Authentic Leadership Practice and Development Course

Name: Authentic Leadership Practice and Development Training Course
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Develop self-awareness, values alignment, calibrated transparency, balanced judgment, and consistent leadership behaviour through applied practice.

Authentic Leadership Practice and Development Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Madrid, Lagos, Vienna, Baku, Lisbon, Amsterdam and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Madrid
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Authentic Leadership Practice and Development Training Course is a one-week course for managers, emerging leaders, and team leaders, who leave with an Authentic Leadership Practice Plan. Participants examine self-awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing, and an internalized moral perspective through reflection, feedback, dialogue, and decision practice. The course treats authenticity as contextual, responsible, and observable rather than unrestricted self-expression. Agile Leaders Training Center presents authentic leadership practice and development.

Who Should Attend

Functions responsible for leading teams and setting behavioural expectations
Managers preparing for broader leadership responsibility
Teams responsible for leadership development and succession support
Functions responsible for culture, engagement, and trust-building initiatives
Project and cross-functional leaders who influence without relying only on authority

The course assumes participants currently influence people or decisions and leaves out clinical personality assessment, therapy, confidential disclosure pressure, and claims that one leadership style suits every context.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that need credible, values-aligned leadership across changing work environments.

Corporate leadership and people-management functions
Human resources, talent, and organizational-development teams
Financial services, healthcare, and professional-services organizations
Energy, engineering, and technology operations
Public-service, education, and nonprofit leadership teams

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze personal values, strengths, triggers, and leadership impact
Apply relational transparency with role and context boundaries
Use balanced processing to test assumptions and invite dissent
Evaluate decisions against an internalized moral perspective
Build feedback and trust practices for everyday leadership
Prepare an authentic leadership practice plan with behavioural experiments

Course Agenda

Day 1: Self-Awareness and Leadership Identity

Authentic Leadership Four-Practice Framework
Values, Purpose, Strengths, Limits, and Leadership Identity
Personal Narrative and Critical Leadership Experiences
Trigger, Emotion, Assumption, and Behaviour Pattern Map
Feedback Evidence and Leadership Impact Reflection

Day 2: Values and Moral Consistency

Internalized Moral Perspective and External Pressure
Values-to-Behaviour Consistency Audit
Ethical Tension and Stakeholder Impact Map
Decision Principles, Boundaries, and Escalation Criteria
Pressure Scenario and Ethical Decision Record

Day 3: Relational Transparency and Trust

Relational Transparency versus Unfiltered Self-Disclosure
Role, Audience, Power, Privacy, and Context Boundaries
Admitting Uncertainty, Error, and Changed Judgment
Listening, Empathy, Candour, and Respectful Challenge
Trust-Building Conversation and Repair Practice

Day 4: Balanced Processing and Feedback

Balanced Information Processing and Bias Awareness
Dissent, Alternative Views, and Disconfirming Evidence
Feedback Request, Reception, Interpretation, and Response
Decision Log and Assumption-Test Checklist
Team Voice, Psychological Safety, and Fair Process

Day 5: Consistent Practice and Development

Leadership Behaviour under Pressure and Ambiguity
Authenticity across Roles, Cultures, and Stakeholder Expectations
Behavioural Experiment, Evidence, and Reflection Cycle
Peer Challenge, Support, and Accountability Design
Capstone Exercise: Authentic Leadership Practice Plan

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities based on fictional leadership situations across business, public-service, and project environments.

Suggested activity: create a values, strengths, triggers, and impact map from structured reflection prompts.
Suggested activity: evaluate a pressured decision with stakeholder, values, evidence, and consequence checks.
Suggested activity: practise calibrated transparency in a conversation involving uncertainty or error.
Suggested activity: invite and process dissent before recording a leadership decision.
Suggested activity: design a behavioural experiment with observable actions, feedback sources, and review dates.

FAQs

What are the four practices of authentic leadership?

The course uses self-awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing, and an internalized moral perspective as four connected practices for reflection, relationships, information use, and values-aligned action.

Does authentic leadership mean sharing everything?

No. Relational transparency requires judgment about purpose, role, audience, power, privacy, timing, and likely impact. Responsible authenticity is candid without transferring an inappropriate burden to others.

How does feedback support authentic leadership development?

Feedback helps leaders compare intention with impact, identify recurring patterns, test self-perceptions, notice context, and select specific behaviours to practise and review.

How is balanced processing used in leadership decisions?

Balanced processing involves stating assumptions, seeking alternative perspectives, inviting dissent, examining disconfirming evidence, considering stakeholder impact, and recording why a decision was made.

Conclusion

Participants take an Authentic Leadership Practice Plan back to work. It combines a leadership identity map, values-to-behaviour audit, ethical decision record, transparency boundaries, feedback routine, balanced-processing checklist, and behavioural experiments. The plan turns reflection and credible dialogue into observable, context-aware leadership practice.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Madrid	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Lagos	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Vienna	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Baku	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,000
Lisbon	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Amsterdam	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Frankfurt	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Porto	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Langkawi	Week 52, 2026 27 – 31 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Dubai	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
San Diego	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€14,000
Abu Dhabi	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Kuala Lumpur	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Geneva	Week 03, 2027 24 – 28 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,200
London	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 04, 2027 31 January – 4 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Amman	Week 06, 2027 14 – 18 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewAuthentic Leadership Practice and Development Training Course is a one-week course for managers, emerging leaders, and team leaders, who leave with an Authentic Leadership Practice Plan. Participants examine self-awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing, and an internalized moral perspective through reflection, feedback, dialogue, a…

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Authentic Leadership Practice and Development Course