Essential Leadership Skills for Success

Overview

The “Essential Leadership Skills for Success" workshop is designed to help new and aspiring leaders unleash potential in themselves and others. The workshop helps them also to identify their focus and style of leadership, where and how it adds value to the business and the team they lead.  This is a great environment to consider how they can extend their influence to maximise business results.

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

Topics

• Understanding Emotional Intelligence:

  • Appreciating the important of Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation.

  • Social Awareness, Motivation and Empathy.

  • Personality Profile Assessments.

• Leadership vs. Management:

  • Distinguishing between "Effective Leadership" and "Management".

  • Getting the balance right, with a future focus.

  • What is the vision and mission of the business?

  • The "Five Key Behaviours" to successful leadership.

  • Focusing on performance and its outcomes.

• Building Effective Communications:

  • Communication styles.

  • Communicating the business vision.

  • Fostering open communications with employees.

  • Adapting communication to enhance employee engagement.

  • Active listening to employees and feedback.

  • Setting goals and following up.

  • Building and maintaining results-focused relationships.

• Delegating and Dealing with Conflict:

  • Delegating effectively.

  • Coaching and developing good performers (role play exercise, using the GROW model).

  • Counselling performance and behaviours.

  • Disciplinary procedures.

  • Resolving conflict.

  • The Thomas-Kilmann Instrument-TKI and conflict management styles.

• Managing Risk:

  • Current and future key risks for the participant's business area.

  • Risk management without causing other business risks.

• Decision Making:

  • Generic business outcomes.

  • Business goals.

  • Focal areas for the participant's business areas to meet the overall goals.

• Team Effectiveness:

  • Key elements of leading high performance teams.

  • Overcoming the five dysfunctions of a team.

  • Essential characteristics of an effective team leader.

  • Highly interactive team development exercise.

• High-performance Model:

  • Situational Leadership using "Skill/Will Lens" of staff.

• Review of Learning and Action Planning:

  • Creating an action plan.

  • Workshop feedback.

Outcomes

Participants in “Essential Leadership Skills for Success", by the end of this two-day training course, will have:

• Identified ways to enhance their personal focus and leadership style to create better business outcomes.

• Understood their motivational drivers, EQ and communication skills to establish their personal leadership style.

• Conveyed their vision in an engaging way to those with a different communication style.

• Used techniques to create higher employee engagement and performance.

• Coached peers and staff and shared feedback.

• Taken charge of their professional development.

Target Audience

The “Essential Leadership Skills for Success" workshop is ideal for professionals in middle and senior leadership roles.

Duration

Two days.

Investment

Your investment in the “Essential Leadership Skills for Success" workshop will pay off.  By combining proven methods with engaging activities, designed specifically for the business environment, you will enjoy a unique learning experience!   Please, contact us to discuss pricing to run this programme internally for your group or organisation.