Leadership and Influence

In this course, we lay the foundation for the core capability of leaders: influence. The ultimate outcome of this course is maximizing your capacity to influence people toward a shared goal. The course is also built around the premise that influence isn't a one-size-fits-all approach.

The most effective leaders match their approach to the challenge at hand. In other words, the most effective leaders are adaptive; they diagnose the situation and choose the behavior best suited for it. This course gives you a greater awareness of your readiness to influence others and create a high-impact plan for continuing your development. This course is all about learning about you, and your self-discovery will unfold in two sections:

Section One: You, you will reflect on your capacity to lead and identify how you can begin to expand that capacity.

Section Two: You+One focuses on one-on-one relationships. You will look at ways you can gain support, build collaborative relationships, and maintain engagement as a leader with or without formal authority.

Modules

Module 1: Expanding Your Capacity to Lead
This module orients you to a potentially new way of thinking about leadership. You analyze what it means to be an effective leader and apply that analysis to a case scenario.

Module 2: Gaining Support
You’ll be introduced to the common power bases and how to leverage them through various tactics and styles. You will determine which tactics are best to use in various scenarios.

Module 3: Building Collaborative Relationships
You’ll explore the topic of emotional intelligence and the importance of building trust. We will see how these issues play out in different scenarios.

Module 4: Maintaining Engagement
Using multiple frameworks, you will analyze and diagnose causes for lack of motivation in others and yourself. You will use this information to make intelligent decisions about your employee’s motivators.

Module 5: Personal Leadership Development Plan
As part of this course, you will create a personal leadership development plan. This is a high-impact plan to expand your behavioral repertoire. In this plan, you will select a behavior that you wish to develop or improve. You will describe how you will improve, set a system of accountability, and reflect on your progress. This plan will begin in the first few modules by journaling. It is important that you take the time to journal and reflect. We will offer guiding questions for your journal, as your answers will inform your development plan in the later modules.