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Applied Leadership and Self-Development: the Final Steps to Mastery

Progress in your career as you follow practical steps to help you become a successful leader in any business.

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Applied Leadership and Self-Development: the Final Steps to Mastery

490 enrolled on this course

  • 4 weeks

  • 3 hours per week

  • Accreditation available

  • Digital certificate when eligible

  • Intermediate level

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Incorporate positive thinking into your leadership style.

Leadership is crucial in the financial world. It can help you navigate uncertain times and give you a competitive edge as the industry continues to evolve.

On this four-week course, you’ll gain the skills to become a successful leader as you discover the value of positivity and vulnerability.

Through real-life examples, you’ll gain an insight into yourself and others, and have a range of practical, proven tools at your fingertips to help you become the leader you want to be.

Develop a prioritisation framework

Knowing how to manage your time and energy is key in any leadership role.

To help you do this, you’ll learn how to design a prioritisation framework to identify your energy sources and drains, and to effectively plan your use of energy.

Next, you’ll explore a number of leadership thoughts such as cultural awareness, interviewing techniques, and barriers for women to help you become a well-rounded leader.

Create a leadership development plan

To ensure you gain practical skills, you’ll explore real-life case studies to see leadership in action.

With this knowledge, you’ll create a leadership development plan to help you implement your skills.

Discover authentic leadership

Finally, you’ll unpack how you can become an authentic leader. You’ll explore how you can lead through a crisis with positivity as you learn the skills to motivate teams.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the knowledge to deal with challenges and become a positive leader in the finance world.

Syllabus

  • Week 1

    The importance of prioritisation

    • Close up on a file tab with the word Priorities with blur effect. Concept image for illustration of setting priorities in projects and challenges with prioritisation.

      Challenges with prioritisation

      This first activity looks at the importance of prioritisation for the leader, and its challenges.

    • Understanding when you are most effective. Hand turning a productivity knob. Concept for productivity management and effectiveness. Composite image between an photography and a 3D background.

      Understanding when you are most effective

      This activity focuses on how the leader needs to identify when they are most effective, and use that to their advantage, consciously.

    • Being strategic versus fire-fighting. Golden chess pieces strategically placed on a digital display with abstract financial charts and graphs

      Being strategic versus fire-fighting

      Activity 3 this week looks at the issue of fire-fighting versus finding the time to be more strategic in thoughts and actions.

    • Business Management and prioritisation in Action: A Businessperson or a Manager Checking Completed Tasks off a Checklist. Management and priority concept

      My prioritisation framework

      This activity looks at my proprietary prioritisation framework, which I have developed by bringing together a number of concepts, to give you a methodology for ensuring you can prioritise, and therefore be a more effective leader.

  • Week 2

    Bringing a number of leadership thoughts together

    • Summarising leadership. Human resources, recruitment and management concept with people icons on wooden blocks.

      Summarising leadership

      This activity we'll start to summarise some elements of leadership.

    • 3d rendering, Earth for cultural awareness. rendering in photoshop - Photorealistic globe with lots of details.

      Cultural awareness

      We'll focus in this activity on cultural considerations including changing times.

    • Job interview and interview techniques.

      Interview techniques

      Activity 3 looks at some tips for interviewing to get that leadership role.

    • Barries for women. Businesswoman breaking wall. Strong woman jamps through barrier. Free people, action and overcome vector concept. Business female break wall, leadership power illustration

      Barriers for women

      Activity 4 focuses on the barriers for women which can impact their likelihood of career success.

    • Work life balance weight scale.

      Life balance

      Here we will look at how to achieve balance in various ways, as a leader.

  • Week 3

    The leadership plan

    • Life cycles of man and woman. People generations. Human growth concept vector illustration

      Generational factors

      Activity 1 looks at the impact on the leader of differing generations in the workforce.

    • Birthday candle as number one hundred on top of sweet cake on the table, 100th birthday

      The first 100 days

      Activity 2 looks at the first days in a leadership role and the concept and benefits of having a plan.

    • Case study line icon

      Alternative case studies

      This activity looks at some other situations of leadership, and what a plan might look like.

    • A compass occupies the space over the man's head conveying the concept of morality and the choices we make. The man's head is reduced to its simple shape, devoid of any detail, and is silhouetted against the background. The man, dressed in a suit, stands

      Some further values and motivation

      This activity looks at some further values in more detail, and talks again about motivation.

  • Week 4

    All about motivation

    • Word writing Fear from cut letters on abstract strokes blue red background. Fear and anxiety concept.

      Further values, fear and anxiety

      Activity 1 explores some more values, as well as looks at fear and anxiety in the leader.

    • Mood improvement concept, strong businesswoman pull the string to change from negative to positive.

      Positivity and motivation

      This activity returns to positivity and The Zone, which we looked at briefly in course 2 of this series of 3 courses.

    • 3d man standing amongst red question marks over white background , Too many problems concept.

      Dealing with hard questions

      Activity 3 looks at the challenges of being able to say 'no', getting the outcomes you want and dealing with challenge, as a leader.

    • Brown paper with section ripped back with the words 'final thoughts'

      Summary thoughts

      This activity will conclude this 3rd course of 3 on leadership and self-development by making some closing remarks in summary.

Who is this accredited by?

The CPD Certification Service
The CPD Certification Service:

The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.

When would you like to start?

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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Apply positive thinking to situations
  • Reflect on your motivational state and modify the situation as a leader, creating win-win situations
  • Demonstrate prioritisation effectively
  • Lead and influence others, as well as be influenced positively by them
  • Engage with others showing you are able to say ‘no’, and influence others to say ‘yes
  • Identify the benefits to be derived from having and leading diverse teams in terms of generation

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for leaders in the finance space but can also be applied to other industries and personal lives.

You’ll gain simple, practical advice to help you navigate challenges and enhance your professional development.

This course is beneficial for a variety of leaders – from those just starting their career or studying, to those already in a senior position.

Who will you learn with?

Janet Legge

Director of Awarding Body at the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT).

Responsible for developing treasury and cash management qualifications and our FutureLearn courses.

Who developed the course?

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The Association of Corporate Treasurers

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