Sustainable Leadership for Organizational Performance
Overview:
Introduction:
This training program focuses on sustainable leadership principles aimed at enhancing organizational performance. Through a combination of theoretical concepts and practical applications, participants learn to implement sustainable leadership practices that promote long-term success.
Program Objectives:
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
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List the key competencies of sustainable leaders.
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Describe ways of engaging with and identifying stakeholders.
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Understand the importance of creativity and innovation.
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Describe communication barriers and ways to overcome them.
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List ways to accurately solve problems and make decisions.
Targeted Audience:
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Managers.
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Team Leaders.
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Senior Executives.
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Professionals who need to understand and adjust their style and approach toward managing and leading others.
Program Outlines:
Unit 1:
Sustainable Leadership & the Triple Bottom Line:
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What is a sustainable leader?
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Key Competencies of sustainable leaders.
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PPP - the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit.
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Behaviors of sustainable leaders.
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Engaging with and identifying stakeholders.
Unit 2:
Responsibility & the New Normal:
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
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Cultural Differences with CSR.
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Leading by example.
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Employer-supported volunteering (ESV).
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Leadership following Covid-19.
Unit 3:
Communication Skills for Sustainable Leaders:
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Identifying and removing the main barriers to communication.
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Developing your Emotional Intelligence (EI).
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Active listening skills and asking the right questions.
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SOLER Technique for interviewing and meetings.
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Future Leaders – Generational Differences.
Unit 4:
Mastering Problem-Solving & Decision Making:
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Identify the cause(s) of a problem (CATWOE, repetitive why).
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Using cause-and-effect analysis.
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Organise, analyze and prioritize ideas (affinity diagram & PMI).
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The science of making the decision (Vroom-Jago Decision Model).
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Using force-field analysis to implement decisions.
Unit 5:
Creativity, Innovation, and Your Career:
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Understanding creativity.
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The Science of Innovation.
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Disruptive innovation.
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Your career – using the B-SWOT tool.
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Your personal development plan.