Develop Your Corporate Leadership Skills

A complete course for you by a trainer with a PhD degree in leadership

What you'll learn
Understand the leadership phenomenon in the light of scholarly leadership research.
Gauge your current leadership skill through self-assessment tools.
Learn about the key leadership traits you must develop.
Learn to choose the right leadership behavior for a given situation.
Understand common leadership derailment behaviors that you must avoid.
Understand the sources of leaders’ power and make a plan to enhance your power as a leader.
Enhance your charisma as a leader.
Learn about certain additional leadership characteristics for a CEO during the bonus lecture at the end.
Requirements
No previous knowledge of leadership is required to take this course.
Description
Whether in the arena of politics or in the context of organizational management, we see certain individuals who are admired and followed by many. Such influential personalities are said to have good leadership skills. The topic of leadership has not only fascinated organizational managers at all levels but also politicians who wanted to rule some piece of land as a king, a prime minister, or a president. To boost their professional careers, numerous organizational managers today want to become effective leaders. Moreover, numerous organizations all over the world are continuously investing in their employees to transform them into good leaders to enhance their organizational performance.Understanding leadership is not a straightforward task. There are management scholars who have proposed several theories on leadership that are not always congruent with each other. Therefore, one may find it a bit difficult to understand the leadership phenomenon and may find it difficult to understand what comprises to be an effective leader. Therefore, as a leadership scholar having a PhD in organizational leadership, I decided to develop this course on corporate leadership. In this course, I have tried my best to provide learners with a comprehensive overview of the leadership phenomenon by covering all major topics of leadership.This course is extremely useful to anyone who wants to become an effective corporate leader or whoever wants to have comprehensive knowledge on the topic of leadership. This course is designed to serve both of these purposes. This course also provides learners an opportunity to gauge their current level of leadership skills with the help of self-assessment questionnaires and to identify gaps for improvement. Major takeaways of the course are summarized in the end to assist learners to remember and apply the leadership concepts in their professional lives. You as a learner will also enjoy a complimentary e-book on corporate leadership by the course instructor. Specifically, you will gain the following leadership skills and knowledge in this course:1. You will understand the leadership phenomenon in the light of modern scholarly research on leadership.2. You will gauge your current level of leadership skills through self-assessment questionnaires.3. You will identify key leadership traits for your self-improvement.4. You will be able to apply the most appropriate leadership behavior for the various situations on hand.5. You will be able to increase your leadership charisma.6. You will understand the terms like transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and level – 5 leadership.7. You will understand the sources of leaders' power and make a plan to become a powerful leader.8. You will understand common leadership derailment behaviors that you must avoid.9. You will learn about certain additional leadership characteristics for the CEO position during the bonus lecture at the end of the training. The above-mentioned learning will be achieved with the help of the following training tools for effective learning:· Well-recorded video lectures.· Self-assessment questionnaires to gauge your current leadership skills and to identify performance gaps for improvement.· Self-improvement planning templates.· Case studies.· Quiz to access your learning.· Downloadable free resources.This course is ideal for you if you are serious about enhancing leadership skills with the help of an instructor with a doctorate in leadership and who has a rich working experience in the corporate world at various positions. This course is also ideal for you if you want to get a complete picture of the leadership phenomenon based on scholarly research on leadership.Therefore, do not waste time and enroll in this great opportunity for enhancing your leadership skills.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Definition of Leadership

Section 2: Fundamental concepts of leadership

Lecture 3 Section learning objectives

Lecture 4 Characteristics and importance of leadership

Lecture 5 Purpose of leadership

Lecture 6 Manager versus leader

Lecture 7 Are leaders born or made?

Lecture 8 Role of leadership in organisational performance

Section 3: Scholarly study of leadership

Lecture 9 Section learning objectives

Lecture 10 Disciplines involved in leadership inquiry

Lecture 11 Organisational behaviour approach

Section 4: Major leadership traits you must develop

Lecture 12 Section learning objectives

Lecture 13 Six major traits of an effective leader

Lecture 14 Become a level-5 leader

Section 5: Leadership behaviours

Lecture 15 Section learning objectives

Lecture 16 Categories of leaders' behaviour

Lecture 17 Leadership grid

Lecture 18 Three meta-categories of leaders’ behaviour

Section 6: Choose the right behaviour for a situation

Lecture 19 Section learning objectives

Lecture 20 Fiedler Contingency Model

Lecture 21 Hersey and Blanchard Situational Model

Section 7: Increase your leadership power

Lecture 22 Section learning objectives

Lecture 23 Positional power

Lecture 24 Personal power

Lecture 25 Increase your leadership charisma

Lecture 26 Transactional versus transformational leadership

Section 8: Leadership derailment behaviours you need to avoid

Lecture 27 Section learning objectives

Lecture 28 Leadership derailment behaviours: Part 1

Lecture 29 Leadership derailment behaviours: Part 2

Lecture 30 Toxic leadership

Section 9: Course closing

Lecture 31 Major takeaways from the course

Lecture 32 Closing remarks

Section 10: Bonus lecture

Lecture 33 CEO as a leader

All corporate professionals managing a group of people (small or large) for the achievement of organizational goals.,Professionals experiencing difficulties in managing people in their organization.,Professionals who want to climb up the organizational ladder towards senior management positions.,Serious learners who want to learn leadership from a person having a PhD in Leadership.,Leadership trainers