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Herding Cats: Leading IT Professionals
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Herding Cats: Leading IT Professionals Introduction
Welcome to “Herding Cats: Leading IT Professionals,” where you’ll master the dynamic skills required for outstanding leadership in the IT sector. This course is tailored for both seasoned IT leaders aiming to refine their strategies and emerging managers eager to make a mark in the tech industry. It provides a deep dive into transformational leadership, personal development, and targeted IT leadership tactics that are crucial in today’s fast-paced technological environment.
Navigating the unique challenges of the tech world, you’ll learn to lead highly skilled, independent IT professionals effectively.
The course not only focuses on developing your leadership skills but also on adapting these skills to keep pace with continuous technological advancements. Engage with a wealth of resources and practical insights that will bolster your leadership prowess and foster personal growth.
As we proceed, you are encouraged to keep an open mind and leverage your learning to become a transformative leader in IT.
This course promises a journey of discovery and skill enhancement, preparing you to lead with confidence and strategic foresight in the evolving landscape of technology.
Herding Cats: Leading IT Professionals Outline
- Understand the Essentials of IT Leadership: Learn the fundamental aspects of leading IT teams, including transformational and IT-specific leadership strategies.
- Develop Advanced Leadership Skills: Enhance your ability to manage complex challenges and high-performing teams in a technological environment.
- Adapt to Technological Changes: Gain insights into staying ahead in a rapidly evolving sector, ensuring your leadership methods remain effective.
- Foster Personal and Professional Growth: Explore opportunities for personal development while strengthening your professional leadership capabilities.
- Engage with Practical Tools: Utilize real-world tools and strategies to improve your leadership effectiveness and team management.
Prerequisite
- An open mind and a willingness to learn.
Audience
- Current or future IT Leaders and managers.
Herding Cats: Leading IT Professionals Outline
The Essence of Leadership
- Why is good leadership so elusive: The 10 : 20 : 70 Rule
- Down to the essence: The 3 Dimensions of a super-leader
Transformational Leadership: Vision to Make Things Happen
- Organizational Transformation: Keys to building agile organizations
- Individual Transformation: The art of transforming lives that transform organizations
- Revolutionary vs Evolutionary transformation: Which approach for which purpose?
- 10 Characteristics of the best transformational leaders
Transactional Leadership: Focus to Get Things Done
- Managing projects: Outcome over Output
- Managing people: Purpose over Process
- 10 Characteristics of the best transactional leaders
Relational Leadership: The Business of People
- Internal relationships: How to develop leadership character
- External relationships: How to build 360-degree power networks
- Directional relationships: How to build super teams
- 10 Characteristics of the best relational leaders
Technology Leadership: The Differences
- The landscape: Walking on water: Ever changing and fluid
- The people: Herding cats; smart, wild and untamed
- The challenges: Complex and countless
- 10 Characteristics of the best technology leaders
- 10 Golden rules of technology leadership
Higher Order Leadership: Leader of Leaders
- Leader of leaders: The Art of managing other leaders
- Leadership selection: Why 82% of organizations get it wrong
- Leadership development: It’s not a set it and forget it discipline
- Leadership problems: What happens when good leaders go bad.
- Leadership chains: Avoiding contagious leadership
Outline
Module 1 – The Essence of Leadership
- Why is good leadership so elusive: The 10 : 20 : 70 Rule
- Down to the essence: The 3 Dimensions of a super-leader
Module 2 – Transformational Leadership: Vision to Make Things Happen
- Organizational Transformation: Keys to building agile organizations
- Individual Transformation: The art of transforming lives that transform organizations
- Revolutionary vs Evolutionary transformation: Which approach for which purpose?
- 10 Characteristics of the best transformational leaders
Module 3 – Transactional Leadership: Focus to Get Things Done
- Managing projects: Outcome over Output
- Managing people: Purpose over Process
- 10 Characteristics of the best transactional leaders
Module 4 – Relational Leadership: The Business of People
- Internal relationships: How to develop leadership character
- External relationships: How to build 360-degree power networks
- Directional relationships: How to build super teams
- 10 Characteristics of the best relational leaders
Module 5 – Technology Leadership: The Differences
- The landscape: Walking on water: Ever changing and fluid
- The people: Herding cats; smart, wild and untamed
- The challenges: Complex and countless
- 10 Characteristics of the best technology leaders
- 10 Golden rules of technology leadership
Module 6 – Higher Order Leadership: Leader of Leaders
- Leader of leaders: The Art of managing other leaders
- Leadership selection: Why 82% of organizations get it wrong
- Leadership development: It’s not a set it and forget it discipline
- Leadership problems: What happens when good leaders go bad.
- Leadership chains: Avoiding contagious leadership
PreRequisites
An open mind and a willingness to learn.
Audience
Current or future IT Leaders and managers.
$580.00
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