Leadership Training: Sharpen Your Leadership Edge: Competencies for the Modern Leader
This two-day interactive course focuses on the qualities and competencies found in outstanding leaders . It covers leadership behavior, ethical leadership, understanding change, applying leadership power, and setting goals . The course also explores nine competencies, including passion, integrity, and humor, which are beyond standard management theory but are vital to true leadership .
Leadership Training
Sharpen Your Leadership Edge: Competencies for the Modern Leader
Course Overview
This two-day interactive Understanding Leadership Competencies Training course covers leadership behavior, ethical leadership, understanding change, applying leadership power, and setting goals. You will look at the qualities and competencies that are consistently found in outstanding leaders. Discover nine competencies in hard-to-pin-down areas like passion, integrity, and humor that lie well beyond the ordinary confines of management theory and practice, yet they contribute greatly to what we recognize as true leadership.
Course Objectives
- Identify Effective Leadership Behavior
- Apply Ethical Leadership
- Implement Change
- Apply Different Types Of Leadership Power
- Leading by example
- Going beyond
- Positioning yourself as leader
- Developing a compelling vision
Course Outline
- Module 1: Introduction
- Competency: A Definition
- How They Were Chosen
- The Leadership Capstone Model(TM)
- Module 2: The Nine Leadership Competencies
- What Are They?
- Passion
- Humor
- Courage
- Integrity and Trust
- Energy/Vitality/Enthusiasm
- Building a Team
- Setting Priorities
- Creativity
- Vision
- Module 3: The Bottom Line
- Acknowledging Your Strengths as well as Skills Needing Improvement
- Leading Your Organization to Success
- Focusing on Employees, Competition and Customers
- Module 4: Acknowledge Your Competencies
- Which Competencies You will Use to Ensure the Success of Your Efforts
- Measuring Excellence One Step at a Time, Beginning with Effort
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first attend the following course, or have equivalent knowledge:
Emotional Intelligence Training
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Subject: Request for Leadership & Professional Development training from Applied Technology Academy
[Decision Maker Name],
I'm writing to request time and budget approval to complete Applied Technology Academy's course, Leadership Training: Sharpen Your Leadership Edge: Competencies for the Modern Leader. The information below outlines how this training benefits our organization, the tasks I'll be able to perform after completing it, and relevant cost and funding details.
Course Description
This two-day interactive course focuses on the qualities and competencies found in outstanding leaders . It covers leadership behavior, ethical leadership, understanding change, applying leadership power, and setting goals . The course also explores nine competencies, including passion, integrity, and humor, which are beyond standard management theory but are vital to true leadership . Applied Technology Academy is an award-winning, SBA-certified woman-owned training provider (est. 2008) whose instructors are active practitioners; the course is hands-on with virtual labs and a learn-by-doing methodology.
Course Objectives
Once I've completed the course, I'll be able to:
- Identify Effective Leadership Behavior
- Apply Ethical Leadership
- Implement Change
- Apply Different Types Of Leadership Power
- Leading by example
- Going beyond
- Positioning yourself as leader
- Developing a compelling vision
Expected Organizational Benefits
After completing this course, I will be better equipped to apply these skills directly to our projects, reduce our reliance on outside expertise, strengthen our team's capabilities, and share what I learn with colleagues.
Expected Cost & Funding
Course fee: [request an itemized quote at the link below]. Applied Technology Academy supports multiple funding paths that may reduce or cover this cost: GSA MAS purchasing and government purchase orders, military credentialing funding (Army CA, AF COOL, CG COOL), VA GI Bill and VR&E, ATA Flexible Spending, and student financing. Private team cohorts are available if colleagues should attend with me.
Conclusion
This training provides practical, hands-on experience I can apply immediately to strengthen our work in leadership & professional development. Additional course information is available at https://appliedtechnologyacademy.com/leadership-development-training/leadership-training-sharpen-your-leadership-edge/.
Thank you for your consideration,
[Your Name]
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