The Leader as a Model


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
Leaders...know how to dance the old dance. We all grew up in traditional organisations with conventional leader and role models. Now the music has changed. We don't know the new steps and there are not footprints on the floor.Peter R. Schools' words accurately reflect the challenges of leading today. You have to be able to develop a diverse team that can achieve optimum performance. You have to know how to motivate a variety of individuals. And you have to be willing to shed the old ways of thinking to make room for the new. This course will start you on that path.

Target Audience
Supervisors, managers, and coaches

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Developing Your Team

  • recognise the benefits of developing an effective work team.
  • identify methods for building an effective team.
  • choose methods that leaders use to get organised.
  • identify what a team needs to be ready for self-management.

    • Working with Diversity

  • recognise the value of using the concepts of pro-active pluralism to deal with diversity.
  • choose reasons why diversity is relevant to today's businesses.
  • select concepts that reflect managing through pro-active pluralism.
  • identify methods for using diversity during the four stages of team-building.

    • Building Strong Working Relationships

  • recognise the importance of strong working relationships to a leader.
  • differentiate examples of internal and external sources of motivation.
  • identify ways to influence people to move in desirable directions.
  • identify strategies leaders can use to create and maintain strong working relationships with and among their people.

    • Leadership in the 21st Century

  • recognise the importance of a leadership style that will meet the needs of the 21st-century workplace.
  • identify changes in the workplace that stimulate the evolution of leadership.
  • differentiate between the characteristics of transactional and transformational leadership.
  • arrange in sequence the four steps of the future leadership model.

    • Course Number:
    LEAD8228