The Leadership Journey: Communication, Innovation & Vision

Management & Leadership

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Introduction

True leadership is an art form, and like all art forms, to become a master takes a great amount of dedication and skill.

Many people believe that if you have the job title Manager, Team leader, Supervisor, Director this means you are a leader. However, leadership is not a title you can be given, it is a position you must claim as your own. This course has been specifically designed for people who would like to take their leadership to the next level and become a true leader.

The Leadership Journey: Communication, Innovation and Vision will give you the tools you need to lead people, whether it is a team, department or the whole organization. This course will give you a step-by-step guide to leading people and introduce you to techniques and methodologies that have been used by great leaders throughout history.

This is far more than a leadership course; this will allow you to discover the hidden art of Leadership, Communication and Vision.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Understand the real meaning of leadership
• Become a Master of Communication and influence
• Create and harness the power of vision and visualization
• Motivate and inspire people
• Learn how to have a magnetic personality
• Create momentum and urgency within yourself and others

Course Outline

Day One: Leadership

• What is true leadership, lessons from the past masters
• Modern leadership and its impact on business
• Human behaviour, predictable outcomes
• The new business reality and its impact on us all
• Force field analysis and the comfort zone
• Employee mentality versus entrepreneurial spirit
• The equalizer effect
• Leaders versus managers

Day Two: Vision

• The strangest secret
• How to create a vision
• How to harness the power of vision through visualisation
• Psycho cybernetics and its connection with vision
• Goal setting the key to making vision a reality
• The mastermind groups
• Positive mental attitude, gaining power from a strong vision
• Linking vision to mission and values
• Vision timeline, mathematical coaching model

Day Three: Communication

• Discover your communication style
• Identify other people’s communication style
• Learn how to motivate and influence each of the styles
• Body language
• The 5 levels of listening
• Advanced questioning techniques
• Selling your ideas and vision
• How to get bought in from others
• Selling your ideas through excellence in communication

Day Four: Innovation

• How to create a culture of innovation
• How to engage your people to generate new ideas
• Left brain, right brain and innovation
• Creative thinking and problem solving
• Suggestion boxes, and reward criteria
• Quantity versus quality on innovation projects
• Sticky note innovation
• Absolute versus desirable criteria
• Using multi-disciplined employees to gain width and depth
• Using innovation to reduce costs

Day Five: Influencing skills

• The relationship bank account
• The 10 guaranteed deposits
• Confidence is king
• The give to get ratio
• The fire within, Enthusiasm
• Time to get passionate
• The BE. DO. GET model
• The pipeline principle