Professional Diploma in Transformational Leadership

Program Learning Outcomes:

What makes a truly transformational leadership program? We would say it’s one that helps you to:

Lead effectively with your own style
Influence people with impact
Manage change and complexity in a way that is convincing to others
Communicate clearly a winning vision for your organization

Professional Certification / Accreditation:

The CPD Certification Service, United Kingdom

Programme Synopsis:

Transformational leadership programs can help even experienced executives to be better leaders. Indeed, in an increasingly complex business environment, transformational leadership skills can make all the difference in how well you can lead your team and rise to meet evolving challenges.

A good transformational leadership program will focus on honing the skills you need to consistently deliver outstanding performance. It will help you reach the next level of effectiveness while leading individuals, teams and large groups

This training program is designed to help you return to the office the following day ready to implement those ideas with passion and rigour.

Assessments:

Formative:

Case study presentation, with verbal questions and answers / quiz
Assignment
Coaching
Group presentation
Individual / Pair presentation

Summative

70% Assignment
30% Presentation

Entry Requirements:

Experienced professionals with 7 or more years’ work experience
A basic Degree

Experienced and new executives can benefit from diagnosing their leadership tasks and seeking advice on how to maximize their decision-making. The leadership programs that make a difference are those that improve your self-awareness and challenge your belief systems. You should be able to go back to your own roots and find out more about what makes you the leader you are. The best programs help you develop a leadership path that ensures you will be inspired for the long-term.

MODULES

INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP

Key Concepts

Leadership can be defined as one’s ability to influence and motivate others – to bring the best out in them. It focuses on encouraging individuals to add more to the overall effectiveness of an organization.

Leadership is often defined as a process wherein an individual influences and encourages others to achieve organizational objectives, and directs the organization so that it becomes more coherent and cohesive to work in. This module will primarily focus on:.

Levels of leadership
Leadership versus Management

LEADING SELF

Key Concepts

Demonstrates self-awareness through accurate assessment and management of one’s own attitudes and belief systems. Draws on personal and professional strengths as well as areas for personal development to build your capacity.

Examine your leadership journey

It’s a process of examining Your Leadership Journey via these self-analysis tools:

Leadership Journey Map
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
The Wheel of Life

Discover your leadership style

Becoming more self-aware by benefiting from honest feedback
Clarifying and living your values, while establishing ethical boundaries
Understanding your motivations and capabilities, and finding the point where they align

Action

Identifying your purpose and establishing it as a cornerstone of your leadership approach
Developing your Big Rocks and prioritizing them

LEADING TEAMS

Key Concepts

Building teams, improving teamwork and collaboration, sustaining team performance, and aligning individual and team goals. This module will primarily focus on:

Leading teams requires both style and focus. Your style suggests how you engage with people; your focus – what you want to achieve
Approaches in profiling and coaching teams
Developing a high performing team

LEADING ORGANIZATIONS (LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE)

Key Concepts

Real change management requires more than just changing behaviour — it is dependent upon the culture, environment and change management process.

Leading others through change effectively is a key leadership capability because it enables organizations to accelerate change initiatives and involve the entire organization in identifying, implementing, and sustaining important change initiatives that will ensure the organization’s long-term success. Focus areas include:

Development of change agents
Communication approaches
Accountability
Learning and development

LEADING STAKEHOLDERS

Key Concepts

Stakeholder engagement and management. To improve collaboration with the Board of Directors, and the community. This module will primarily focus on:

Stakeholder Analysis
Type of stakeholders in the organization (primary and secondary)
Roles and objectives of stakeholders
Strategies to engage stakeholders (Board stakeholder management, Service Level Agreement (SLA), etc.)