Understanding Leadership
COURSE
DURATION
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
The aim of the workshop is to build knowledge and understanding with the audience of leadership as required by a practicing or potential first-line manager, supervisor, or section head.
Learning Outcomes
Participants at the end of this workshop will be able to:
- Describe the factors that will influence the choice of leadership styles or behaviors in workplace situations
- Explain why these leadership styles or behaviors are likely to have a positive or negative effect on individual and group behavior
- Assess own leadership behaviors and potential in the context of a particular leadership model and own organization’s working practices and culture, using feedback from others
- Describe appropriate actions to enhance own leadership behavior in the context of the particular leadership model
- Evaluate the importance of performance and engagement with followers in an organization
- Review own leadership styles by using a diagnostic and evaluate the implications for self and own organization
- Assess the effectiveness of own leadership styles
- Evaluate the impact of changes in the situation on the effectiveness of the adopted style
- Evaluate the factors which impact leadership effectiveness
- Assess own leadership behavior in terms of these factors
- Produce an action plan for developing their own leadership style and effectiveness
- Explain the benefits of implementing the action plan
- Explain how you will monitor and evaluate the action plan
Program Contents
- Defining leadership
- Importance of performance and interaction (engagement) with followers in an organization
Understand a range of different models theories and explanations of leadership
- Development of leadership thought from Taylor to present day
- Emergent Leadership
- Constitutive Leadership
- Servant Leadership
- Followership
Understand the implications of own and other leadership behavior in different contexts
- Situational analysis
- Implications of own preferred leadership style for various situations
- Implications for different situations
- Understanding how these work in terms of motivation theory
- Compiling an action plan (current behaviors, goal setting, implementation practice, identification of what the difference in performance would be)
- Benefits of implementing an action plan
- The qualities of leadership
- The leader – roles and responsibilities
- Differences and similarities between leadership and management, and the need for each of them
- Range of at least three leadership models (such as trait, contingency, situational, distributive, servant oblique leader, transactional/transformational) and their significance for task performance, culture, and relationships
- Leadership behaviors and the sources of power
- Identification, development, and appropriate choice of personal leadership styles and behaviors
- The role of trust and respect in effective team leadership
- Supervised practice or simulation to develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills