Course Content
The content of the course is on; Understanding Leadership, and consists of:
- The Leadership Role and Different Leadership Styes
- Self Leadership and Understanding Ones Self
- Connecting the Team with Vision and Strategy
- Motivating and Developing the Team
Learning Outcomes – on completion the candidate should be able to:
- Explain the basic characteristics of the leadership role
- Describe at least three different styles of leadership and their strengths and limitations
- Explain how these leadership styles may be appropriate to different individuals, contexts and teams
Explain the importance of a leader being able to adapt different leadership styles to different situations:
Knowledge, Understanding and Skills
The basic characteristics of the leadership role in terms of:
- taking responsibility
- understanding and continuously working towards overall vision and strategy
- translating strategy into objectives for teams and individuals
- thinking ‘outside the box’
- assisting change management
- overcoming obstacles
- communicating and motivating
- supporting and developing teams and individuals
- modelling appropriate behaviour
- representing the team and feeding back its experiences and views
- Models of leadership styles and their strengths and limitations
- How different leadership styles may be appropriate to different situations, teams and individuals
- The importance of being able to use different leadership styles in different situations and with different teams and individuals
Plus at least 2 hours of one-to-one tutorial support
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