Influential Leadership

Methodology:
- Utilizes group activities and self-assessment exercises
- Includes case studies followed by group discussions
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between management and leadership
- Identify their strengths and leadership styles through self-assessment
- Study different theories on leadership, with a focus on situational leadership
- Identify key skills associated with emotional intelligence
- Determine the role of a leader as a facilitator and change agent
Target Audience:
All employees interested in improving their leadership skills
Program Content:
- Leader vs Manager
- Definitions, similarities, and differences
- Classic differences
- Modern differences
- Myths about leadership
- Practices of Exemplary Leaders
- Challenging the process
- Inspiring and providing vision
- Modeling the way
- Enabling others to act
- Encouraging others
- The eternal question: Are leaders born or made?
- Ten facts about leadership
- Personal Style and Leadership Traits
- Self-assessment
- Implementing assessment and recording points
- Linking style to leadership traits
- Traits of beloved leaders
- Leadership Journey and Situational Leadership
- Review of major theories
- Trait theories
- Behavior theories
- The managerial grid
- Situational leadership: Theory and application
- Subordinate maturity level
- Development levels
- Maturity levels and leadership styles
- Overview of MERCK research (2010)
- Key findings on over 300 successful leaders from 120 institutions in 12 Arab countries
- Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
- Overview of emotional intelligence
- Intrinsic and extrinsic intelligence
- Emotional quotient vs intelligence quotient
- Emotional intelligence competency framework
- Eighteen emotional intelligence skills
- Discussion of real-life examples
- Leadership, Delegation, and Empowerment
- Delegation: Definition, objectives, and rules
- Levels of delegation
- Reasons for limited delegation
- Guidelines for delegation
- Decision-making styles in Gulf countries
- Empowerment: Definition
- Ten ways to empower employees
- Is your organization ready for empowerment?
- Leader as a Change Catalyst
- Nature of change
- Kotter’s eight-step change process
- Dealing with resistance to change
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