Leadership Best Practices: Elevating Leadership to Achieve Peak Performance (10 Days)

Introduction

This course focuses on the role that high-ranking businessmen and other influential persons have played in promoting change across various sectors, including government and business, and how this has spurred the progress of their organizations. The leadership and organizational development body of knowledge provides various definitions and peak practices on why and how leadership can always be a game changer for an organization’s standing.

During the lessons, we will consider how worthy businesspeople have used their power to achieve and promote success locally and internationally. For each leadership practice provided, there will be additional attachments of practical instances so that these techniques can be embraced by leaders for advancement in their environments.

Students will engage in team-based discussions and activities based on case studies via videos and other interactive methods. These resources comprehensively describe how leaders can improve their skills and effectiveness while employing best techniques in various situations. In the current organizational dynamics, enhancing leadership capabilities is a necessity rather than an option to achieve better results.

This course adopts a holistic view of leadership skill development by addressing both fundamental and complex leadership skill sets. It seeks to provide practical assistance on how to implement and maintain valuable practices. Participants will examine and practice the use of leadership best practices drawn from the real world and actionable approaches intended to equip them for more impactful leadership roles.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Ask what management best practices have been used by prominent people in history and are still relevant today.
• Use the definition of leadership concerning their organizational context.
• Self-evaluate as a leader, including identifying advantages and areas for self-improvement.
• Redefine how they will operate within an organization where they are expected to be strong and active leaders.
• Construct a change plan that includes an analysis of how to bring about change and how to implement it.
• Understand what trust is and how it can be created or restored in organizations.
• Apply influence and politics to network and persuade others.
• Formulate plans to promote a culture conducive to leadership and the continuous development of others.
• Create their own organizational vision and mission and ensure that all relevant parties understand them.
• Engage in self-therapy to build resilience and inner confidence.
• Increase the performance level of individuals by effectively supervising and inspiring every team member.
• Empower employees by assigning specific responsibilities to enhance their time management skills.
• Continue to reinvent themselves as leaders while respecting the ideas of others.

Training Methodology

• Skills development through role-playing and group exercises.
• Study of real or hypothetical leadership scenarios.
• Clearly defined models for developing and enhancing leadership competency.
• Tools like personal development plans for advancement in leadership.
• Exchange of feedback with other participants for improvement.
• Excerpts from top professionals delivering short speeches.
• Real-life situations imitating exercises for practicing leadership.
• Skillful execution of intensive practice-oriented activities.
• Defining actionable steps to support the effective leadership style acquired.
• Cycles of feedback and modification after achieving prepped leadership skills.
• Contact with people to encourage, supervise, or assist through any period.
• Posting, reading, and working with resources available on the internet.
• Assessment of how leadership skills were enhanced during the training period.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Concepts of Leadership and Ways of Exercising It

• What do they mean?
• Leadership roles.
• Self-calibration: Leadership actions.
• The Leader Inside.
• Basis for Reflection.
• Through Three Lenses of Leadership.

Unit 2: How a Leader Leads From Within

• Ways to increase self-knowledge.
• Self-reflection and self-esteem.
• Know what goes inside your head.
• The personality of a leader.
• Promoting the culture of leaders.
• Emotional intelligence in leaders.
• Your Inner Leader as a guide.
• Mind-body-spirit balance.

Unit 3: Change Leader

• Making the change transition.
• Responses to change.
• How to endure during change.
• Change factors.
• Change and leadership approaches.
• Managing change.
• Managing change from the people’s perspective.

Unit 4: How a Leader Earns Trust

• What is trust?
• The advantages of a trusting environment.
• Trust-destroying actions.
• Healing damaged trust.
• Building a culture of trust.
• Personal influence: Political mastery.
• Conclusion: Negotiating for acceptance.

Unit 5: How a Leader Gives Additional Leadership

• Self-focus and action orientation.
• The alliance mindset.
• Producing the win-win solution.
• Performance improvement ideas.
• Goals for leading leadership.
• Leadership knowledge assessment.
• Core competencies of leadership.
• Questions of success.
• Steps of action.

Unit 6: Leadership and Communications: Their Interaction, Development, and Realization

• The leader is a person with vision.
• Vision as a creative possession.
• Leaders and the culture of the organization.
• How leaders ease the way to the organizational culture.
• Adoption of leadership communication strategy.

Unit 7: Mastering Attitude of a Leader: Harnessing Inner Power

• How to know yourself as a leader.
• Usage of emotional intelligence by leaders.
• Base of power for the leader.
• Understanding “spiritual capital.”
• The leader’s impact on subordinates, co-workers, and higher-tier managers.
• Controlling the body and mind effectively.

Unit 8: How a Leader Grows People

• Persuading others and enabling collaboration.
• Practices of best mentors, coaches, and influential leaders.
• The inspiring leader.
• Achievement, power, and affiliation motives.
• Motivation as expectancy theory.
• Conditions for self-motivation.

Unit 9: How Resources Can Be Used More Fruitfully by the Leader

• Good practices for proper delegation.
• Advantages and limitations of delegation.
• Delegation versus empowerment.
• The climate for empowerment.
• Using goal achievement, time use, planning, and prioritizing.

Unit 10: How a Leader Cultivates Innovativeness

• The leader as a creative genius.
• Creating the environment for ideas and action.
• Encouraging people to change what they invented.
• Effectuating best practices into action.
• Case studies: Driving uniqueness.
• Designing a personal leadership development strategy with targeted training on leadership and corporate culture improvement.