Management Resources Guide

Leadership Training
Transformational Leadership
How Leaders Can Effect Successful Change in
Companies, Organisations, and Teams
All programs are designed, written and produced to your organisation’s specific requirements.
What You Will Learn
This course deepens your understanding of how leaders produce change in organisations.
Specifically, how leaders establish a compelling direction, align people and groups, and inspire
and motivate them to achieve common goals. The course begins by examining certain myths
about leadership, including the notion that leaders are born, not made. You will evaluate
different conceptions of leadership, as well as various theoretical models. You will discover that
all successful leaders do not have a common set of personality traits. The course embraces the
notion that certain leaders are suited for particular situations and that leaders at times must
adapt their style to fit the needs of specific circumstances.
We examine why individuals and organisations resist change, looking specifically at how people
often respond rigidly to situations perceived as threatening to them. The course examines the
critical steps in a successful transformation process. Leaders must articulate a compelling vision
that includes ambitious stretch goals. However, achieving small wins proves crucial in moving
an organisation along the path toward those goals. Ultimately, leaders must ensure that changes
"stick" in a team and special techniques can be used to help institutionalise change. To build
organisations that endure, leaders must foster an environment of continuous improvement and
innovation. Leaders have to develop and guide learning processes, and they have to foster
environments that are conducive to creativity and innovation.
Every one of our training programs is uniquely designed and tailored to meet your specific
circumstances and objectives.
Topic Menu includes but is not limited to:
The challenge of transformational
leadership.
Portrait of a Transformation.
Do great leaders share the same traits?
How much does context matter?
Charismatic and Transformational
Leadership.
Resistance and reactions to change.
Phases of Transformation.
Making change stick.
Extrinsic Motivation and Reward.
Beyond money—Intrinsic Motivation.
Power –Understanding it, getting it, and
keeping it.
Key Levers of Power.
Influence–Tools of Persuasion.
Avoiding the zero sum game.
Building and leading teams.
Guiding teams as they evolve.
Observation and Organisational
Learning.
Stimulating creativity.
Leading Innovation.
Developing Leaders.
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