theory
• Critical thinking styles of the effective leader

4. Effective Leadership Communication

• Understanding the shift from corporate communication to organizational conversation
• Learn how successful leaders relate to employees
• Learn how to be intentional and how to convey strategy

5. Your Leadership Impact Assessment

• Become aware of your own leadership strategies and how this affects the performance of others
• Effectiveness – personal and organizational
• Impact on others – ideal vs. actual
• Prescriptive vs. restrictive strategies
• Your comprehensive 360º report; feedback on effective use of strategies

6. Personal Action Planning

• Building a professional development plan for improved leadership

7. Making Improvements in Your Leadership; 10 Leveraging Strategies and Their Dual Concepts:

• Envisioning (defining vs. delimiting)
• Role modelling (exemplifying vs. circumscribing)
• Mentoring (active vs. passive)
• Stimulating thinking (lateral vs. vertical)
• Referring (positive vs. negative)
• Monitoring (by excellence vs. by exception)
• Providing feedback (positive vs. negative)
• Reinforcing (rewarding vs. punishing)
• Influencing (reciprocal vs. unilateral)
• Creating a setting (facilitating vs. constraining)
• Team presentations
• Applying the strategies when back on the job

8. How to Think on Your Feet

• Improving everyday leadership and communication practices
• Linking actions to the “big picture”
• Gaining others trust and confidence

9. Creating a Culture of Achievement

• Developing and enhancing leadership capacity organizationally
• Creating compelling value for clients, employees and stakeholders
• Linking leader styles and culture
• Understanding the differences between employee satisfaction, engagement and culture
• Leading change effectively