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.
Upcoming classes
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Meet the facilitators
Peter Agnew
John Le Mesurier
Kate Peardon
What others say
The tutor kept the class very engaged throughout the day and the content of the course has no doubt improved my ability to effectively lead my team. The tools presented for dealing with workplace conflict were very useful to know. I'm already looking forward to the next course.
Andrew Roe
This course laid out leadership models in a very clear way and with the exercises and case studies allowed me to gain an understanding of how these models can be applied to real life situations. Role play around coaching was very valuable. I enjoyed completing the course with people from different industries as this allowed me to develop skills in the leadership and management rather than fall back on what I know about my work place and industry.
Stacey Bulger
The course was very relevant to the transition and growth within a small business. Being able to understand models and frameworks that were traditionally undertaken on the basis of intuition has challenged my way of thinking. Particularly, in being more thoughtful and considerate to the overall direction I desire to take within the business and how that might be achieved.
Alex Torville
