Developing Your Leadership Voice for Presence and Impact

Consistently conveying an authentic leadership voice — one that truly represents who you are and what you stand for — is an important trait for effective leaders. Find your voice as a leader in this leadership training course and learn to leverage proven behaviours and techniques to establish your own communication style and authentic leadership voice for engaging, inspiring, and motivating others.

• Fundamental communication and presentation skills

• Experience at the level of:
  • Personal Skills Training for Professional Excellence • course 297 , or
  • Communication Skills Training • course 292

Developing Your Leadership Voice for Presence and Impact Delivery Methods

• After-course instructor coaching benefit
• Learning Tree end-of-course exam included

Developing Your Leadership Voice for Presence and Impact Course Benefits

• Adopt a strategic process and framework for leading change
• Communicate effectively to successfully implement change
• Apply a strategic approach to communication and planning
• Inspire and motivate others to support change
• Skillfully handle challenging situations

Leadership Voice Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

• Communicating as the key to leadership
• Reviewing key communication skills
• Inspiring change
• Building a model for leadership communications

Uncovering the Leader in You

Looking in the mirror

• Discovering your personal values
• Mapping your roles and identity
• Decoupling authority from power

The Persuasive Leader

• Leading with logic, credibility and emotion
• Selecting supporting tools
• Building a strong opening

The Honest Leader

• Integrating who you are with what you do
• Ensuring clarity, consistency and integrity
• Building your leadership voice
• Preserving authenticity when adapting your style

Applying Leadership Objectives

Communicating to achieve results

• Defining your leadership goals
• Envisioning a new future
• Mitigating the change impact on others
• Applying a whole brain approach
• Turning resistors into supporters

Developing communication outcomes

• Planning winning outcomes
• Translating objectives into communication outcomes
• Evolving outcomes
• Building your change champions
• Delivering the right message at the right time

Improving your political game

• Investing in reputation and credibility
• Customising your communication strategy
• Combining logic, emotion and credibility for the right mix
• Connecting with your audience
• Choosing a powerful network

Refining Your Personal Communication

Employing non-verbal skills for greater impact

• Preparing and knowing when to stop
• Communicating with more than words
• Interpreting body language

Crafting compelling messages

• Simplifying and strengthening the message
• Packaging messages to achieve desired outcomes
• Asking "What's the point?"

Exploring communication styles

• Discovering your communication style
• Identifying how others communicate
• Flexing your style

Rallying your team

• Storytelling to connect with others
• Communicating with emotional intelligence
• Working appropriately with reasoning and logic
• Linking your message to core motivations
• Drawing successfully on emotional appeal

Sustaining Your Change Initiative

Triggering change is just the beginning

• Dealing with stages of change
• Defining your team's needs
• Planning for progression
• Adapting to organic change

Dealing with difficult conversations

• Coping with anxiety
• Leveraging self awareness
• Moving discussions forwards
• Managing conversational traps
• Prioritising people before process

Progressing From Theory to Practise

• Identifying your personal target
• Building a campaign
• Clarifying your short- and long-term priorities
• Combining tactics to maximise presence and impact
• Encouraging others to take action
• Transferring your skills from class to workplace