Authentic Leadership: Embracing Courage, Coaching, and Ethics

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 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 Training, 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 for professional certification
• 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