Developing Yourself as a Leader

Overview

You have transitioned from an individual contributor to a manager, or as an individual contributor, you've acquired practical skills to enhance your leadership abilities. When you want to take your leadership skills to the next level, you assess your leadership traits, develop your communication skills, and build your reputation. These strategies can increase your ability to effectively influence others and get results. This course is intended for managers, team leads, and individual contributors on techniques and best practices for continual improvement of themselves as leaders. In this course, you will: define leadership, assess your own leadership traits, establish your leadership development plan, develop your communication skills, and build your reputation.

Syllabus

Defining Leadership

To develop yourself as a leader, you first have to understand what characteristics effective leaders have, what roles they fill, and what tasks or functions they perform. What defines a leader, and what do leaders do? In this lesson, you will identify leadership traits and responsibilities.

Assessing Your Leadership Traits

You've defined leadership and explored leadership roles and responsibilities. Now you want to find out how you measure up as a leader by evaluating your own leadership traits, determining how others see you in a leadership role, and considering factors that will affect your plan to develop and grow. In this lesson, you will assess your leadership traits.

Establishing Your Leadership Development Plan

Now that you have assessed your leadership traits, you can begin to map out your leadership development plan. As with any journey, this requires a map to determine where you're headed and establish the checkpoints along the way. This map will help you deﬁne the course of action needed to move forward in the direction of becoming a better leader. In this lesson, you will establish your leadership plan.

Developing Your Communication Skills

You've assessed your leadership traits and established your leadership development plan. Now it's time to develop one of the core skill sets all effective leaders need to excel. In this lesson, you will develop your communication skills.

Building Your Reputation

You've acquired strategies to improve your ability to listen and communicate more effectively with colleagues and others. Now you'll want to show others you're an honorable person who can be trusted to influence and inspire others to get things done. In this lesson, you will build your reputation.