Leadership Development Progamme

Our 15 module leadership programme:

Our coaching and mentoring programme provides simple, practical and powerful strategies and tools to help you lead elegantly. It offers frameworks, worksheets, questions and assessments that will help leaders clarify their thinking, expand their skills, and get better responses from their colleagues. Each module focuses on a different aspect of elegant leadership.

Elegant Leadership – Skillssource Leadership Programme

Module One : Get Grounded
This module provides a one-page dashboard that clearly defines your mission, vision, goals, key initiatives, key relationships, and opportunities for continued development. With this dashboard in hand, you can focus on what really matters in chaotic times.

Module Two : Wipe Your Feet at the Door
Leaders will be challenged to eliminate disagreeable, unproductive, career-limiting behaviours by completing ‘The Survey No One Wants to Take!’

The type of questions leaders will need to have answered by a selection of co-workers are as follows:
Never/Rarely/Sometimes/Often/Always

1. Abdicates responsibility by not providing support, tools, coaching or direction when needed
2. Takes credit for the work of others
3. Blames others for failures; does not take responsibility for mistakes

Scary? Certainly! But, if you really want to be a leader who is deeply admired and who is remembered for years to come, this is the stuff you have to know.

If you’re not sure how you’re truly perceived by your subordinates, peers and superiors, how will you ever be able to work on those areas where you’re falling short? And rest assured, we will provide you with practical steps to eliminate your blind spots and we guarantee that, if you follow the guidance, each time you conduct this survey, your results will dramatically improve.

Module Three : Take Care of Your Needs
Leaders have enough on their minds at work without having to focus on personal problems. This short module asks you to indulge your personal needs in order to find clarity, peace and strength.

Module Four: Cultivate the Right Attitude
Great leaders have great attitudes, mindsets, beliefs, and ways of being that lay the foundation for elegantleadership. Here you’ll also be taught to balance your ego, results and relationships.  It includes ‘living in the grey zone’ (how to cope with uncertainty), being open to continuous learning, becoming a source of vision and opportunity and developing an impeccable character. To be an effective leader, character is critical – and we all know that it rests on a slippery slope. In this module you are challenged to assess your own character and correct past mistakes.

Module Five: Develop an Elegant Strategy
While leaders build compelling visions of the future, they also develop powerful and practical strategies for getting there. This chapter suggests that the crux of strategy is determining what your organization should do best, in terms that matter to your customers and make your organization unique in the marketplace. Here, leaders see the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, how to find a niche market and how to choose customers, among many other criteria.

Module Six: Communicate Simply and Powerfully
Of course, this entire programme is about communication, but this module reminds leaders about listening and speaking authentically, about creating concise and compelling messages, and about expanding effective communication throughout your organization. You already know that non-verbal communication accounts for 93% of understanding and that you need to listen not just for words but for emotions, but this module teaches you to listen with purpose and to be AUTHENTIC.

Module Seven: Strengthen Your Power Base
Leaders depend on the quality of their professional relationships. This module offers a simple process for identifying and strengthening your most important relationships.

Module Eight: Engage and Mobilize Employees
Many of us could pay more attention to how we mobilize, lead, coach and develop our employees. This module provides practical tools and strategies for understanding our employees and providing them with the support they need to succeed.

Module Nine: Elegant Leadership from Below
Most leaders report to somebody, whether another executive, the CEO, a board member, an investor, or customers. Since the manager is one of the most important people in the leader’s power base, this module focuses exclusively on strengthening that relationship.

Module Ten: Think comprehensively
Many leadership pundits underestimate the importance of critical and comprehensive thinking. They assume that with enough vision and passion, leaders will get results. This module takes a contrary view, and argues that leaders absolutely must be able to think clearly, practically and comprehensively.

Module Eleven : Successfully Influence Others
Leaders success by influencing others to think, speak and act differently. They do this in a way that simultaneously gets results and maintains relationships, without manipulating. This module provides tools, templates and strategies to influence others elegantly.

Module Twelve: Move Things Forward
Ultimately, leaders get results by moving things forward. This happens much more easily when leaders implement the strategies and tools elsewhere in this programme. This module builds on preceding ones by providing specific tools for moving things toward a successful conclusion.

Module Thirteen: Foster Collaboration
In authentic collaboration, all parties benefit. As this module shows, elegant leaders work hard to foster collaboration, both inside and outside their organizations.

Module Fourteen: Build for the Future
Most executives have enough of a challenge achieving short-term results. This module helps you build an organization (or a piece of one) that will last longer than you do.

Module Fifteen: Give Something Back
Elegant leaders contribute beyond their organizations. They get involved with, and solve, issues of personal interest. They also find ways to promote and encourage civic involvement