Course Outlines:
Module One:
Self-awareness: a point of departure
- Assessing your self-awareness
- Why increases your self-awareness
- How to increase your self-awareness
- Self-awareness questionnaires
- Emotional intelligence questionnaire
- Interpersonal needs questionnaire (FIRO-B)
- Assertiveness questionnaire
- The ‘big five locator’ questionnaire
- Cognitive style questionnaire
- Summarizing your self-awareness profile
Module Two:
Self-management: clarifying values, setting goals, and planning
- What is meant by self-management?
- Self-management, personal and social skills
- Self-management skills and lifelong learning
- How well do you plan and set goals?
- What are your values
- Personal goal setting
- Personal mission statements
- Strategies for effective goal setting
Module Three:
Leading others with active coaching
- Characteristics of an ideal coach
- How a good coach is described
- 7 masterful coaching personality traits
- Myths and realities
- Seven communication principles for coaching
- Gather good information with EARS
- Good habits of effective listeners
- Leadership coaching styles: What kind of a coach are you?
Module Four:
Persuading others with tact and diplomacy
- Definition of ‘Persuasion’
- Persuasion strategies: Credibility
- Persuasion strategies: Logical Reasoning
- Persuasion strategies: Emotional appeal
- Improving your persuasive skills
- Persuasive skills in formal presentations
- Persuasion versus negotiation
- The art of persuasion: thirty proven tips and techniques
Module Five:
Transforming others with influence and inspiration
- Transformational leadership defined
- Transformational leadership and charisma
- A model of transformational leadership
- Transformational leadership factors
- Transactional leadership factors
- Other transformational perspectives
- How does the transformational approach to leadership work?