Introduction
As business owners and/ or leaders of teams, we find ourselves having to - not only hone our own leadership skills, via virtual tools - but we also have to find ways to lead, motivate and coach our teams - with limited face to face interaction. This can be challenging at the best of times! As a result - I have developed this Leadership Learning Series. 6 Essential Leadership Topics - that are the backbone to successful leadership.
Experience a combination of interactive videos, practical coaching assignments to implement directly into the workplace – all supported by customised resources, tools and templates.
How to get the best from this Learning Series
1. I recommend you watch the instruction video, it will help you navigate your way around the many learning tools and resources available for each topic.
2. Pick a topic, then watch the video for that topic.
3. View and Download the Coaching Assignments
4. Access the coaching tools and resources to support your learning and assignments
5. Ask for help at any time - I'm here to support and guide you through whenever you need it.
Topic 1
Developing a Leadership Mindset
Topic 2
Adapting your Leadership Style
Topic 3
Prioritising for Purpose
Topic 4
Delegation or Abdication
Topic 5
Coaching for Success
Topic 6
Feedback for Optimal Results
Topic 1. Developing a Leadership Mindset.
What you’ll learn in this module
Now what we're going to do in this particular series is look at the psychology of a leader. As Anthony Robbins said, "success is 80% psychology, and 20% strategy". So there's no point in me talking about strategies, tools, and techniques in effective leadership until we've actually developed that psychology that is successful for a leader. So if this has whet your appetite, I'd love to show you how we can go about developing that leadership mindset. Let's dive in!
Coaching Resources
(Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence)
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• The Happiness Advantage – Shawn Achor
• The New Leaders by Daniel Goleman
Coaching Assignments
Virtual ONE on ONE and GROUP Leadership Coaching is available for you and your
leadership team!
Jacqui will help you tailor these resources and skills to your specific
organisation and industry!
Topic 2. Adapting your Leadership Style
What you’ll learn in this module
If you joined me for Leadership Topic 1, Developing Your Leadership Mindset, you would know now it's really important to have a healthy, helpful, and productive mindset in order to be successful.
Adapting your leadership style is all about how we trigger an opportunity response rather than a threat response when we're dealing with our team. As you know, dynamics between people can be really challenging. We all know how there can be conflicts in families and between friends. We're dealing with people with different personality profiles, generations and cultures, and very importantly their intrinsic motivators. All of these influence how we receive information and whether that's going to trigger a threat response or an opportunity response.
Join me in Adapting your Leadership Style to talk about birds, eagles, owls, doves, peacocks. Start by watching the video!
Coaching Resources
Coaching Tools
The Four Personality Types:
• Conscientious Owl
• Dominant Eagle
• Influencer Peacock
• Steadiness Dove
Coaching Assignments
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Topic 3. Prioritising for Purpose
What you’ll learn in this module
This topic is all about figuring out where our time is going and whether we are working on what matters. There's no point in pouring your energy into work, if you're working on the wrong stuff.
Lately, you might have found yourself constantly crisis-managing. To be building sustainable, viable businesses for the future, we need to make time for your strategic long-term goals and objectives. So let's begin and learn how to Prioritise and get our lives back on Purpose!
Coaching Resources
• The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen
• Eighteen Minutes by Peter Bragman
• Rest : Why you get more done when you work less by Alex Soojung – Kim – Pang
• Brilliant Email – How to win back time and productivity by Monica Seeley
• 59 Seconds. Think a little. Change a lot. By Richard Wiseman
• Rocks, Pebble, Sand by Stephen Covey
• Work Life Balance by Nigel Marsh
Coaching Tools
Coaching Assignments
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Topic 4. Delegation or Abdication.
What you’ll learn in this module
If you joined me for Topic 3, Prioritise for Purpose, you would have learned that we need to be delegating those jobs that are taking us into the sand pit quadrant three, and spending time on things that don't matter, that don't give us the best bang for our buck.
The reason delegation fails is because we don't follow a structured approach. So in this series, I'm going to give you a fail proof five-step structured delegation process, as well as a brilliant little tool called The Delegation Checklist and we're going to work through that together. There's some great video footage that I'm going to share with you as well. Let's get started!
Coaching Resources
• Leading with Questions by Michael Marquardt
Coaching Tools
Coaching Assignments
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Topic 5. Coaching for Success.
What you’ll learn in this module
In our last topic, Delegation or Abdication, we spoke about how successful delegation always comes hand-in-hand with coaching. It's when we fail to coach someone that these delegations often happen to be unsuccessful, and that is what causes us to say, "I'm never delegating again, I'll just do it myself."
There's two types of coaching I talk about in this video, coaching for success, and coaching for improvement. The coaching for success is proactive, and sets your team members up proactively to be successful. The coaching for improvement is reactive, and it's when we allow our team members to fall off the bus, and then intervene and give them the coaching that they need to get them back, but by that time they have potentially lost their confidence, or we've lost our confidence in them.
Learning to distinguish between the two is a must if you're in any type of leadership role. Watch the video now.
Coaching Resources
• Vital Conversations by Susan Scott
• Leading with Questions by Michael Marquardt
• Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult Situations At work by Susan Benjamin
• Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People by Susan Benjamin
• Winning Body Language by Mark Bowden
Coaching Tools
Coaching Assignments
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Topic 6. Feedback for Optimal Results.
What you’ll learn in this module
This is the sixth and final topic in my Learning Leadership Series, Feedback: Delivering It, Asking For It, and Receiving It.
If you joined me for topic 5, Coaching for Success, we spoke about how no coaching is going to actually work unless we give feedback on what they did well, what we want more of, or constructive feedback on what we want less or we want them to do it differently. Most importantly, we want to deliver to feedback in a way that is factual, not based on opinions or assumptions, and keeps our relationship with our team members strong.
So I've got two great little tools that I'm so excited to share with you that is going to make giving positive and constructive feedback so simple and so easy for you and it's really going to make you confident in delivering this feedback. Let's get cracking!
Coaching Resources
• Perfect Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People by Susan Benjamin
• The work we born to do by Nick Williams
