Effective leaders do more than manage change; they design it. By combining design thinking with accelerated action learning, leaders can address workplace challenges, anticipate emerging trends, and build the capabilities needed to remain resilient in a VUCA environment shaped by AI and innovation.
This two-day course helps participants develop greater self-awareness, understand their leadership styles, and strengthen their ability to influence stakeholders. Participants will examine their values, learning styles, personality traits, leadership responsibilities, and personal strengths before developing transformation roadmaps for adaptive and authentic leadership. The course also explores stakeholder value management, strategic communication, servant leadership, and the integration of leadership, management, and entrepreneurship.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the role of design thinking in effective leadership.
- Recognise how design thinking can help leaders address workplace challenges.
- Apply accelerated action learning tools and techniques to leadership development.
- Develop greater self-awareness and identify opportunities for personal leadership transformation.
- Influence stakeholders to create value-driven, win-win outcomes.
- Develop transformation roadmaps for adaptive, authentic, and resilient leadership.
Key Topics
- Design thinking and accelerated action learning for leadership.
- Leadership values, learning styles, personality traits, and self-awareness.
- Self-management, self-development, and leadership strengths.
- Stakeholder influence, communication, and win-win value creation.
- Transformation roadmaps for adaptive, authentic, and resilient leadership.
Day 1: Understanding and Developing Your Leadership
Morning Session
- Understanding design thinking for effective leadership
- Developing self-awareness in relation to:
- Personal values
- Learning styles
- Big Five personality traits
- General entrepreneurship traits
- Team leadership roles and responsibilities
- Organisational leadership
- Case study and discussions
Afternoon Session
- Understanding your type of leadership
- Applying self-management to strengthen leadership, management, and entrepreneurship
- Designing a self-development balanced scorecard to increase business value and minimise risks in work or projects
- Case study and discussions
Day 2: Influencing Stakeholders and Transforming Leadership
Morning Session
- Reviewing self-awareness, self-development, and self-management as foundations of effective leadership
- Influencing stakeholders to achieve win-win benefits
- Investing in self-innovation through project-based action learning
- Strengthening the ability to integrate, implement, innovate, influence others, and improve continuously
- Case study and discussions
Afternoon Session
- Designing a leadership transformation roadmap using the SIOM® model
- Transforming human capital into human capability in pursuit of leadership excellence
- Integrating leadership, management, and entrepreneurship to strengthen business impact and value innovation
- Reviewing and redesigning a transformation roadmap covering:
- Expert power
- Adaptive power
- Communication power
- Resilient power
- Case study and wrap-up
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