Developing Your Leadership Voice

Finding Your Leadership Voice

Communicating purposefully

• Communicating to achieve effective leadership
• Key competencies for leadership communication
• Benefiting from a good first impression
• Outlining a leadership communication model
• Recognising common mistakes

Discovering your personal identity as a leader

• Identifying your values
• Uncovering your personal motivators
• Establishing your leadership ethos
• Leading from anywhere

Establishing authenticity

• Integrating who you are with what you do
• Ensuring clarity, consistency and integrity
• Building your leadership voice
• Preserving authenticity when adapting your style

Specifying Leadership Goals and Outcomes

Planning outcome-focused communications

• Defining your leadership goals
• Identifying the needs of various stakeholders
• Establishing your communication objectives
• Translating objectives into measurable communication outcomes
• Selecting the appropriate timing and methods to deliver your messages

Making power, politics and networking work for you

• Working ethically
• Building your power base
• Proactively creating a powerful network
• Applying Aristotle's three types of persuasion
• Strengthening your credibility

Cultivating a Leadership Voice That Inspires Action

Crafting compelling messages

• Simplifying and using direct language
• Promoting internalisation and ownership of change
• Structuring information in your messages
• Packaging messages to achieve desired outcomes

Engaging and motivating your audience

• Storytelling as a leadership communication tool
• Linking your message to core motivations
• Working appropriately with reasoning and logic
• Drawing successfully on emotional appeal
• Communicating with emotional intelligence

Refining Your Personal Communication Skills

Employing nonverbal skills for greater impact

• Assessing your leadership communication style
• Flexing your style to maximise success
• Reinforcing your message with appropriate gestures
• How nonverbal activity interacts with spoken words

Enhancing your vocal skills

• Finding the right words and saying them the right way
• Strengthening messages with vocal techniques
• Increasing vocal variety
• Communicating emotions effectively

Putting Your Leadership Voice to Work

Preparing to communicate successfully

• Coping with anxiety
• Implementing mindfulness as a technique

Addressing challenging conversations

• Handling sensitive topics
• Reframing to challenge assumptions
• Moving toward a solution by asking questions

Increasing your repertoire of leadership communication tools

• Applying solution-focused questions
• Dealing with difficult questions or issues

Setting the Stage for Successful Outcomes

Developing your personal leadership case study

• Building a campaign
• Applying lessons learned to personal work scenarios
• Clarifying your short- and long-term priorities
• Combining tactics to maximise presence and impact

Action Planning for Success

• Fostering the engagement of others
• Identifying your personal target
• Encouraging others to take action