Course Description

Leadership 201 is a course for executives, managers, emerging leaders, and even followers, providing a strong complement to traditional leadership trainings. Learners go on a journey of first elevating their self-awareness and effectiveness, and then building upon that in strengthening their interpersonal skills, management-specific skills, and ultimately their visionary and inspirational leadership skills. It differs from “trainings” in that there is a steady stream of concepts and ideas, blended together with class exercises, discussions, and reflective exercises that participants can apply to their respective situations. Participants will walk away from the class:

• Feeling like they understand much better why people do the things they do, and how leaders can harness this.
• Knowing all the most salient points from the top leadership books. You will feel like you have read them all.
• Ready to practice many more academic ideas not typically included in “trainings.” (E.g., transformational leadership theories, EQ applications, decision-making skills.)

Modules

1. Self-Awareness and Effectiveness (Day 1)
   1. Who Are You? – Understanding your foundation and what you can build upon.
   2. Who Are You? (Your Values) – Character is the most widely discussed topic in leadership books.
   3. Self-Agency – Understanding your responsibility and levels of growing your autonomy.
   4. Response-ability – Pushing the limits of behavior modification.
   5. Productivity with Proactivity – Learning better how to think ahead and act.
   6. Professional Development – Best practices toward increasing capacity.
       
2. Interpersonal Relations (Day 2 - Part 1)
   1. Interdependence – Harnessing the power of company culture.
   2. Emotional Intelligence – Biggest complaint about leaders?
   3. Conflict Management – Listening skills and strategic approaches.
   4. Win-Win-Win – Making sure it’s good for all involved. (“Was it good for you?”)
       
3. The Art of Management (Day 2 - Part 2)
   1. Talent Acquisition – The hardest and most important thing you ever do?
   2. Supervisory Skills – How to support and nurture.
   3. Personnel Evaluations – Growing talent, while moving away from terroristic practices.
   4. Running Effective Meetings – Maybe all companies’ biggest time waster?
   5. Effective Decision-Making – Wisdom, expediency, effectiveness.
   6. The Art of Delegation – How to “delegate authority with responsibility.”
       
4. Visionary and Inspirational Leadership (Day 3)
   1. “Great Leaders…” – Inspirational and provocative listing of quotes.
   2. Leadership Theories – Fine-tuning your leadership style. Most transformational?
   3. Leaders as Visionaries – Perhaps the most defining difference between a leader and a manager.
   4. The Responsibility to Inspire – Not as hard as you might think. Or maybe harder?
   5. Building Trust – Most common word in leadership literature.
   6. Teamwork – Starting to tie everything together.
   7. Creating Synergy! – The ultimate prize. The collective zone.