The Complete Leader

The Course

This leadership Mini-MBA provides practicing or aspiring executives, managers, supervisors and others interested in improving their leadership job performance, an opportunity to develop their skills in an intensive 10-day course.

During this course participants will first be exposed to “The Three-Dimensions of Leadership,” a unique system of principles that enable leaders to use best practices to implement the effective process steps world class leaders have taken to effect change that makes their business and government operations more successful. It will focus on the behaviours and processes that lead to individual, group and organisational success.

Secondly the participants will be introduced to the challenges managers and leaders must address in multi-cultural workplaces. Nationalisation, globalisation and the growth of multi-national corporations mean that managers and leaders must understand the complexities of culture from structural, political, social and psychological perspectives. In this part of the course participants will explore the meaning and psychology of culture; understand the impact of culture on management and leadership; and become more self-aware in cultural understanding.

The course will help participants:

• Articulate your concept of mission, vision and values statements and your personal role in fulfilling them for and organisational success.
• Assume responsibilities and deploy best practices as a team supervisor, program manager and/or multi-group leader
• Develop vital managerial and leadership skills to work in a multi-cultural workplace
• Discover best-practice in diversity management and multi-cultural communication

 

A estrutura

This comprehensive programme consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day courses.

Module 1 - The Three-Dimensions of Leadership: Negotiating Your Mission, Resources and Context

Module 2 - Managing & Leading in a Multi-Cultural Workplace

 

The Goals

By the end of the course, the delegate will be able to:

• Define the fundamental principles of “The Three-Dimensions of Leadership”
• Explain best practices in leading diverse teams of people
• Analyse the big picture to develop strategies that implement your organisation’s business/mission
• Develop and implement a positive leadership development culture
• List Hofstede’s five value dimensions and explain in his/her own words the meaning of each of the five value dimensions
• Ilustrar exemplos de estereótipos e estereotipagem

 

The Delegates

• All current and aspiring senior executives, directors, middle managers, department heads and supervisors,
• Those looking to expand one’s capacity to effectively lead and manage others to achieve organisational success.
• Pessoal de recursos humanos, incluindo parceiros comerciais de RH
• Operations department heads and managers
• All staff interested in developing more effective working relations and multi-cultural skills

 

The Process

Dynamic presentations support each of the topics together with interactive trainer led sessions of discussion. There will also be numerous practical sessions where participants have the opportunity to participate and experience topics. Case studies, DVD’s, small group work, exercises and feedback will be used to facilitate learning

 

The Benefits

Participants who attend the Complete Leader, Mini MBA Course will:

• Gain the capacity to self-assess performance and outlook in relation to the three-dimensional leadership models
• Learn how to lead highly motivated teams of top performing diverse people
• Motivate, and manage meaningful change processes
• Appreciate the importance and meaning of culture
• Develop your multi-cultural leadership & management skills

 

The Results

• Participants will be more effective team leaders
• Participants will learn how to connect meaningful change initiatives with employees to obtain buy-in that achieves goals
• Participants will be able to contribute to developing deep benches of competent leaders
• Incorporating taught skills and techniques into their work behaviour, participants will demonstrate more effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Participants will be more comfortable managing and leading multi-cultural teams

 

• Certificado de conclusão AZTech para os participantes que frequentam e concluem o curso.