Syllabus

• Week 1

  Authentic leadership and values

  • Authentic leadership

    This activity looks at leadership generally and what the importance of authenticity is.

  • Leaders in different situations

    Here we look at leaders in crises and other situations.

  • Core values

    This activity looks at the importance of core values to the leader.

  • A values-driven approach

    This activity looks at the connection between values and leadership, and checks in on what we have learnt from a personal perspective.

• Week 2

  Understanding yourself and your resilience levels

  • Understanding ourselves

    This activity starts to look at how we can understand ourselves better, how subjective we are, and introduces the Ladder of Inference.

  • The Ladder of Inference

    Here we look at The Ladder of Inference and understand its implications for self-development.

  • The Ladder of Inference and leadership

    In this activity we look at letting things go, and some of our unhelpful habits, and focus in on what The Ladder means for leadership.

  • Personal resilience

    After concluding on how our brain interprets fact, we move on to look at what personal resilience is, and how you can build and maintain it.

  • Resilience in leadership

    This activity looks more closely at personal resilience and how important it is for leaders.

  • Positivity and negativity

    After making some commitments around your personal resilience, we move on to look at the benefits of positivity and negativity.

• Week 3

  Understanding others and building trust as a leader

  • Understanding others

    This activity looks at why we need to understand others, and their different personalities and styles of learning.

  • Differences in people, and in their learning style preferences

    This activity looks at differences in people, including those who 'challenge' us, and introduces us to different styles of learning and our preferences for these.

  • Leadership, followership and trust

    Here we look briefly at followership as a concept, then explore how to build trust.

  • Dealing with fear

    This activity first looks at building buy-in, and then explores the phenomenon of fear.

  • 'Controlling' our mind'

    Here we look at how the mind works and how we can persuade it to think the way we need it to.

  • Visualisation and diversity

    This activity starts to look at two topics which will become recurring themes in the course: visualisation and diversity and inclusion

• Week 4

  Building your leadership brand and strategy

  • Personal brand

    Here we start to look at the importance of personal brand for a leader

  • Authority of voice

    In this activity we focus on voice and communication of personal brand

  • RIVAS

    This activity explains a tool, RIVAS, which can help you reach your goals more easily, with a few simple but effective elements which assure you of success

  • RIVAS and leadership

    This activity talks through how the RIVAS tool can help leaders specifically, and goes on to look at your own personal communications strategy.

  • Strategic versus operational

    Here we look at the difference between being strategic and being operational, and also consider how to develop a leadership strategy

  • Summary of course

    Here we look back on this final week of the course, take the final assessment, summarise the course and talk about next steps.

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