The Power of Leaders
This course explores the fundamental distinctions between management and leadership, offering participants a comprehensive understanding of emotional intelligence and its role in effective leadership.
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- Duration
- 3 days
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Course overview
This course explores the fundamental distinctions between management and leadership, offering participants a comprehensive understanding of emotional intelligence and its role in effective leadership. Participants will delve into key leadership theories, with a focus on situational leadership, and will explore the leader's role as both a delegator and a change agent.
Training methodology
Participants will engage in group activities, psychometric assessments, and team exercises. The course also includes case studies, followed by group discussions and debriefings to solidify learning.
Target competencies
- Self-awareness
- Leadership and people management
- Influencing others
- Change management
- Delegation
- Emotional intelligence
Course objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between management and leadership
- Identify personal strengths and leadership styles through self-assessments
- Explore various leadership theories, with a focus on situational leadership
- Understand the core competencies of Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- Define the role of a leader as a delegator and change agent
Course outline
- Defining leadership and management: similarities and differences
- Classical and modern distinctions between the two
- Debunking myths about leadership
- The practices of exemplary leaders
- Challenging the process and inspiring a vision
- Modeling the way, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart
- The age-old debate: leadership—nature or nurture?
- The ten truths about leadership
- Conducting self-assessments
- Scoring and analyzing results
- Linking personal style with leadership qualities
- Exploring characteristics of admired leaders
- A review of major leadership theories
- Exploring trait and behavioral theories
- Understanding the leadership grid
- Situational leadership: theory, simulation, and application
- Assessing the maturity level of situations
- Identifying levels of development in leadership
- Overview of Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- Differentiating intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence
- Comparing Emotional Quotient (EQ) with Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
- The EI competency framework
- Applying the 18 EI competencies in real-life scenarios
- Brainstorming examples from the workplace
- Understanding delegation: definition, objectives, and principles
- Exploring different levels of delegation
- Addressing why delegation is often underutilized
- Guidelines for effective delegation
- Decision-making styles in the Gulf region
- Defining empowerment and exploring its impact
- Ten strategies to empower employees
- Assessing organizational readiness for empowerment
- Understanding the nature of change
- Exploring Kotter’s eight-step change process
- Addressing and managing resistance to change
Morning and evening classes are available. CompuBase Training Center, Abu Dhabi.
