Leadership Level 3 Certificate Course

There are 7 lessons:

1. Introduction to Leadership (nature and scope of leadership)
   • Defining Leadership
   • Leadership and Group Culture
   • Leadership & Accountability
   • Theories of Leadership
   • Leadership Styles
   • Situational Leadership
   • Contingency Theories
   • Style Theories
   • Informal Leadership
   • Inspirational Leadership
   • Path Goal Theory
   • Instrumental Theories
   • Four Framework Leadership Model
   • Scope of Leadership
   • Leader Responsibilities
   • Sources of Power for a Leader
   • Professional Leadership

1. Leadership Characteristics/Qualities
   • Good Leader Characteristics
   • Leadership Potential
   • Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
   • Cognitive Barriers to Leadership
   • Nature vs Nurture: Leader Qualities
   • Self Assessment
2. Interpersonal Relationships
   • Interpersonal Skills
   • Empathy
   • Influencing Others
   • Perception
   • Self Knowledge
   • The Thought, Feeling, Action Cycle
   • Developing Self Awareness
   • Self Disclosure
   • Assertiveness
3. Communication Skills
   • The Communication Process
   • Body Language
   • Basic Principles of Communication
   • Factors Affecting Effective Communication
   • Awareness
   • Intent
   • Listening
   • Providing Feedback
   • Paraphrasing
   • Reflective Responses
   • Summarizing
   • Preventing Ineffective Listening
   • Open Questions
   • Communication Barriers
4. Team Building
   • Benefits of Teams
   • Elements of a Team
   • Establishing a Team
   • Types of Team Members (Collaborators, Communicators, Challengers, Contributors
   • Team Leadership
   • Team Leader Responsibilities
   • Decision Making in Teams
5. Systematic and Lateral Thinking
   • Metacognition
   • Perception Formation
   • Bases for Perception
   • Information and Perception Formation
   • Gestalt Theory & Patterns of Perception
   • Schemas
   • Perception Formation Implications for a Leader
   • Lateral Thinking
   • Win-Win Negotiation
   • Systematic Thinking
   • Legal Liability
6. Applications
   • Explain the significance of leadership for a specific project or event.
   • Identify the role and tasks of leadership, in the same project.
   • Integrate factual information with theoretical information to derive a sensible solution to a leadership problem in a sensible timeframe in the same project.
   • Plan the development and building of the team to achieve these aims in the same project.
   • Plan actions for sustaining and motivating the team to achieve the aims.
   • Provide information on the plan of action to organize the event.