Coaching for Leaders


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MODULE, Leadership

Developing a positive and effective leadership style is essential for anyone wanting to succeed. At the end of the leadership coaching, you will have a clear understanding of:

- The role and responsibilities of a leader

- Leadership styles and theories

- Qualities and characteristics of successful leaders and how to foster those yourself;

- Why some leaders fail and avoiding the same traps

- The basics of delegation, motivation and monitoring


Mission Statement


Staff performance

- Empowering and inspiring staff

- Leading change; and Emotional Intelligence in leadership Live to Your Full Potential


Unit 1 Introduction to Leadership

- What is leadership?

- What does Leadership mean to You?

- Learning to Lead

- Theories of Leadership

- Ten Leadership Characteristics Goal Setting


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Unit 2 Management v Leadership

- The Differences between Management and Leadership

- To Lead or To Manage?

- Leadership - Going Beyond A Manager's Tasks

- Leadership Strategies – Bennis and Nanus

- Successful and Effective Leadership

- The Leadership Challenge - Exercise




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Unit 3 Principle-Centred Leadership

- What is Principle-Centred Leadership?

- Leaders and Credibility

- Essential Character Traits of Credible Leaders

- Principles and Paradigms

- Characteristics of Principle-Centred Leaders

- Homework - Integrity Checklist


Unit 4 Principle-Centred Power

- The Power of Principles

- Three Types of Power

- The Power Tools

- The Leadership Choice




Unit 5 Motivation

- What is Motivation?

- What Motivates You?

- Theories of Motivation

- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

- Herzberg’s Motivational-Hygiene Theory of Job Attitudes

- McGregor’s Theory X and Theory

- Us Versus Them

- Case Study: Motivation


Unit 6 Delegation

- What is Delegation?

- An Investment of Confidence

- Advantages of Delegation

- Effects of Failure to Delegate

- Reasons Why Leaders Do Not Delegate

- What should not be delegated?

- Letting Them get on with It

- Guidelines for Making Delegation Work

- How Do You Rate as a Delegator?

- Completed Staff Work


Unit 7 Situational leadership

- The Situational Leadership Model

- Direction, Support and Development

- The Four Key Leadership Styles

- Individual Development Levels

- Using The Hershey-Blanchard Model

- Factors Influencing Leader Styles

- Six Action Shoes: Edward de Bono

- Assessing Your Preferred Style

- Self Assessment Instrument

- Key Case Study


Unit 8 Managing Performance

- Introduction and Unit Objectives

- Coaching: Bringing out the Best in Others

- Competency Review on Coaching

- Conducting Performance Reviews

- Setting Goals and Developing Agreement

- Performance Management Skills

- More on Giving Feedback

- Top Tips on Performance Feedback

- Poor Performance Reviews (and exercise)

- Being Objective

- The Interview

- Competency Review on Performance Management Interviews

- The One-Minute Manager (One-Minute Goal Setting, One-Minute Praisings, One-Minute Reprimands)

- A Reminder about Mistakes

- Decreasing the Performance Gap


Unit 9 Leading Change

- Introduction

- The Traditional Approach to Managing Change

- A New Way for Managing Change

- The Mindset Issue

- Creative versus Reactive Thinkers

- What Keeps People from Maintaining an Effective Attitude to Change?

- How Do You Foster Creative Thinking in a Team?

- Creative versus Reactive Leadership


Unit 10 Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

- Introduction

- The Value of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

- Developing a High EQ

- Smile and the World Smiles With You

- The Mechanics of Moods

- Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

- Leadership Actions

- Top Tips for Improving your Emotional Intelligence

- Resonant Leadership

- Personal Reinvention

- Helping Others Improve their EQ




Unit 11 Why Leaders Fail

- WARNING SIGN #1: A Shift in Focus

- WARNING SIGN #2: Poor Communication

- WARNING SIGN #3: Risk Aversion

- WARNING SIGN #4: Ethics Slip

- WARNING SIGN #5: Poor Self Management

- WARNING SIGN #6: Lost Love

- Heeding the Warning Signs


Unit 12 Wisdom from Great Leaders

- Great Leadership quotes from Harvard Business Review


Unit 13 Excellence

- Introduction and Unit Objectives

- Commitment

- Confidence

- Striving for Mastery

- An Excellent Example

- Purging Mediocrity

- The Pursuit of Excellence

- Excellence is Not Perfection

- Excellent Habits




Unit 14 Leadership Self-Evaluation

- A Quick Recap

- A Lifetime of Learning

- Self Evaluation

- Reading List




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