Authentic Leadership: Embracing Courage, Coaching, and Ethics Course
Introduction:
To begin this course, it's essential to highlight that trust is at the core of effective leadership. However, trust can quickly erode if subordinates and colleagues perceive a leader as lacking vision, being insincere, or unwilling to take responsibility.
This Authentic Leadership: Embracing Courage, Coaching, and Ethics course emphasizes the critical role leaders play in guiding decision-making processes and addressing ethical dilemmas to build and maintain trust within their teams and across their organizations.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this Authentic Leadership: Embracing Courage, Coaching, and Ethics, learners will be able to:
- Effectively understand and leverage their unique leadership style.
- Align individual, team, and organizational goals for optimal results.
- Develop and communicate their leadership brand.
- Cultivate others with integrity through a deep understanding of authentic leadership.
- Enhance interpersonal skills that support emotional intelligence competencies.
- Maximize long-term organizational success.
- Analyze the underlying values, beliefs, and emotions that shape leadership.
- Use personal credibility as a foundation for effective leadership.
- Coherently shape and articulate a shared vision for the future of the organization.
- Navigate ethical dilemmas with ethics-based leadership practices.
Training Methodology:
- Mentorship programs
- Action planning workshops
- Video analysis sessions
- Collaborative projects and group assignments
- Real-world problem-solving applications (case studies)
- Leadership journaling for reflective practice
- Best practice sharing through blogs and internet forums
- Professional discussions within industry-specific associations
- Peer learning and experience sharing
- Independent learning exercises from resources like "Achieving Success Through Social Capital"
Course Outline:
Unit 1: Courage and Leadership
- The role of courage in leadership and self-awareness
- Values and beliefs that sustain courageous leadership
- Adapting leadership styles to different situations
- Overcoming limiting thoughts and behaviors to take the lead
- Turning ideas into actionable strategies
- Leading courageously by taking calculated risks
Unit 2: Expressing Authentic Leadership Behaviors
- Integrating genuine emotions and emotional intelligence into leadership
- Building rapport and effective relationships
- Understanding the impact of affective contagion on leaders
- Authentic leadership coaching to develop future leaders
- Power, authority, and influence in leadership
Unit 3: Enhancing Your Leadership Abilities
- Developing a shared vision that integrates ethics with practical leadership
- Critical communication skills for effective leadership
- Building capacity through conflict management and authentic leader development
- The influence of personality traits on leadership ability
- Creative thinking to address complex problems
Unit 4: Coaching for Peak Performance
- Fundamentals of coaching
- Creating a motivational environment that encourages learning
- Empowering individuals through coaching to enhance performance
- Supporting teams to achieve high-performance states
- Developing growth-oriented, high-performance teams
Unit 5: Ethics
- Addressing ethical issues and improving ethical practices in the workplace
- The relationship between authenticity and ethics
- Using an ethics checklist as a guide for decision-making
- Conducting an integrity check-up
- Embracing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its impact on leadership ethics