XCOA-938 - Authentic Leadership

Course Description

Authentic Leadership: Understanding Your Behavioral Style, Motivating Values, Inherent Abilities and Passions

The self-aware leader is a more effective leader and manager. Using assessment data, this course will help you not only understand who you are at the deepest level but also your motivation, leadership style, and natural talents and abilities. In addition, you will learn how to relate more effectively to others, communicate more powerfully, and motivate others.

As a data-driven leadership development course, you must complete two state-of-the-art online assessments:

1. The Highlands Ability Battery
2. Behaviors and Motivators Report

These powerful assessments will give you a more objective view of your natural leadership style, reveal sources of stress, provide valuable communication tips for improving effective communication, and enhancing overall performance and teamwork. See below for more about the assessments.

Using data from the assessments, you will receive expert interpretation and analysis as well as actionable advice to gain greater self-awareness and become a more effective leader in both work and life situations. You will also complete assignments designed to help you identify your unique passions and values as a means to achieve greater fulfillment in work. You will design and begin a values-based project during the course to more closely align you values and work.

Course Outline

Students are required to complete two state-of-the-art online assessments:

1. The Highlands Ability Battery : The Highlands Ability Battery reveals your hard-wired brain abilities, such as spatial awareness, problem-solving style, whether you are a tactical planner or strategic planner, your rate of idea generation, language ability, whether you are a generalist or a specialist by nature, musical ability, and much more. Although our brains have a certain amount of plasticity and we can create new neural pathways, it takes about 10,000 hours to create one. From the age of 14 our brain has already settled into specific patterns and these can be identified by taking the Highlands Ability Battery. The Highlands Ability Battery is an industry standard used to develop leaders, enhance job performance and point out possible new career paths. It is an objective report and provides a wealth of information about your natural talents. A critical assessment for any leader or senior executive.


2. Behaviors and Motivators Report: The Behaviors and Motivators Report reveals our natural behavioral style and our underlying motivating values. The best leaders and coaches know themselves and understand the motivations and styles of others in order to bring out the best in their teams and clients.

Each student will receive passwords and instructions for the two online assessments as well as an online workbook.

Session 1: Welcome and Introductions

Explanation of the scoring and the Personal Style Section of the Highlands Ability Battery. Students must complete The Highlands Ability Battery, a three-hour online assessment prior to the first class as critical pre-work. Open Q & A.

Session 2: The Highlands Ability Battery

Explanation and discussion of the Five Driving Abilities. Open Q & A.

Session 3: The Highlands Ability Battery Continued

Explanation of the Specialized Abilities and implications of the vocabulary score on leadership. Discussion of Work Types and career path.

Session 4: Workplace Motivators

Discussion of the Four Basic Behavioral Styles and impact on leadership. Students must complete the 20-minute online Workplace Motivators Assessment before class. Open Q & A.

Session 5: The Workplace Motivators Report

Discussion on the motivators and values. Open Q & A.

Session 6: Passions and Values

Discussion on process to identify your passions and core values. Open discussion and Q & A.

Additional Support

Each student is paired with a partner to discuss their results and reports via Skype, Google Hangouts, or phone between classes. Each student will receive passwords and instructions for the two online assessments as well as an online workbook. Coursework will be assigned after each class.

Course Objectives

Learning Objectives for the Course:

1. Identify Your Natural Abilities
2. Identify Your Personal Behavioral Style and the Style of others
3. Identify Your Motivators and the 6 Common Motivators
4. Identify Your Unique Passions and Core Values
5. Learn Powerful Communication Skills
6. Identify Your Leadership Style

Required Reading: Coach Yourself to a New Career by Talane Miedaner

Notes

Leadership Coaching Alumni

Graduates of the Leadership Coaching certificate program are eligible for a 10% alumni discount on select ITL courses, workshops, and seminars (certificate programs excluded). Send an email to itlprograms@georgetown.edu to learn about your eligibility.

Early Registration

Participants who register at least 21 days prior to the course start date will receive a 10% tuition discount. Please note that only one tuition discount can be applied at time of registration.

Course Registration

This course is an open enrollment course. No application is required and registration is available by clicking "Add to Cart" below.

Current students must register with their Georgetown NetID and password. New students must first create an account and password through the Student Portal prior to registration. After your account is created, you will receive your Georgetown NetID via email. When you have your Georgetown NetID and password, continue registration by clicking "Add to Cart", logging in, and following the steps to complete checkout. Course registration is complete when payment is processed and you receive a confirmation email.

Georgetown NetID Password Reset

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More Information

For more information or to speak with a program advisor, please complete the Request More Information Form, send an email to itlprograms@georgetown.edu, or call (202) 687-7000.