Focus on the Leader

• Power & Influence
  • Important disctictions
  • Power and leadership
  • Taxonomy of social power
  • Influence tactics
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• Leadership, Ethics, and Values
  • “Doing the right things”
  • Ethics and values-based approaches
  • The role of ethics and values in OD
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• Leadership Attributes
  • Personality traits (The Five Factor/OCEAN Model)
  • Personality types
  • Emotional Intelligence
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• Leadership Behaviour
  • Studies of Leadership Behaviour (Competency Models)
  • Leadership Pipeline Model
  • Community Leadership
  • Assessing Leadership Behaviour (360-degree/Multirater Feedback Instruments)
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• Skills for building a personal credibility and influencing others
  My focus here is on some of the most basic skills with which almost every leader should be equipped:
  • Building credibility
  • Communication
  • Listening
  • Assertiveness
  • Conducting meetings
  • Effective stress management
  • Problem solving
  • Improving creativity
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“Men are nothing; it is the man who is everything … it was not he Roman army that conquered Gaul, but Caesar; it was not the Carthaginian army that made Rome tremble in her gates, but Hannibal; it was not the Macedonian army that reached the Indus, but Alexander”.   -Napoleon