As a leader, you may have identified team members who display potential for becoming great leaders in the future.
As a leader, you may have identified team members who display potential for becoming great leaders in the future. By embracing a positive attitude with an approachable personality, you can appear engaging and trustworthy among followers. Modeling self-awareness skills and embracing a team mentality can help you equip potential leaders with the tools needed to identify and improve their leadership traits.
In this Developing Leaders course, you will discover how your attitude and personality impact your effectiveness as a leader. You’ll also learn to identify and overcome blind spots caused by biases and misguided power structures. We’ll also show you how preconceived notions, prejudices, and unsubstantiated ideas can create a divisive culture that lacks unity. By focusing on the benefits of power to influence productive behavior rather than acts of manipulation, leaders can be more effective in nurturing and encouraging potential leaders. After completing this course, you’ll be prepared to develop strong leaders on your team.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize potential leaders
- Identify blind spots and know how to address them
- Indicate how to nurture leadership traits
- Describe how to equip potential leaders
What You'll Learn
- Recognize team members who display potential for becoming great leaders
- Identify blind spots caused by biases and misguided power structures and address them
- Nurture leadership traits in potential leaders
- Equip potential leaders with the tools needed to identify and improve their leadership traits
- Examine how your attitude and personality impact your effectiveness as a leader
- Use the power to influence productive behavior rather than acts of manipulation
Key Takeaways
- A positive attitude and an approachable personality help a leader appear engaging and trustworthy among followers.
- Modeling self-awareness skills and embracing a team mentality helps equip potential leaders to identify and improve their leadership traits.
- Preconceived notions, prejudices, and unsubstantiated ideas can create a divisive culture that lacks unity.
- Focusing on the benefits of power to influence productive behavior, rather than manipulation, makes leaders more effective at nurturing potential leaders.
- Your attitude and personality impact your effectiveness as a leader.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is for leaders who have identified team members showing potential to become great leaders and who want to prepare themselves to develop strong leaders on their team.
What does the Developing Leaders course cover?
It covers how your attitude and personality impact your effectiveness as a leader, identifying and overcoming blind spots caused by biases and misguided power structures, and how to nurture and equip potential leaders.
What lessons are included in this course?
The course includes Introduction, Identifying Potential Leaders, Helping People See Their Blindspots, Nurturing Potential Leaders, Equipping Potential Leaders, and a Test Your Knowledge section.
What will I be prepared to do after completing this course?
After completing the course, you will be prepared to develop strong leaders on your team.
How does the course frame the use of power in leadership?
It focuses on using the benefits of power to influence productive behavior rather than acts of manipulation, which helps leaders be more effective in nurturing and encouraging potential leaders.
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(soft music) The need for leadership development has never been more important, but it's not always easy to determine who is the best fit. In this developing leaders course, you'll learn to identify potential leaders among your team by learning the five characteristics of effective leaders. Eliminate weakness in new leaders by identifying blind spots and how to effectively use power, and help potential leaders be more effective by learning to establish fast goals. Businesses need leaders to progress. Use the skills in this developing leaders course to get your leadership development program started.
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