Consistently conveying an authentic leadership voice — one that truly represents who you are and what you stand for — is an important trait for effective leaders. Find your voice as a leader in this leadership training course and learn to leverage proven behaviors and techniques to establish your own communication style and authentic leadership voice for engaging, inspiring, and motivating others.
- Fundamental communication and presentation skills
- Experience at the level of:
Developing Your Leadership Voice for Presence and Impact Delivery Methods
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
Developing Your Leadership Voice for Presence and Impact Course Benefits
Adopt a strategic process and framework for leading changeCommunicate effectively to successfully implement changeApply a strategic approach to communication and planningInspire and motivate others to support changeSkillfully handle challenging situations
Leadership Voice Course Outline
- Communicating as the key to leadership
- Reviewing key communication skills
- Inspiring change
- Building a model for leadership communications
Looking in the mirror
- Discovering your personal values
- Mapping your roles and identity
- Decoupling authority from power
The Persuasive Leader
- Leading with logic, credibility and emotion
- Selecting supporting tools
- Building a strong opening
The Honest Leader
- Integrating who you are with what you do
- Ensuring clarity, consistency and integrity
- Building your leadership voice
- Preserving authenticity when adapting your style
Communicating to achieve results
- Defining your leadership goals
- Envisioning a new future
- Mitigating the change impact on others
- Applying a whole brain approach
- Turning resistors into supporters
Developing communication outcomes
- Planning winning outcomes
- Translating objectives into communication outcomes
- Evolving outcomes
- Building your change champions
- Delivering the right message at the right time
Improving your political game
- Investing in reputation and credibility
- Customizing your communication strategy
- Combining logic, emotion and credibility for the right mix
- Connecting with your audience
- Choosing a powerful network
Employing nonverbal skills for greater impact
- Preparing and knowing when to stop
- Communicating with more than words
- Interpreting body language
Crafting compelling messages
- Simplifying and strengthening the message
- Packaging messages to achieve desired outcomes
- Asking "What's the point?"
Exploring communication styles
- Discovering your communication style
- Identifying how others communicate
- Flexing your style
Rallying your team
- Storytelling to connect with others
- Communicating with emotional intelligence
- Working appropriately with reasoning and logic
- Linking your message to core motivations
- Drawing successfully on emotional appeal
Triggering change is just the beginning
- Dealing with stages of change
- Defining your team's needs
- Planning for progression
- Adapting to organic change
Dealing with difficult conversations
- Coping with anxiety
- Leveraging self awareness
- Moving discussions forward
- Managing conversational traps
- Prioritizing people before process
- Identifying your personal target
- Building a campaign
- Clarifying your short- and long-term priorities
- Combining tactics to maximize presence and impact
- Encouraging others to take action
- Transferring your skills from class to workplace
