Program Overview

The eie Course in Becoming an Effective Leader

Overall Programme Description

Learn to become a leader others will want to follow. By first developing yourself as a leader, you can take on the most challenging leadership responsibilities: establishing and executing your strategic vision, executing against that vision, and harnessing your most powerful competitive advantage, your people.

Skills

• Organisational Leadership
• Executive Leadership
• 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 (this is NOT an Academic Qualification or Academic Award. For an Academic Award, please visit our MQF Levels section).

Modules

1. Transitioning from Manager to Leader

Leadership is a skill that can be taught. In this course, executive coach Sara Canaday shares proven strategies to help you shift your mindset from manager to leader. To begin, you can learn how to enhance your personal growth by practicing self-awareness and emotional intelligence, developing an executive presence, and becoming a thought leader. Next learn how to expand your perspective from local to global, innovate by viewing challenges with a fresh lens, and improve your decision-making skills. Lastly, learn how to cultivate and nurture a stellar team: attract top talent, inspire your team, create rapport, and build meaningful relationships. Each chapter of this course is coupled with a coaching story that shows you how to apply these concepts to real-world situations.

2. Emerging Leader Foundation

Taking on a leadership role in the diverse, ever-changing modern workplace can feel both exhilarating and confusing. How can you create a space where employees feel listened to and fulfilled? How can you cultivate a more diverse team and foster a culture of learning? While there's no easy path to becoming a good leader, there are steps you can take to start developing the critical skills you need to lead effectively. In this course, join New York Times best-selling author and Fortune 500 consultant Dan Schawbel as he explains how to grow your career as a leader by learning how to manage yourself, hire and coach employees, and create a diverse and collaborative workplace. Dan shares tips and strategies for creating productive habits, sticking to your goals, and leading with empathy when confronted with difficult situations. Plus, he discusses how to effectively reward team performance, enhance the employee experience, and more.

3. Developing Leadership Philosophy

If you want your team to trust you as a leader, it's essential to articulate who you are, what you stand for, and why you're excited to lead them. In this course, author and executive leadership coach Mike Figliuolo shows you how to distill your leadership philosophy down to one simple page covering four critical aspects of leadership: leading yourself, leading the thinking, leading your people, and leading a balanced life. Get hands-on with introspective exercises that help you define and practice leading authentically, with a style that's uniquely yours. Along the way, discover how to share and socialize your vision, make decisions, motivate and mentor, and keep your whole life in perspective.

4. Leading Effectively

Leaders all face the same challenge: too much to do and not enough time to do it. In this course, leadership consultant Mike Figliuolo introduces the concept of "leadership capital," which is the finite amount of time and energy you have available to lead, manage, and develop your team members. He outlines the four ways leaders invest their leadership capital: directing people, making sure the work gets done, making sure the work is delivered, and developing talent. He then helps you assess whether you are using your leadership capital wisely by looking at team results: the quantity of work, the quality of work, timeliness, and impacts on morale and relationships. At the end, he explains how to reallocate your leadership capital and change both your behavior and your team's in order to improve performance.

5. Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Emotions are all around us in the office, and it's crucial for leaders to understand how to harness them to cultivate productivity and positive relationships. In this course, Britt Andreatta shares how to boost your emotional quotient (EQ) to better lead teams, work with peers, and manage up. Learn what emotional intelligence is and how it factors in at work, and discover concrete techniques for raising your own EQ. This includes perceiving yourself accurately, exercising emotional self-control, understanding and managing your triggers, and developing empathy. Then, turn those lessons around to build your awareness of others and become a more inspiring—and effective—leader.

6. 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.

7. Prioritizing Effectively as a Leader

Great leaders focus on the most important priorities. But in a busy work environment, we have to learn to choose wisely. In this course, Dorie Clark equips leaders with tips for managing this balancing act with confidence. Learn how to understand what matters in your organization—and how you and your team can take action accordingly. See how to make your priorities real by explaining the context behind these priorities to your team, crafting detailed implementation plans, and helping employees think through their own workflow.

8. 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.

9. Developing Executive Presence

Learn to project self-confidence, clarity, and credibility even under conditions of stress, pressure, and uncertainty. In this course, John Ullmen, PhD, a professor from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, shares key research insights and step-by-step methods he uses to coach leaders around the world to develop executive presence. He outlines the four key factors that drive executive presence, and the specific actions that make them work for you. He also explains the difference between internal and external presence, and how to enhance both to increase your self-assurance and self-possession. He addresses how to do all of this without being fake or feeling inauthentic, and how to be "fully present, persistently."

10. Leading with Purpose

Purpose—not profit—is the single best motivator to get everyone in an organization rowing in the same direction. Purpose-driven leaders and their companies are more successful, highly regarded, and make more money. In this course, you can learn the short-term and long-term performance impact of purpose-driven leadership through exploring quantitative research and case studies. Lisa Earle McLeod—author of Leading with Noble Purpose—helps you craft a purpose statement and leadership story that engages customers and employees, and provides tips for building lasting purpose into your life and business.

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.