Class Details
Advanced Leadership and Practical Management Course
Course summary
This leadership course is designed for middle to senior managers who aspire to further develop their approach to leadership and fine tune their business management skills. It explores leadership theory, leadership styles, and other types of ‘intelligence’ required of effective leaders, alongside the practical application of management skills to build high-performing teams and business outcomes.
This course also embraces the business management skills of change management theories and risk management principles. Particular focus is on how these disciplines intersect and how they can drive team and organisational success.
Aims
The aims of this course are to:
- advance and broaden your leadership skills to a higher level of proficiency
- enable you to lead teams more effectively for achieve organisational outcomes
- equip you to seize opportunities, facilitate change, and mitigate risks within your team or organisational unit
- strengthen your ability to influence and negotiate with team members and stakeholders, operating with greater self-awareness and management.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- select a leadership style that is most suited to you and your circumstances
- discern how to respond effectively to challenging business situations
- develop and lead high-performing teams
- steer organisational change using a change model that reflects your leadership style
- facilitate a team that embraces opportunities whilst mitigating risk
- lead business decision-making while empowering team members.
Content
Theories of leadership
- Great Man theory
- Trait theory
- Behavioural theories
- Participative leadership
- Situational leadership
Understanding your preferred leadership style
- Collaborative
- Authoritarian
- Laissez-faire
The importance of emotional, cultural & spiritual intelligence in leadership
- The importance of intuition, flexibility and empathy
- Reading situations and people 'correctly'
- Staying calm and re-assuring team members when pressure mounts
- Influencing skills
Leading high-performing teams
- Creating ownership and empowerment amongst teams and individuals
- Facilitating growth for all team members
- The importance of forming, storming, norming, performing
- Coaching skills
Change management
- Preparing for change
- Implementing change
- Sustaining the change process
- Overview of change models – Kotter, Prosci
Risk management
- Identifying risk and opportunity
- Evaluating and treating risk and opportunity in business decisions
- Discerning good risk from bad risk
Who this course is for
Suitable for middle to senior managers who are looking to further develop their management and leadership skills. This is course is designed for managers from commercial, government, and not-for-profit organisations across all industries.
Delivery modes
- Face-to-face, presenter-taught workshop
- Online workshop via the platform Zoom
Delivery style
This course is interactive, utilising role-plays, group discussions, and demonstrations to support the practical application of course material.
Materials
Course materials are shared electronically.
Sessions
Location
Face-to-face (CCE Building, Sydney)
Public transport
As bus and train timetables regularly change, we suggest you visit the Transport for NSW trip planner before you set out.
The nearest train stations are Newtown Station and Macdonaldtown Station. Macdonaldtown Station is closer by distance than Newtown Station, however trains do not stop as frequently as at Newtown Station.
Other information
Parking
Nearby parking is available at Wilson Parking - RPA Medical Centre Car Park (entry via Elizabeth Street off Carillon Avenue).
A Flexi Saver Rate is available but must be booked in advance online and includes the booking fee. Bookings can be made via the Wilson website or by downloading the Wilson Parking App. Otherwise, hourly parking rates will apply, as advertised on the Wilson Parking website.
Meet the facilitators
John Le Mesurier
John brings a wealth of business, management, IT, consultancy and training experience to many of the professional development courses on offer at CCE. This experience has included senior corporate and general management roles in American, British and Chinese multinationals, as well as consultancies for several leading UK and Irish management firms. His consulting projects have covered advanced practice studies in leadership, sales & customer service processes, strategic sourcing, human resource models and organisational issues. These projects have been undertaken in North & South America, Europe and China. His international client list includes Procter & Gamble, Red Bull, Johnson & Johnson, SC Johnson, Eli Lilly, Roche, Mitsubishi, Vodafone/ Hutchison Telecoms, Danone, Heineken, BOC/ Linde, Boehringer Ingelheim, British Government and Qantas. John also works for an Australian consulting firm, Newfocus, conducting projects in the government and Not-For-Profit sectors. John has been involved in projects at PwC and Macquarie University.
John is currently undertaking a M. Phil/ PhD and holds a Master of Business Administration (with Distinction), Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction), majors in Psychology and Statistics, sub-majors in Accounting and Economics; Diplomas in Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Project Management; Digital Badge in Advanced Analytics, Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching, and Certificate IVs in Competitive Manufacturing (Lean) and Training and Assessment. John has been awarded the highest qualification by The Australian Research Society, namely Qualified Professional Researcher. John is an accredited Sydney Lifeline counsellor, where he also trained counsellors for more than 20 years.
John has lectured in Bachelor of Business at Torrens University, Master of Business Analytics at Kaplan Business School and Master of Community Development offered through Southern Cross University (SCBIT Sydney campus). John has been an Executive Coach at UNSW, where he has also been a guest lecturer in marketing and change management. He has taught 1st year statistics at UTS (Insearch) and Macquarie University (Navitas) and delivered IT training in corporate settings for 30 years.
