Authentic Leadership: Courage, Coaching & Ethics Course – Johannesburg (South Africa), 22–26 Mar 2027

Introduction:

At the heart of effective leadership lies the foundation of trust. However, trust can quickly deteriorate if subordinates and colleagues perceive a leader as insincere, deficient in vision, or reluctant to shoulder responsibility.

This authentic leadership course prioritizes the leader's role in shaping the team's decision-making processes and resolving ethical dilemmas, ensuring the establishment of trust within and beyond the team.

Targeted Groups:

• Managers and supervisors.
• Team leaders.
• Employees seeking to enhance their skills and knowledge for career advancement.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this authentic leadership training, participants will be able to:

• Understand and leverage their unique leadership style.
• Align individual, team, and organizational goals to maximize outcomes.
• Craft and communicate their leadership brand.
• Develop others with integrity and authentic leadership skills.
• Enhance key interpersonal and emotional intelligence competencies.
• Maximizing long-term organizational outcomes.
• Examine underlying values, beliefs, and emotions influencing leadership.
• Establish personal credibility as a cornerstone of leadership.
• Formulate a coherent and compelling shared vision for the future.
• Navigate and resolve ethical dilemmas through ethical leadership and management training.
• Foster and sustain trust within the team and the broader organization.

Targeted Competencies:

• Leadership skills.
• People skills.
• Performance management.
• Coaching and mentoring in leadership.
• Emotional intelligence.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Courage and Leadership:

• Courage and self-knowledge: Exploring the importance of courage in leadership.
• Behavior, values, and beliefs anchoring leadership courage.
• Leadership styles: Suiting styles to situations.
• Overcoming limiting thoughts and behaviors to embrace leadership challenges.
• Turning ideas into actionable strategies.
• Demonstrating leadership courage by taking calculated risks.

Unit 2: Displaying Authentic Leadership Behaviors:

• Emotions and emotional intelligence in authentic leadership development.
• Building rapport and effective relationships.
• Understanding affective contagion and its implications on leadership.
• Developing others as leaders through authentic leadership coaching.
• Navigating the realms of influence, authority, and power.

Unit 3: Developing Your Leadership Skills:

• Creating a shared vision that encompasses ethical and practical leadership principles.
• Communication skills for effective leadership.
• Conflict management strategies and authentic leader development.
• Understanding the impact of personality on leadership.
• Setting productive goals consistent with original leadership principles.
• Promoting innovative thinking to solve complex problems.

Unit 4: Coaching for Peak Performance:

• Coaching fundamentals for leadership coaching certification.
• Unleashing motivation and learning through effective coaching.
• Delivering feedback that empowers and improves performance.
• Empowering individuals and teams to achieve peak performance.
• Creating a supportive environment for growth and high-performance teams.

Unit 5: Ethics:

• Addressing ethical dilemmas and enhancing corporate ethical practices.
• Ethics is a core aspect of authentic leadership.
• A structured guide to ethical decision-making.
• Conducting a corporate integrity check-up.
• Embracing corporate social responsibility and its impact on leadership ethics.

By integrating these essential aspects, this authentic leadership courage course aims to impart necessary skills and prepare leaders for a leadership coaching course certification, enabling them to guide and shape future leaders authentically and ethically.