Leadership Course
Leadership. Inspiring and enabling organisations to create and realise optimal value.
In today's fast-paced world, strong leadership skills are essential for professionals at all levels. Explore your leadership edge in this dynamic two-day leadership course. You'll discover how to build thriving teams, gain insight into empowering and motivating others and learn to take purposeful, skillful action as a leader. Plus, you'll uncover your unique leadership strengths as you explore contemporary leadership theory and practice. No matter what your current role, this course will inspire you to step into leadership with true confidence and know-how. If you are an emerging leader, have leadership aspirations, or want to become better acquainted with the latest trends in leadership, this is the leadership course for you.
Aims
This interactive leadership course aims to build your understanding of your leadership role and equip you to guide your organisation to higher performance, while increasing your authentic leadership presence.
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- identify your leadership strengths, so you can bring your best self to the task of leading others
- reflect on your own performance as a leader and create a plan for enhancing your leadership effectiveness
- practice skills to influence and manage challenges as a leader
- assess the stage and needs of your team to support peak performance
- actively support the development of a flourishing organisational culture.
Content
Topic 1: Defining your leadership role
Discover what it means to be a leader in today's world. Discuss the difference between formal and informal leadership. Explore concepts of leadership theory and how they might apply to your own practice. Before the course begins, you will complete your Leadership Circle assessment. During this first module, you’ll discover more about where your leadership growth edge is and explore strategies to build on current strengths.
Topic 2: Leading self
Assess your behaviours and underlying assumptions as a leader, using the Leadership Circle (TLC) free self assessment tool. Then explore the power and purpose of your role, to support your leadership journey and build your focus and impact as a leader.
Topic 3: Leading others
Leading others effectively and ethically requires a combination of skills, knowledge and experience. It involves understanding how to influence with integrity, appropriately delegating tasks and using your authority wisely. In this session, you will learn a key technique to manage and understand others in the workplace.
Topic 4: Leading teams
Develop an understanding of the stages of team development and strategies for each stage. Identify where your team is from an engagement perspective and develop strategies to align individual performance to the work of the whole team and organisation. You will also cover a simple feedback tool that allows to support ongoing development.
Topic 5: Leading culture
As a leader, you need to understand the importance of workplace culture and cultural competence. Discover how to create a positive and inclusive environment that values everyone’s contributions. Link your own leadership to the culture of your team and across your organisation.
Topic 6: Integrating your leadership skills
Develop your action plan for continuing to reflect, learn and thrive as a leader.
Intended audience
Aspiring leaders and managers, or those new to leadership and management roles.
Prerequisites
None
Delivery mode
- Face-to-face, presenter-taught training
- Online training via the platform Zoom
Delivery style
This course is interactive and based on experiential learning. The models and tools covered will vary according to the needs and interests of the group. You will be involved in group conversations, discussing and applying your learning, and completing written exercises. There will be constant opportunities to ask questions and gain insight into solving your particular challenges.
You will get the most from this course if you are:
- willing to contribute to group discussions
- confident communicating verbally in English
- comfortable participating in role-play style activities.
Materials
All course materials are provided electronically (via Dropbox). Printing services are not provided.
Before the course
Please complete the online Leadership Circle: Self-Assessment before class. Once you have your report and graph, watch the following video:
Review your report and make notes based on what you have learnt from watching the video. We will discuss these findings in class.
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...Wed 19 Feb 2025
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Thu 20 Feb 2025
9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)
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9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)
Wed 9 Apr 2025
9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)
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9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)
Thu 15 May 2025
9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)
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9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)
Wed 27 Nov 2024
9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)
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...Tue 18 Mar 2025
9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)
Wed 19 Mar 2025
9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)
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...Tue 3 Jun 2025
9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)
Wed 4 Jun 2025
9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)
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...Thu 12 Dec 2024
9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)
Fri 13 Dec 2024
9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)
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What others say
I like the tools and framework the facilitator introduced. They are a game-changer and very practical for the workplace, as well as daily life. Looking forward to seeing the changes when I apply these tools in real-life situations.
- Grace Jianqing Liang
Top notch course content, great facilitation and creative use of breakout rooms and slides.
- Peter Bryett
Small class in a convenient location. Excellent instructor who knew the topic well and fostered a meaningful learning environment.
- Adam Barnes
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