Leading with Impact

Day 1 – Intercultural Communications  
Explore how culture influences communication, including your body language, and recognise key differences that affect interactions and learn strategies to manage these differences effectively. Understand your individual role as a leader, your impact as a role model and how to motivate others.

Day 2 – Building & Empowering Teams and Conflict Management
​​​​Understand the importance of team spirit and how it influences team performance, collaboration, and workplace relationships. Take part in interactive exercises designed to test natural abilities in team situations, followed by reflection and group discussions. Learn the dynamics of conflict and the importance of fairness in managing challenging situations effectively. Explore the seven types of difficult personalities, understand how their behaviours can impact teams and take part in role-play exercises to practise practical techniques for responding confidently and resolving conflict constructively.

Day 3 – Transformational Leadership, Employee Engagement & Performance Management
Develop an understanding of transformational leadership, its evolution, and the key characteristics that define effective leaders. Evaluate your own leadership style, take part in group exercises on leading transformational change, and explore ways to increase your impact. Learn how to assess employee engagement, motivate teams, and improve performance through coaching and active listening techniques.

Day 4 – Leader, Leading, Leadership
Participants will reflect on their organizational leadership roles within a strategic leadership framework. Understand the difference and the dependencies between Leader and Leading. Define their individual Leader profile. And understand the dynamics of mindset and behavior shift.

Day 5 – Leading your Organization  
Participants will understand purpose, vision and stakeholder value creation as key business drivers. They will learn how to use culture, values and behavior for performance and transition. And experience key aspects of sensemaking decisions.

Leading with impact is designed for senior managers in banks and corporates who want to enhance their leadership skills to inspire and motivate their teams and business partners.

The programme is designed to facilitate shifts in leadership mindset and behavior:

• From “My role defines my leadership” to “My impact defines my leadership”
• From “Others need to adapt to me” to “I adapt to create connection and understanding”
• From “I solve problems for the team” to “I create the conditions for the team to succeed”
• From “Conflict should be avoided” to “Conflict can be addressed constructively”
• From “Performance is managed” to “Performance is enabled”
• From “Change is something to implement” to “Transformation is something to lead”
• From “I lead my area” to “I lead as part of the whole organisation”
• From “Strategy gives direction” to “Purpose and vision guide everyday leadership”
• From “Culture is given” to “Culture is shaped through behaviour”
• From “I need certainty before I decide” to “I can lead effectively through ambiguity”

Lecture, discussion, individual and group exercises, case studies