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.
