Successful Leadership

It is now accepted that leaders are made not born and this course can prove it, and improve your leadership skills.

If you have the potential to lead you can benefit from a combined total of almost 100 years experience of advising leaders around the world and take an important step ahead in your career with Falconbury’s ten module on-line leadership course.

You’ll gain a valuable overview of leadership theory, both classic and cutting-edge, practical advice and proven techniques on translating theory into practice – winning trust, inspiring and motivating your team, overcoming problems and tapping into creativity. Above all, you’ll learn more about yourself, your own leadership style and how to turn it to your advantage.

And finally, this course offers you the added benefit of a summary of the thoughts and writing of 22 of the world’s top leadership gurus and a searching self-assessment questionnaire to be completed at the start of the course and again at its completion. You can then easily measure the effectiveness of the course and yourself as a leader

NB: Hard copy versions are available, professionally printed and bound. To find out more call customer services on +44 (0)20 7729 6677.

How does this on-line programme work and what do you get?

• Course access from anywhere through your own personal login and administration suite
• Keep track of your progress as you go
• Easy to use note taking and bookmarking facility to return to areas of interest and re-study
• Individual modules or the full course can be downloaded as PDF files to print or file as you decided
• At your convenience: at your desk, from your tablet or from your home computer
• An optional on-line multiple choice assessment at the end of the course for you to ensure you are satisfied with the completion of your training
• Certificate of completion awarded for your training records

Course benefits include:

Boost your confidence through newly-acquired knowledge and techniques

• Increase your value as a strategic contributor to the organisation
• Empower yourself to deal with colleagues from a position of strength
• Make a quantum leap in your career development

Who should enrol

• Newly-appointed team leaders seeking the best available advice at the start of their leadership career
• Senior executives who believe they can learn from acknowledged experts and who wish to review their leadership style
• Those with ambitions to lead in the future and the wish to give themselves the best-possible chance of success
• Anyone who aspires to be a truly inspiring and effective leader

Structured to fit into your working day

The course is designed to fit around your current commitments with each module requiring an average study time of 3-4 hours. Course content can be studied on-line via our unique Learning Management System or sent to you in hard copy format anywhere in the world. This offers the flexibility of studying at work, at home or on the move, while having access to confidential help and support from our experts.

On-line final assessment

The course has an optional on-line multiple choice assessment at the end, with a certificate on successful completion.

Michael Williams has specialised in leadership, team and organisational development and has worked extensively with major corporations in the USA and both western and eastern Europe, including IBM, ICI, ABN AMRO, British Alcan, AT&T/ISTEL, GUS, McCain’s and Shroders. He teaches at IMD, Lausanne.

Mark Thomas is an international business consultant, author and speaker specialising in business planning, managing change, human resource management and executive development.

John Adair is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant influences on management and leadership development in both business and military spheres. Sir John-Harvey Jones has described him as “without a doubt one of the foremost thinkers on the subject in the world.”

Julie Lewthwaite is a senior consultant at Project North East, a local enterprise and economic development agency that assists people who want to start up or expand a business.

Falconbury’s distance learning programmes have been certified by the Academy of Distance Learning (ADLiB). ADLiB supplies an unbiased authentication of, and quality assurance for, distance learning programme providers.

Upon course completion, distance learning participants are invited to undertake a final external assessment in the form of an online multiple-choice paper.

Participants are required to achieve a pass rate of 80% and above to ensure that a high level of competence has been achieved within the subject area and to receive the advanced ‘Certificate of Excellence’. The final external assessment can be taken up to three times, thereafter the ‘General Certificate of Course Completion’ will be issued.

NB: The final external assessment is an optional appraisal and those participants not wishing to undertake it will automatically receive the ‘General Certificate of Completion’ for their personal development/training profile.

Find out more about ADLIB here.

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The IADL is an independent, non-profit organisation with its principal administrative offices in London in the United Kingdom. Find out more.

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