Professional Leadership Training (PLT)

Professional leadership is about providing direction, process, and coordination to the members of an organization for the purpose of attaining the organization’s goals. Personal leadership is about the personal behaviour of leaders in performing the responsibilities of professional leadership, including demonstrating expertise, building trust, caring and sharing for people, and acting in a moral way."

Mastrangelo, A., Eddy, E., & Lorenzet, S. (2004). The Importance of Personal and Professional Leadership. The Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 25 (5), 435-45.

We believe that Personal leadership bridges the divide between professional leadership and willingness to cooperate, it carries the professional message to the organisation. Professional leadership energises personal interaction and creates willingness to participate amongst followers.

Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills: to recognize your worth, to develop techniques for eliminating unhealthy thought patterns and turn negative thoughts into positive thoughts.

Emotional Intelligence: to understand what emotional intelligence is; to understand the role of emotions in the workplace and to manage them.

Leadership Training: The learners will acquire capacity to get the best performance from themselves and others, and to develop versatility to adapt to rapidly changing business demands.

Networking: to build business relationships and to develop a support network of connections and key interpersonal skills,

Professional Development: The learners will acquire skills to write effectively, prepare presentations, conduct research and report on findings, and associated skills required to build a successful career. Expert training providers will be used and supported by peer mentors.

Course Objectives

After reading and understanding the contents of this Chapter of the Module and you should be able to:

  • Negotiations skills: to know and understand the various negotiation styles and their advantages and disadvantages and to apply basic negotiation principles, including BATNA, WATNA, WAP, and the ZOPA.
  • Minutes Taking: to develop key minute-taking skills, to write minutes that are suitable for formal meetings, semiformal meetings, or action minutes and become an efficient minute-taker
  • Writing Reports and Proposals: to know and understand how to prepare reports and proposals that inform, persuade, and provide information and to apply these skills in real life situations.
  • Presentation Skills: to identify the key elements of a quality proposal, learn to feel comfortable and professional when presenting and to write a winning proposal
  • Research Skills: to understand proper research and documentation methods, to take effective notes to plan a research strategy, identify and use various types of research sources, create preliminary and final outlines, and to avoid plagiarizm
  • Meeting Management: to appreciate meetings as a management tool; to know critical planning steps for effective meetings, to identify process tools for creating an open and safe forum for discussion and handling counterproductive behavior.
  • Business Etiquette: to know how to observe business protocol and etiquette; network effectively and feel more confident about your business communication in every situation
  • Self-Leadership: to define self-leadership, to assume responsibility for your conduct, to describe the four pillars of self-leadership, use techniques related to adjusting to change, cultivating optimism, and developing good habits.
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Course Outline (Learning Units)

Professional skills

  1. Negotiating for Results
  2. Minutes Taking
  3. Writing Reports and Proposals
  4. Presentation Skills
  5. Meeting Management – The Art of Making Meetings Work
  6. Business Writing That Works
  7. Research Skills

Personal Leadership Skills

  1. Emotional Intelligence
  2. Building Your Self-Esteem and Assertiveness
  3. Time Management – Get Organised for Peak Performance
  4. Stress Management
  5. Self-Leadership
  6. Networking – Building Relationships