Executive Leadership Management
Overview:
Introduction:
The Executive Leadership Management Program explores leadership skills for the complex and dynamic modern workplace. In today’s evolving business landscape, there’s a growing need for highly skilled leaders who can navigate through complex challenges and empower their teams to succeed. You’ll learn techniques to lead high-performance teams to add value and purpose to your organization through effective leadership strategies.
Investigate how to maximize your influence using practical tools and frameworks, and gain a deeper understanding of your leadership style to align it with your organization’s goals.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Gain the insights to devise and implement an effective strategy in your organization
- Develop the confidence to operate outside your comfort zone
- Increase your ability to engage, inspire and influence
- Prepare for a more senior management role or professional challenge
- Develop effective, motivated, and innovative leaders
- Gain insights into the latest thinking on strategic business topics
- Build a strong leadership framework
- See a return on investment through Henley's collaboration with a learning partner in your organization. This person will understand and support the needs of the organization and the participant, benefitting both
Targeted Audience:
Directors and senior managers aspiring :
- have mastered business fundamentals and now need to ‘lead leaders’;
- are required to enhance their managing upwards capability;
- need to develop broader responsibility across a number of teams.
The Executive Leadership Management Program is for managers at all levels who want to enhance role performance and organizational success.
Course Outlines:
Unit 1: Effective leadership: Leading for high performance
- Reflect on the relationship between effective leadership and performance in organizations.
- Define performance in the context of an organization
- Discuss the impact that leaders can have on performance
- Outline the different traits, styles, and contexts of leadership
- Describe the evolution of leadership
- Interpret your own leadership style, or potential style, and that of those around you
- Identify effective and ineffective leadership in your context
- Review your strengths and weaknesses as a leader
Unit 2: The job of the leader: Envisioning and engaging
- Learn about vision and engagement as two core activities of leaders.
- Recall the primary activities of leaders in the Oxford Leadership Framework
- Recognize the link between vision and strategy
- Interpret the interplay between authentic behaviors and trust in leadership
- Indicate how the relationship between leaders and followers acts as a key factor in engagement
- Identify the different types of motivators for team members in your context
- Articulate your vision as a leader
Unit 3: The job of the leader: Choosing and connecting
- Recognize the impact of personal biases in making decisions
- Interpret theoretical models and frameworks related to decision-making
- Outline the different types of connections leaders use to lead effectively
- Explain how leaders mobilize networks for effective leadership
- Review how important decisions are made in organizations
- Apply the power of doubt in making decisions
Unit 4: Leading with power and influence
- Explore the significance of power and influence within leadership.
- Articulate the relationship between leadership and power
- Distinguish between different forms of power
- Investigate influence as a form of soft power
- Deduce how to exercise influence in your organization
- Analyze the importance of difficult conversations
Unit 5: Leading teams for effective performance
- Explore the functions and dynamics of high-performance leadership.
- Describe the role of teams in organizations
- Identify some of the challenges and limitations of building and harnessing teams
- Articulate what leaders need in order to build a high-performance team
- Deduce the role of the leader in high-performance teams
- Analyze the challenges and opportunities of optimizing team performance in your context
Unit 6: Strategies and models for leading change
- Consider the role of the leader in driving change.
- Discuss how leaders can drive change in organizations through change management models
- Articulate which change management model is most suitable for your organizational context
- Compare different strategies for managing change
- Deduce the challenges facing leaders tasked with driving change
- Distinguish the role of the leader in managing change
- Analyze the extent to which change is being effectively managed in your organization
Unit 7: Mastering complexity and a plurality
- Explore strategies to manage the complexity inherent in leadership.
- Differentiate between plurality and complexity within organizations
- Assess the ways in which organizations manage multiple corporate and social goals
- Analyze the challenges and tensions in leading for the present and the future
- Evaluate how your organization plans for the future
- Assess how alignment reinforces the purpose and strategy of organizations
- Reflect on the role of alignment in your organization
Unit 8: Reflect on your purpose as a leader
- Establish alignment between your personal purpose and the purpose of your organization.
- Analyze the relationship between your personal purpose and your level of authenticity as a leader
- Assess the tensions between authenticity and adaptability
- Deconstruct the role of the leader today
- Formulate your personal purpose as a leader
- Create alignment between your personal purpose and your organization's purpose