

The Power of Leaders
Overview:
Introduction
The enduring distinctions between management and leadership are covered in the course. It seeks to give participants a general understanding of emotional intelligence and analyzes some important ideas and methods of leadership with a focus on situational leadership. The function of the leader as a delegator and change agent is also covered in the training.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between leadership and management
- Through self-evaluations, they can pinpoint their leadership philosophies and strengths.
- Analyze different leadership theories with a situational leadership focus.
- List the core skills of emotional intelligence (EI)
- Explain the delegator and change agent functions of a leader.
Targeted Audience
- middle- and senior-level corporate employees who want to develop their self-awareness in order to become better leaders. This course will also be useful for any other employees whose jobs involve leading, delegating, and managing change.
Course Outline
Unit 1: Leaders, not managers
- Definitions, similarities, and differences
- Some classical differences
- Modern-day differences
- Myths about leadership
- Practices of exemplary leaders
- Challenge the process
- Inspire a vision
- Model the way
- Enable others to act
- Encourage the heart
- The perennial question: nature or nurture
- The ten truths about leadership
Unit 2: Personal style and leadership qualities
- Self-assessment
- Administration and scoring
- Linking style with leadership qualities
- Characteristics of admired leaders
Unit 3: The leadership journey and situational leadership
- Review of major theories
- Trait theories
- Behavioral theories
- The leadership grid
- Situational leadership: theory and simulation
- Situation’s maturity level
- Levels of development
- Maturity levels and leadership styles
Unit 4: The emotionally intelligent leader
- An overview of EI
- Intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence
- Emotional Quotient (EQ) versus Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
- The EI competency framework
- The 18 EI competencies in practice
- Brainstorming real-life examples
Unit 5: Leadership, delegation, and empowerment
- Delegation: definition, objectives, and rules
- Delegation levels
- Why delegation is not popular
- Guidelines for delegation
- Decision making styles in the Gulf
- Empowerment: Definition
- Ten ways to empower employees
- Is your organization ready for empowerment?
Unit 5: The leader as a change catalyst
- The nature of change
- Kotter’s eight step change process model
- Understanding and dealing with resistance to change