Real-World Emerging Leaders Academy

Session 1: Role of a Leader

• Basic roles (mentor, coach, manager, leader – when to be in each role and why)
•  VUCA (time we live now, what is important to focus on to be agile leader)
• Agile approach of the leader (as one of the tools to thought leader)
• Essential traits of a modern manager (as support of employees to continue to develop)
• 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 how to eliminate stress which can kill potential of 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 solve any situation and reaching full potential of employees)
• Active listening (as a tool to understand people better)
• Growth and fixed mindset (what is it, how to build growth mindset and why)
• Emotional management (how it can help in people leadership)
• Active practice of coaching and mentoring
• Active practice of active listening

•  Building personal brand of an authentic leader
• Structure of presentation
• How to start and end the presentation
• Motivation (how to motivate myself and teams)
• “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
• How to pass the information
• Structure and preparation for negotiations
• Basics about manipulation
• How emotions work in stress
• Human brain in conflict
• Interactions in communication (how humans solve the issues)
• Conflicts and conflict resolution steps
• Active practice of negotiation
• Active practice of conflict solution

•  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 important tool for motivation people (rules for receivers and providers of feedback)
• How to provide with feedback in each of 3 stages of leading people (management by objective,
  situational leadership, emotional management)
• Meeting preparation
• Structure of meeting (before, during, after)
• Remote management (remote team management, main tasks for the remote manager)
• Active practice of feedback providing