Managerial Leadership

Course details

In this course, students will learn how to develop skills to effectively motivate, empower, and lead people.

Course Outline

1 - Leading with a vision

• Role of leadership
• Understanding differences between a leader and a manager
• Identifying a leader
• Vision
• Defining a vision
• Analyzing a situation
• Writing a vision statement
• Goals
• Setting goals

2 - Making vision a reality

• Communicate and support vision
• Communicating effectively
• Gaining support and empowering employees
• Implement vision
• Implementing vision

3 - Defining employee roles and priorities

• Employee roles
• Understanding roles of a leader
• Understanding role of an employee
• Empowering an employee
• Employee priorities
• Aligning employee priorities
• Evaluating employees’ performance
• Providing feedback to employees

4 - Employing motivational strategies

• Employee motivation
• Understanding guidelines
• Employee apathy
• Identifying hindrances

5 - Planning for change

• Change process
• Understanding the Awareness phase
• Understanding the Achievement phase
• Communication
• Informing employees
• Communicating change
• Understanding benefits of change

6 - Motivating employees through change

• Motivate employees through change
• Acting as a role model
• Understanding guidelines to motivate employees through change
• Solving problems during change
• Resistance and conflict
• Resolving conflict

7 - Coping through a change process

• Effects of change
• Understanding workplace changes
• Identifying the sources of stress
• Failures and mistakes
• Dealing with mistakes