Developing Strategic Leadership Skills

Description

Effective leadership is required more today than ever before. The rapid rate of change and the speed of communication require leaders at senior and middle management level to excel at strategic leadership, yet there are few resources available to achieve this.

Seeking to address the issue, this toolkit is primarily designed for HR professionals, trainers and learning professionals to enable them to develop the leadership skills of senior and middle managers or even junior employees with high potential. It is designed so that coaches can use it with clients, or for individuals to work through themselves.

Contents

SECTION ONE - UNDRSTANDING STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Tool No 1 The Seven Core Competencies of Leadership
Tool No 2 The Ongoing Debate about Leadership and Management
Tool No 3 The Leadership Process Hierarchy
Tool No 4 Levels of Leadership
Tool No 5 Political and Networking Skills at the Strategic Level

SECTION TWO - UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF
Tool No 6 A general leadership audit
Tool No 7 Understanding your Personal Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and Preferences
Tool No 8 Your Leadership Impact Index LI2
Tool No 9 Understanding the Principle of Exposing Selective Weaknesses to Build Rapport
Tool No 10 What's Really Important to you - your Personal Values
Tool No 11 Developing your Personal Knowledge Base
Tool No 12 Decision Making under Pressure
Tool No 13 Do People Trust You?

SECTION THREE - CREATING DIRECTION
Tool No 14 The Power of a Compelling Vision
Tool No 15 Handling Information and Uncertainty
Tool No 16 Strategic Goal Setting
Tool No 17 Creating your Strategic Map

SECTION FOUR - LEADING OTHERS
Tool No 18 Understanding what Makes others Tick - Meta Programmes
Tool No 19 How Credible and Believable are you as a Leader?
Tool No 20 Developing your Sense of Tough Empathy
Tool No 21 The Importance of Developing Emotional Intelligence
Tool No 22 The Power of Reframing
Tool No 23 Winning Hearts and Minds
Tool No 24 Developing Intellectual Capital through a Learning Culture
Tool No 25 Enabling and Empowering Others
Tool No 26 Building Confidence and Improving Morale
Tool No 27 Developing Emotional Capital
Tool No 28 Strategic Coaching Skills

SECTION FIVE - VISIBILITY AND COMMUNICATION
Tool No 29 How Visible are you as a Leader?
Tool No 30 Accessibility and Approachability
Tool No 31 The Pros and Cons of the Open Door Policy
Tool No 32 The Power of the Role Model - do you Set a Good Example?
Tool No 33 Using Language and Rhetoric to Inspire others

SECTION SIX - DEVELOPING INTELLIGENT OBJECTIVITY
Tool No 34 The Big Picture - Detail Mix
Tool No 35 Gaining Feedback on your Operation - the 360 Degree Tool
Tool No 36 Gathering Information and Intelligence
Tool No 37 Developing the Heliview - the Power of Multiple Perspective

SECTION SEVEN - CREATING RESULTS
Tool No 38 Short Term Results and Quick Wins
Tool No 39 The World Class Profile
Tool No 40 Exploring the Happiness Factor

Reviews

'A plus point is its clarity. It focuses on the strategic leadership level...It is supported by an array of well-structured CIPD-enabled online tools that are good value for money...It is extremely thorough and combines theory with appropriate empirical research. And I felt it balance the "soft" and "hard" aspects of leadership in a convincing way.'
Rob Sheffield
Consultant
People Management

'This manual is a first-class introduction to strategic leadership skills and will act as an invaluable aid to anyone designing programmes to fit people for these key roles.'
John Adair

'The layout in clearly marked sections in loose-leaf format is very helpful for making practical use of the material in training, and the quality of the exercises themselves is, I think, excellent and very practical and appropriate. They are all well-related to the general topics of each section, which makes it very easy to organise a course and use the materials for it.'
Jonathan Gosling
Head of Executive Education
University of Exeter