Ready to take the next step into leadership? This program will show you how to get recognized for leadership potential, earn selection for a leadership role, and build the effective skills that confident, respected leaders rely on every day.
This leadership training course is purpose-built for rising leaders preparing to take on new challenges and responsibilities. You will uncover the heart, the mindset, and the practical tools of authentic leadership. Through role-playing exercises, self-assessment instruments, and realistic leadership scenarios, you will explore the multiple facets of the leadership role: strategist, change agent, coach, manager, communicator, mentor, and team contributor. You will also develop your own distinctive leadership style for maximum impact and effectiveness.
Who Should Attend:
Any manager who needs to prepare for a leadership role or who is transitioning into a new leadership assignment.
How You Will Benefit:
- Understand what a leader truly is, and what leadership is not
- Project a more dynamic and credible professional image
- Discover your personal, authentic leadership style
- Determine which leadership attributes you already possess
- Apply program lessons to take on your first leadership position with greater confidence
- Learn how to look, sound, and act like a leader to increase your visibility
- Understand what people genuinely expect and respect in a leader
- Refine your approach to building power and influence in positive, productive ways
- Learn how to motivate diverse teams, including those who present interpersonal challenges
- Protect yourself against the pitfalls of intra-organizational politics
What You Will Cover:
- Is There a Leader in You?
- What Do Leaders Talk About?
- What Is Your Leadership Image?
- How Can You Build Your Influence and Power?
- How Can You Develop Key Relationships?
- How Should You Handle Organizational Politics?
- How Can You Motivate People?
- Strategies for the First Day, Week, Month, and Year of a Leadership Role
Detailed Course Content:
Is There a Leader in You?
- Examine the qualities senior management looks for in leadership candidates
- Understand the specific challenges you will face as a new leader
What Do Leaders Talk About?
- Identify your dominant leadership style
- Learn to adapt your style to the needs and preferences of others
What Is Your Leadership Image?
- Describe how to project a confident, positive professional image as a leader
How Can You Build Your Influence and Power?
- Identify the primary ways leaders build power and influence within organizations
How Can You Develop Key Relationships?
- Map the strategic alliances you need to cultivate
How Should You Handle Organizational Politics?
- Develop strategies to earn broader support for your initiatives
How Can You Motivate People?
- Assess what truly motivates others, and what diminishes their engagement
Strategies for the First Year of Leadership
- Design your personal strategy for being noticed, selected, and succeeding as a leader from day one
Detailed Course Outline
Who Is the Leader in You?
- Identify the specific qualities and skills that characterize effective, respected leaders
- Honestly assess your current proficiency against those qualities and skills
Leadership Styles and Communication
- Identify and distinguish between different leadership styles and their situational applications
- Assess your own dominant leadership style and understand how others experience it
- Identify and apply the communication patterns that most effective leaders use
- Understand the kinds of topics, conversations, and framing that leaders naturally gravitate toward
- Explain the strategic value of vision, mission, and values statements that are consistently modeled throughout the organization
- Practice crafting vision, mission, and values statements for your own leadership context
What Is Your Image as a Leader?
- Project executive presence, a positive, confident professional image that commands respect
- Identify the specific factors that build or erode trust between a leader and their team
- Establish your credibility and authentic leadership identity with the people around you
- Apply self-knowledge about your leadership skills and presence to better develop and guide your teams
Building Power, Influence, and Navigating Organizational Politics
- Identify and articulate the primary sources of a leader's power and influence
- Honestly assess your current power base and identify opportunities to expand it
- Develop key relationships and expand your professional network strategically
- Describe the ways effective leaders build their power and influence without compromising their integrity
- Distinguish between productive political behavior and counterproductive political behavior
- Explain why leaders who understand organizational politics are more effective and better protected
- Identify the different political structures within organizations and how they operate
- Develop concrete strategies to gain broader organizational support for your priorities
- Engage productively and constructively even with those who oppose your agenda
How to Motivate and Mentor Others
- Identify specific, practical ways to motivate and engage your team members as individuals
- Facilitate a productive coaching conversation using a structured approach
- Distinguish between mentoring and coaching and know when each is most appropriate
- Understand what makes an effective mentor and what a strong mentor-mentee relationship looks like in practice
