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Appreciating executive leadership challenges

• Differentiating between leadership and management
• Developing knowledge of your personal executive leadership style
• Building on the four-factor model of effective executive leadership to develop trust
• Leading beyond boundaries

Strategic elements of executive leadership

• Defining purpose, vision, mission and values
• Focusing on the “big picture” envisioning the future
• Creating a personal vision statement to set your “true north”
• Understanding organisation politics, networks and planning to overcome them

Understanding and managing others in your team

• Model the behaviour you want to see in others: Lead by example
• Challenges of managing managers
• Setting targets and managing performance
• Giving positive and negative feedback
• Coaching and mentoring others

Leadership communication

• Achieving results through the appropriate communication style
• Strategies and tactics to get the right message across and understood
• Running a boardroom meeting effectively
• Communicating upwards, downwards and across the organisation
• Reducing the ambiguity, uncertainty and “fake news”

Executive decision-making

• Defining levels and styles of decision making for challenging situations
• Recognising and reducing cognitive biases that can impact your organisation,
• Making difficult decisions and taking responsibilities for the consequences
• Collective decision making vs Individual decision making