Day 1: Foundations of Leadership and Self-Awareness
Key Topics
- Leadership fundamentals and leadership versus management.
- Personal leadership styles and their application in the workplace.
- Self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and self-regulation.
- Identifying leadership strengths and development needs.
- Setting SMART leadership development goals.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the core principles of effective leadership.
- Assess personal leadership strengths and development priorities.
- Recognize how emotional intelligence influences workplace relationships.
Activities
- Leadership self-assessment, reflection exercises, emotional intelligence scenarios, and group discussion.
Day 2: Communication Skills for Leaders
Key Topics
- Clear communication, active listening, and non-verbal communication.
- Influencing, persuasion, credibility, and trust.
- Adapting messages to different audiences.
- Managing difficult conversations and workplace conflict.
- Encouraging constructive feedback and open dialogue.
Learning Outcomes
- Communicate clearly and adapt messages to the audience.
- Apply active listening and constructive feedback techniques.
- Use practical approaches to influence others and resolve conflict.
Activities
- Communication role-playing, listening exercises, conflict scenarios, and peer and trainer feedback.
Day 3: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams
Key Topics
- Characteristics of high-performance teams.
- Stages of team development and the leader’s role.
- Recruiting, onboarding, and building team cohesion.
- Aligning team objectives with organizational goals.
- Motivation, performance expectations, feedback, and continuous improvement.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize team development needs.
- Apply techniques to motivate teams and strengthen collaboration.
- Set clear expectations and address team performance issues.
Activities
- Team-based exercises, team performance case studies, and group reflection.
Day 4: Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Time Management
Key Topics
- Structured decision-making and common decision-making biases.
- Identifying problems, analyzing causes, and evaluating solutions.
- Practical problem-solving tools, including SWOT and root cause analysis.
- Time management, task prioritization, and the Eisenhower Matrix.
- Delegation and balancing urgent and important responsibilities.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply structured approaches to decisions and workplace problems.
- Evaluate options and identify practical solutions.
- Prioritize responsibilities and delegate tasks effectively.
Activities
- Decision-making scenarios, group problem-solving challenges, and prioritization exercises.
Day 5: Leading Through Change and Ethics
Key Topics
- Understanding organizational change and resistance.
- Communicating change and building commitment.
- Encouraging innovation and creative problem-solving.
- Ethical leadership and ethical decision-making.
- Sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply practical approaches to support organizational change.
- Encourage innovation and team involvement.
- Recognize ethical and sustainability considerations in leadership decisions.
Activities
- Change management scenarios, innovation exercises, and ethical leadership case discussions.
Day 6: Leadership Integration and Personal Development Planning
Key Topics
- Reviewing and integrating the program’s leadership concepts.
- Connecting leadership practices with workplace goals.
- Setting personal leadership development priorities.
- Identifying actions, resources, and accountability measures.
- Presenting and refining personal leadership development plans.
Learning Outcomes
- Integrate leadership skills into a practical workplace approach.
- Develop a personal leadership development plan.
- Identify actions and measures to support continued development.
Activities
- Leadership case studies, guided reflection, development plan preparation, participant presentations, and peer and trainer feedback.
Day 7: Outdoor Team Building and Leadership in Action
Key Topics
- Applying leadership skills through practical outdoor team challenges.
- Strengthening communication, trust, and collaboration.
- Understanding team roles and coordinating responsibilities.
- Practicing planning, decision-making, and problem-solving under time constraints.
- Reviewing team performance and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply leadership and communication techniques in team-based activities.
- Coordinate team roles and resources to achieve shared objectives.
- Demonstrate collaborative problem-solving and decision-making.
- Recognize how individual behavior influences team performance.
- Translate insights from the activities into practical workplace actions.
Activities
- Participants work in small teams on a series of facilitated outdoor challenges. Activities may include:
- Landmines: Navigate a simulated obstacle area through coordinated planning, communication, and teamwork.
- Keva Planks: Design and build a tower to practice planning, resource management, and goal-setting.
- Blindfold Puzzle: Guide a blindfolded team member to complete a task using clear verbal instructions.
- Pipeline: Construct a delivery system to strengthen coordination, collaboration, and problem-solving.
- Design and Build: Create a model structure to practice creativity, planning, and team execution.
- One Team, One Dream: Develop and present a shared vision of the organization’s future, identifying challenges and opportunities.
- Each activity is followed by a facilitated debrief to review team performance, identify lessons learned, and connect the experience to workplace leadership.
- The final selection of activities will be adapted to the venue, participant needs, and agreed learning objectives.
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