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Learning to Lead: An Action Plan for Success
Course Code: BM-LTPL
Most Managers would prefer to be known as excellent Leaders rather than excellent Managers. Upon completion of this course, you will understand the sources of Leadership power, the primary ways to handle resistance to change, the difference between Managers and Leader/Managers, whilst developing and communicating your vision.
This course is designed to cover critical business and professional development topics and will help you acquire and retain critical Leadership skills.
Supervisory and/or Managerial Skills is advantageous and recommended.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explore the qualities that make good leaders.
- Explain the role of leadership power in getting work done through others
- Present the importance of developing a vision and following it through
- Provide tools for managing change effectively.
- Teach strategies for leading people to work together effectively as a team.
There is no exam associated with this course.
Modules
- Differentiating Leaders from Managers
- Assessing Your Readiness for Leadership
- Developing Your Personal Management Practices
- Rethinking Leadership Traits.
- Understanding and Using Leadership Power.
- Wielding Role Power Judiciously.
- Avoiding the Pitfalls of Role Power.
- Defining Relationship Power.
- Managing Your "Chip" Account.
- Realizing the Power of Knowledge.
- Communicating Confidence Through Non-Verbal Cues.
- Projecting a Leadership Attitude.
- Knowing Where You Are Going.
- Avoiding the Roadblocks in the Details.
- Making Decisions According to Your Vision.
- Communicating Your Vision.
- Working with Stakeholders.
- Creating Goals to Reach Your Vision.
- Leading People Through Change.
- Assessing Potential Organizational Change.
- Understanding the Human Response to Change.
- Recognizing Project vs. Cultural Change.
- Managing Change Effectively.
- Developing a Culture for Change and Learning.
- Keeping Current with Continuous Learning.
- Fostering Ongoing Improvement in the Workplace.
- Bringing People Together into Teams.
- Assessing Team Effectiveness.
- Working Toward Common Goals.
- Knitting Together Varied Responsibilities.
- Developing the Human Side of Teams.
- Turning Conflict into Team Cohesiveness.
- Setting the Tone for Resolving Conflict Productively.
- Describing vs. Evaluating Others' Behaviour.
- Discerning Content Conflicts vs. Relationship Conflicts.
- Refraining from Conflict in Writing.
- Promoting Direct Communication Among Team Members.
- Increasing Trust Within the Team.
- Ranking Management and Leadership Practices.
- Interpreting Your Scores.
- Identifying Skills to Be Strengthened.
- Setting Goals for Leadership Development.
- Communicating Your Development Plan.
- Drafting Your Leadership Self-Portrait in Six Months.