Self-Study: Leadership Skills Training

Overview

Today’s competitive environment requires you to lead your company or team through diverse and often complex scenarios. This course will help attendees determine importance of sound leadership skills, differentiating between a leader and a manager, and learn how to identify and eliminate roadblocks to successful leadership. Also, using leadership scenarios, address common workforce issues and learn techniques to best handle workforce diversity.

Highlights

• Leadership roadblocks.
• Leadership vs. managing.
• Skill-building techniques: communications, negotiations and personal marketing.
• Leadership in ethics.
• Psychodynamic leadership theory.
• Leadership traits, skills and styles.

Prerequisites

Participants should have experience in managing other financial professionals.

Objectives

• Identify leadership skills and common roadblocks.
• Recognize effective leadership vs. simply managing.
• Determine leadership skill-building techniques, including communications, negotiations and personal marketing.
• Recall leadership styles, the psychology of leading and ethical thought leadership.