Advanced Leadership in Practice

Key Information

• Course Code: LMS102
• Duration: 10 days
• Fee: £5075

Course outline

Trait Theory – Description, Analysis, and Use

• Evolution of the idea
• Traits – a brief outline
• Traits and leaders
• Decline
• ‘Derailing’
• So where does this leave trait theory and organizations?

Behavioral Models

• Foundation principles
• What are ‘leadership behaviors’?
• Organisational implications

The Style Approach to Leadership

• Evolution of the approach
• Organisational culture
• Widening the choice
• Factors affecting style
• Style approach – strengths and weaknesses

Situational and Contingent Leadership

• Early developments
• Hersey and Blanchard’s life cycle theory of leadership
• How the model operates
• Path-Goal theory
• Fielder’s contingency theory
• Broader situational factors
• Leadership substitutes theory

Charisma and Transformational Leadership

• Charisma
• House and Shamir self-concept theory
• Attribution theory
• Characteristics of charismatic leaders
• Context and crisis
• Negative aspects of charisma
• Transformational leadership

Authentic Leadership

• Defining authentic leadership
• Academic approach
• Practitioner approach
• Pseudo-authenticity

Followership

• Attributes of followers
• Leader-member exchange theory (LMX)
• Implications of LMX
• Attributes of followers

Psychodynamic Approaches to Leadership

• Freud, Jung, and personality
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Neuro-linguistic programming
• Criticism of the psychodynamic approach

Emotional Intelligence (EI)

• The architecture of the brain
• The nature of intelligence
• What is EI?
• Goleman’s approach
• Other perspectives
• The ‘dark side’ of EI
• Criticisms of EI

Ethical Leadership

• What are ethics?
• Basic ethical frameworks
• Deontological frameworks
• Leadership and moral development
• What is an ‘ethical leader’?
• Why do leaders not act ethically?
• Whistleblowing
• Why do workers not blow the whistle more often?

Target audience

This corporate leadership course is suitable for:

• Heads of organizations, chief officers, chairpersons, board members, and directors.
• Heads of departments.
• Senior managers and executives.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this leadership training for managers, you will be able to understand:

• One of the earliest approaches to leadership – the Trait Approach.
• How leaders behave.
• The relationship between a leader and followers through the style approach.
• A leader’s approach as being dependent on the situation facing the leader and that successful leaders can adapt their approach to suit the circumstances.
• Transformational leadership’s ability to change workers and followers into avid disciples whose hearts and minds have been inspired by an internalized belief in the veracity of their leader’s decisions.
• Authentic leadership should underpin any form of effective leadership.
• The delicate nature of the relationship between the leader and followers.
• Two different approaches to psychodynamics – Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and neuro-linguistic programming.
• The development of emotional intelligence (EI).
• Different ethical frameworks and how these can help leaders resolve problems without a precedent or a simple solution.