Leadership Development for Professionals

What your team will learn

• Understand your own leadership style, strengths and emotional intelligence
• Communicate, negotiate and handle conflict with confidence as a leader
• Lead people through change with ethics, inclusion and reconciliation in mind
• Build a personal leadership plan with a clear vision and goals

1. Week1

   What leadership is

   1. Session 1
      Leadership theories

      An overview of the main ideas about what makes a leader, and how they have developed.

   2. Session 2
      Leading and managing

      Where leadership and management differ, and why a good leader needs both.

   3. Session 3
      Personal leadership assessments

      Each person assesses their own leadership, to see where they stand at the start.

2. Week2

   Self-awareness and emotional intelligence

   1. Session 4
      Understanding emotional intelligence

      What emotional intelligence is, and how it shapes the way a leader works with people.

   2. Session 5
      Self-awareness exercises

      Practical exercises to help each person see their own habits, reactions and blind spots.

   3. Session 6
      Emotional intelligence in leadership

      Ways to grow emotional intelligence and put it to use when leading others.

3. Week3

   Leadership styles and strategies

   1. Session 7
      Transformational and transactional leadership

      Two contrasting styles: leading through shared vision, and leading through clear rewards and expectations.

   2. Session 8
      Situational leadership

      Adjusting how you lead to fit the person and the task in front of you.

   3. Session 9
      Adaptive leadership

      Leading well when problems are new and there is no ready-made answer.

4. Week4

   Communication skills for leaders

   1. Session 10
      Communicating clearly

      Techniques that help a leader's message land the way it was meant.

   2. Session 11
      Active listening

      Giving people your full attention, so they feel heard and you understand them.

   3. Session 12
      Public speaking and presentations

      Speaking to a group with confidence, and presenting ideas so people follow them.

5. Week5

   Conflict resolution and negotiation

   1. Session 13
      Managing conflict

      Strategies for dealing with conflict on a team before it does lasting damage.

   2. Session 14
      Negotiation techniques

      Practical ways to negotiate toward an agreement that both sides can accept.

   3. Session 15
      Role-play scenarios

      Practising conflict and negotiation skills in realistic role-plays.

6. Week6

   Team leadership and collaboration

   1. Session 16
      Building high-performance teams

      What strong teams have in common, and how a leader helps build one.

   2. Session 17
      How groups behave

      How people behave in groups, and how that shapes the way a team works together.

   3. Session 18
      Delegation

      Handing off work and decisions well, and giving people the room to own them.

7. Week7

   Leading change

   1. Session 19
      Change management models

      Models for planning change and guiding people through it across an organization.

   2. Session 20
      Overcoming resistance

      Why people push back on change, and how to bring them along.

   3. Session 21
      Leading innovation

      Encouraging new ideas and leading the larger changes that follow from them.

8. Week8

   Ethical leadership and corporate responsibility

   1. Session 22
      Ethics in leadership

      The part ethics plays in a leader's decisions and in the trust people place in them.

   2. Session 23
      Corporate social responsibility

      An organization's responsibilities beyond its own walls, and how leaders act on them.

   3. Session 24
      Ethical dilemmas

      Case studies of hard ethical choices, worked through as a group.

9. Week9

   Diversity and inclusion in leadership

   1. Session 25
      Why diversity and inclusion matter

      The value diversity and inclusion bring to a team and an organization.

   2. Session 26
      Inclusive leadership

      Practical strategies for leading in a way that includes everyone on the team.

   3. Session 27
      Bias and equity

      Recognizing and addressing bias, and promoting fairness in how people are treated.

10. Week10

    Truth and reconciliation in leadership

    1. Session 28
       Understanding truth and reconciliation

       What truth and reconciliation means, and why it matters for leaders.

    2. Session 29
       The leader's role in reconciliation

       The part leaders play in supporting reconciliation efforts.

    3. Session 30
       Putting the principles to work

       Applying the principles of truth and reconciliation in day-to-day leadership.

11. Week11

    Your personal leadership plan

    1. Session 31
       Vision and goals

       Setting out a personal vision for your leadership, and the goals that support it.

    2. Session 32
       Personal SWOT analysis

       Taking stock of your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as a leader.

    3. Session 33
       Writing the plan

       Pulling it all together into a leadership development plan to follow after the course.

How the sessions work

• Case studiesReal-world cases, including ethical dilemmas, to test ideas against actual situations.
• Role-playsPractise handling conflict and negotiating in realistic scenarios.
• Self-assessmentsLeadership assessments, self-awareness exercises and a personal SWOT analysis.
• Leadership development planEach person leaves with a written plan, with a vision and goals of their own.

Who it's for

• Managers and supervisors who lead teams day to day
• Professionals stepping into their first leadership role
• Organizations building leaders who can guide change and inclusion