Overview/Description
In this course, you will learn how to enable your employees by providing more choices and encouraging competence. You will understand why offering visible support to your people makes them able to make decisions when necessary. This course will also assist you in discovering common aspirations, improving your interpersonal skills, communicating your passion, and making your vision "tangible". You will understand the importance of developing shared goals and integrative solutions while building relationships based on trust. Finally, you'll discover how you, as a leader, can encourage critical-thinking skills in your employees. You'll discover how to get people to challenge their assumptions, and you'll learn methods that you and your employees can use to imagine and explore alternatives.
recognise the importance of giving power away, practising the principles of empowerment, and offering visible support for employees.
identify why it's important to give power away.
identify the elements of the three principles of empowerment.
choose methods of making your support more visible.
Enlisting the Help You Need
recognise the benefit of making leadership a two-way communication process that enlists the help needed.
identify how to discover employees' common aspirations.
identify the interpersonal skills necessary to enlist the help you need.
identify ways to generate passion about your vision.
Encouraging Collaboration
recognise the value of encouraging collaboration, as opposed to competition, through the development of shared goals, integrative solutions, and trust.
identify elements of competition and collaboration.
identify ways to develop collaborative goals.
identify ways to create a collaborative environment.
select ways of developing integrative solutions.
Developing Critical Thinkers
recognise the value of developing critical thinkers.
identify elements of critical thinking.
identify the guidelines for facilitating critical thinking.
identify ways in which leaders can assist employees in challenging their assumptions.
choose ways of thinking that create imaginative alternatives.