Liberating Leadership Masterclass

Course overview

"Organisations with the highest quality leaders were 13 times more likely to outperform their competition in key bottom-line metrics such as financial performance, quality of products and services, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction." Source: Great Leadership  

This programme presents a set of competencies and a track to run on that has since been adopted by thousands of managers in a wide range of businesses, across an extensive number of industries, creating the vital mind-set and skills of high performing leaders, known as High Challenge and High. 

Who should attend

Ambitious managers who want to become leaders, managers and individuals or Entrepreneurs 

Learning Objectives

• Expectations Theory:  They have high expectations about what their people are capable of – it matters and it shows  
•  Reinforcement Theory:  They catch people doing something right, instead of only paying attention when things go wrong  
•  Positive Regard: They have respect for their people as individuals and a positive belief in them as a person  
•  Genuineness: They are able to express their own feelings and tell the truth about their reactions 
•  to the other person's behavior. They're direct, open and honest.        
•  Develop your leadership potential - adapt appropriate leadership styles to the requirements of   the situation; realize obstacles to leadership development and learn to combat them; nurture a set of values within your team and decide your ‘ultimate leadership goal’ 
•  Equipping leaders with vital tools they didn't know they needed 
•  Allowing leaders to lead with strength and dignity, confident they are on the right track 
•  Powerfully pulling all leadership lessons together in one place 

Program Agenda

MODULE 1 – INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT  

•   Reflect on the difference between management and leadership “leadership” 
•   Understand Transformational Leadership 
•   Understand the people you lead and how to adapt your leadership styles 
•   Explain leading by Directing 
•   Explain leading by Participating 
•   Explain leading by Delegating 
•   Kouzes and Posner 
•   Conduct a personal inventory 
•   Create an action plan 
•   Establish personal goals 

MODULE 2 – LEADERSHIP STYLE 

•   Understanding your preferred leadership style 
•   Learn techniques to adapt your style according to the situation 
•   Follow a structure to ensure effective delegation 
•   Understand motivational theory 

MODULE 3 – COMMUNICATION AS A TOOL 

•  Use a communication tool to recognize different preferences 
•  Define strategies for effective communication with different people 
•  Build trust and rapport so that your team can be open and honest 
•  Leverage questioning and listening techniques to aid operational effectiveness