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Stepping Up: Preparing Yourself for Leadership

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Stepping Up: Preparing Yourself for Leadership

This course is part of Leadership Out of the Box Specialization

Instructors: Dr Nigel Spencer

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

75 reviews

Advanced level

Designed for those already in the industry

Flexible schedule

2 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

97%

Most learners liked this course

What you'll learn

How to increase your emotional intelligence as a leader, manage conflict, and how to increase your influence and authority.

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In this course, you will explore the importance of self awareness and feedback, as well as issues such as bias and imposter syndrome. As a leader, it is important to know when to step in and lead, as well as how to establish boundaries and resolve conflict. This course will equip you with these fundamental leadership skills and will also help you develop your ability to influence others (including your “boss”), measure your impact and enhance your resilience.

This course is aimed at leaders and managers who have five to six years experience and who are beginning to manage teams, customers and clients more regularly or more directly. A majority of those taking this course will have a technical or professional early career, but are progressing professionally so are starting to grapple with the issues of team and organisational leadership. By the end of this course, you will be able to: – Identify how you are perceived by your colleagues as leaders. – Make better decisions about when to step in, and when to stand back, as a leader and how to work with conflict as a productive force. – Explain how to lead and support your boss to both achieve your goals in your respective leadership positions. – Manage your energy to be seen as a positive, influential leader.

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In this module we are going to be focusing on you and your understanding of your leadership identity. We shall be asking you to reflect on who you are and to consider some of your strengths before exploring two of the biggest challenges for many leaders: imposter syndrome as you build your identity as a leader, and also the need to leverage your time by learning to let go and using delegation to “achieve through others”. We are going to encourage you to step outside your comfort zone, stretch your leadership potential, and consider the types of activity you need to be focusing on to become the leader you want to be.

What's included

7 videos9 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts

7 videosTotal 31 minutes

Making Sense of Your Feedback10 minutes
Feeling Like an Imposter5 minutes
Working Through Imposter Syndrome6 minutes
Keeping in Your Stretch Zone6 minutes
Avoiding Out-Working2 minutes
Your Leadership Day0 minutes
Launching Yourself Forward1 minute

9 readingsTotal 190 minutes

Introducing Your Course Project10 minutes
It All Starts With You15 minutes
The Importance of Self Awareness and Feedback15 minutes
Who Am I?50 minutes
Leading from Strengths20 minutes
Imposter Syndrome15 minutes
Stop Doing That25 minutes
Habits for the Future30 minutes
Module 1 References10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 20 minutes

Getting Comfortable with Discomfort20 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 50 minutes

Reviewing Your Feedback30 minutes
Your New Found Time 20 minutes

In this module we will be looking at how you can know when to “step in” as a leader and how to do this effectively. We shall explore some of the leadership tools and styles that are available to you and consider how you might adapt your approach in response to your context. We will also discuss boundaries and how you might go about setting these, as well as conflict, looking at how you can constructively respond to conflict and how to find the value in such interactions.

What's included

6 videos8 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt

6 videosTotal 21 minutes

The Key to Stepping In5 minutes
Different Styles6 minutes
Identifying and Recognising Boundaries3 minutes
Adapting Behaviours2 minutes
Reactions to Conflict1 minute
Types of Conflict5 minutes

8 readingsTotal 160 minutes

Leadership in Action 20 minutes
Essential Tools for Leaders20 minutes
Four Essential Styles20 minutes
How to Choose a Style 20 minutes
Taking the Styles Into Your Work15 minutes
How to Step In as a Leader When Boundaries Change30 minutes
Strategies for Resolving Conflict25 minutes
Module 2 References 10 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 50 minutes

Using the Model25 minutes
How Do You See Conflict?25 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 20 minutes

Resolving Your Immediate Conflicts20 minutes

This module focusses on your boss’s or leader’s agenda and considering how you can best align yourself with it whilst also pursuing your own leadership goals. We look at how you can better understand your boss’s motives and aims, as well as how you can influence your boss. We will use the “Authority-Presence-Impact” frame of thinking to help you to further develop your ability to lead, and will take you through the process of having challenging, but invaluable, conversations with your leader or boss.

What's included

4 videos5 readings1 assignment3 discussion prompts

4 videosTotal 20 minutes

Aligning with your Boss’ Agenda2 minutes
Mutual Support6 minutes
Building Your Authority, Presence and Impact9 minutes
What Now?3 minutes

5 readingsTotal 125 minutes

Ways to Influence Your Boss15 minutes
Influencing Your Boss20 minutes
Aligning With Your Boss’s Agenda20 minutes
Having an Important Conversation60 minutes
Module 3 References10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 25 minutes

Reviewing Your API 25 minutes

3 discussion promptsTotal 50 minutes

Seeking Your Boss's Perspective15 minutes
Applying the Ideas to Your World 20 minutes
Reflecting on Your Meeting15 minutes

In this module we are going to focus on how you can maintain your own energy levels whilst also energising and motivating those around you. We will look at how you can embed self-care and wellbeing into your leadership practices and ways in which you can radiate energy to others. We shall explore what motivates you as well as those you lead, and think about how you can use language to achieve your leadership goals and motivate your team.