An intensive professional development training course on
Emerging Leaders in a Digital Age
Updating your Leadership Skills for the Digital Era
Why Choose Emerging Leaders in a Digital Age Training Course?
Emerging Leaders in a Digital Age Training Course prepares professionals to lead effectively in an environment shaped by rapid digitisation, constant disruption, and rising expectations from customers and employees alike. From automation and data-driven decision-making to Artificial Intelligence, digital forces are reshaping how organisations operate and compete. This training course helps leaders respond with clarity, confidence, and adaptability in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
Participants will explore how leadership expectations have evolved as customers demand more value, speed, and personalization, while employees seek greater autonomy, engagement, and purpose at work. The course addresses the changing psychological contract between organisations and their people, equipping leaders with modern approaches to motivation, communication, and performance.
Through practical tools and real-world examples, this training course enables leaders to move beyond survival mode and thrive in the digital era. Participants will learn how successful organisations embrace technological change, build innovative cultures, and create value through increased personal and organisational productivity. By the end of the course, leaders will be better prepared to initiate change, inspire digital-ready teams, and lead confidently in the 21st-century organisation.
What are the Goals?
The Emerging Leaders in a Digital Age Training Course focuses on developing leadership capabilities that align with the demands of digitisation and modern organisational life. Participants will gain practical insight and experience to lead change effectively in digital environments.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate their leadership style in the context of the digital era and identify areas for development.
- Understand how digitisation is reshaping customer expectations and business priorities.
- Apply techniques for strategic organisational change in dynamic environments.
- Use communication approaches that engage, empower, and influence digital workers.
- Build a working culture that supports innovation, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
- Strengthen leadership effectiveness through enhanced awareness of modern leadership challenges.
Who is this Training Course for?
This Emerging Leaders in a Digital Age Training Course is suitable for professionals who need to update their leadership skills to meet the demands of a digitally driven workplace.
This training course will greatly benefit:
- Experienced leaders and managers seeking to modernise their leadership approach
- Leaders and managers impacted by digital transformation within their organisations
- High-potential professionals preparing for expanded leadership responsibilities
- Senior leaders responsible for initiating and sustaining organisational change
- HR professionals and change leaders supporting digital transformation initiatives
This course is ideal for those who want to lead change, inspire innovation, and build resilient teams in the digital era.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
The Emerging Leaders in a Digital Age Training Course uses proven adult learning methods to ensure high levels of engagement, understanding, and practical application. The learning experience is interactive, reflective, and grounded in real organisational challenges.
Participants will benefit from:
- Lecture-Led Learning: Structured sessions introducing key digital leadership concepts.
- Group Discussions: Sharing experiences and exploring challenges faced in digital organisations.
- Case Studies: Learning from organisations that have successfully adapted to the digital age.
- Personal Feedback Tools: Identifying leadership strengths and development priorities.
All activities are designed to translate theory into practical leadership actions, enabling participants to apply insights immediately within their organisations and leadership roles.
The Course Content
- The evolution and revolution of digital technology
- THE VUCA world we live in – a world of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity
- Companies that have thrived while their competitors have died – what we can learn
- The five effects of digitisation on company operations
- What digital customers expect – and what you need to do to deliver it
- Creating strategy in a digital era
- Disruptive companies – case studies
- Becoming a disruptor - personal qualities and techniques
- Extreme cultures and extremely successful organisations - and what we can learn from them
- ‘Agile Leadership’ – what it is, what it isn’t
- Motivating people to innovate, experiment and 'fail fast' with new ideas
- Presesenting new ideas with influence and passion
- Generations X, Y and Z. How do they differ? What are they looking for in work?
- Great leaders listen: active listening techniques
- How does people management differ from ten years ago?
- Motivation and performance management in 21st century organizations
- Creating an inspiring digital vision
- Models of modern people management from coaching to holacracy
- Stopping 20th century-style working in digital organisations
- Emails and meetings – dealing with time stealers – revolutionising your day
- A model to help you focus on priorities and time management
- Dealing with time-wasters and procrastination
- Leading productive meetings at work: managing, appreciating and utilising diversity
- Leading meetings with creative flair: thinking differently for new answers
- Effective and ineffective team behaviours in a digital era
- Different types of work arrangement – home-based, distance, matrix
- Deploying collaborative tools for enhanced productivity
- Modernising the work environment
- Introducing and managing diversity – age, gender ability and difference in working style
- Introducing and managing change – vision, planning and execution
Certificate and Accreditation
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the course
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