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
What others say
Possibly the best and most useful one day course I have ever attended. The subject of leadership and management is vast yet we covered so much and at easy pace. Course was brilliantly presented with humour and great real life examples. Knowledge and techniques learned will help me in my professional life and even beyond. Thank you!
Rick Murray
All of the topics were applicable to our various leadership levels + some were good to think about from a future proofing perspective. It felt like a really appropriate level for where I am at in my career.
Ashleigh Mead
Good group of interested participants. Knowledgeable and experienced lecturer who made it fun as well as informative.
Anna Cavendish
