Transformational Leadership & Adaptive Excellence Course
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We are committed to delivering this course in multiple training formats to accommodate your needs. Our state-of-the-art learning facilities ensure a comfortable and engaging experience. With our flexible face-to-face training calendar, you can select any classroom course and have it delivered at a venue of your choice, offering you unparalleled convenience and exceptional value.
Course Overview
This immersive leadership program is designed to equip emerging and established leaders with the capabilities to lead in rapidly changing environments. As organizations globally face digital disruption, remote/hybrid work, climate risk, social expectations, and fast-shifting markets, leadership must be transformational, adaptive, resilient, and ethically grounded. Participants will explore modern theory, practice, tools, and mindset needed to inspire, drive change, and deliver sustainable impact.
Course Duration
5 Days
Target Audience
- New and middle managers stepping into leadership roles
- Department heads, project leads, functional leads
- Technical professionals transitioning into management
- HR Business Partners, Organizational Development professionals
- Senior management seeking to refresh or deepen leadership skills
- Anyone interested in adaptive leadership in volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) contexts
Personal Impact
- Cultivate self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and resilience in leadership
- Build capacity to lead in hybrid & remote teams with clarity and trust
- Strengthen skills in strategic thinking & visioning under uncertainty
- Improve ability to communicate inspiringly and influence stakeholders
Organizational Impact
- Inspire cultures of innovation, agility, and continuous learning
- Lead change initiatives effectively, reducing resistance and increasing buy-in
- Build leadership pipelines with transformational mindsets
- Enhance performance, employee engagement, and retention
Course Level: Advanced
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define and embody transformational leadership suited to 2025+ challenges (digital transformation, ESG, diversity & inclusion, remote/hybrid work)
- Develop strategic thinking capacities under uncertainty, identify emerging trends, and translate them into actionable plans
- Understand, model, and leverage emotional intelligence, well-being, and psychological safety for themselves and their teams
- Master communication & influence skills: narrative leadership, virtual communication, stakeholder alignment
- Lead change: diagnosing change readiness, planning change initiatives, overcoming resistance, sustaining momentum
- Foster adaptive leadership: innovation, continuous improvement, decision-making in complex systems
Course Outline
Module 1: The Modern Leadership Landscape
- Transformational vs transactional leadership in 2025 & beyond
- Key trends: hybrid/remote work, AI & automation, ESG pressures, global disruption
- Leadership styles & mindset shifts: from control to empowerment
- Self-reflection: mapping personal leadership style and growth areas
- Exercise: Complete a leadership self-assessment and develop a personal growth action plan.
Module 2: Strategic Visioning & Adaptive Planning
- Tools for environmental scanning and scenario planning
- Strategic foresight in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments
- Creating vision, mission, and values with purpose and co-creation
- Decision-making frameworks for uncertainty
- Case Study: Analyze how an African organization navigated strategic disruption and created an adaptive vision.
Module 3: Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Safety & Well-being
- Components of emotional intelligence: self-awareness, empathy, social skills
- Mental health, resilience & leading with empathy
- Psychological safety: building trust in teams (onsite & remote)
- Mindfulness, feedback culture, coaching for growth
- Group Project: Design an organizational initiative to strengthen psychological safety and resilience in hybrid teams.
Module 4: Communication, Influence & Stakeholder Engagement
- Storytelling as a leadership tool for inspiration and alignment
- Mastering communication in hybrid/virtual workspaces
- Building influence without authority: persuasion and negotiation
- Engaging diverse internal and external stakeholders authentically
- Exercise: Deliver a short leadership story to influence stakeholders, with peer feedback on impact and clarity.
Module 5: Leading Change & Driving Innovation
- Frameworks for leading change: Kotter, ADKAR, Lean Change Management
- Understanding and reducing resistance to change
- Fostering a culture of innovation, creativity, and learning
- Integrating sustainability and ESG in leadership practices
- Capstone: Prepare and present a practical change leadership roadmap for your organization, incorporating innovation and ESG alignment.
Course Administration Details:
METHODOLOGY
The instructor-led trainings are delivered using a blended learning approach and comprise presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professionals and trainers in these fields. All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.
ACCREDITATION
Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued a Skillstate Institute certificate.
TRAINING VENUE
The training will be held at a Skillstate Institute Training Centre. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, and lunch. All participants will additionally cater to their travel expenses, visa application, insurance, and other personal expenses.
ACCOMMODATION AND AIRPORT PICKUP
Accommodation and airport pickup are arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer.
Email: info@skillstateinstitute.org
Phone: +254100920301
TAILOR-MADE
This training can also be customized to suit the needs of your institution upon request. You can have it delivered in our Training Centre or at a convenient location. For further inquiries, please contact us on:
Email: info@skillstateinstitute.org
Phone: +254100920301
PAYMENT
Payment should be transferred to our Skillstate Institute account through a bank on or before the start of the course. Send proof of payment to info@skillstateinstitute.org