Essential Core Skills of a 21st Century Leader

Course Overview

Effective modern leadership impacts on people, companies, culture, and the results achieved by teams, departments and organisations. Effective leadership is visionary, inspirational, developmental, and supportive while ineffective leadership can reduce results, decrease motivation and commitment, and lead to potentially catastrophic failure. So, what can be done to ensure leadership effectiveness? To be effective as a leader, we need to be both people-friendly and focused on task completion, results, and performance. This is not something that is easy to do and does not come easily or naturally to many; however, it is something we can grow, develop, and learn.

Leadership effectiveness requires a range of competences (leaders need the right knowledge, the right skills, and the right mindset to reach those they lead) and the development and growth of leadership qualities and the ability to engage with others on various levels as well as flexibility and the capacity to adapt one’s leadership style as circumstances demand. This intensive and practical course will develop participants’ understanding of leadership, teams and organizations and their skills in mentoring, coaching and other key leadership areas.

Course Objectives

After the training course, you will learn to:

• Lead in various contexts, grow your leadership qualities and adapt your leadership style to differing contexts including when leading under VUCA conditions.
• Build and lead highly performing teams and to lead across differences and distances.
• Utilise mentoring and coaching to support and develop team members.
• Drive performance as a leader.
• Assess and evaluate your own leadership and set personal development plans for your growth as a leader.

Target Audience

This course is suitable to a wide range of working professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Anyone at any level who needs to lead others.
• Anyone who is in a leadership role and has leadership competences but needs to give these focus and direction.
• Anyone who is likely to move into a leadership position in the future.
• Anyone who wishes to develop their understanding of leadership and teams.
• Any leader who is required to support, direct and develop others.

Training Methodology

Upon attending on the course, the following methodologies and approached will be used:

• Warmers, icebreakers and group dynamic tasks
• Trainer input and elicitation
• Brainstorming and controlled discussion tasks
• Worksheet-style tasks (gap fills, matching and so on)
• Roleplays and simulations
• Models, examples, illustrations and anecdotes
• Profilers and questionnaires
• Case studies
• Video and audio tasks
• Design tasks and presentations
• Games and gamified tasks
• Coaching and mentoring practices
• Trainer and peer feedback
• Reflection and personal action planning