Delivery: Online
Estimated Length: 14 seat hours
Price: $850
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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.
Completion Time:
The estimated completion time for this course is 14 hours. The maximum allotted time is four months from enrollment.
Benefits:
- receive an industry-recognized NCTI certificate of graduation
Ideal for:
- Anyone who wishes to improve their leadership skills, such as supervisors, managers, and employees who aspire to become supervisors or managers.
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- 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
- Identify the connection between empowerment and appreciation
Outline:
Authentic Leadership I: Unlocking Your True Leadership Potential
Authentic leadership; the 3 A’s of authentic leadership; appreciate who you are: know yourself; integrity and transparency; recognize your shadow side
Authentic Leadership II: Unlocking Your True Leadership Potential
Authentic leadership overview; align: clarify your core values; align: determine your passions and desired contributions; activate: define your purpose; activate: engage in self-discipline; grow in character
Introduction to Leadership Essentials
Leaders vs. managers, transformational leadership, and introduction to the 4 E’s
The 4 E’s of Leadership: Engage
Engage; the basics of engaging; know your followers and connect with them; manage and respond to emotions appropriately; encourage truth telling
The 4 E’s of Leadership: Enlist
Enlist, the power of a common cause; clarify your vision – step 1, believe in your vision – step 2, communicate your vision – step 3; preserve your vision – step 4
The 4 E’s of Leadership: Equip
Equip, leadership style, three ways to equip your followers, increase competence, remove obstacles, create opportunities, stretch their reach, and create a learning culture built on collaboration
The 4 E’s of Leadership: Empower
Empower, empowering others, managing your power and influence, motivate and inspire, coaching for performance, and collaborate and celebrate wins
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