Unlocking Authentic Leadership: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering Your Strengths and Empowering Your Team
Course Overview This comprehensive course is designed to help leaders discover their authentic leadership style, empower their teams, and drive business success. Through a combination of interactive lessons, hands-on projects, and expert instruction, participants will gain the skills and confidence needed to lead with authenticity and impact.
Course Objectives - Discover your authentic leadership style and strengths
- Develop a clear vision and strategy for your team
- Build trust and credibility with your team and stakeholders
- Empower your team to achieve their full potential
- Drive business results through effective leadership
Course Outline Module 1: Introduction to Authentic Leadership
- Defining authentic leadership
- The benefits of authentic leadership
- Identifying your leadership strengths and weaknesses
- Creating a personal leadership vision statement
Module 2: Understanding Your Leadership Style
- Exploring leadership styles: transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire
- Identifying your leadership style: strengths and weaknesses
- Developing a growth mindset: embracing challenges and learning from failure
- Building self-awareness: understanding your values, emotions, and motivations
Module 3: Building Trust and Credibility
- The importance of trust and credibility in leadership
- Building trust: reliability, integrity, and empathy
- Establishing credibility: expertise, confidence, and humility
- Communicating effectively: verbal and nonverbal communication
Module 4: Empowering Your Team
- The benefits of empowerment: motivation, engagement, and productivity
- Creating a positive work environment: culture, climate, and well-being
- Developing a growth mindset: embracing challenges and learning from failure
- Coaching and mentoring: developing your team's skills and abilities
Module 5: Strategic Leadership
- Defining strategic leadership: vision, mission, and goals
- Developing a strategic plan: analysis, formulation, and implementation
- Leading change: innovation, adaptation, and resilience
- Measuring success: metrics, benchmarks, and evaluation
Module 6: Effective Communication
- The importance of effective communication in leadership
- Verbal communication: clarity, concision, and tone
- Nonverbal communication: body language, facial expressions, and tone
- Active listening: empathy, attention, and understanding
Module 7: Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
- The importance of conflict resolution and negotiation in leadership
- Understanding conflict: sources, types, and levels
- Conflict resolution strategies: avoidance, accommodation, competition, and collaboration
- Negotiation strategies: principled, distributive, and integrative
Module 8: Leading Change and Innovation
- The importance of leading change and innovation in leadership
- Understanding change: types, stages, and resistance
- Leading change: vision, communication, and empowerment
- Fostering innovation: creativity, experimentation, and risk-taking
Module 9: Coaching and Mentoring
- The importance of coaching and mentoring in leadership
- Coaching: developing skills, abilities, and performance
- Mentoring: developing careers, networks, and opportunities
- Creating a coaching and mentoring culture: programs, policies, and practices
Module 10: Leadership Development and Succession Planning
- The importance of leadership development and succession planning in leadership
- Leadership development: training, education, and experience
- Succession planning: identifying, developing, and selecting future leaders
- Creating a leadership pipeline: recruitment, retention, and development
Certificate of Completion Upon completing the course, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This certificate demonstrates your commitment to developing your leadership skills and enhancing your ability to lead with authenticity and impact.
Course Features - Interactive and engaging lessons
- Comprehensive and up-to-date content
- Expert instructors with real-world experience
- Hands-on projects and activities
- Bite-sized lessons for flexible learning
- Lifetime access to course materials
- Gamification and progress tracking
- Mobile-accessible and user-friendly platform
- Community-driven discussion forums
- Actionable insights and practical applications
Course Format The course is delivered online, with 10 modules released weekly. Each module includes interactive lessons, hands-on projects, and expert instruction. Participants can access the course materials at any time, from any device, and can complete the course at their own pace.,
- Discover your authentic leadership style and strengths
- Develop a clear vision and strategy for your team
- Build trust and credibility with your team and stakeholders
- Empower your team to achieve their full potential
- Drive business results through effective leadership