Developing Yourself as a Leader
Course Description Overview
You have transitioned from an individual contributor to a manager, or as an individual contributor, you've acquired practical skills to enhance your leadership abilities.
When you want to take your leadership skills to the next level, you assess your leadership traits, develop your communication skills, and build your reputation. These strategies can increase your ability to effectively influence others and get results.
In this course, you will acquire strategies to develop your leadership skills.
You will:
- Define leadership.
- Assess your own leadership traits.
- Establish your leadership development plan.
- Develop your communication skills.
- Build your reputation.
This course is intended for managers, team leads, and individual contributors on techniques and best practices for continual improvement of themselves as leaders.
Students taking this course should have completed the course:
- Practical Leadership (Second Edition)
- Microsoft® Windows® 10
- Microsoft® Office 2016
- Any PDF reader
For this course, you will need one computer for the instructor. The computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:
- 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- CD-ROM drive (if installing any software from a CD-ROM)
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- 1,024 x 768 resolution monitor recommended
- Network cards and cabling for local network access
- Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Lesson 1: Defining Leadership
Topic A: Identify Leadership Attributes
Topic B: Identify Leadership Responsibilities
Lesson 2: Assessing Your Leadership Traits
Topic A: Assess Your Leadership Characteristics
Topic B: Determine How Colleagues View Your Leadership
Topic C: Evaluate Factors that Affect Your Leadership
Lesson 3: Establishing Your Leadership Development Plan
Topic A: Identify Your Destination
Topic B: Establish Your Map
Topic C: Build a Leadership Development Plan
Lesson 4: Developing Your Communication Skills
Topic A: Upgrade Your Listening Skills
Topic B: Improve Your Communication Effectiveness
Lesson 5: Building Your Reputation
Topic A: Establish Your Credibility
Topic B: Use Influence to Get Results