COURSE OVERVIEW:

Leadership is about influence, encouraging our people to follow us. Managing tends to be a process of pushing people somewhere. We continuously need to manage as well as lead. Meanwhile, self-leadership is the ability to consciously influence your own thoughts and behaviour in order to achieve your personal goals or an organisation’s objectives.

Self-led people mostly take their own decisions and set personal targets. This ability is typical of entrepreneurs, mentors, top managers etc. We say a person has self-leadership skills when he or she has foresight, makes the right decisions and choices on his or her own, and exhibits dedication towards achieving his or her goals.

Self-leadership helps make the individual proactive, disciplined, and an independent decision maker. People who have no strong sense of self-leadership tend to feel they are not in control of themselves, often lack focus and get overwhelmed easily.

The debate is still out about whether leaders are born or made, but if you are looking to up your leadership game, you’ll want to do what all great leaders do: practice self-leadership. While you might think that leaders spend most of their time helping others to be their best selves, they also spend a lot of time taking care of their own mental health, physical strength, and personal well-being.

This course looks specifically at leadership of self and offers practical methods for change, impact and efficiency at the next level, it presents tools and strategies to assist you in developing your own unique ways of managing and leading. Many of these methods have been tested and applied by managers and leaders who have made that transformation.

The content of this course is designed to test and stretch, and to provide models for gaining new perspectives, widening personal choice and behaving differently and more successfully at work.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

• What is leadership of self?
• The importance of self-leadership
• The common characteristics of self-leaders
• The effect of time on leaders
• The lock-in syndrome
• How to counteract the effect of lock-in?
• The TDA fire-fighting cycle
• The type of strategic thinking you could address
• Why beware the ‘busy head’ state?
• The step back method of gaining objectivity
• The impact of busy body syndrome
• How to focus on effective impact?
• Phrases that trigger unproductive conversations
• The meaning and objective of the sensory journey
• The importance of silent time for reflection
• The psychological stillness–activity dimension
• The emotive impact curve diagram
• The importance of life balance
• How to find time to make your objectives real?
• How to honour jobs done?
• The healthy action cycle
• The importance of establishing personal goals
• The pre-goal method
• The most frequently applied goal conditions
• How to identify the four ‘motivation traits’?
• The stretch zone
• The wheel of work
• The importance of reward and recognition (R&R)
• How relationships could create some of the most important motivations and demotivation’s in the workplace?
• The benefits of work satisfaction
• The importance of training and development
• How to deal with change?
• How to identify the ideal number of major tasks and number of reports given to people?
• The key factors that make a person’s purpose in work most worthwhile
• The importance of solution thinking
• The deep thought and creativity diagram
• The deep thought solutions
• Flexible thinking and the multiple intelligences
• The Gardner multiple intelligence theory
• How to apply personal changes?
• How to reduce work time?

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.

COURSE DELIVERY:

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ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.