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Introduction
This seminar is designed to provide practicing or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by the role. This leadership course enables your leaders to critically explore the key idea that the most important function of a leader is to help their people move through the stages of team development.
It will cover all the critical competencies necessary in effective leadership. It runs like a 5-day Leadership Masterclass.
The highlights of this seminar are:
Communicate effectively throughout the organisation
Balance the conflicting priorities of a leadership role
Avoiding getting stuck in ‘management’ functions
Solve problems and make decisions in a structured way
Adapt your leadership style to any situation
Achieve results through your team
Objectives
By the end of this seminar, you will be able to:
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Understand the wide range of skills required of the leader
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Develop further the individuals key skills
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Build confidence and ability in leadership skills
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Understand the impact of change on teams
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Develop communication skills
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Generate a strategy for improvement of these key skills in each team member through coaching and mentoring
Training Methodology
The seminar is based on a combination of interactive activities - group and individual exercises, case studies, and discussions - along with formal delivery of the latest theory and thinking.
The environment will be a supportive one in which individuals with varying degrees of experience will be encouraged to share the approaches they currently use as well as try out new ones that they encounter on the seminar. The seminar leader will be on hand to answer any questions a delegate may have and to act as a facilitator for building and applying new approaches. We aim for this to be an enjoyable as well as a learning experience and feel that the mix of style and learning techniques will prove valuable to those that attend.
Organisational Impact
Leaders take greater responsibility for their personal impact on their people
They will understand the link between values and behaviour standards in their teams
They will be exposed to, and will practice, techniques essential for effective leadership
Provide a proactive support to their managers within their organization
Increased effectiveness against personal KPI’s through more effective use of team
Leaders with focus on actions and outcomes not theory
Personal Impact
Develop a culture of continuous sustainable development
Ability to analyse personal leadership style and personal impact on the team
Embed positive behavioural change in the minds of leaders
Increased productivity and performance
Understanding of how leadership qualities can be transposed to new tasks and new teams
Who Should Attend?
This seminar is suitable for:
Any professionals who need to address leadership topics
Current leaders who do not take advantage of their personal skills as much as their organisations would like them to
Anyone who would like to achieve a breakthrough in their personal skills
Seminar Outline
Achieving Excellence in Leadership Issues
Foundations of Self-Transformation
Understanding the key roles and responsibilities for the effective leader
Transformational Leadership
Identifying and developing the key skills required as a leader
Leadership styles and their effect on the team
Situational Leadership
JoHari’s Window
Understanding the difference between leadership and management
Excellence in Communication
SWOT Analysis
Understanding the principles of excellent communication
The Communication Channels
Active Listening
Communication Cycle & Filters
Identifying and Overcoming your communication problems
Questioning Skills
Coaching
Leadership Beliefs
Time Management, Problem Solving and Decision Making
Making the best use of your time
Setting and maintaining priorities
Understanding the difference between urgent and important
Identifying your key time stealers
Making the Pareto Principle work for you
A structured approach to problem solving
Identifying the influences on decisions you make
Selecting and evaluating options
Creativity and problem solving
Understanding and Influencing Behaviour
Understanding why we behave as we do
Personality profiling
Different types of motivation
Different forms of behavio
Managing People to Achieve Results
Maslow's - Hierarchy of Needs
Frederick Herzberg – Hygiene Factors And Motivation
Is Money a Motivator?
Managing Conflict
Using delegation & empowerment effectively
Coaching and Developing Others
The role of coaching & mentoring
How to Give Feedback
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