An intensive professional development training course on
Values Based Leadership
& Decision-Making
Building a Values Driven Organisation
The Structure
This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day training courses.
Module 1: Leadership Decision Making
Module 2: Value-Based Leadership
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes speaker input, facilitated discussion, syndicate work and practical exercises, videos, self-tests, all with an emphasis on delegate involvement throughout.
The Course Content
Module 1 - Leadership Decision Making
Day One: The Leader as the “Decision Architect”. Psychological Insights
- How Perception influences our understanding of leadership
- Changing Paradigms of leadership thought
- The “Decision Architect”, agile, responsive and decisive leadership
- Personality, leadership style and decision-making activity
- Systematic errors in decision making: thinking preferences and their implications
- Decision making and problem solving: symbiotic twins: How elastic is my brain?
Day Two: Developing a Structured and Balanced Response to Decision Making
- A systematic, mechanistic and structured approach to making decisions
- Team exercise: collaboration, isolation and group thinking
- Impacting variables: Ethics, Values, Bias, Spiral dynamics and Hubris
- How well do I make decisions? Analysis, reflection and outcomes
- IDEAL Problem Solving: Stage 1 in the decision-making process
- Collective inquiry to ensure IDEAL outcomes: “making work groups smarter”
Day Three: Optimising Organisational Performance through Collaborative Dialogues, Strategic Tools and Committed Practice
- Emotional Intelligence, collaborative practice and decision making
- Understanding Team Dynamics: Equipping Your Team to Make Decisions
- Diagnostic tools for organisational improvement Case study: Millennial Engagement
- Daniel Kahneman: Nobel prize winning thoughts on decision making
- Whole brain thinking: divergent and convergent thinking
- Applied Practice: Assessing organisational concerns through a “zig zag” approach
Day Four: Building Creative Insights and Innovative Capability in the Organisation
- How to make good decisions; peer coaching sessions
- Appreciative Enquiry: accentuating the positive to eliminate the negative
- Alternative forms of representation: soft system methodology for insightful change
- Using Nature and multiple intelligences for creative outcomes
- Assessing culture and organisational creativity; does it create the desired future
- How creative am I? Adaptive and Innovative potential?
Day Five: Architectural Leadership: Vision, Inspiration and Momentum
- Developing the critical mindset of the “Decision Architect”
- Predicting the future: simple tools for organisational sustainability
- Decision making in Leadership: a case study of Vision, Inspiration, Momentum
- My VIM statements: strategic, organisational and personal
- Beware the unpredictable black swan!
- Review and action planning
Module 2 - Value-Based Leadership
Below topics will be discussed during Day 6 to 10;
- Understanding the psychology of teamwork
- Importance of having healthy perceptions
- Self-awareness & self-management skills
- Empathy & Relational skills
- Removing emotional blind spots
- Psychology of teamwork
- Importance of a healthy self-esteem
- Understanding personality differences
- Enhancing productive teamwork
The Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course