Leadership is not a person; leadership is an action, and it is your actions not your words that will influence your followers. It therefore becomes essential that you cultivate your leadership power, presence, and purpose to connect and inspire your people towards the desired organizational outcome.
But action is also ongoing, just a title is not enough. Your leadership skills must grow with you. You need to build relationships, so you can influence greater production.
You need to build your people so they can lead their teams, and finally you need to sustain success in an ever-changing world. This Leadership Essentials training course seeks to provide you with skills to develop your leadership effectiveness. By applying these leadership skills to the tasks and challenges you face in your work, you will begin to experience growth and breakthroughs you never thought possible.
By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:
- Self-awareness for personal growth and development
- Understand how to build relationships based on integrity
- Techniques to communicate persuasively
- Project confidence to handle challenging situations
- Build highly productive and empowered teams
- Flexibility to adapt and lead others through challenge and change
Participants to this training course will receive a thorough training on the subjects covered by the seminar outline with the tutor utilizing a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. Seminar methodology includes presentations with interactive practical exercises, supported by video materials, activities, and case studies. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in relating their growth and development to the requirements of their workplace.
The participant’s organisation will benefit as the following:
- Improved leadership skills
- Integrity through better communication
- Emotional connections that allow you to influence others
- Problem solving and solutions to their workplace challenges
- Confidence to handle challenging situations
- Build highly productive and empowered teams
The Participants will have the following benefits:
- The ability to communicate with impact
- Confidence to handle challenging situations
- Flexibility to adapt and lead necessary change
- Develop deeper relationships with those around you
- Empowering team members to achieve greater productivity
- Attracting the right people to sustain business opportunities
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Managers
- Those preparing for leadership roles
- Leaders wishing to update their skills
Day One: Essential Self
- The changing nature of leadership
- The role of leaders in today’s organization
- Self-Assessment: Leadership behaviours
- Know yourself, a guide to your inner strengths
- Understand how you think
- Leadership from within
Day Two: Essential Relationships
- Why is EQ so important?
- Raising your emotional intelligence
- Flexibility in dealing with other personality styles
- Credible communication for leadership
- Building and expanding your circle of trust
- Resilient leadership
Day Three: Essential Productivity
- Understanding the management cycle
- Planning, organizing & communicating
- Aligning objectives to strategy
- Developing SMART goals & beyond
- Critical success factors
- Delegation and empowerment
Day Four: Essential People
- Recruitment and positioning
- Equipping and resourcing
- Key performance indicators
- Mentoring and coaching
- Dealing with poor performance
- Delivering feedback
Day Five: Essential Success
- Problem solving and decision making
- Motivating the team
- Leading high-performance teams
- Leading team creativity and innovation
- Leading and managing change
- Action planning