Executive Certification Course

Personal Effectiveness and Modern Leadership

The biggest myth surrounding leadership is that you need to be a leader in formal title or position in order to be a leader of people. But at it’s core, leadership is about communicating a vision and motivating a group of people to take steps towards it.

The UKBSA Personal Effectiveness and Modern Leadership course challenges your conception about what it takes to be a leader with a modern approach to personal effectiveness, personal branding, principles of leadership and leadership strategies, and the formation of world-class teams.

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Course Features

40+ learning modules
High-end product combining video content with supporting workplace activities and assignments
Pre and post-module assessments
20+ workplace assignments
30+ downloadable worksheets

UKBSA Leadership Series

Exec Programme

A highly structured learning experience offering attendees a deep-dive into the complex challenges of personal effectiveness, strategy and leadership. Designed to spark growth, self-reflection and innovative thinking, this programme focuses on the key components of leadership that will help you build competitive advantage in your work and career.

Approx 12 hours duration
Full Lifetime Access
Access on Mobile and TV
Certificate of Completion

Overview

The UKBSA Personal Effectiveness and Modern Leadership Programme is a highly structured yet deeply personalized learning experience. Attendees will take a deep-dive into the complex challenges of personal effectiveness, strategy and leadership. Designed to spark growth, self-reflection, innovative thinking, this programme focuses on the key components of leadership that will help you build competitive advantage in your work and career.

Benefits

Learn the secrets for developing an effective leadership mindset
Improve your level of influence at every tier in your organisation
Boost your ability to build rapport and communicate with more impact
Develop a powerful personal leadership brand
Understand the key components of world-class leadership to achieve outstanding results and supercharge your career
Understand how and when to deploy key leadership strategies, lead change and drive innovation
Understand how to develop world-class teams – through effective hiring, coaching, mentoring and delegating
Understand how to harness conflict for outstanding results

Programme Format

40+ Personal Effectiveness and Leadership Modules
Section introductions from programme director
Pre-module ‘perceptual assessments’
40+ HD video modules with professional narration and supporting subtitles
40+ programme director video wrap-ups to complement and strengthen learning outcomes for each module
Post-module assessments to reinforce learning
25+ individual assignments to be conducted in the workplace
40+ ‘Challenge and Application’ exercises on conventional leadership wisdom

Who Should Attend?

Leaders and aspiring leaders
Junior, middle and senior management
All industries and workplace functions

Production Team

Graeme Ventris has worked in complex enterprise software organisations for more than 25 years in a number of leadership roles across Sales, Marketing, Operations and Enablement.

Section One: Personal Effectiveness

Module 1: MINDSET

Stepping Into the Leader’s Thoughts and Assumptions

Harness the power of a Leader Mindset to better equip yourself to achieve your most important outcomes
Take charge of your environment and prepare for the important challenges you face as a leader
React and respond in positive ways to every situation for world-class Leadership
Adopt any of FIFTEEN identified Leadership Mindsets

Module 2: FOCUS

A Common Denominator for Leadership Success

The tried and tested principles for focus that will help you maximise personal effectiveness.
The fundamental link between focus and success
The idea of focus as an investment with a cost
The unbreakable correlation between time, attention and energy
The basic but most important, long-established principle for time management
The four-step mantra for achievement and accomplishment

Module 3: GOALS

Leadership and Going Beyond SMART

Why being SMART is only a START for effective goals
The critical stumbling block that isn’t always considered
The crucial extra questions you need to ask
How you can create more effective goals that lead to greater achievement

Module 4: DEADLINES

A Consistent Methodology for More Control and Less Stress

The connection between deadlines and your personal brand
How to use deadlines to build trust
The link between deadlines and personal effectiveness
The simple four step system to gain more control
Improvements to personal effectiveness and removal of stress from your working life

Module 5: PROCRASTINATION

The Silver Bullet for Effectiveness and Perception

Rewiring your subconscious mind
The link between motion and emotion
How to approach the Big Five procrastination drivers

Module 6: MULTITASKING

Removing the Dubious ‘Badge of Honour’

The academic conclusions on multitasking effectiveness
The human brain and optimised performance
Four tactics for working with competing demands

Module 7: MEETINGS

Gaining Progress and Positivity From Group Interactions

Meetings as the most cited productivity killer
Recognising the most common meeting killers
Planning for the top ten meeting targets
Five ways to turn positive intent into perfect execution

Section Two: Impact and Influence

Module 8: INFLUENCE

The Six Step IMPACT Model for Influence

Leaving an impact and making an impression
Push and Pull Communication
Working with logic and emotions
Innovation, mutuality, presence, accountability, commitment and truth

Module 9: MESSAGE DYNAMICS

Communicating to Accelerate Influence, Goal Realisation and Personal Branding

The importance of message dynamics
The fundamental reason for communication breakdowns
A measure for communication effectiveness
How to avoid misunderstanding and miscommunication
Communicating with charisma

Module 10: SPOKEN COMMS.

A Seven Point Check-list for Impact When You Speak

The Mehrabian MYTH about the words you use, your tone of voice and non-verbal communication
The single most important part of your message as a leader
The ‘articulation fallacy’
The SEVEN C’s check-list for effective spoken words

Module 11: WRITTEN COMMS.

A Six Point Check-List for Critical Written Communications

Expectation management
Perfection, precision and choice
The SCRIBE writing check-list

Module 12: NON-VERBAL COMMS.

Using Non-verbal Signals to Maximise Impact and Authenticity

Sending and reading visual cues
Consciously taking charge of the unconscious message
The three C’s of confidence, competence and clout
The ACTIVE body-language check-list
Authentic, Confident, Toned, Interested, Valued, Enthusiastic

Module 13: PRESENTATIONS (WHEN)

The Triple-A Check-List for Influencing Groups

When to present and when to use other communication channels
When presenting will advance your agenda
When presenting will hamper your progress
The single most important consideration for your presentation

Module 14: PRESENTATIONS (HOW)

The Five Point SPEAK Model for Impact and Influence

The surprising requirement for passion and sufferance
The four vital ingredients of a memorable speech

Module 15: NEGOTIATION

The SMILE Negotiating Model for Highly-Effective Mutual Outcomes

How to work with conflicting interests to achieve mutual benefits
The factors and options that strengthen or weaken your position
How to effectively trade off the least important considerations to secure what’s most important

Section Three: Personal Branding

Module 16: PERSONAL BRANDING

Actively Influencing Perceptions, Thoughts and Impressions

How to set and achieve brand goals
How to leverage business branding secrets
The balance between values, qualities and experiences
How to help others tell the right story

Module 17: AUTHENTICITY

A Nine Point Model for Developing Authentic Leadership

How to lead unmistakably and unapologetically as yourself
How to move from perfect to genuine
How to combine leadership with the right to be YOU

Module 18: CONFIDENCE

Leading With Confidence

Proven methods for building leadership confidence
The plan for moving out of your comfort zone
The Three Fs that will commit you to shocking your system and taking pride in what you achieve

Module 19: CHARISMA

The Three Core Components of Charismatic Leadership

The simple truth behind every charismatic leader
Why charismatic leadership is so effective
How charisma can be cultivated

Module 20: KINDNESS

The Underused and Underestimated Leadership Trait

Kindness as a prioritised choice for building world-class teams
Why kindness requires wisdom, courage and strength
Seven simple commitments for considerate leadership

Module 21: RAPPORT

The Art of Winning Hearts and Minds

How to lay a foundation for more effective communication
How to foster trust, connection and cooperation
How to balance empathy and harmony with driving leadership

Module 22: STYLE

Image Matters

The impact of clothing choices and how to circumvent human hard-wiring
How to deliver authentic leadership while still avoiding conformity
How to cultivate an effective signature look that aligns with your personal brand

Module 23: CONNECTION

Leaders Recall Names and Use Them Frequently

Why names matter and why we’re yet wired to forget them
The RARE Names model for instant recall of names and faces

Module 24: CONNECTIONS

Leaders Build Networks and Cultivate Relationships

The two critical components of a successful business network
The four investments a productive network demands from you
A full A-Z of business networking activities for massive differentiation

Section Four: The DREAM Leadership Model

Module 25: LEADERSHIP VS MANAGEMENT

How leadership and management work hand-in-hand
How success depends on the way you approach the difference
How you can expertly lead ‘people’ and manage ‘things’

Module 26: THE DREAM LEADERSHIP MODEL

The myth behind leadership titles
The nature/nurture debate
The fundamental measure of leadership
The basics of the DREAM leadership model

Module 27: DIRECTION

Capturing and articulating your clear vision for the future

Module 28: RESULTS

Defining the objectives and key results that need to be achieved

Module 29: ENVIRONMENT

Building the environment where team members are empowered to achieve.

Module 30: ACTIVATION

Triggering ambition in the team

Module 31: MOMENTUM

Building the review process for keeping people on track

Section Five: Leadership Strategies

Module 32: STRATEGY

Aligning Leadership Strategy to Different Situations

Knowing where you are starting from
The five most common strategic launch-points
A proven strategy for defining your strategy

Module 33: LEADING CHANGE

The Six Stage Process for Driving Transformation

Evolving situations and the need to lead people
The unique variances to general leadership principles during times of transition
How to bring an organisation with you, garner suppor and build momentum

Module 34: DECISION MAKING

Solving Problems and Making Great Decisions

Edward de Bono’s Six Hats Thinking methodology
How to think laterally in new and unusual ways
How to bring people with you on any decided course of action

Module 35: INNOVATION

Facilitating Creativity to Bring About Change and Progress

Three essential requirements for Innovation
A model to inspire, motivate and empower creativity
An eight point check-list for driving real transformation

Section Six: World-Class Teams

Module 36: TEAM DYNAMICS

How to build and structure world-class teams

Building the finely-tuned, high-performance machine.
The criticality of capability, performance and motivation.
The Direction model: nine critical elements for world-class teams.

Module 37: HIRING

Hiring the Perfect Person – First Time, Every Time

The impact of good and bad hiring decisions
The seven most common hiring mistakes and how to avoid them
Working with a Perfect Person Specification
The “ART of Hiring” Model
Three critical considerations for selecting people who are good for the business, the team and the job at hand.

Module 38: FIRING

Handling things right for your business and your people