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The ability to inspire, motivate and lead people are amongst the most important and in demand skills in today’s workplace. Whether a new manager or an experienced leader, Rusden’s leadership development program will provide you with a deeper understanding of current thinking in the field together with practical tools and applications.
What you will learn
- How to identify your key strenghts and weaknesses and apply these to the workplace
- Personal branding and marketing techniques
- Action plans for a successful transition into a new role
Course material
On Becoming a Leader – Warren Bennis
The classic book that captures the essence of leadership like none other–expanded and updated for tomorrow’s leaders, with a new introduction by the author.
Warren Bennis’s formative years, in the 1930s and ’40s, were characterized by severe economic hardship and a world war that showcased the extreme depths and heights to which leaders could drive their followers. Today’s environment is similarly chaotic, turbulent, and uncertain. On Becoming a Leader has served for nearly fifteen years as a beacon of insight, delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that anyone can apply to become an effective leader. This new edition features a provocative introduction on the challenges and opportunities facing leaders today, with additional updates and current references throughout.
The One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard
The basic lesson is on how to concisely communicate goals, praise, and correction. Though focused on method, the underlying message is that people want to be managed and tend to flounder when their efforts are not directed and nurtured. The program is a reminder that quality work doesn’t happen without organized and disciplined leadership. People need challenging and worthwhile goals, respect, emotional security, and a sense of being part of a community that makes them feel connected and invested.
Six Thinking Hats – Edward De Bono
“Six Thinking Hats” is a simple, effective, parallel thinking process that helps people to be more productive, focused and mindfully involved. De Bono teaches us to separate thinking into six functions and roles. Each hat is a direction to think rather than a label for thinking. The method adopts a role-play approach to thinking. The use of the hat metaphor is to enable the user to switch to a different perspective of thinking at a simple command for change
Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning – Ram Charan
In this trailblazing book, Ram Charan provides the building blocks and tools that can put a business on the path to sustained, profitable growth. For more than twenty-five years, Ram Charan has been working day in and day out with companies around the world. The ideas he has developed for solving the profitable revenue growth dilemma facing many businesses are based on personally seeing what works in real time. These are ideas that have been tested across industries and that deliver results, and they can be put to use starting Monday morning.
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Scientific data emerging from studies using new brain imaging technologies have yielded fresh understanding of how emotions work and, argues the author, suggest ways to regulate the more negative emotions responsible for the horrendous acts of violence that are the stuff of daily headlines. The book calls for universal adoption of educational curricula that teach youngsters how to regulate their emotional responses and to resolve conflict peacefully. Along the way Goleman summarizes much of the best psychological work of the last few decades on such topics as the importance of learned optimism, the theory of multiple intelligences, the role of innate temperamental differences, and the importance of emotional intelligence in marriage, management, and medicine.
Getting Things Done – David Allen
Allen, a management consultant and executive coach, provides insights into attaining maximum efficiency and at the same time relaxing whenever one needs or wants to. Readers learn that there is no single means for perfecting organizational efficiency or productivity; rather, the author offers tools to focus energies strategically and tactically without letting anything fall through the cracks. He provides tips, techniques, and tricks for implementation of his workflow management plan, which has two basic components: capture all the things that need to get done into a workable, dependable system; and discipline oneself to make front-end decisions with an action plan for all inputs into that system. In short, do it (quickly), delegate it (appropriately), or defer it.
How it works
Rusdens is an online distance learning provider connecting like minded individuals to short course and executive education programs. By combining in-depth analysis from some of the worlds leading business comentators with the networking opportunities of online communities, we are able to offer high quality training and development at a significant cost advatage.
