Developing Your Executive Leadership Skills

This lecture discusses favourable traits in executive leaders, as well as how to develop them. You'll learn how to motivate, create a culture of accountability, build relationships, and make decisions to support productivity. For each of these, this lecture involves practical applications for development.

Download and complete the Traits And Skills Of Executive Leaders Worksheet.

This lecture presents a wide range of leadership styles, focusing on how they can be effective or detract from organisational intent. We'll discuss times to be a pace-setter, coercive, coach, authoritarian, democratic, or affiliative. With each style, we'll discuss the strengths and weaknesses, and why having several styles can be important.

Download and complete the Executive Leadership Styles Worksheet.

This lecture gives two main systems for managing complexity. It illuminates how operations are greater than their mere components.

Stratified Systems Theory gives a clear-cut method to keeping organisational growth and development on target, as well as stipulating metrics and accountability.

Complexity Leadership Theory gives us ways to uncover invisible emergences of productivity and operational benefits. It shows how complex systems can benefit without precedence.

Download and complete the Managing Complex Organisational Systems Worksheet.

This lecture shows how successful business leaders have negated and dealt with stress. It applies practices that will have substantial and long-lasting momentum to keep a healthy mindset in the paramount position of an organisation.

We'll discuss keeping clear itineraries, remaining subservient to purpose, finding order in chaos, and maintaining realistic and relatable optimism.

Also explored is the importance of reassessing the relationship you have with stress, and why it is so important to support others when stressed.

Download and complete the Stress Management for Executives Worksheet.

This lecture provides several models to plan business strategies that have been tried and tested by the titans of Silicon Valley and other booming businesses. Models that we'll explore include the Objectives and Results plan and the RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed) model, as well as the Blue Ocean Strategy and the Ansoff Matrix for growth.

As for crisis management, we will explore how several companies use support and re-evaluation of their mission to emerge from dark times.

Download and complete the Strategic Planning And Crisis Management Worksheet.

This lecture explains how to convey your vision to all stakeholders and individuals aptly. It also presents a model to incite operations through your vision.

We'll discuss how to be consistent, how to connect the mission to individual levels, how to keep the vision fresh, be realistic and how to check if the vision is being heard.

You'll also see the Organic Model, a strategic business plan that uses vision to incentivise other team members to draw up their own trajectories based on principles, not operations.

Download and complete the Communicating Vision Worksheet.

This lecture uses the case study of Herb Kelleher's far-reaching practices as CEO of Southwest Airline to illustrate how leaders can be recognised as powerful, credible, and respected by every member of the team.

Herb Kelleher allowed every member of his team to express themselves and advance operations by keeping a consistent and credible presence in the company. He emphasised vision and culture, keeping tough but not mean.

Download and complete the Credibility, Authority And Respect Worksheet.

This lecture explores how diction, expression and body language can be developed to foster authority, credibility and respect.

Keeping language concise and clear, as well as being more aware of powerful diction, creates a sense of welcomed authority.

We'll give scientific studies to show how body language can be used to boost your confidence, not just exude it.

Download and complete the Communication Techniques For Executive Leaders Worksheet.

This lecture gives guidelines on how to develop an effective management team that will be tied to the vision. We'll talk about ensuring the managers can think outside the box and how to keep clear metric-oriented approaches.

In the latter portion, this lecture addresses the challenge of trusting delegations and how to ensure efficacy. Asking for commitment, communicating the stakes and requesting clear plans keep the trepidation of delegation at bay.

Download and complete the Develop Your Management Team Worksheet.

In this final lecture, we provide a comprehensive summary of the key topics and concepts covered in the course thus far.