Authentic Leadership
An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Authentic Leadership

Courage, Coaching and Ethics

NASBA
Classroom Schedule
Date Venue Fees
27 Apr - 01 May 2026 Istanbul $ 5,950
18 - 22 May 2026 Dubai $ 5,950
27 - 31 Jul 2026 Vienna $ 5,950
07 - 11 Sep 2026 Dubai $ 5,950
16 - 20 Nov 2026 London $ 5,950
14 - 18 Dec 2026 Amsterdam $ 5,950
18 - 22 Jan 2027 Barcelona $ 5,950
15 - 19 Mar 2027 Paris $ 5,950
26 - 30 Apr 2027 Istanbul $ 5,950
24 - 28 May 2027 Dubai $ 5,950
26 - 30 Jul 2027 Vienna $ 5,950
06 - 10 Sep 2027 Dubai $ 5,950
15 - 19 Nov 2027 London $ 5,950
13 - 17 Dec 2027 Amsterdam $ 5,950

Introduction

The heart of genuine leadership is trust. However, trust can quickly be undermined if subordinates, colleagues, and other important stakeholders sense a leader is insincere, lacking in vision or unwilling to take responsibility.

This Authentic Leadership training course supports leaders in increasing their sense of authenticity and confidence as well as building strong, trustful relationships with others thereby increasing their ability to influence and inspire valuable stakeholders. Besides, it focuses on the role the leader has in shaping ethical decision-making and in getting essential stakeholders on board.

This GLOMACS training course will highlight:

  • Digging beneath the surface: values, beliefs, and emotions
  • Increasing personal credibility
  • Formulating an inspiring vision for the future
  • Aligning people behind this vision
  • Empowering team growth through coaching and development
  • Resolving ethical dilemmas
  • Building trust and strong relationships within and beyond the team

Objectives

By the end of this training course, you will learn to:

  • Understand your personal style even better
  • Align individual, team and organisational goals
  • Leverage your personal style to gain influence
  • Develop others with integrity
  • Enhance key interpersonal skills
  • Maximise long-term organisational outcomes

Training Methodology

This Authentic Leadership training course uses a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies and syndicate discussions. Formal inputs are used to introduce the underpinning theory. A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with the novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques. A psychometric instrument will be used to generate a personality profile, which will contribute to your understanding of your preferences and personal style.

Organisational Impact

Leaders who have the self-awareness and confidence to open themselves to colleagues and team members and other stakeholders are better placed to:

  • Win and retain trust
  • Leverage trust to promote ever better performance
  • Build a powerful emotional bank account with stakeholders
  • Bring their complete selves into their leadership role
  • Make decisions that safeguard the organisation’s reputation
  • Inspire and align forces behind a compelling vision

Personal Impact

This GLOMACS training course will ask participants to challenge some of their preconceptions about themselves and their role as leaders to expand their options such as:

  • Deepen and structure their understanding of their own strengths and areas for development
  • Use this understanding to positively impact their interactions with others
  • Develop new ways of inspiring, influencing, and empowering others with integrity
  • Strengthen their coaching skills as leaders, to develop their people
  • Open up new ways of fostering creativity
  • Gain a greater choice of solutions for handling their leadership challenges

Who should Attend?

This GLOMACS interactive course supports leaders, new and experienced, in bringing the full power of their personalities and abilities into their leadership roles.

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will especially benefit leaders, department and division heads who need to:

  • Inspire their people to ever greater results
  • Align people behind their organization’s vision and mission
  • Build trust with a diverse group of stakeholders
  • Influence multiple stakeholders inside and outside their organizations
  • Support their organisations in nurturing corporate social responsibility initiatives
  • Manage ethical dilemmas and ethical decision-making at work
Course Outline
Day 1

Displaying Authentic Leadership Behaviours

  • What authentic leadership is and what it can do
  • Building confidence and optimism
  • Practicing the art of possibility
  • Flexibility in leadership styles
  • Self-knowledge: The key to authentic leadership
  • Courage in organisational settings
Day 2

Creating Strong Connections with Others

  • Emotional intelligence at work
  • Mirror neurons and affective contagion
  • Building rapport
  • Influence, authority & power
  • Building trust
  • Developing others as leaders
Day 3

Aligning Your People behind the Vision

  • Communication as creating understanding
  • Using communication to align and inspire
  • Exploring different perspectives
  • Delegating to develop your people
  • Listening for more than facts
  • Thinking outside-the-box
Day 4

Coaching to Peak Performance

  • Coaching fundamentals
  • Motivation & learning
  • Empowering individuals & teams
  • Personality and its ramifications
  • Building high performance teams
  • Using feedback powerfully
Day 5

Ethics for Sustainable Success

  • Ethics, personal values, and the authentic leader
  • Dealing with ethical dilemmas
  • Ethical Decision Making
  • Corporate integrity check-ups
  • Corporate social responsibility
Certificates
  • On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates. Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.
Providers and Associations

Endorsed Education Provider

KHDA
NASBA

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What Our Clients Say

Overall, the training program was excellently delivered. The sessions were amazing and had a great impact on me.

- S. A. Jega
Frequently Asked Question

Authentic leadership represents a profound approach to leadership that goes beyond traditional management techniques. It is a leadership philosophy rooted in self-awareness, values-based leadership, genuine connection, unwavering integrity and ethical practices. At its core, authentic leadership is about being your true self in your leadership endeavours, while simultaneously serving others and creating meaningful organisational impact.

Authentic Leadership requires leaders to come out from behind the mask, to bring their true selves to work and close the gap between any artificial persona and their real self. So they demonstrate transparency in their decision-making. They embrace vulnerability, exhibit self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and seek to build relationships rather than conduct transactional exchanges. Perhaps most importantly, they accept accountability for their decisions and the consequences that follow, regardless of the outcome.

Authentic leadership creates profound organizational transformations if it is applied across the whole entity at all levels of management:

  • Increased employee engagement
  • Higher levels of trust and commitment
  • Enhanced organizational adaptability
  • Improved innovation and creativity
  • More resilient corporate cultures

Research confirms that authentic leadership significantly influences both individual and organisational success. While it is a "hot topic" in modern management, there is empirical support from research regarding its practical execution. Decades of studies link authentic leadership to several desirable workplace outcomes.

Authentic leadership is not something that can be gained overnight. It is not just another goal to be attained or a skill to be learnt – it goes much deeper than that, to the level of our core values and identity. It is however possible to develop into an authentic leader over time. This process of development requires considerable reflection and an ongoing journey of personal growth and development. A key requirement is therefore a deep level of self-awareness in the leader, which enables them to address their core values, beliefs and behaviours.

Authentic leadership begins with self-awareness of your own ethical framework, including your personal values. As senior leaders, your personal values significantly impact organizational culture and decision-making. Leaders should examine how their values align with their leadership practices, because employees closely observe leadership behaviour as a guide for acceptable conduct.

Corporate integrity, which measures the degree of trustworthiness and ethicalness of a firm, is often considered one of the most important dimensions of corporate culture. Integrity could be defined as “keeping your words” and is therefore a strong signal of a firm’s commitment to its obligations to both internal and external stakeholders. Corporate Social Responsibility, an indicator of an authentic organisation, is a business approach where companies voluntarily take responsibility for their actions and their impact on society, environment, and stakeholders (employees, customers, investors, and the community). CSR integrates social, environmental, and ethical concerns into business operations and stakeholder interactions. CSR creates enhanced brand reputation and customer loyalty, as well as improved ability to attract and retain talent.

Yes. GLOMACS offers customised and in-house delivery options. The content of this training course can be tailored to reflect an organisation’s specific strategic objectives, workforce challenges, and data maturity, ensuring maximum relevance and impact. 

 For further details or to discuss customisation requirements, you may call us on +971 (56) 538 7389 or email inhouse@glomacs.com . You can also submit a detailed enquiry through our in-house training page at: https://glomacs.com/in-house-seminars

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