Description
Develop a successful career as a leader by developing these essential skills, including creating your leadership plan, vision setting, innovation, business execution and change.
This 5 pack of leadership essentials is designed to provide the foundations to those who aspire to be leaders.
Pack inclusions:
- Leadership essentials: Communicating vision
- Leadership essentials: Leading business execution
- Leadership essentials: Leading innovation
- Leadership essentials: Leading change
- Leadership essentials: Creating your own leadership development plan
These courses form part of the SkillsNet short course suite. Buy this SkillsNet value pack and save!
You will have 365 days to access to this course.
Audience
Any finance professional looking to advance their career to become CFO, deputy CFO, or other senior finance professional.
Choose an offering for each one of the bundle components then click on 'Add To Cart' button below:
Leadership Essentials: Communicating Vision
Description
Today's leaders must be able to communicate vision in such a way that the audience is engaged and everyone understands and internalizes the message. Effective leadership communication gives purpose and meaning to the work that people do. Leaders should strive to communicate vision with a sense of integrity, building trust as an individual and as a leader. This course provides a general introduction to vision communication, including its nature and its purpose. You will be guided through numerous techniques and methods for a leader to successfully communicate vision, such as personalizing and multiplying a clear message, communicating enthusiasm in an authentic way, and making the organization's vision the employees' own vision. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Learning objectives
- Identify approaches to communication that are likely to be important to employees
- Match techniques for communicating vision to examples of how to execute them
- Communicate vision to employees, as a leader in a given scenario
Audience
Supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Leadership Essentials: Leading Business Execution
Description
How many times have you and your team decided on new plans to make day-to-day processes more efficient, only to watch months slip by with those plans unexecuted? Why don't certain tasks get executed? Why do things stay the same, even when the change is critical to your team? This course provides you with techniques and strategies for executing business strategy, and more importantly, ideas on how to cultivate a culture that supports the active business execution needed to keep pace with today's fast-changing world. Specifically, the course will explore techniques for fostering a culture of business execution, one that leverages planning, people, and practice in an integrated approach to business execution. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Learning objectives
- The meaning of business execution
- How to leverage your business planning to support business execution
- Classify examples of strategies for leveraging the "people" component of business execution
- Support business execution through people and practice
Audience
Supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Leadership Essentials: Leading Innovation
Description
Creativity and innovation are critical components of just about every organization. But innovation doesn't pertain only to new inventions, products, or reworked designs. It also involves incremental improvements to the way things are done. Knowing how to build and support an innovative culture is an important skill for any leader to master. The impetus for innovation can come from the top of the organization, and it can come from the people engaged in day-to-day production. Building an innovative culture is a responsibility for leaders and employees across organizational hierarchies. This course provides you with an understanding of what an innovative culture is and what qualities a leader needs to best foster innovation. It also provides you with practical techniques for cultivating and leading innovation. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Learning objectives
- Classify examples of questions that can be used to assess characteristics of a business innovation culture
- Associate the characteristics of an innovation leader with the actions that reflect them
- Assess an organisation's innovation culture and plan leadership actions to strengthen it in a given scenario
- Actions that are likely to attract and nurture innovators
Audience
Supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Leadership Essentials: Leading Change
Description
Change is not an event; it is a process. Change can happen quickly and, in some situations, can be urgent! However, it can take time for individuals to make the transition from one way of working to another. The change process isn't simply about introducing new systems – it's about leading people from an old way of working to a new way of working, and it's vital that you lead the change through to completion! It's important to recognize that your role is to support individuals through the transition and remove obstacles that can hinder a smooth transition from one process to another. This course provides you with strategies for leading changes within an organization, including effective approaches to introducing and communicating change. It also provides practical strategies for dealing with sources of employee resistance to change, and for removing organizational obstacles to ensure the transition is followed through. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Learning objectives
- Types of change obstacles in an organisation
- Match roots of inertia with actions that help combat and replace them with imperatives
- Appropriate ways to communicate change
- Techniques as a leader to introduce and follow through with change
Audience
Supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Leadership Essentials: Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan
Description
Creating your own leadership development plan is a significant part of any successful and valuable leadership-development strategy. Leadership development plans help to ensure that you remain focused on what is required to continually grow and develop as a leader. This includes assessing your own style, values, and requirements, as well as identifying development goals, objectives, and actions. This course explores ways to assess yourself as a leader, establish a vision for the future, and identify obstacles to that vision. It also teaches practical approaches for setting development goals, objectives, and actions designed to move you toward your vision. Lastly, it provides useful criteria for evaluating a personal leadership development plan. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.Learning objectives
- Identify the key results of a leader's self-assessment process
- Strategies for formulating your leadership vision and approaching potential obstacles to that vision
- Appropriate objectives and actions for a leadership development plan
- Strategies designed to help sustain leadership development
- Determine whether a leadership development plan exhibits key characteristics
Audience
Supervisors, managers, directors, and individuals wanting to develop their leadership skills
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
