PROGRAMME

Evolving Leaders
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8 hours
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97 GBP
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This lecture series presented by leadership expert and experienced senior executive, Dr. Richard Carter FCMI CMgr introduces you to key concepts to help you develop your ability to lead from within. Organic leaders create empowering workspaces and lead others with greater confidence and less stress.

About this Lecture Series

This short lecture series introduces you to the key concepts required to effectively lead from within. Using the framework of DANCER and drawing on contemporary leadership style theory, we will equip you with the foundations and practical guidance you need to master the art of organic leadership – and create a more empowering workspace with greater confidence and less stress. Inclusions are:

5 modules from our The Organic Leader Series
20 video lectures delivered by Dr Richard Carter
25 reflective questions focused on improving self-awareness
22 activities focused on practical application
Additional curated resources from experts to improve your knowledge
Switch Education Certificate of Achievement
Unlimited access to the Organic Leader content
Access to the step-by-step learning portal
Access to the social learning area
Downloadable Private Learning Journal

We begin by introducing you to the key frameworks and concepts underpinning what it means to be an Organic Leader. These include the mnemonic DANCER, social cognitive theory and self-efficacy beliefs.

Section 2 of this lecture series focuses on self-awareness. We explain how the process of identifying your personal idiosyncrasies and developing a deeper understanding of how these characteristics inform how you lead in practice. You will have an opportunity to think about your own leadership story and the important events that define how you lead today and compare this with other leadership frameworks.

In Section 3, we review a range of leadership styles and explore how helping your people find their purpose delivers superior results compared to forcing subordinates to be loyal followers. We invite you to explore our additional curated resources from Bev James, Bill George, Lars Sudmann, John Kotter and Ken Blanchard, all aimed at challenging your views on what makes a great leader.

Section 4 reviews the differences (and similarities) between managing and leading and invites you to explore how understanding these behaviours can help you become more effective in your role.

Finally, we show you how to apply your learnings from the video lectures, we review how your own leadership style can be adapted to suit changing circumstances and explain how learning to do this will assist you as you manage and lead today.

Explain the importance of knowing and understanding various types of leadership styles
Evaluate your own leadership style to understand how you naturally lead
Communicate and reflect upon your leadership story
Explain how your experiences to date might impact your behaviour in the workplace
Evaluate the relationship between leading and managing, particularly in relation to your own role

Understand how a flexible approach to leadership is crucial to being an effective leader today
Discuss why leadership styles need to be adapted in different situations
Explain how you might adapt your leadership style to meet changing needs
Explain how you might adapt your style to encourage greater team development and commitment

As many a social analyst has remarked lately, we live in times of unprecedented complexity that makes Leadership a challenging task. Richard explores this challenge with great insight. He doesn’t offer a superficial quick fix (which many a ‘thought leader’ does these days in the Leadership industry). He conveys ideas of great substance, without ever becoming ‘bogged down’ in theory. He boils things down into bite sized pieces that I can digest. Brett Wood.

Clear explanation of social cognitive theory, infusing course design. Clear description of three elements affecting efficacy – with a potential 30% boost to management effectiveness. Verran Fehlberg.

How SWITCH guides your Transformation

Awareness

Supported by Social Cognitive Theory, our programmes and insight tools increase self-awareness, the building block to boost your sense of personal agency and control. Your leadership and management status quo then shifts, propelling you forward.

Reflection

Only through self-reflection are we able to achieve the self-regulation necessary for self-actualisation. We promote self-reflection by embedding a private digital learning journal in our courses, our self-assessments and our insight tool reports and debriefs.

In Practice

To help you feel better supported and develop your self-confidence as leaders, our programmes include the opportunity to share your ideas and reflections and workplace application with your peers in our social learning area, in webinars or group consultations.

Reinforcement

The activities, webinars, pulse checks and consultations used in our programmes aid long-term behaviour change by engaging the brain and reinforcing learning. They are drawn from our learnings which have been gained over 50 years of business and education experience.

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