Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of self-awareness and describe multiple ways to increase your own self-awareness.
2. Discuss the place of personal values and key character traits towards effective leadership.
3. Understand the concept of “self-agency” and its place with proactivity and response-ability (e.g., stimulus and response.)
4. Understand the broad and critical nature of “Sharpening the Saw.”
5. Describe each of the branches of EQ (Self-awareness, Self-management of Emotions, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management) and how you can strengthen each area.
6. Discuss tenets of conflict management and empathic active listening.
7. Speak to strategic approaches for when employees make mistakes.
8. Be able to enumerate best practices in setting up and running effective meetings.
9. Describe possible approaches towards effective decision-making (e.g., Golden Mean, climate of debate, cost-benefit analysis)
10. Describe do’s and don’ts of delegating.
11. Describe a seven leadership theories, and which one(s) fit you and your team the best.
12. Describe the different kinds of “power and influence” of a leader  - Legitimate, Reward, Coercive, Expert, and Reference?
13. Discuss ways to develop vision (think “character,” “circle of concern,” ideation, SWOT).
14. Describe the potential of inspiration using compensation, carrot-and-stick, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and other potential motivating means.
15. Describe the value of trust, how quickly it should be afforded, and ways to cultivate it.
16. Describe Lencioni’s theory of teamwork (Components: interrelating trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and results.)
17. Discuss the balance of fostering competitiveness versus teamwork on your team.
18. Describe Groupthink and briefly discuss how to curb it.
19. Create synergy.
20. Form their own personalized, optimized leadership style.