Leadership & Management Development

The Art of LeadershipILM Development Award

Skilfully led and well-organised teams can achieve outstanding results. With thoughtful coaching anyone can master the specific techniques to develop and maintain highly effective teams that work towards clear objectives. This three-day course reveals the dynamics of a winning team in action and looks at the influences that shape them.

You will identify practical ways in which you can successfully create the vision for your organisation, division or department, promote a focused and productive team culture and gain confidence in your ability to lead. Gain the ability to recognise the different motivation and leadership styles available to you. Your personal effectiveness as a leader will be greatly enhanced and you will learn how to manage your time and the team to deliver effective results in extended periods of change.

Programme content:

Module 1~ Self awareness and communications

  • Identifying your learning style
  • Identifying your leadership priorities and the effect on people 
  • Influencing styles ~ neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques
  • The personal effectiveness model ~ self assessment 
  • Working and living without fear a personal contingency plan
  • Removing self limiting beliefs
  • Six competencies of self-managed people
  • The personal effectiveness model 
  • Understanding team roles and their importance in delivering results
  • Setting objectives influencing styles ~ understand your own thinking patterns
  • Acknowledging emotions and ideas encouraging others to contribute their creative ideas
  • Get your message across in clear, concise language
  • Delegating to others allowing them the autonomy for creativity and innovation
  • Being assertive and not aggressive, passive, or passive aggressive  
  • Closed, open, probing, and hypothetical questions
  • Inappropriate versus appropriate nonverbal communication behaviours
  • Communication channels ~ how we receive communications
  • Active listening skills
  • Analysing internal communication channels

 

Module 2 ~ Turning the vision into action and delivering the vision

  • Turning the vision into reality
  • Strategies, goals and activities
  • Planning and projects
  • Communicating the vision
  • Building the team to deliver the vision
  • Performance and values
  • Understanding that people are your principal asset
  • Dealing with people who don’t see the dream
  • How to positively influence your team
  • Situational leadership
  • Action centred leadership and you 
  • Indispensable qualities of a leader
  • Leadership in action

 

Module 3 ~ Developing the solutions and building the team

  • High performance team’s
  • The characteristics of a successful team
  • Identifying Belbin team roles
  • The team, the task and the individual
  • Reviewing performance
  • Implementing change projects
  • The team ~ creating a culture that solves problems
  • The team that is self-directed
  • The individual ~ developing individual action plans
  • The task ~ solving problems
  • The manager as coach and facilitator
  • Developing a learning culture within the organisation
  • Developing individual action plans