ONCE1171 - Developing Your Leadership Skills (Online)
Course Description
Especially for future and emerging leaders in Gen Y, come discover the key concepts of being a leader and the best strategies for developing your leadership skills and influence. Learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit in for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned. The action takes place in attending meetings, running meetings, interacting with others 1:1, and employing successful techniques to convince and influence others. You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do.
Course Outline
Unit 1
- Making Leadership Happen
- What leaders do, and don’t do
- What Leaders Believe
- Attributes of leaders: what characteristics leaders have that others don’t
- Making it happen: becoming a leader
- Leadership procedures and processes, how leaders work
Unit 2
- Attending Meetings: Where the Action Is
- How to attend a meeting when you are not the leader
- The dynamics of meetings
- Recognizing the players in a meeting
- How to study. The unspoken cues of body language, silence, objections
- Studying/Reading the leader in a meeting
Unit 3
- The Secrets of Leading Successful Meetings
- Creating your meeting agenda and objective
- The 5 Secrets of leading an outcome oriented meeting
- Getting something passed
- Understanding meeting procedures: Bob’s Process Model
Unit 4
- Change: How to Influence Others
- Creating the argument
- Delivering the case
- Gaining support, before, during, and after meetings
- Taking leadership
Notes
This is a one-month, online self-paced course.
This course is part of the Certificate in Leadership Development (for Gen Y).
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Certificate in Leadership Development (for GenY) : Certificate Courses