Realising your Leadership Potential through Self Discovery

Module 1

Leadership Development:
Self-Awareness, Skills and Strategies

DAY 1

Master Keys of Effective Leadership

• The principles of leadership

• The mind of the leader

• The heart of the leader

• The practices of effective leaders

• The five roles leaders play

• Leadership self-assessment

• Rebalance your leadership style for optimal results

DAY 2

Towards Emotional Self-Awareness

• Growing your personal power

• Achieving emotional excellence

• Self-leadership through inner mastery

• Success through a positive attitude

• Your time and your life

• Increasing personal productivity

• Direction through personal Integrity

• Designing a strategic plan for your life and career

DAY 3

Mastering People Skills

• Understanding Interdependence

• Wining through effective communication

• The active listening model

• The four styles of communication

• Dealing with conflict constructively

• Using the principles of influence & persuasion

• Speaking and presenting skillfully

• The art of win-win negotiation

DAY 4

Building and Leading Extraordinary Teams

• How a high performing team differs from a traditional workgroup

• The three elements of high-performance teams

• Understanding the four types of teams

• The stages of team development

• Team dynamics: How teams really work

• Understanding and optimizing team member styles

• Leading through trust

• Leading through change

DAY 5

Performance Management

• Igniting team creativity

• The art of practical coaching

• Conducting effective performance discussions

• Positive discipline through expectations

• Delegating and empowering the right way

• The situational leadership model

• How to analyze development needs

• Using effective tools for managing performance

Module 2

Leadership, Critical Thinking, and Innovation:
Igniting Creativity for Workplace Excellence

DAY 6

Understanding your Creativity

• Creativity & your personality

• Understand and use personality styles as a management tool

• Creative flexibility to manage effectively

• Importance of perception

• Maximizing our perceptual ability

• Creativity and the Holistic Model

• Creative people from the past

• Building a Creative Model

DAY 7

Generating Creativity

• Understand how creative thinking works

• Developing Openness to new ideas

• The Creative Mind: Whole Brain Thinking

• Distinguish stages of the creative process

• Recognize what makes excellent creative thinking

• Identify and understand the creativity in others

• Developing a Creative environment

• Consciousness and competence

DAY 8

Strategies for creative problem solving

• Problem-solving strategies

• Getting in the right mindset

• Taking risks & looking for paradigm shifts

• Defining the Real Problem

• Recognizing mental blocks to creativity

• Brainstorming for solutions

• Utilizing the SLIP technique

• Utilizing the drill down the funnel

DAY 9

Encouraging a creative climate at work

• Releasing creativity at work

• Fostering creativity

• Incubating ideas

• Challenging assumptions

• Creativity for business breakthroughs

• Sharpen your creative thinking: Metaphors & Analogies

• Releasing Creativity through Coaching

DAY 10

Leading on the creative edge

• Innovative leadership for excellent performance

• Convergent & Divergent Thinking Skills

• Developing creative potential in teams

• Understanding creative people

• Motivating creative individuals at work

• Interacting creatively

• Planning your Creative future