Prerequisites

• Experience in managing teams.

Course Description

Unlock leadership potential with Leadership Journey: From Self to Team. This training course begins with a focus on self-awareness, utilizing tools such as strengths assessments to help define a unique leadership identity. Through evaluation, participants gain insight into strengths, values, core leadership styles, and a clear understanding of the distinctions between leadership and management.
Building on this foundation, the course transitions to leading teams, providing essential skills and strategies to inspire and manage high-performing groups. Key topics include fostering psychological safety, effective communication, delivering developmental feedback, managing change, and setting and achieving meaningful goals.
By the end of the journey, participants will understand their leadership strengths and be equipped to lead with impact and confidence, guiding teams toward shared success.

Course Objective

By the end of this course, participants will:
• Explore the key differences between managing and leading.
• Define a unique leadership identity by reflecting on personal strengths and leadership styles.
• Develop the essential skills required to transition from managerial roles to impactful leadership.
• Use strengths-based self-awareness to empower teams and foster a growth-oriented environment.
• Apply the four stages of psychological safety as a practical tool.
• Build and lead high-performing teams by fostering psychological safety, ownership, delegation, and impactful feedback.
• Apply change models like the Change Curve and ADKAR to lead confidently through transformational change.

Course Outline

• Focus on Self: Leadership vs. management:
- Key differences in the roles of a leader and a manager.
- Core competencies and approaches for leaders and managers.
- Strike the right balance between both roles.

• Leadership styles:
- Overview of key leadership styles and their applications.
- Reflect on the natural leadership style.
- Choose the right style for different situations.

• Transitioning from manager to leader:
- Essential skills for effective leadership beyond management.
- Shift the mindsets by expanding from task management to visionary leadership.

• Strengths assessment:
- Introduce positive psychology and the strengths-based approach.
- Understand the assessment report and its key insights.
- Use self-awareness to enhance team strengths and performance.

• Focus on Teams: Psychological safety:
- Concept, its definition, and impact on leaders and teams.
- Explore case studies and examples to enhance understanding.
- The four stages of psychological safety.

• Leading highly effective teams:
- Drive ownership through the focus on tasks, results, and objectives.
- Effective delegation tools and techniques for empowering team members.
- Provide developmental feedback to foster growth and improvement.

• Transformational change:
- The concept and its importance in an era of exponential change.
- Apply the change curve and ADKAR model as practical tools for leading change.
- Integrate learned leadership skills to drive successful change initiatives.

Course Benefits

• A graduation certificate by Aljazeera Media Institute.