Course Details

This course is appropriate for a wide range of professionals but not limited to:

• Managers responsible for new product/service lines
• High-potential leaders tasked with internal innovation
• Strategy and Business Development Managers
• Executives operating in highly disruptive industries

• Expert-led sessions with dynamic visual aids
• Comprehensive course manual to support practical application and reinforcement
• Interactive discussions addressing participants’ real-world projects and challenges
• Insightful case studies and proven best practices to enhance learning

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Gain an understanding of the core competencies of Leadership in the 21st Century
• Build a framework within which to grow both professionally and personally in order to provide sustainable leadership in both a business and social context
• Be able to apply a variety of skills to enhance their role as a leader and the performance of those around them
• Understand be able to effectively use motivation factors supporting the adoption of positive changing attitudes and behaviours in their daily approach to their organisational interactions and change
• Be able to ensure the effective selection and implementation of appropriate management tools aligned to organisational and personal need
• Have increased their capacity to build and lead high performing management teams delivering sustainable organisational growth and development

DAY 1

Style and Adaptability & Communications Skills for Excellence

• Welcome and introduction
• Pre-test
• Analyze low global productivity and employee engagement.
• Discuss challenges of hybrid/digital management.
• Evaluate management styles and adaptability.
• Differentiate Management vs. Leadership to build a Leaderpreneurship model.
• Master Active Listening and verbal/non-verbal communication.
• Address the Written Word challenge.
• Influence effectively via virtual platforms.
• Apply the power of SMarT.

DAY 2

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Human Behaviour Leadership & Strategic Vision

• Define EQ vs. IQ (success indicator vs. gateway).
• Develop EQ as a learnable skill.
• Address intergenerational communication needs (Millennial, iGen, etc.).
• §Analyze EQ's ripple effect on performance.
• Recognize unserved market needs/white space.
• Develop a compelling "North Star" vision.
• Create a robust Business Model Canvas.

DAY 3

Performance Management & People Development essentials for survival & Lean Execution

• Reframe PM for positive development and support style.
• Use structured, flexible, and fair PM processes.
• Utilize SMarT and PAID tools for performance management. Apply Lean Startup: Build-Measure-Learn.
• Design effective, low-cost MVPs/experiments.
• Practice data-driven decisions: pivot or persevere.

DAY 4

Effective Employee Engagement and Motivation & Teams and Team Building

• Address staff churn; people "leave managers.“
• Understand motivation theory (Maslow, Hertzberg).
• Differentiate motivation vs. maintenance.
• Apply EQ to manage needs assertively. Master models by Tuckman and Lencioni.
• Manage multi-disciplined/hybrid teams.
• Drive talent growth: fixed vs. growth mindset.
• Utilize the 9-box grid for sustainability.

DAY 5

Change Management & Scaling and Sustaining & Personal Commitment

• Analyze personal and organizational impact of change.
• Build an action plan using proven models.
• Understand Change Management vs. Project Management.
• Apply the Change Adoption Curve. Develop metrics beyond ROI for innovation success.
• Strategize scaling ventures into the core business.
• Build a Personal Action Plan for future Leaderpreneurial projects.
• Post-test
• Certificate ceremony