Leadership Mastery: Unlocking Your Potential Through Self-Discovery (10 Days)

Introduction:

Being a leader extends beyond mastering management techniques; it starts with self-leadership. True leadership involves introspection to develop internal characteristics and capabilities that allow us to lead ourselves with confidence and effectively influence others. The Inner Journey of Leadership Mastery is a two-part program designed to unlock and cultivate these inherent resources, helping you discover your unique personal power, purpose, and vision.

Objectives:

Upon completion of the Leadership Mastery and Self-Discovery course, participants will be able to:

• Gain a fresh perspective on leadership.
• Identify and analyze their own leadership styles and traits.
• Enhance personal power for greater effectiveness.
• Discover and build upon their true identity as a leader.
• Manage emotions effectively by understanding them.
• Develop essential interpersonal skills for leading others.
• Create an environment that fosters innovation.
• Recognize different thinking patterns and personal preferences.
• Cultivate creativity for transformational leadership.
• Identify knowledge gaps that hinder problem-solving.
• Challenge traditional approaches within organizations.
• Build flexible, innovative, and motivated teams.
• Clarify their self-understanding and potential.
• Improve self-awareness through emotional recognition.
• Address conflicts more effectively.
• Enhance communication and collaboration skills.

Training Methodology:

• Personal coaching
• Guided visualizations
• Mindfulness practices
• Journaling exercises
• Strengths/weaknesses analysis
• Scenario-based learning
• Facilitated group brainstorming
• Personality assessments
• Creative thinking exercises
• One-on-one mentorship

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Master Keys for Effective Leadership

1. Principles of leadership
2. The mind of the leader
3. The heart of the leader
4. Practices for influential leaders
5. The five roles of leaders
6. Leadership self-assessment
7. Rebalancing your leadership style for optimal results

Unit 2: Towards Emotional Self-Awareness

1. Increasing personal power
2. Achieving emotional excellence
3. Self-leadership through inner discipline
4. Success with a positive attitude
5. Time and life management
6. Enhancing personal productivity
7. Direction through personal integrity
8. Designing a strategic plan for life and career

Unit 3: Mastering People Skills

1. Interdependence at work
2. Winning through effective communication
3. Active listening model
4. Four styles of communication
5. Constructive conflict resolution
6. Applying influence and persuasion principles
7. Skillful speaking and presenting
8. Negotiating win-win outcomes

Unit 4: Building and Leading Extraordinary Teams

1. Distinguishing high-performing teams from traditional workgroups
2. Elements of high-performance teams
3. Types of teams
4. Team development stages
5. Team dynamics
6. Understanding team member styles
7. Leading through trust
8. Leading change

Unit 5: Performance Management

1. Igniting team creativity with strategies
2. Creating a creative model
3. Generating innovative ideas

Unit 6: Generating Creativity

1. Understanding creative thinking
2. Developing openness to new ideas
3. Whole-brain thinking for creativity
4. Stages in the creative process
5. Evaluating and enhancing creativity
6. Creating an environment that nurtures creativity

Unit 7: Strategies for Creative Problem Solving

1. Approaches to problem-solving
2. Focusing on key issues
3. Implementing breakthrough changes
4. Identifying and solving real problems
5. Overcoming thinking traps
6. Solutions brainstorming and tools

Unit 8: Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work

1. Unleashing workplace creativity
2. Encouraging innovation
3. Nurturing ideas through organizational processes
4. Overcoming assumptions that hinder creativity
5. Using metaphors and anomalies for innovation
6. Coaching for creativity

Unit 9: Leading on the Creative Edge

1. Progressive leadership for high performance
2. Convergent vs. divergent thinking skills
3. Building creative potential within teams
4. Case studies on creative leadership
5. Motivating creative individuals at work
6. Developing future leadership blueprints