Personal Journey to Leadership

Course Number:  085-PC
Recommended Duration: 2 Days

Intended Audience
Experienced, new, or aspiring managers, supervisors, group leaders, team facilitators, committee chairs – anyone with on-going leadership responsibilities.

Course Overview
Growing in leadership requires understanding personal patterns of interacting with others. It also demands understanding the behavior patterns of those who lead. “Personal Journey to Leadership” will use self-assessment tools, goal setting strategies and interactive exercises to enhance the participants’ innate leadership skills. Participants will develop and take control of their plans for leadership. They will identify their own personal strengths and areas where development is needed and then take steps on the journey to being a more effective leader.

Objectives
As a result of taking this course, participants will learn to:

• Increase their confidence in their leadership ability so that they can be more decisive and trusted
• Draw leadership out of others so they can develop their teams and groups
• Assess their own strengths and weaknesses to have an accurate basis for making decisions about changing
• Recognize the traits and characteristics of great leaders so they can choose appropriate behavior to model
• Serve others more effectively to be more capable, respected, and supported leaders
• Better understand individual behavior to increase their leadership effectiveness no matter who they are leading
• Change their limiting beliefs so they can positively progress to higher levels of performance
• Use core leadership time mastery techniques to be able to maintain and grow the progress they accomplish
• Implement a step-by-step success plan so they can cause the changes they want in their leadership approaches

Prerequisites:  None

Topics

• Leadership: recognizing the “Great Leader Within”

• Social styles assessment

• Person v. Task approach assessment

• Communication styles and skills

• Personal leadership skills development

• Interpersonal skills development

• Goal attainment

• Barriers to personal and group success

• Leadership theories of the masters

• Application of leadership techniques