Personal Impact for Leaders - Leadership Skills

BENEFITS:

• Gain valuable insights into the impact you have on others
• Understand the crucial factors that create the Wow Factor
• Appreciate the importance of building trust
• Increase your ability to be an impactful leader
• Use powerful body language and voice to create impact
• Be aware of your personal style and know how to flex it for maximum impact
• Recognise the value of authentic leadership

COURSE OUTLINE:

What is impact?
• What does it mean to have impact as a leader?
• The skills, knowledge and attitudes of senior people with impact, presence and charisma

Developing the Wow Factor
• Speak First’s Wow Factor model
• The importance of inner factors such as self belief, vision and authenticity
• Voice, body language and developing a feeling of ease

The Extended DISC model and leadership
• Understanding your style using the Extended DISC model
• The strengths and weaknesses of the four different styles

Why you?
• The relationship between the leader and the led – why should anyone follow you?
• Your personal brand – how you want to be perceived as a leader

Authentic leadership
• The importance of being yourself and not wearing a mask
• What’s important to you – your values and beliefs

The Trust Equation
• Why trust is crucial in building lasting relationships
• The Trust Equation (Galforth & Maither) – based on credibility, reliability, intimacy and self-orientation

Likeability and Emotional Intelligence
• Why likeability and Emotional Intelligence are key factors in leadership success
• Techniques for enhancing self-awareness and management of self and others

The language of leadership
• Saying the right things in the right kind of way
• Voice resonance and the four voices of leadership

Individual ‘spotlight’ time
You will be given individual time to explore a specific scenario where you want more impact