Today's competitive environment requires you to lead your company or team through diverse and often complex scenarios. This course will help attendees determine importance of sound leadership skills, differentiating between a leader and a manager, and learn how to identify and eliminate roadblocks to successful leadership. Also, using leadership scenarios, address common workforce issues and learn techniques to best handle workforce diversity.
Learning Objectives
• Identify leadership skills and common roadblocks.
• Recognize effective leadership vs. simply managing.
• Determine leadership skill-building techniques, including communications, negotiations and personal marketing.
• Recall leadership styles, the psychology of leading and ethical thought leadership.
Major Topics
• Leadership roadblocks.
• Leadership vs. managing.
• Skill-building techniques: communications, negotiations and personal marketing.
• Leadership in ethics.
• Psychodynamic leadership theory.
• Leadership traits, skills and styles.
