Module 1 - Great Leadership: Developing Practical Leadership Skills
Day One: Becoming a Great Leader
- How close am I to becoming a Great Leader? Self-Assessment and reflection
- Manage your own emotions and the emotions of others
- Understanding and building followership
- Personality and Leadership Style
- Overview of current leadership thinking and approaches including: Transformational Leadership, Trustworthy Leadership, Inspirational Leadership and Host Leadership
- Effective leadership competencies
Day Two: Tools to Help Engage Your People
- Tools to ensure buy-in to changes and improvements
- Managing frictions and conflicts
- Creating a positive working environment
- Recognising change resistors
- Effectively dealing with resistance to change
- Motivating your followers
Day Three: Practical Team Leadership Skills
- Key Team Leadership Skills
- Understanding Team Processes
- Building effective team working relationships
- Skills and approaches to help motivate the team
- Leading the Dysfunctional team
- Building and Leading Effective Teams
Day Four: Practical Skills and Tools to Help Lead Change
- What should we do and consider when implementing change?
- Leading organisational change
- Dealing with different reactions and responses to change
- Tools to help people fully engage with change
- Skills for when change goes wrong
- The key skills of leading change
Day Five: Becoming a Great Strategic Leader
- The difference between a Great Strategic and Operational Leader
- Creating and communicating your Vision and Values
- ‘Skills to Analyze and Strategize’
- Leading the successful implementation of Strategy
- Developing your Coaching and Mentoring Leadership Skills
- Your personal Leadership Development Action Plan
Module 2 - Global Business Leadership and International Relations
Day Six: Attributes of Successful Global Leaders
- Inclusive leadership
- Emotional intelligence
- Business ethics
- Brand management
- Socially responsible investing
- Corporate philanthropy
Day Seven: What is a Global Mindset? Do I Need One?
- The changing global industries
- Global cultures and how they differ
- Sensitivity to cultural diversity
- Global strategic thinking
- Mindfulness
- Developing global thinking
Day Eight: Build, Lead and Communicate with my Global (Virtual) Team
- Building highly effective teams
- Communication and diligence of global leadership
- Effective goal setting, delegating & empowerment
- Using multiple forms of media for distance communications
- Motivating and driving my team worldwide
- Managing & communicating with stakeholders
Day Nine: The Foundations of International Relations
- Study of international relations
- Normative theory
- International society theory
- Strategic perspective
- Sovereignty
- Power
- National interest
Day Ten: Foreign Policy Analysis & International Organisations
- Interdependence
- Dependency
- Systemic tools of international relations
- United Nations
- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
- Economic institutions
- International legal bodies
- Regional security arrangements