A 3-day open course with accommodation available locally if required.
Leadership is about making things happen, putting your stamp on the future. Research clearly indicates that leadership skills can be identified and developed through leadership training.
This leadership training course is one of our senior management development programmes and is designed specifically to enhance executive level performance. Leadership is recognised as a core skill for senior managers and these three days provide an intensive look at what is required to lead at an executive level and shows you how to do it. It is highly interactive from start to finish and uses case studies, discussion groups and practical exercises backed with input from our expert tutors to provide individual coaching to each delegate. Thus, as the programme develops, each delegate builds a solid foundation of the techniques and skills essential for effective leadership in today’s business environment.
This programme is designed for Executives and Senior Managers interested in a leadership skills course. Leadership has been defined as ‘making things happen and putting your stamp on the future’. Here is a leadership course that shows you how to develop your leadership skills to the highest level.
Objectives:
- To improve and develop an understanding of business leadership.
- To provide a foundation from which delegates can develop their business leadership skills.
- To enable delegates to recognise the qualities required in others and use them to build stronger and more effective teams.
Content:
Competitive Factors
The Leadership Audit
- How Do You Perform?
The Hallmarks of a Successful Team
The Challenge of Leadership
- Managing vs. Leading
Leadership and the 7 Stages of Business Growth
Leadership Style
- What is Your Natural Style?
- Different Styles Create Different Team Climates
- Style Flexibility
- New Research
Organisation and Control
- Providing a Vision for Your Team
- Setting Objectives and Performance Criteria
- Getting "Buy In"
Practical Teambuilding Exercises
- Building Successful Teams
The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
- Knowing Yourself and the Impact You Have on Your Team
Team Learning Reviews
Communication Skills
- One of the Most Important Skills for a Leader
- Team Communication Needs
Growing and Strengthening Your Team
- The Four Key Stages, Which Stage is Yours?
Coaching: A Core Leadership Skill
- Demonstration
- Practice Using Live Problems
Self Appraisal and Image
Managing Change
- The Key Transitions
- Force Field Analysis
- Practical Steps
Motivating Your Team
Delegation
- Benefits, Blocks and Stages
Stress Management
- Symptoms: Self and Team
- Personal Assessment
Business Politics
- What Drives You?
- Different Drivers Mean Different Politics
Action Planning For You and Your Team
As part of this executive level training each delegate completes a leadership audit. This audit has been specially designed to help each delegate analyse how they currently perform as a leader and the effect (both positive and negative) of their leadership style on their team’s growth and performance. Armed with this important information, the 7 stages of business growth and the leader's role at each stage is covered and the difference between managing and leading clearly identified.
Fundamentally, unless people are following the leader’s vision and objectives leadership is not happening. Just how to get people to do this is a challenge every leader has faced. The keys to getting people to follow willingly are covered in detail, so ensuring that each delegate can use the skills taught and so provide better leadership to their team when back at work.
Leaders succeed because their teams can achieve more. Critical to this success is the ability to develop the potential within the team and the leader has clear responsibility for the development of this potential. Some managers rely on others to develop the potential of their people, but research has revealed that it is the ability to coach staff to greater personal achievement that is the true hallmark of a good leader. Despite this, coaching is perhaps one of the most overlooked of all the leadership skills taught. Not on this leadership course. Our experience shows that many senior managers find this skill hard to master, so our expert tutors will guide you through the how’s of coaching in a very practical, hands-on manner. Many executives have reported how valuable this part of our course in leadership is and how it has helped them raise the performance in their teams.
In summary, this is a great investment of valuable executive time because in three days this programme will change your life. It will challenge the way you currently manage and help you perfect your leadership skills, however experienced you are. By applying the techniques taught you will be well on the way to becoming a great leader for your organisation.
If you want to consider a package of leadership training courses for your senior management team, please contact us to discuss your requirements. We have many standard team leadership courses that you can choose from, so you are sure to find one aimed the level of expertise and discipline you need. And because all of our open courses run regularly throughout the year it is easy to integrate other key leadership courses, such as managing change or financial awareness, into the development plans for your management team. A number of our non-residential workshops are run at multiple locations so you can have leadership courses London or regionally delivered.
We deliver leadership courses UK and world wide: any of our training can be run exclusively for your managers at your own location and on a date or dates to suit your business needs. We call this in company working and we will work with you to ensure continuity between the training we deliver and your own in-house executive leadership programs.
If however, you lack the experience or resources to design, develop and deliver development sessions for your team, then we can also do this for you. Whether you want us to simply design and develop some or all of the contents for you – so that you or your own trainers can deliver it, or whether you want us to design, develop and deliver it completely, we will work with you to achieve your management development needs.
What is included in the fee?
All support materials, lunch and refreshments are provided on the programme.
Timings
Day 1 Start 10am Finish 5pm
Day 2 Start 9am Finish 5pm
Day 3 Start 9am finish 4.30pm
Recommended Follow-on Training
- Management Development Programme – business management skills for senior mangers
- Financial Awareness - everything you need to know about business finance for the non-specialist
If you are not satisfied that you have benefited by attending our Executive Leadership Programme, then we will refund your course fee.
