Course Details

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Directors, Senior Managers and Managers whose role involve the leadership and management of teams and individuals.

OBJECTIVES
• Identify your current preferred leadership styles and practices
• Appreciate the difference between leadership and management - how different styles impact on performance
• Learn what defines good leadership behaviour
• Discover how to motivate individuals to willingly expend effort on a task
• Develop a toolbox of motivational skill
• Understand how to develop and influence others
• Learn how to choose an appropriate leadership style based on the situation at hand
• Develop decision making skills - chose appropriate decision making styles increasing chances of successful implementation
• Recognise and learn how to manage stress within the team
• Manage team dynamics to ensure that the team is working at peak performance
• Identifying team member strengths and their role preferences
• Recognise behaviour traits in self and others
• Gain a better understanding of differing personalities and what motivates them, leading to better communication
• Allocate tasks and learn when and how to delegate to reduce overload and burnout
• Understand how teams develop over time
• Build supportive and effective teams and networks
• Recognise and understand different team roles and their importance in developing effective teamwork
• Learn how to lead groups to deliver objectives and outcomes

LEARNING APPROACH
The course is based around a highly immersive workshop, you will learn by doing, observing and critiquing.

FEATURES
The workshop takes the form of a business simulation where participants will be given the opportunity to be team leader, develop team working skills, experience decision making, assess their own and others ability to successfully lead, appropriately delegate tasks, assign roles and responsibilities etc.
Participants will also a complete a number of personal style inventories, providing them with a clear insight to their preferred style of leadership and the potential impact on others.