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You Will Learn How To
- Communicate with authenticity to strengthen your leadership effectiveness
- Implement a strategic approach to leadership communication that ensures intended results
- Engage, motivate and inspire others through carefully crafted messages
- Refine your communications with a variety of interpersonal techniques
- Manage challenging situations with confidence
- Apply your leadership voice consistently in everyday situations
Course BenefitsEffective leaders communicate with an authenticity that conveys a consistent view of who they are, what they stand for and what they want. With this approach, leaders build credibility and trust that encourages others to follow their lead. In this course, you develop your authentic leadership voice and apply it to achieving your leadership goals. You learn techniques for engaging, inspiring and motivating others; handling challenging conversations; and achieving greater success.
Who Should AttendThose wishing to improve their presence and impact as a leader. Some previous experience in a leadership role is helpful.
RealityPlus™Activities throughout this course are based on your own workplace situations. These exercises strengthen your leadership voice and improve your communications:
- Benchmarking your leadership communication competencies
- Discovering your personal drivers
- Developing an outcome-driven communication plan
- Practicing vocal techniques and nonverbal behaviours
- Crafting compelling messages and incorporating storytelling into leadership
- Mapping your personal stakeholders
- Identifying leadership communication best practices
- Employing solution-focused questions to advance challenging conversations
- Building your personal action plan
Important Course Information- To get the most out of this course, it is strongly recommended that you come prepared with current workplace challenges you would like to address. Exercises throughout this course help you develop a plan to improve issues specific to your current situations.
Course 3405 ContentFinding Your Leadership Voice
Communicating purposefully
- Communicating to achieve effective leadership
- Key competencies for leadership communication
- Benefiting from a good first impression
- Outlining a leadership communication model
- Recognizing common mistakes
Discovering your personal identity as a leader
- Identifying your values
- Uncovering your personal motivators
- Establishing your leadership ethos
- Leading from anywhere
Establishing authenticity
- Integrating who you are with what you do
- Ensuring clarity, consistency and integrity
- Building your leadership voice
- Preserving authenticity when adapting your style
Specifying Leadership Goals and Outcomes
Planning outcome-focused communications
- Defining your leadership goals
- Identifying the needs of various stakeholders
- Establishing your communication objectives
- Translating objectives into measurable communication outcomes
- Selecting the appropriate timing and methods to deliver your messages
Making power, politics and networking work for you
- Working ethically
- Building your power base
- Proactively creating a powerful network
- Applying Aristotle's three types of persuasion
- Strengthening your credibility
Cultivating a Leadership Voice That Inspires Action
Crafting compelling messages
- Simplifying and using direct language
- Promoting internalization and ownership of change
- Structuring information in your messages
- Packaging messages to achieve desired outcomes
Engaging and motivating your audience
- Storytelling as a leadership communication tool
- Linking your message to core motivations
- Working appropriately with reasoning and logic
- Drawing successfully on emotional appeal
- Communicating with emotional intelligence
Refining Your PersonalCommunication Skills
Employing nonverbal skills for greater impact
- Assessing your leadership communication style
- Flexing your style to maximize success
- Reinforcing your message with appropriate gestures
- How nonverbal activity interacts with spoken words
Enhancing your vocal skills
- Finding the right words and saying them the right way
- Strengthening messages with vocal techniques
- Increasing vocal variety
- Communicating emotions effectively
Putting Your Leadership Voice to Work
Preparing to communicate successfully
- Coping with anxiety
- Implementing mindfulness as a technique
Addressing challenging conversations
- Handling sensitive topics
- Reframing to challenge assumptions
- Moving toward a solution by asking questions
Increasing your repertoire of leadership communication tools
- Applying solution-focused questions
- Dealing with difficult questions or issues
Setting the Stage for Successful Outcomes
Developing your personal leadership case study
- Building a campaign
- Applying lessons learned to personal work scenarios
- Clarifying your short- and long-term priorities
- Combining tactics to maximize presence and impact
Action Planning for Success
- Fostering the engagement of others
- Identifying your personal target
- Encouraging others to take action
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| Jun 20 - 22 | Toronto enrol | | Sep 19 - 21 | Toronto enrol | | Oct 3 - 5 | Ottawa enrol | | Dec 12 - 14 | Toronto enrol | US Dates | | Jul 11 - 13 | New York enrol | | Jul 18 - 20 | Rockville, MD enrol | | Aug 22 - 24 | Reston, VA enrol | | Oct 10 - 12 | New York enrol | | Nov 14 - 16 | Rockville, MD enrol | | Dec 19 - 21 | Reston, VA enrol | | Jan 9 - 11 | New York enrol |
For AnyWare enrolments, please register at least 7 days prior to the start of the course.
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