Course Description

This course will help you understand your own leadership style and enable you to consider how to improve your style in order to motivate and engage your followers. You will learn key theories and understand how to apply them within your own practice.

You will study the following topics:

The difference between leadership and management

Leadership theories and their application with your own practices

The role of culture within leadership

How your leadership style links to levels of motivation

The importance of organisational vision and goals

Communicating organisational goals and links to effective leadership

Creating effective motivational relationships

Emotional intelligence within effective leadership

Throughout all the above you will be tasked to complete numerous activities, that will allow you to reflect and assess your own leadership capability.

Course curriculum

    1. Video 1 Introduction to assessing your own leadership capability and performance

    2. Slides for Video 1 - Introduction to assessing your own leadership capability and performance

    1. Video 4 Applying leadership theories

    2. Slides for Video 4 - Applying leadership theories

    3. ILM Trust and Integrity

    1. Video 5 Leadership and culture

    2. Slides for Video 5 - Leadership and culture

    3. Organisational Culture - Charles Handy

    1. Video 6 Leadership and motivation

    2. Slides for Video 6 - Leadership and motivation

    3. Slim pickings

    4. Towels and Talent - Microsoft

    5. Herzberg Activity

    6. Dan Pink

    7. The Psychological Contract

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  • 4.5 hours of video content
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Tutor Lynsey Heeks

I have 15 years’ experience of managing and leading within a highly commercial environment, combined with 15 years’ experience of teaching Leadership, Management, Coaching/Mentoring and HR. This ensures that I can relate your learning to real life experience and help you put your learning in to context. My philosophy within any of my courses is that we all know the right thing to do, we just don’t always know we know! It is my job to facilitate your learning and guide you through this process so that you can take your knowledge and have the confidence to be better leaders and managers within your own workplaces.