All those who wish to enhance their personal and/or professional development
 All those who are aiming for a leadership post in the future
 All those who are already in leadership posts but are not too sure of their footing
 All those who believe quite rightly that leadership skills are a necessary element in everyone, whether the person is in a leadership post, labelled as a leadership post, or not
 All those who are employed, self-employed, or working voluntarily in a ‘real’ not-for-profit organisation where no-one is paid
Career Development
Leadership arises in all parts of an organisation. This includes team leader roles, small business leaders and leaders of larger organisations, both in the profit and non-profit sectors of industry. Salary expectations can be up to $100k ++. Leaders in the 21st Century need to understand themselves and understand their employees and actively mentor and encourage their future stars.
Course Review
The Effective Leadership Course from Enjoy Online Courses not only offers valuable insight into the future of leadership but more importantly it shows you how important it is to understand your employees and help them stimulate ideas and intellectual curiosity. Highly recommended!
Course Outline
Introduction
Welcome to Enjoy Online Courses and our course on Effective Leadership.
Critical learning factors underpinning this high quality accredited course
Cognitive Processes
Metacognitive Processes
Mindfulness
Module 1: Key reflections on Effective Leadership
Module Objective
Key reflections on leadership Management
Leadership
Why should you learn about leadership?
Putting Leaders and Leadership in context, for this session
Models of leadership
Transformational Leadership
Distributive Leadership
Take care with suppositions and surveys about leadership
Is there such a thing as a flat organisation?
Leading your team
Handling followers
Developing yourself as a leader
You’ll do it your way
Your ability to deliver results
Module 2: Planning for Effective Leadership
Module Objective
Planning ahead to get it right first time
The flaws to avoid
Lack of resilience
Poor reflective practice
Lack of realism
Lack of resonance
Hierarchical structures
Emphasising the short-term, bottom-line priorities over how things are done
Individualism
What diversity?
Let’s go – anywhere
Old mindsets rule. OK?
Failing to listen
Side-stepping the need to grow
Like me, please
Inability to be decisive
Varying values
It’s not about YOU
Trust
Prophets of doom
Lack of generosity
What development?
Module 3: What makes an Effective Leader? Part 1: Build A Firm Foundation
Module Objective
The 4Rs for a Firm Foundation
1. Resilience
Key reflections on resilience
How can you build your resilience?
Mindfulness: Become Mindful
Look after yourself
Network and network and network
Nurture your awareness
Not putting it off and off and off and…
The dreaded need for certainty
Change is an integral part of life
Build your mantra
Be optimistic
Some skills are more important than others
2. Reflection
3. Realism
The facts about realism
4. Resonance
Further thoughts on leadership models
Module 4: What makes YOU a good leader? Part 2: Putting the bricks in place
Module Objective
You know what ‘leadership’ means
You encourage the creation of a vision the team wants to be part of
You always take a wider perspective/see the bigger picture
You anticipate and provide for future needs
You are self-aware at all times
You are aware of the need to continuously self-assess and develop
You are a champion of learning and capability development
You understand others
You understand motivation
Module 5: What makes YOU a good leader? Part 3: Putting the final bricks in place
You understand underlying emotions/patterns of behaviour
You know what ‘teamwork’ really means
You know how to heighten performance in others
You understand how the business arena fits together and you build relationships and networks of influence beyond the team
You know that discussion and feedback are an integral part of the working relationship
You know how to evaluate information and make evidence-based decisions
You have commercial awareness
You think outside the box
You excel in communication
Listening and observing
Speaking
You are fully aware of the key characteristics of good spoken communication
End of Course Assessment
Take the End of Course Assessment and get rewarded with your Accredited Certificate