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.

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