Introductions
  • Outline of the course and expectations
  • Explanation of assignment 1
  • Completion of USB-ED registration form and other documentation
  • Completion of Insights Personality Type Evaluator
    • Module 1 Me the leader
    Day 1:
  • Understanding self in context – our worldviews, beliefs
  • Self-awareness (Including Insights Personality Evaluator)

    • Day 2
  • Resilience
  • Regulating distress (personal, relational and organisational)
  • Congruence and integrity
  • Vision for myself as a leader
  • Individual coaching session 1
    • Module 2 Leading change
    Day 3
  • Understanding “stuckness”
  • Types of change
  • The emotional rollercoaster of change
  • Leading transitions
  • Managing resistance to change

    • Day 4
  • Managing size transitions in organisations
  • Managing succession in founder led organisations
  • Leading change
  • Individual coaching session 2
    • Assignment 1: Reflective assignment on my leadership journey
    Module 3 Leading diversity and Managing conflict
    Day 1
  • Relational systems and diversity
  • Conflict Management
  • Responses to conflict
  • Escalation of conflict
  • Methods of resolving conflict
  • The conflict resolution continuum
    • Module 4 Effective mentoring and management
    Day 2
  • What is mentoring
  • The mentoring process
  • Having difficult conversations
  • Balancing mentoring and managing
    • Module 5 Building high performance teams
    Day 3
  • 5 levels of team performance
  • Team Performance Model Running effective team meetings
  • Individual coaching session 3
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    Assignment 2: Development of Case Study
    Identifying shared leadership challenges and doing joint problem solving
    Module 6 Values-driven leadership in action
    Days 1 and 2
  • Me, we and the world
  • Dealing with value-based dilemmas
  • Values driven leadership in action
    • Module 7 Strategic leadership
    Day 3
  • Sinek’s Golden circle
  • SWOT analysis
  • Prioritisation tools
  • Developing a Theory of Change (a roadmap to success)
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Identifying shared leadership challenges and doing joint problem solving
    Faculty member meets with participants for individual supervision session towards developing their meta model of leadership
    Assignment 3: The meta model of my leadership approach in my context
    Assignment 4: Reflective assignment on my learning journey
    Virtual Celebration of our learning journeys. Certificates are couriered to everyone who successfully completes the programme