Leadership Development: Style, Self-Awareness and Team Dynamics

By the end

What you'll build

• Describe the gap between how you intend to lead and how colleagues actually experience you, using evidence you collected rather than self-report alone.
• Ask for feedback using narrow, past-tense, behavioural questions that produce usable answers instead of reassurance.
• Name your default leadership style, the situations it fits, and the specific cost it carries when overused.
• Choose between directive, coaching, collaborative and delegating responses by reading a person's skill and will for a particular task.
• Label your own emotional state precisely and apply a regulation move before responding under pressure.
• Hold empathy and a refusal in the same sentence without using the word that deletes the first half.
• Diagnose a team using psychological safety, turn-taking and status signals rather than personality labels.
• Identify which component of trust — ability, benevolence or integrity — is missing in a specific relationship, and act on that component.
• Ask a peer for something you cannot require, leading with their objective and leaving them a genuine way to refuse.
• Produce a leadership self-portrait and a development plan with three named feedback sources, review dates and a failure condition.

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 47 lessons

1. 01

   The Person Doing the Leading

   7 lessons
   • Start Here: What This Course Is and Is Not
   • Leadership Is Behaviour, Not a Personality Type
   • Intent, Behaviour, Impact: Three Things That Come Apart
   • Words for the Workword power
   • Intent, Behaviour, Impactfill blank
   • + 2 more lessons
2. 02

   Self-Awareness You Can Actually Use

   6 lessons
   • Two Kinds of Self-Awareness
   • How to Ask for Feedback So You Get the Truth
   • Triggers, Tells and Defaults
   • Asking Wellsentence builder
   • Rehearsal: Receiving Feedback You Do Not Likeinterview lab
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Style as a Repertoire

   7 lessons
   • Four Ways to Lead the Same Moment
   • Reading Readiness: Skill, Will and Situation
   • Your Default Style and What It Costs
   • Match the Style to the Momentfill blank
   • The Same Message, Two Wayswriting lab
   • + 2 more lessons
4. 04

   Emotional Intelligence, Broken Into Parts

   7 lessons
   • What Emotional Intelligence Is, and What It Is Not
   • Notice and Name Your Own State
   • Regulate Before You Respond
   • Emotion Words With Precisionword power
   • Reading the Room, and Why Empathy Is Not Agreement
   • + 2 more lessons
5. 05

   How Teams Actually Work

   7 lessons
   • Stage Models and Their Limits
   • Psychological Safety: The Best-Evidenced Thing We Know
   • Building Safety in Small Moves
   • Status, Voice and Who Gets Heard
   • Team Dynamics Deckflashcard sr
   • + 2 more lessons
6. 06

   Trust, Peers and Leading Without Authority

   6 lessons
   • Trust Has Parts: Ability, Benevolence, Integrity
   • How Trust Breaks, and What Repair Looks Like
   • Leading Peers and Leading Without Authority
   • The Figurative Language of Trust and Influencemetaphor idiom
   • Asking a Peer for Something You Cannot Requirespeaking lab
   • + 1 more lesson
7. 07

   Sustaining Yourself, and Your Self-Portrait

   7 lessons
   • Identity, Confidence and Impostor Feelings
   • Values, and the Cost of Leading Against Them
   • Load, Recovery and the Practice That Outlasts This Course
   • Steady Under Watchpresence lab
   • Capstone Part 1: Your Leadership Self-Portraitspeech template
   • + 2 more lessons

The shape of it

How this course works