Managing Others Training Course
Leadership Skills for Managers Training Course
Duration: 3 Valuable Days
What is leadership, and what is the difference between leadership and management? Management utilises planning, communication and organisational skills to control or direct people/resources in a group according to values that have already been established.
Leadership is setting a new direction or vision for a group that they can act and will follow. A leader is the spearhead for that new direction.
This workshop will recognise and build upon your existing managerial abilities and help you to develop outstanding leadership qualities enabling inspirational impact on others
Course Aim
Leadership is about making things happen, putting your stamp on the future. Research clearly indicates that leadership skills can be developed. This workshop will provide the opportunity for you to benchmark against essential leadership competencies, identify your natural style and develop a range of styles appropriate to the situation and the independence levels of your team
Learning Objectives
Following the workshop you will be able to:
- Identify your own leadership style and the strengths and possible pitfalls of that style
- List the sources of leadership power i.e. personality, role power and knowledge power
- Increase your own leadership power and noticeably improve your personal impact
- Identify the skills and attitudes that characterise the finest team leaders
- Recognise the difference between groups, teams and factors which assist or prevent effective teamwork
- Understand your team and individual dependence and independence levels
- Devise strategies to manage team changes and difficult team members
- Experiment with situational leadership, adapt your style and develop a sense of what approaches are most successful for you
- Interact with your peers and tomorrow's leaders
- Develop a base from which to plan your professional development to further develop your leadership skills
Method and Approach
Pre-workshop
Participants will be provided with thought provoking self analysis activities to identify the strengths and development opportunities to develop their leadership style including;
Leadership behavioural diagnosis through 360 tool
Self-completed diagnostic tools to determine preferred leadership style.
A personal key results analysis designed specifically to assist in exploring the link between the visions for their organisation, how vision translates into personal key objectives and the appropriate leadership behaviours required to achieve those objectives.
The Workshop
A highly interactive workshop which utilises business simulations and practical leadership and teamwork activities.
Video, self assessment, facilitated learning, coaching and personal feedback
Post Workshop (recommended)
With individual coaching and support participants will transfer their learning and skills to the workplace. Individual coaching will enable managers to develop confidence to perform effectively in situations that are a challenge for them.
Content of the Workshop
Day One: Leadership Behaviours and Communication
- What is leadership?
- What qualities or skills do you need to be a leader?
- The difference between leadership and management behaviours
- The qualities of the different types of Leader
- Situational Leadership- conscious choice of style
- Seeing and Perception
- Perception is reality
- Assumptions affect how we see the world
- Changing your terms of reference
- How to stop yourself seeing what you think is there and see what actually is there, and deal with that.
- Communication Dynamics
- Impact of Body Language
- What makes Impact?
- How do you know when someone has made an impact?
- Where do you make the greatest impact?
- Where are you most comfortable?
- Where are you most uncomfortable? Why?
- What kind of an impact do you think you're making then?
Day Two: Influencing and Facilitation as a Leader
- First Impressions
- Making the impression you choose
- Persuasion, Motivation and Inspiration
- What is influence?
- The six influencing strategies and how they work
- Recognising Power sources
- Status the power of changing your importance when relating to others
Deliberate change of status to shift the dynamic
- Getting to “We” the deliberate use of the words "I" "You" and "We" to push and pull on a confrontation to achieve a resolution.
- I'm Right, You're Wrong the danger of imposing a point of view,
- Using Agreement looking for point of agreement, then 'zipping the lip'.
- Feedback Finesse choosing what your feedback is achieving
- Upward Influence
- Spheres of Influence
- "What can I do?"” as opposed to "What should be done?"
- Influencing outside your direct sphere
- Upwards Feed Back
- Rehearsals Work on specific issues brought in by the participants
Day Three - Insight into Group Dynamics
- Just what affects a group dynamic?
- Why have a team?
What is team process?
- Identifying team roles
- Identifying individual strengths and capitalizing on group dynamics
- Establishing or re-establishing direction
- Evaluating the team effort and exploring options for improvement
- Managing stages of team development
- Assess how behaviour impacts on team morale
