Chapter 1 - Introduction

Course Introduction
 
Welcome to your online Leadership Training – Becoming the Perfect Leader training course. For over 20 years our trainers at Total Success Training have taught thousands of our delegates to become more effective by teaching them practical tips and techniques that can be used immediately.
 
We’ve designed all of our courses to be both practical and easy to follow and have included topics that we feel will help you to learn quickly and easily.
 
To get the best out of this on-line training course please complete all of the topics but go through each one at the pace you feel comfortable with. You may decide to do it in one go or in stages. It’s all up to you. We have included lots of exercises and quizzes to get you thinking, planning and using the course information in the most practical way.
 
Today leadership is one the most pressing needs of our nation and our civilisation. We need more and better leaders to enable each of us, our organisations and our country service, thrive and to move towards the fulfilment of our inherent possibilities.
 
The leaders we need today are both transitional leaders – those empowered to carry out the functions of management – and transformational leaders – those rare few who break new ground and chart new seas into the future, the pathfinders; they are visionaries who lead into areas where no one has ever gone before.
 
By the end of this course you will get the foundation needed to become a perfect leader.  It will allow you to:
 

• understand what is leadership
• analyse your leadership profile
• Identify core leadership competencies
• create plans to master leadership competencies
• develop strategies to become a great leader
• describe the key leadership behaviours

Chapter 2 - Becoming the Perfect Leader

Introduction
 
In this chapter you will learn typical examples of leadership skills and behaviours. Let’s examine each of these in more detail.
 

Chapter 3 - Leadership Competencies

Introduction
 
Research into the productivity of high-performance managers has found that they share common characteristics. These can be categorised as leadership competencies and are proved to be essential for a manager to lead a team successfully. Let’s examine these competencies in more details in this chapter.