Leveraging Leadership Techniques

Course overview

The course provides 2.5 hours of continuing education for professionals, incorporating media-based video lectures, and lesson tests in curricular modules. In this course, participants learn about the characteristics of business execution cultures, as well as techniques for fostering a business execution culture. Course participants also learn about the three elements needed to execute business strategy: planning, people, and practice. This course covers business innovation cultures and types of innovation leadership, and participants learn about the importance of experimenting, managing change, and executing a project, as well as attracting and nurturing innovation in an organization. Additionally, the course instructs participants about types of resistance and obstacles to change, overcoming obstacles in a collaboration, overcoming barriers to introducing change at an organization, and effective approaches for communicating change when working on a team. Participants learn to create a leadership development plan to help ensure focus on requirements for growth and development as a leader. Learners explore leadership self-assessment, establish a vision for the future, and identify obstacles to that vision. They also learn about practical approaches for setting objectives, identifying appropriate actions, and sustaining your leadership development plan. The course provides instruction on plan evaluation, identifying priorities straight, and focusing on goals. It requires learners to think about the bigger picture, to ensure a department's work effectively supports the vision and strategic objectives of the organization. The course addresses the importance of setting strategic, tactical, and operational goals to meet an organizational vision. Finally, course participants learn how to create effective unit goals and align them with your company's goals and strategy, as well as how to identify imperatives for action to maintain focus on meeting objectives.