In exclusive association with the Center for Creative Leadership
Organised by the Al Yamamah Center for Professional Development
Date: 6 to 8 April, 2009
Timings: 08.30 to 17.30 daily
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Fee: US$3,750/ SAR14,025

Essentials of Leadership is designed to help managers maximise their leadership capabilities by leveraging their strengths and developing new skills. It features a highly interactive format that deals with essential leadership skills and perspectives for leaders. Participants will gain a stronger awareness of their own leadership style and its impact on their effectiveness. They will also learn and practice new skills which can be applied on the job. The programme is built around ten essential questions that any effective leader must answer:

1. What is leadership?
2. What challenges do I face in my career, now and in the future?
3. What are my leadership strengths and developmental areas?
4. How can I grow, adapt and develop throughout my career?
5. How does my personality and personal style influence my leadership effectiveness?
6. How do leaders influence and motivate others?
7. How do leaders deal with conflict?
8. How do leaders make effective decisions?
9. What is my vision for myself as a leader?
10. What are the next steps in my leadership development?

In a highly interactive format, participants gain a stronger awareness of their own leadership style and its impact on their effectiveness. They also learn and practice new skills which can be applied on the job.

Note on Pre-work: This programme requires the completion of pre-course assessment surveys. This material is distributed six to eight weeks before the programme and is critical to your participation. Due to this and the limited class size, it important to register as early as possible.

Unique Feature

Participants receive CCL’s 'Ideas Into Action' guidebooks to help reinforce their ongoing development upon returning to work. Topics covered include:

• Feedback That Works
• Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results
• Maintaining Team Performance
• Becoming a More Versatile Learner
• Three Keys to Development
• Handling Conflict with Your Direct Reports or Keeping Your Career on Track

Key Benefits

At the end of the programme, you will:

• Honestly evaluate your leadership skills and developmental areas
• Understand personality preferences and how they impact leadership and interpersonal effectiveness
• Learn and practice influencing others using a variety of tactics
• Know how to effectively handle conflict with others
• Broaden your learning preferences and options
• Establish a strategy to leverage the learning experience and continue your development

Programme Content

1. Self-assessment
   1. Personal mental model of leadership
   2. Evaluating your personal leadership developmental process
   3. Skillscope 360-degree feedback reports: receive clear feedback on skills and developmental areas
   4. Personality preferences and leadership impact: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
   
   
2. Leadership and Influence
   1. Effective influence tactic
   2. Influence tactics inventory
   3. Small group influencing activity
   
   
3. Enhancing Leadership Skills
   1. Working through others
   2. Delegation
   3. Giving feedback
   4. Building your team
   5. Communication
   
   
4. Conflict Dynamics
   1. Sources of conflict
   2. Cultural implications for conflict
   3. Constructive and destructive approaches to dealing with it
   
   
5. Learning Tactics
   1. Learning tactics inventory: approaches to learning and new situations
   
   
6. Career-long Leadership Success
   1. Career-long success: avoiding derailment
   2. Creating a personal vision for your leadership
   3. Principals of leadership development: keeping the momentum alive
   4. Goal setting and developmental planning

Who Should Attend

Essentials of Leadership is designed for newly promoted managers in the early stages of their careers, as well as for more experienced managers who would benefit from training that addresses the essentials of leadership development.

In-House Programme Option

This and many other Business School programmes can be customised for in-house delivery. Contact us if you have a group of executives who would benefit.