Advanced Leadership Skills
For Executives and Senior Leaders, entrepreneurs, managers and Team leads, HR Professionals and Coaches. Through 5 half day sessions to transform how you lead and connect with others.
Description
If you've completed the Essential Leadership Skills course with us, this course Advanced Leadership Skills is the next step.
In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, leadership demands more than just technical skills and strategic thinking. Emotional intelligence (EQ) has emerged as a critical quality for leaders, enabling them to navigate the complexities of modern workplaces.
EQ refers to the ability to understand and manage one's emotions while effectively recognising and influencing the emotions of others.
For leaders, high EQ is vital because it fosters better communication, stronger relationships, and more effective conflict resolution. As teams grow more diverse and workplace challenges become increasingly dynamic, leaders with strong emotional intelligence are better equipped to inspire trust, adapt to change, and create inclusive environments where individuals thrive.
In a time when traditional hierarchies are giving way to collaborative cultures, EQ is no longer just an asset—it’s a necessity for leadership success.
Content
Through highly skilled facilitation and experiential learning, you’ll develop your EQ in the following modules.
MODULE 1 - Self-Awareness and Control
Gain an accurate understanding of your emotions and the impact emotions have on performance. Assess of your strengths and weaknesses, understand your impact on others and develop self-management. All resulting in increased resilience and courage.
MODULE 2 - Empathy
Fine tune your competency in listening to others, understanding others point of view, understanding how your words and actions affect others, and developing service orientation, a desire to help others.
MODULE 3 - Social Expertness
Focus on building genuine relationships and bonds and expressing care, concern and conflict in healthy ways. The competencies of relationship building, organisational savvy, collaboration and conflict resolution are included in this module.
MODULE 4 - Personal Influence
Increase your ability to positively lead and inspire others, as well as yourself. Leading others, creating a positive work climate and getting results from others are the components of influence. Focusing on competencies of self-confidence, initiative and motivation, optimism and flexibility.
MODULE 5 - Mastery of Purpose and Vision
Finally, bringing it all together with the ability to bring authenticity to our lives and live our intentions and values. This includes understanding your purpose taking actions towards your purpose and being authentic in your motives and actions.
Takeaways
After completing this programme you will be able to…
- Fully understand yourself and your impact on others
- Understand how your emotions and thoughts affect your behaviours
- Work with an honest assessment of your strengths and weaknesses
- Understand fully the perspectives of others
- Have a deeper understand of others’ points of view
- Develop more effective relationships and bonds
- Express care, concern and conflict in healthy ways
- Resolve differences
- Positively lead and inspire others and yourself
- Create and maintain a positive work climate
- Adapt and bend to the needs of situations as appropriate
- Maintain a goal orientation in self and others
- Understand your purpose and values
- Bring authenticity to your leadership
Facilitated by
Victoria Barkway founded Bold Consultancy in 2008 and provides training, coaching, professional supervision and wellbeing support to businesses and organisations across New Zealand and sometimes further afield.
One of the most positive and enthusiastic people you will ever meet. A passionate and hardworking individual, living in London and travelling across the UK, roles in banking, management, financial services, HR (Personnel back then), training, leadership assessment, leadership development and busine ss strategy firmly sowed the seeds for Bold Consultancy to be here today.
A sought after trainer, facilitator and coach. Studying Psychology, Advanced Interpersonal Behaviours and a Bachelor of Science (Counselling) Victoria has an ability to engage people in their own development, recognise where they need to focus and pinpoint practical strategies to achieve productive results.
Victoria works all over the place from her home in Christchurch. She has an incredible passion for what she does and has never ever arrived at work without a smile on her face.