Real-World Emerging Leaders Academy

Session 1: Role of a Leader

• Basic roles
• VUCA
• Agile approach of the leader
• Essential traits of a modern manager
• How to be a truly authentic and trustable leader
• 3 stages of leading people (management by objectives, situational leadership, emotional management – when use each stage and why)
• Tips on how to eliminate stress which can kill the potential of your team
• Breathing and harmonizing exercises, stress relief techniques
• Active practice of setting own personal SWOT analysis (I-leader, how to build authentic personal leadership style)
• Active practice of stress relief technique

• Coaching, mentoring methods, and techniques
• Effective questioning (approach to solving any situation and reaching the full potential of employees)
• Active listening
• Growth and fixed mindset
• Emotional management
• Active practice of coaching and mentoring
• Active practice of active listening

• Building a personal brand of an authentic leader
• Structure of presentation
• How to start and end the presentation
• Motivation
• “Impostor syndrome” (what it is and how to combat it)
• Employee engagement (as a tool to build loyal teams)
• Active practice of presentation

• Basics of communication and assertiveness
• Structure and preparation for negotiations
• Basics about manipulation
• How emotions work in stress
• Conflicts (conflict resolution steps and skills)
• Active practice of negotiation
• Active practice of conflict solution

a. Situational Leadership & Feedback

• Situational leadership in VUCA time (benefits and drawbacks)
• Emotion curve of change (how to work with people in change, how to motivate them, question them)
• Feedback as an important tool for motivating people (rules for receivers and providers of feedback)
• How to provide feedback in each of 3 stages of leading people (management by objective, situational leadership, emotional management)
• Active practice of feedback providing

b. Facilitation

• Meeting preparation
• Structure of meeting (before, during, after)
• Meeting participants (how to motivate them, how to work with them)
• Remote management (remote team management, main tasks for the remote manager)
• Effective agile method for organizing and leading a team
• Active practice of meeting facilitation