Leadership Best Practices Leadership, Influence & Trust – The Power of a Leader

Leadership Best Practices Leadership, Influence & Trust –

The Power of a Leader

OBJECTIVES

• Develop an insight into what it takes to become a leader today.
• Assess your own leadership capabilities and areas for personal growth.
• Determine your role as an effective leader in any organization.
• Describe a change management model for management and the process of planning, communicating, and implementing change.
• Describe how to build and rebuild trust in an organization.
• Use personal influence and develop “political savvy” to network and influence people effectively.
• Use your personal power to influence decisions in your organization
• Develop a game plan for personal growth

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Assistant Managers, Seniors, Directors, Financial controllers, Auditors and executives

COURSE OUTLINE

Leadership and Influence: What do they mean?

• Course Introduction
• Leadership Theories
• Self Assessment: Leadership Behaviors
• Leadership from Within
• Paradigms that Guide Thinking
• Three Lenses of Leadership

How a Leader Leads From Within

• Ways to Increase Self Knowledge
• Self Reflection
• Understand how you Think
• The Character of a Leader
• Creating an Environment of Leadership
• Balancing Inquiry and Advocacy
• Guide to your Inner Leader

The Role of a Change Leader

• Four Responses to Change
• Change and Leadership Paradigms
• Communicating Change
• The Human Side of Change
• John Kotter’s Change Dynamics

How a Leader Builds Trust

• What is Trust?
• The Benefits of a High Trust Environment
• Transformative Trust
• Building Capacity for Trust
• Personal Influence and Political Savvy
• Effective Interpersonal Influence
• Negotiating Agreement
• Developing Your Political Savvy

How a Leader Fosters a Leadership Environment

• The Alliance Mindset
• Developing the Win Win Solution
• The Flight of the Buffalo: Leaders who create Leaders
• Strategies for Fostering Leadership
• Knowledge Check
• Review – Week One