Authentic Leadership: Courage, Coaching & Ethics

Introduction:

At the heart of leadership is trust. However, trust can quickly be undermined if subordinates and colleagues sense a leader is insincere, lacking in vision or unwilling to take responsibility. This course focuses on the role the leader has in shaping the way the team and the wider organization reach decisions and in resolving ethical dilemmas.

Targeted Groups:

• Managers & Supervisors
• Team leaders
• Employees who want to gain great skills & knowledge to improve their career

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Understand their style
• Align individual, team and organizational goals
• Setting out their brand
• Develop others with integrity
• Enhance key interpersonal skills
• Maximizing long-term organizational outcomes
• Dig beneath the surface: values, beliefs, and emotions
• Build personal credibility
• Formulate a coherent and shared vision for the future
• Resolve ethical dilemmas
• Build trust within and beyond the team

Targeted Competencies:

• Leadership skills
• People skills
• Performance management
• Coaching
• Emotional intelligence

Course Content:

Unit 1: Courage and Leadership:

• Courage & self-knowledge
• Behaviour, values and beliefs
• Leadership styles
• Limiting thoughts & behaviors
• Turning ideas into action
• Putting yourself on the line

Unit 2: Displaying Authentic Leadership Behaviours:

• Emotions & emotional intelligence
• Building rapport
• Affective contagion
• Developing others as leaders
• Influence, authority & power

Unit 3: Developing Your Leadership Skills:

• Creating a shared vision
• Communication skills
• Conflict management
• Personality and its ramifications
• Setting productive goals
• Thinking outside the box

Unit 4: Coaching for Peak Performance:

• Coaching fundamentals
• Motivation & learning
• Feedback
• Empowering individuals & teams
• Creating a supportive environment
• Building high-performance teams

Unit 5: Ethics:

• Dealing with ethical dilemmas
• Ethics and leadership
• Guide to ethical decision-making
• Corporate integrity check-up
• Corporate social responsibility