In the Discovering and Implementing Your Leadership Strengths course, you will explore and analyze your distinctive leadership strengths. The key concepts covered in the course include:
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Personality Traits: You will learn to identify and understand your main personality traits and how they relate to leadership. The course utilizes the IPIP-NEO assessment to help you gain insights into your personality traits and their influence on your leadership style.
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Self-awareness: Through self-reflection activities, you will develop a deeper understanding of your individual personality, values, capabilities, motivations, and self-identity. This self-awareness is crucial for identifying your unique leadership strengths.
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External Feedback: The course emphasizes the importance of external feedback in assessing your leadership strengths. You will learn how to triangulate qualitative and quantitative information from self-reported assessments and feedback received from close personal contacts.
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Leadership Vision: You will work on creating a defined Leadership Vision for yourself. This involves synthesizing the feedback you have received and reflecting on your self-understanding to articulate your future leadership aspirations.
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Growth Mindset: The course encourages adopting a growth mindset perspective when defining and implementing your leadership vision. You will learn techniques and skills to cultivate a growth mindset and use it as a foundation for your leadership development.
The focus of the course is to help you identify, analyze, and leverage your distinctive leadership strengths based on your individual traits, values, capabilities, motivations, and self-identity. By the end of the course, you will have a clear understanding of your strengths as a leader and the tools to implement your leadership vision effectively.