Personal Leadership: Lead with Impact
In this course, we will focus on developing personal mastery and building strong relationships as key components of effective leadership. We will explore the importance of self-understanding and self-knowledge in developing a clear vision and defining core values. Through interactive exercises and case studies, participants will learn practical tools for communication, coaching, feedback, motivation, and conflict management to foster trust and mutual understanding in their relationships.
Upon completion you will be able to:
- Foster trust and mutual understanding
- Identify your strengths and areas for improvement
- Identify and align with your core values
- Appreciate your personal style of interacting with others, and how your style affects your interpersonal relationships
- Provide effective feedback
- Conduct difficult conversations
Communicate to be understood
Leaders communicate to inform, sway, coach, and inspire. People at all levels share ideas, learn from each other, and keep each other informed about problems, opportunities, progress, and solutions.
Effective communicators provide a clear message that is understood by everybody in the audience. They are attentive listeners who are open to others’ ideas. They deliver a message that is consistent but fine-tuned for a particular audience. It has just the right tone. The perfect pacing. The best possible wording. The audience finds the message to be crisp. Relevant. Impactful. Effective communication, whether written or verbal, enables you to convey your vision, to point the way forward, and energize others to work together and pull in the same direction.
Lead with Purpose and Passion
Personal mastery is defined as “the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively” (Senge, 2006)
Leadership starts with you! You are the raw material of your leadership. To be an effective leader, it is essential to develop self-awareness and build enduring relationships. Personal mastery assumes self-understanding and self-knowledge. It also assumes a certain awareness of our purpose in life.
Therefore, developing a clear vision for your leadership and defining your core values are critically important to your leadership. We begin the journey by answering the first key leadership question – “Who am I?” .
Build Enduring Relationship
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”
Margarete Wheatley, Author of: “Leadership and the New Science” (2006)
Provide effective feedback
Feedback is important for maintaining consistent performance when the environment changes.
Providing effective feedback is critical for leaders to develop their team members and build a performance culture. As a leader, you’ll often be called upon to provide feedback at the moment when it is most needed. Done well, feedback has the power to catalyze breakthroughs in performance. This module will introduce powerful techniques for giving and receiving feedback, including active listening and focusing on solutions.
Conduct difficult conversations
Conflict is a natural part of organizational life. Organizations are made up of diverse people with differing opinions and competing interests, making conflict inevitable. There is conflict over information, resources, opinions, territory, position. If it is important to someone it has the potential to cause conflict.
Conducting difficult situations is an obstacle that we all encounter at some point. It can be challenging to communicate effectively when emotions are high, and we may default to either fighting or fleeing from the situation, which can ultimately harm the relationship. However, there is a third option that involves being honest and building a strong foundation for the relationship. This approach requires excellent communication skills, including the ability to manage your emotions and stay focused on what you want for yourself, the other person, and the relationship.
Topics Covered
The power of Values-Based Leadership
- Understand why leaders derail
- Leverage your values to inspire others
- Discover and amplify your strengths
Build enduring relationships
- Inspire Trust
- Understand and appreciate diversity
- Understand the impact of your personal behaviour on others
Communicate Effectively
- Advocacy – learn to share your ideas and be influential
- Mutual Inquiry – understand others, their assumptions, and mental models
- Apply generative listening techniques
Provide Performance Feedback
- Inspire and motivate people
- Identify where communication breaks down and what to do about it
- Provide powerful feedback
Conduct difficult conversations
- Identify sources of conflict
- Be able to identify your mental models and how they impact your understanding
- Apply a tried and tested method to conduct difficult conversations
Modules
Module 2: Collaborative Leadership
Module 3: Change and Performance
Values-Based Leadership Overview
What people are saying about Personal Leadership
Actual verbatim feedback from Personal Leadership participants.
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Expanded on my experience
It brought new concepts to my many years of management but also expanded (new angle) on things I knew
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Applied Insights
I got more insight into how others communicate and behave. I was able to practice giving feedback
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Tools that make a difference
I now have a bunch of tools to help me be successful as a leader