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Business Leadership
COURSE CONTENT & DELIVERY
This course seeks to equip learners with skills to inspire and motivate their team as well as exploring and developing their leadership styles. The learners will acquire a range of skills including how to get the most from their team as well as improving their productivity will effectively contribute to the achievement of organizational goals.
The course content is covered below:
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Introduction | Introduction to the field of business leadership and business tutors Set goals and establish your leadership skills and styles through self-assessment exercises Test your business leadershipskills set through a Multifactor LeadershipQuestionnaire exercise | SELF ASSESSMENT | |||
Units | Leadership Simulations | Sample Exercises | Key Takeaways | ||
UNIT 01 | Introduction to business leadership. Differences between leadership and management | Leader vs manager | Common activities between leaders and managers Importance of leadership Differences between leaders and managers | Are you a leader OR a manager? All managers should be leaders What separates effective leaders from ineffective leaders | Conduct leadership activities |
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Evaluate Performance | |||||
UNIT 02 | Theories of leadership: trait, behavioural and situational | Application of leadership theories in modern business | Vision and mission statements, company strategies. Inspiring visions/inspiring others Goal setting Leading by example Empowering others Role models | Importance of vision, mission and strategy of the firm Manage situations under different and complex scenarios | Analyse your company vision and mission statements |
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Spark Creativity | |||||
UNIT 03 | Leading the Way/Team building. Importance of Emotional Intelligence Leadership styles. Power Motivation | Conduct Self Assessment/ Personal Emotional Intelligence | Emotional intelligence exercises What is your leadership style? Sources of power How do you motivate followers | Be aware of your leadership style. Acknowledge your power sources. Appreciate the importance of motivation in organisations. | Undertake self-assessment |
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Understand and appreciate the behaviours of others in an organisation. | |||||
UNIT 04 | Group communication Conducting effective meetings | Building Relationship |
Explain the importance of communication in an organisation Describe the types of communication in organisations Explain the objectives of meetings and how to conduct effective meetings. | Appreciate how communication works/flows within the organisation. Conduct a meeting within stated parameters. | Conduct Meetings |
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Resolve Communication challenges in organisations | |||||
Conclusion | Capstone Assignment: You will complete short questions that will help you reflect on what you’ve learned throughout the course, and consider how you will utilize your new skills in business leadership. | Capstone Assignment |