Great leadership is rather like an onion – it’s formed of layers! On the outside, a leader needs to be flexible to adapt to changing circumstances and individual team members’ needs, But, peeling back the layers, you’ll find there are a few fundamental leadership practices and roles that are vital to any leader’s success – including your own! These are the core foundations on which your leadership stands or fails.

In this course, we will review the fundamental practices and roles of a great leader, together with the practical ways in which you can develop them.

What you’ll learn:

• The roles and responsibilities of a leader that you need to adopt to ensure you gain your team’s trust and support

• The key skills you need to be an effective leader, including emotional intelligence and the ability to drive idea generation, with practical tips for developing them

• How you can use coaching, mentoring and leading by example to help your team members to flourish and take on leadership responsibilities of their own

• Maak and Pless’ Responsible Leadership model to help you balance the interests of different stakeholders, including those that may be conflicting! 

• Brown, Treviño and Harrison’s Ethical Leadership model to help you lead your team responsibly, ensuring they too act with integrity and can take pride in their work

• Mary Gentile’s Values-Driven Leadership model to assist you in upholding both your own and your organisation’s values when you lead

• The key internal and external factors that will influence how you can lead in a particular organisation and tips on how you can address these to ensure you’re leading as effectively as possible given the circumstances