Program Overview

The eie Course in Leading Others Effectively

Overall Programme Description

Learn how to influence and support others in the achievement of common goals. Examine how to lead a group and provide inspiration, clarity, and direction. Discover how to rally others and build morale. Learn how to gain commitment by influencing teams to set objectives and buy in on a process.

Skills

• Leadership
• Team Leadership

Mode of Delivery

• Online through Self-Study

Duration

• 10 hours

Assessment

• Quizzes at the end of each Module

Certification

• Digital Certificates at the end of Each module, and an eie Certificate of Completion

Modules

1. Leading like a CEO

During Jeff Weiner's tenure as the CEO at LinkedIn, the company grew its membership base from 33 million to more than 690 million members, increased its revenue from $78 million to more than $7.9 billion, and expanded its team from 338 to over 16,000 employees. Throughout this period of remarkable growth, Jeff developed the company's values and created an organisation where compassion is as revered as a healthy bottom line. In this course, In this module, Jeff shares his advice on what it takes to be a great leader, using a three-part framework of awareness, synthesis, and inspiration. Learn about the importance of maintaining awareness of yourself, your team, your industry, and the world at large. Explore the topic of synthesis, which you achieve through developing your vision and values and by focusing on the most important priorities. Plus, learn about the role of inspiration in leadership, both in terms of being true to your own values and motivating others.

2. Leading with Vision

The world needs leaders who can create a compelling vision and engage others around it. Visionary leaders are able to communicate what lies beyond the horizon and inspire confidence. They attract talent to the organization and motivate team members to make more effective decisions. In this course, CEO Bonnie Hagemann shows corporate and community leaders how to lead with vision, breaking visionary leadership down into steps that anyone can follow. Discover why it's needed, why it's lacking, and how you can fill the gap. Then find out how to build your personal vision and gain the skills and tools to build a vision for your organisation, division, department, team, community cause, or nonprofit.

3. How Leaders Can Motivate Others by Creating Meaning

Up to 70 percent of today's workforce is disengaged. Perks, promotions, or pay can temporarily re-engage employees, but it's meaning that does it on a consistent basis. Meaning is proven to unlock the deepest level of engagement, as well as the peak performance that goes with it. This course teaches leaders how to motivate their teams by creating meaning. Best-selling author and speaker Scott Mautz describes the six markers of meaning—the conditions leaders can foster to create meaning in and at work—and practical ways to implement them. Learn how to define a shared purpose, provide opportunities for growth, create a learning environment, grant autonomy, and more. These actionable techniques are key to making work matter and enhancing the personal growth and fulfilment of all your staff.

4. Developing Credibility as a Leader

The work of leadership is to inspire action toward a shared vision. As a leader, if you cannot be seen as a trusted and credible person, then your message will go nowhere. What exactly is credibility? How can leaders consciously and intentionally grow and demonstrate it? What can they do to overcome any deficiencies or mistakes? Dorie Clark answers these questions and more in this practical course. Get tips for demonstrating credibility within a larger team, becoming a more collaborative leader, and burnishing your credibility regardless of your title. Plus, learn how to bounce back if your credibility has been damaged or you need to break a promise.

5. Leading with Values

What do you stand for? To be an effective leader, you must know your values and embody them. This course shows you how to discover the values that drive you and how to express them in all aspects of life—at work, at home, in the community, and for your private self. For decades, Wharton professor Stew Friedman has been teaching leaders at all levels how to increase their leadership capacity and performance by creating greater harmony in their lives. In this course, he explains how you can lead more powerfully with values by practicing a set of proven, engaging exercises. Each exercise, from describing someone you admire to articulating your leadership vision to diagnosing the alignment of your values and actions, will help you be a better leader and have a richer life.

6. Leading with Stories

Storytelling is essential to good leadership. When delivered correctly, a good story can help you articulate a vision, lead change, inspire creativity and innovation, and get employees to work together more collaboratively than you could ever do without a good story. In this course, best-selling author and storytelling expert Paul Smith digs into the essential elements of a great narrative, explaining how to craft and deliver compelling leadership stories that inspire and motivate employees. Paul explains the right story structure, how to create emotional engagement, and even how to create a surprise ending that ensures your story will be remembered and acted upon. This course will make you a better storyteller, and a better leader.

7. Transformational Leadership

Inspirational leaders can create transformation within themselves and their teams, in the form of pursuing services and missions that matter. This course is designed to help leaders create cultures of innovation, engagement, and growth. Leadership expert Henna Inam shares specific practices any leader, or aspiring leader, can leverage to discover values, identify a purpose, and define a vision. Learn how to lead with integrity and empower others to be their best.

8. Leading through Relationships

As you move from functional expertise into leadership, your focus shifts from working directly on tasks to overseeing the work of other people. Leaders who successfully make this jump most often do so by building effective relationships with individuals at multiple levels in their organization. In this course, Simon T. Bailey details how to lead through relationships, sharing strategies that can help you connect with your employees, manage team conflict, and establish buy-in with other leaders. Learn how to create a culture of insiders, lead others through change and conflict, encourage meaningful communication and collaboration, and more.

After this course

Once you complete this short course, you might consider furthering your education with another short course but ending up with an academic qualification. We offer an array of Awards, which are considered as short courses (30 / 60 hours) but have an MQF Level and a number of ECTS's attached to them. These Awards are recognised by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority (MFHEA).

You might also consider starting a full qualification such as a:

• Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (MQF Level 6 - 180 ECTS)
• Undergraduate Higher Diploma in Business Administration (MQF Level 5 - 120 ECTS)
• Undergraduate Diploma in Business Administration (MQF Level 5 - 60 ECTS)

These qualifications are offered through Online or Classroom modes.