Leadership Essentials
Course Overview
Leadership is the ability to influence, guide, and support others toward achieving a common goal. Authentic leaders are genuine, self-aware, and guided by strong personal values. They lead with honesty, transparency, and integrity. The NCTI Leadership Essentials course provides a structured and reflective approach to leadership development, focusing on cultivating authentic leadership and applying essential leadership practices. Through a combination of self-assessment, conceptual frameworks, and practical application, students will explore the foundations of authentic leadership by examining personal values, identity, and purpose.
This course emphasizes the "3 A's"—Appreciate, Align, and Activate—to build self-awareness, integrity, and accountability. It also covers key Leadership Essentials, including the difference between leadership and management, transformational leadership, and the 4 E's: Engage, Enlist, Equip, and Empower, with a focus on emotional intelligence, vision, team development, collaboration, and influence.
Leadership Essentials includes a Learner Workbook, which supplements the online course by engaging students with exercises that are both personal and relevant, utilizing thought-provoking exercises integral to the successful completion of the course. The Learner Workbook features a Group Guide with structured, focused, and engaging activities, enabling teams to work through challenges more effectively, build stronger relationships, and align their efforts toward common goals.
Leaders who are adaptable and emotionally intelligent can effectively guide teams through change and uncertainty, a skill that is especially crucial in fast-paced industries.
- Price: $890.00
- Seat time: 14h
- Course number: ew0739_05_JN
- Dynamic language translation available
- Category: Mentoring and Leadership
The estimated completion time for this course is 14 hours. The maximum allotted time is four months from enrollment.
Course Objectives
List the 3 A's of Authentic Leadership and the six corresponding actions
Explain the difference between personality, traits, experiences, and skills
Identify the causes of "shadow side" behavior, and the benefits of recognizing and managing your "shadow side" tendencies
List the four common obstacles leaders face and the nine core characteristics of an authentic leader
Explain the differences between a manager and a leader
Describe transformational leadership and the relationship between the 4 E's of the Leadership Essentials
Describe the six primary behaviors that leaders use to engage with their followers
List ways to increase your credibility and encourage truth telling
Explain the benefits of a shared vision and the four steps for enlisting people in a common cause
List ways you can communicate your team's values and vision to promote unity
Craft a corporate narrative that inspires people to join a cause bigger than themselves
Explain adjusting leadership style and responding to situational clues to lead effectively
Explain the power and impact of collaboration and apply practical steps for increasing collaboration
Describe power, influence, empowerment, and the role of motivation in performance
Explain the difference between personality, traits, experiences, and skills
Identify the causes of "shadow side" behavior, and the benefits of recognizing and managing your "shadow side" tendencies
List the four common obstacles leaders face and the nine core characteristics of an authentic leader
Explain the differences between a manager and a leader
Describe transformational leadership and the relationship between the 4 E's of the Leadership Essentials
Describe the six primary behaviors that leaders use to engage with their followers
List ways to increase your credibility and encourage truth telling
Explain the benefits of a shared vision and the four steps for enlisting people in a common cause
List ways you can communicate your team's values and vision to promote unity
Craft a corporate narrative that inspires people to join a cause bigger than themselves
Explain adjusting leadership style and responding to situational clues to lead effectively
Explain the power and impact of collaboration and apply practical steps for increasing collaboration
Describe power, influence, empowerment, and the role of motivation in performance
Course Benefits
receive an industry-recognized NCTI certificate of graduation
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