Great leaders can be many things, but they can only be measured by one criterion – the performance that they influence through others.

In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous workplace, it’s not enough to be a manager. You must truly learn how to be a leader – someone who influences and transforms how others feel about themselves and the work they do.

Your leadership behaviour has the greatest impact on the people you lead and your team.  This will impact the productivity and the motivation of everyone.  It affects the effort that people are prepared to contribute. The more they contribute, the more successful the team will be. 

Become a leader in your workplace by harnessing the power of the six leadership styles: 

• Directive – securing immediate compliance
• Pace-setting – accomplishing tasks to high standards of quality
• Affiliative – creating harmony 
• Democratic – getting everyone’s commitment and generating ideas
• Visionary – providing long term vision and direction
• Coaching – long term professional development

There is no right or wrong leadership style – the most effective style will vary depending upon the demands of the situation.

Effective leaders use these styles in the right measure and at the right time to create a positive, energising work climate for their teams.

Understanding the six leadership styles, you will be able to:

• Determine how to adapt your style to be an effective leader
• Identify daily practices that will enable you to shift your style to do the right things, at the right time, in the right circumstances and with the right people
• Recognise how each style of leadership plays a crucial role in influencing others and leading a company to success

Leadership is not something you’re born with, it can be learned.

Whether you have been recently promoted to a leadership role, have an interest in being promoted to a management position, or are simply looking for the next step in your career, you probably have or will find yourself asking, “How can I understand what to do to become a good leader?”

This course will introduce you to the six leadership styles of effective leadership and how to adapt them to influence others, lead effectively, work with different types of people, and create an engaging team environment.

The course also includes practical strategies for you to consider to increase the use of each style and to tone down the use of each style.  Putting these into practice will help you to be more flexible in your approach as a leader.

The interactive practical activities within this course will help you to define your preferred style of leadership. By completing these practical activities, you will be able to

• recognise your preferred leadership style
• identify what you need to do to tone down the use of this leadership style at critical times
• determine which leadership style you need to increase to have the greatest success
• choose the actions and behaviours to develop the use of this leadership style
• assess how to become more comfortable using all the styles of leadership for specific work scenarios you’ll face as a leader

There is a challenging quiz based around a range of leadership situations.

You are going to work through a range of typical scenarios/case studies that leaders experience in business.

The series of questions gets you to consider all the leadership styles and to choose the style that will give the best outcome and the best chance of success.

You’ll walk away from this course able to communicate powerfully to your colleagues, develop effective relationships, and improve the overall performance of yourself, your team and your organisation.

Take action and learn how to harness the power of using different styles for effective leadership today! 

Recently, the course has been hit with a number of low ratings without comments, which affect the overall course ratings.  Constructive feedback is always welcome.  I have recently upgraded and re-recorded many of the lessons to improve the overall quality, so far this has not been reflected in the ratings.

Why choose Edplx?

• Internationally recognised accredited qualification
• Access to our free career advisors
• Approved UK Learning Centre
• 1 year accessibility to the course
• Attain PDF or hardcopy certificate to show employers
• Study at your own pace anywhere
• Employer has access to certificate validation
• Tutor Support available Monday-Friday
• Invitation to job fairs

Course Curriculum

This Course will cover some of the following topics:-

Introduction

• Introduction
• PDF: Reflecting about this Leadership Course 
• Leadership Styles – Learning Outcomes

The Principles Of Good Leadership

• What Makes an Effective Leader
• Why Self-Awareness is so Important in Leadership
• Some Perspectives on Leadership 
• Why Emotional Intelligence is Important as a Leader 
• The Differences Between Leadership and Management 
• The 3 Modes of Leadership 
• PDF: Assessing your Leadership Mode 

The Six Styles Of Leadership

• The 6 Leadership Styles 
• PDF: What is my Leadership Style? 
• The Commanding Leadership Style 
• The Pacesetting Leadership Style 
• The Democratic Leadership Style 
• The Affiliative Leadership Style 
• The Visionary Leadership Style 
• The Coaching Leadership Style 
• PDF: The Six Leadership Styles 
• PDF: Goleman’s Six Leadership Styles Poster 

The Underpinning Skills And Behaviors Of The Leadership Styles

• The Skills and Behaviors of Each Leadership Style
• Underpinning Skills of Each Leadership Style 
• Demonstrated Behaviors of Each Leadership Style 

Increasing And Toning Down The Use Of Each Leadership Style

• Introduction to this Module on Increasing and Toning Down Each Leadership Style 
• Increasing the Use of the Commanding Leadership Style 
• Increasing the Use of the Pacesetting Leadership Style 
• Increasing the Use of the Democratic Leadership Style 
• Increasing the Use of the Affiliative Leadership Style
• Increasing the Use of the Visionary Leadership Style
• Increasing the Use of the Coaching Leadership Style 
• Toning Down the Use of the Commanding Leadership Style
• Toning Down the Use of the Pacesetting Leadership Style 
• Toning Down the Use of the Democratic Leadership Style 
• Toning Down the Use of the Affiliative Leadership Style 
• Toning Down the Use of the Visionary Leadership Style 
• Toning Down the Use of the Coaching Leadership Style 
• Conclusion to this Module on Increasing and Toning Down Each Leadership Style 

Course Review And Assignment

• Review of the Leadership Styles Course
• PDF: Assignment – Putting the Leadership Styles to Use 
• PDF: Three Good Things