Synopsis

You want to become a leader, but are you ready to take that step?

Learn how to get noticed and selected for a leadership position and develop the skills every confident leader needs! This course is uniquely designed to help leaders-to-be get ready for their new challenges and responsibilities. You’ll discover the heart, soul and mind of true leadership. You’ll learn what people expect from and respect in leaders. You’ll explore leadership roles as strategist, change agent, coach, manager, communicator, mentor and team member. And you’ll learn how to develop your unique leadership style for maximum impact.
 

Seminar Outline

• Is There a Leader in You?
  Discuss which qualities senior management looks for in candidates for leadership positions
  Understand the challenges you will face as a leader

• What Do Leaders Talk About?
  Discover your leadership style, learn to adapt your style to the needs of others

• What Is Your Leadership Image?
  Describe how to project the positive professional image of a leader

• How Can You Build Your Influence and Power?
  Illustrate ways that leaders can build their power and influence

• How Can You Develop Key Relationships?
  Identify the strategic alliances you need to build

• How Should You Handle Organizational Politics?
  Explain strategies for getting others to support your agenda

• How Can You Motivate People?
  Explain the things that really motivate people

• Resources to Help You Approach the First Day, Week, Month and Year of Leadership
  Design your strategies for being noticed and selected to be a leader

  (This Seminar is conducted in Collaboration with the American Management Association)

 

Benefits from Seminar

• Understand what a leader is…and is not, project a more dynamic image
• Discover your own unique leadership style,
• Determine which leadership attributes you already possess
• Take on your first leadership position with greater confidence
• Get noticed by learning how to look and talk like a leader
• Find out what people expect and respect in a leader
• Reduce the anxiety and stress that come with being a leader
• Avoid false starts and mishaps when you start being a leader
• Refine your leadership skills in gaining and using power and influence positively
• Learn how to motivate a team, including “difficult people”
• Protect yourself against the pitfalls of intra-organizational politics

 

Methodology

• Interesting in-class experiments on decision making inconsistencies
• Case studies (of decision making in political and business settings)
• Materials for this course are largely based on the emerging fields of behavioural/decisional science, behavioural finance, and behavioural economics