Conscious Leadership: Adapting to Changing Situations
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Conscious Leadership: Adapting to Changing Situations
Instructor: Robin Hills
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What you'll learn
Ways of working with emotional intelligence that lead to better outcomes.
What you need to do to get the most out of people based around your mode and style of leadership.
Skills you'll gain
- Organizational Leadership
- Leadership and Management
- Leadership
- Team Performance Management
- Business Communication
- Team Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Cognitive flexibility
- Business Leadership
- Employee Coaching
- Personal Development
- Adaptability
- Coaching
- Leadership Development
- Visionary
- Team Motivation
- Team Building
- Professional Development
- Change Management
- Drive Engagement
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There are 3 modules in this course
This course is primarily aimed at leaders who want to build upon their leadership skills and capabilities in a variety of changing circumstances.
This course will help you to develop as a leader to improve the way that you interact with other people, the way that you make decisions and the way that you manage performance and situations change around you. The course introduces you to the six leadership styles of effective leadership and how to adapt them to influence others, lead effectively, work with different types of people, and create an engaging team environment. Become a leader in your workplace by harnessing the power of the six leadership styles: - Directive - securing immediate compliance - Pace-setting - accomplishing tasks to high standards of quality - Affiliative - creating harmony - Democratic - getting everyone's commitment and generating ideas - Visionary - providing long term vision and direction - Coaching - long term professional development There is no right or wrong leadership style - the most effective style will vary depending upon the demands of the situation. Effective leaders use these styles in the right measure and at the right time to create a positive, energising work climate for their teams. The course also includes practical strategies for you to consider to increase the use of each style and to tone down the use of each style. Putting these into practice will help you to be more flexible in your approach as a leader. By completing these practical activities, you will be able to - recognise your preferred leadership style - recognise the leadership style(s) that you are using within your current situation - identify what you need to do to tone down the use of this leadership style at critical times - determine which leadership style you need to increase to have the greatest success - choose the actions and behaviours to develop the use of this leadership style - assess how to become more comfortable using all the styles of leadership for specific work scenarios you’ll face as a leader
Welcome to "Conscious Leadership"! In this course, you'll learn the six leadership styles of effective leadership and how to adapt them to influence others, lead effectively, work with different types of people, and create an engaging team environment. The first lesson introduces and welcomes you to the course and gives an overview of the learning outcomes of the course. You have the chance to reflect upon your own personal reasons and goals for taking the course. In the second lesson lesson, you'll learn all about the principles of good leadership with the opportunity to assess your mode of leadership.
What's included
9 videos4 readings
9 videos•Total 30 minutes
- Introduction to Conscious Leadership•2 minutes
- The Course Learning Outcomes•2 minutes
- What Makes an Effective Leader•2 minutes
- The Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious Minds•6 minutes
- The Importance of Self-Awareness•4 minutes
- Some Perspectives on Leadership•2 minutes
- Emotional Intelligence at Work•6 minutes
- Leadership vs Management•1 minute
- The Modes of Leadership•3 minutes
4 readings•Total 40 minutes
- Welcome to the Course•10 minutes
- Reflecting on this Leadership Course•10 minutes
- Assessing your Leadership Mode•10 minutes
- Quiz - Leadership Confidence Quiz•10 minutes
This module investigates the six styles of effective leadership. The first lesson covers the advantages and disadvantages of each style and when it is appropriate to use each style. In the next lesson you get to assess the leadership style that you are most comfortable with in your current situation. We then explore the underpinning skills and demonstrated behaviours of each style. In the final lesson, we consider ways that you can fine tune each leadership style by increasing its use or toning it down.
What's included
24 videos4 readings
24 videos•Total 47 minutes
- The Six Styles of Leadership•1 minute
- The Commanding Leadership Style•3 minutes
- The Pacesetting Leadership Style•3 minutes
- The Democratic Leadership Style•2 minutes
- The Affiliative Leadership Style•2 minutes
- The Visionary Leadership Style•2 minutes
- The Coaching Leadership Style•3 minutes
- Skills and Behaviours of the Leadership Styles•1 minute
- The Underpinning Skills of Each Leadership Style•4 minutes
- The Demonstrated Behaviours of Each Leadership Style•4 minutes
- Fine Tuning the Leadership Styles•1 minute
- Increasing the Use of the Commanding Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Increasing the Use of the Pacesetting Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Increasing the Use of the Democratic Leadership Style•1 minute
- Increasing the Use of the Affiliative Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Increasing the Use of the Visionary Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Increasing the Use of the Coaching Leadership Style•3 minutes
- Toning Down the Use of the Commanding Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Toning Down the Use of the Pacesetting Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Toning Down the Use of the Democratic Leadership Style•1 minute
- Toning Down the Use of the Affiliative Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Toning Down the Use of the Visionary Leadership Style•1 minute
- Toning Down the Use of the Coaching Leadership Style•2 minutes
- Review of Tuning Up and Toning Down the Styles•1 minute
4 readings•Total 40 minutes
- Practical Activity - What Is My Leadership Style?•10 minutes
- The Six Styles of Leadership Summary Booklet•10 minutes
- Practical Activity - My Situation and My Leadership Style•10 minutes
- Quiz - Styles of Leadership•10 minutes
No single leadership style is any better or worse than any other. Each style is appropriate and necessary in certain situations but not in others. This module reviews your learning in the course. You get the opportunity to review some case histories to consider around leadership styles by determining which style is going to give you the greatest chance of success.
What's included
1 video2 readings1 assignment
1 video•Total 2 minutes
- Course Review and Assignment•2 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- Practical Activity - Three Good Things•10 minutes
- Lightbulb Moment Resource Cards - Considering Leadership Styles•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Situational Leadership Case Studies - Which Leadership Style Would You Use?•30 minutes
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