Leadership

Taking the Lead - Introduction to Leadership skills

Objectives

At the end of the programme participants will:

• Understand the role of the manager v's individual contributor.
• Recognise what’s different, use the right pace for the role and situation.
• Develop people management skills through structured skills practice.
• Examine one's own management style and increase self-awareness as a people manager.

  Content includes

  Day One
• Introduction
  • Learning outcomes and prog overview
  • Introductions & key take aways
  • Problem clinic
    
• Manager v's Individual Contributor
  • Tips for the first time managers
  • Managers v's individual contributor
  • Your role as a manager
  • Your leadership style/profile
  • What we know already about the five key skills - how to be effective
    
• Setting Objectives
  • What is an objective? Individual & pairs exercise on smart objectives
    
• Organise
  • What and how is time spent organising
  • Individual exercise
  • High leverages tasks 80/20 rule
  • Parkinson's law
    
• Delegation
  • Delegation definition
  • How to succeed 6 steps
  • Skills practice - delegation
    
• Communication & Motivate Part 1
  • Definition
  • Following instructions exercise
  • What works and what does not/ barriers & how to overcome them
  • Listening/body language
  • Your communication style
  • Stand up meeting exercise
    
• Reviews, Evaluations & Close
  

Day Two

• Recap on Day 1
  
• Motivation & Employee Engagement
  • Motivation
  • Employee engagement
  • Feedback
  • Action plan
    
• Measurement
  • What's measured and how?
  • The benefits
  • Action plan
    
• Developing people
  • The stages of team development and your role at each stage
  • Conflict resolution
  • Action plan
    
• Consolidation exercise
  • Systematic approach to achieving results
  • Team exercise and debrief
    
• Action Plan
  • Review objectives
  • Action plan
  • Post-work
  • Evaluations

  Who should attend

  Operatives about to be appointed as team leader or recently appointed team leaders / Supervisors.

  Qualification

  Non-accredited programme

  Upcoming dates:

  No training dates available at the moment.