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Introduction
- Understanding leadership issues in a project.
- Telling apart management and leadership.
Case study
A case study to understand the specific features of leadership.
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Adopting the habits of a leader
- Communicating assertively. Knowing how to give an employee constructive criticism.
- Encouraging dialog within a team.
- Defusing tense situations within a team.
Exercise
Role-playing based on concrete situations provided by course attendees or the facilitator in order to develop assertive behavior in any situation.
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Optimizing relations within a team and how it operates
- Instituting a climate of trust within a team.
- Regularly giving feedback to employees.
- Requesting feedback from your employees in order to increase its impact.
- Encouraging the expression of ideas within a project team by creating a friendly work environment.
- Praising and motivating your employees.
Exercise
Role-play scenarios built around concrete cases, simulations in subgroups to practice giving employees feedback, praising them, and motivating them.
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Increasing your influence
- Discovering your preferred style of communication and influence.
- Understanding the differences between the four styles of influence: Cooperative, imaginative, methodical, and engaged.
- Adapting to the people you're talking with.
Exercise
Role-play scenarios in pairs to experiment with different style of communication and influence. Individualized feedback and analysis.
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Developing a leadership strategy within the company
- Knowing how to prepare a powermap (of issues and powers) within a project.
- Taking a step back to identify your allies.
- Developing a strategy to counter opposing forces by developing your relationships.
Case study
Case studies and practice in sub-groups based around the powermap.