A Highly Interactive Training Course On

The Essentials of Leadership

Vision, Influence & Character

The Essentials of Leadership
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

01-05 Dec 2025
Dubai
$5,950
06-10 Apr 2026
London
$5,950
25-29 May 2026
Dubai
$5,950
20-24 Jul 2026
Geneva
$5,950
07-11 Sep 2026
London
$5,950
30 Nov-04 Dec 2026
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

The recent global events have resulted in profound human suffering and economic turmoil, compelling us all to deeply reconsider how we rebuild the future. In addressing this challenge, the importance of leadership has never been more vital for the regeneration, repair, and restoration of human sustainability. Uncertainty, unpredictability, and chaos have become the "new normal" in the leadership sphere. This shift has reshaped our understanding of leadership, highlighting that it’s no longer just about immediate results, growth, and profitability. In these extraordinary times, leadership requires a broader view—combining both long-term vision and immediate action.

This comprehensive approach demands practicality, adaptability, and even foresight to embrace digital transformations, act with agility, and spark innovation. While traditional leadership traits remain crucial, crisis management has emerged as a key area of focus for leadership. In this "new normal," crises don’t create leadership qualities; they unveil the fundamental traits that define strong leadership.

Join a network of passionate professionals in this intensive The Essentials of Leadership training course, where we will engage in thoughtful discussion, challenge traditional views, and revitalize the way you approach leadership and strengthen your practice.

This training course will feature:

 

  • Advanced psychometric evaluations of personal leadership style; their outcomes and indicators
  • Holistic praxis: leadership to Inspire, innovate and build sustainability within the organisation
  • Emotional Intelligent leadership to promote individual and organisation wellbeing
  • Decision-making tools that create focused solutions to “what if “problems and crisis management
  • Practical “Ideation” techniques to reframe outmoded business models to build the resilient enterprises of tomorrow.

What are the goals?

By attending this training course, delegates will be able to:

 

  • Select and apply pragmatic techniques to build potential, collective commitment, innovation and approve decision making
  • Review, reframe and enhance leadership strengths; adopt and applying new skills and practices to manage, unforeseen crises
  • Appreciate diversity and utilise focused solutions techniques
  • Build trust and personal credibility through focused communication, persuasion and influencing skills
  • Demonstrate holistic leadership –that is agile, responsive and resilient to the needs of the organisation, its people, the wider society and the global environment

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

 

  • Former attendees of The Management Essentials programme
  • Employees seeking to progress their career from current management roles
  • HR professionals whose role involving coaching and support of leadership teams
  • Senior leaders charged with Change Management and crisis responsibilities
  • Aspirational and ‘high potential’ employees seeking fast track career training

How will this Training Course be Presented?

The Essentials of Leadership training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. In a risk-free environment delegates can practice leadership skills in a non-threatening context. The emphasis will be on building the confidence for success.

 

Theoretical and psychological input is followed by expansive discussion related to the current challenges faced by leaders and consolidated by powerful individual and group reflection on prior experiences. These provide opportunities for personal participation and facilitate learning grounded in real situations. This intervention will be fast paced, intellectually challenging but above all empowering. Selective and supportive video material is integral to the content.

The Course Content

Day One: Agility – the Norm
  • Leadership Principles, Perceptions and Praxis: essential themes
  • Changing Paradigms, New Demands and Enlightened Leadership
  • The New Normal; changing environments, expectations and challenges
  • Leadership by “design”, building agile, responsive and decisive leadership
  • The Leader Within; innate qualities personality performance, style and outputs
  • The External Environment; leading and navigating in turbulent times
Day Two: Leading Exceptional Performance
  • The Leadership Management Debate. Do I Lead or Manage?
  • What Leadership style does my organisation require?
  • 360 Leadership; competence assessment, review and peer coaching
  • Leading the focused agile team.: mission, vision values and SMARTER measures
  • Communicating Organisational and clarifying team purpose
  • Charismatic leaders and Storytelling: acknowledging success and lessons learned
Day Three: Leadership that Inspires
  • Trust- the essential ingredient in the new normal
  • Motivational leadership: the Emotionally Intelligent leaders
  • Engagement and well-being: Scope, Support, Connection, Voice
  • Diagnostic tools for organisational and team development
  • Whole brain thinking divergent and convergent thinking
  • Decision Making and the power of diverse thinking
  • Collective wisdom, constructive dissent and innovative outcomes
Day Four: Leading an Innovative Culture
  • Leading change and transition issues ingenuity and innovation
  • Solution focused methodology: Accentuating the positive and the possibilities
  • Utilising soft system methodology for innovative insights into change
  • Using Nature and multiple intelligences for creative outcomes
  • Assessing culture and organisational creativity for agile responsiveness
  • Entrepreneurial creativity. How creative am I?
Day Five: Leadership Priorities
  • Global chaos: impact, learnings and responses
  • Resilience, Well-being and Mindfulness:  key people deliverables
  • Planning for Crisis; beware the “black swans”
  • Ethical leadership for sustainable organisations
  • Reframing the Business Model Canvas to create value and sustainability
  • Action planning for future improvement

Providers and Associations

Anderson
Anderson
Aztech Training
Aztech Training
COPEX
COPEX