Leadership Directions - Leadership Skills for Manager

Description

360˚ FEEDBACK

The 360˚ feedback assessment questionnaire used in this course will help you:

• Compare your view of your strengths with what others think

• Increase awareness of how your leadership style and skills impacts your performance

• Identify areas you need to work on to improve your performance and realise your potential.

COURSE CONTENT

• DEFINING LEADERSHIP

Understand your purpose, identify your leadership challenges and ask yourself 'Why should anyone follow me?

• LEADERSHIP VS MANAGEMENT

Identify the difference between leadership and management and when you should apply the skills of each.

• UNDERSTANDING YOUR LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS

Increase self-awareness of your leadership style and skills in comparison to others' perceptions. 

• LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Understand how a leader's mood impacts results and monitor emotions as a way of guiding your actions and decisions. 

• LEADERSHIP STYLES THAT GET RESULTS

Learn how great leaders use different leadership styles to get the best results from their team in different situations. 

• MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT

Understand the benefits of an engaged workforce and what you can do on a daily basis to build engagement. 

• MOTIVATING YOUR TEAM

Identify motivational principles and preferences and apply intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to improve results, productivity and nurture innovation. 

• GOAL SETTING

Goal setting is essential to motivation. Learn the steps of goal setting and how to involve your team to maximise your chance of success. 

• STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND VISION

Learn about the six essential elements of strategic leadership every manager must have and things you can do to impact organisational culture and inspire people towards the vision.

• LEADING CHANGE AND OVERCOMING RESISTANCE

Many organisations today face a dynamic and changing environment. Identify types of resistance and ways to overcome them.

Important: Only the softcopy of the course material will be distributed on the day of training. Thus participants are reminded to bring along their laptop for the duration of the training.

Objectives

• Discover the power of emotional intelligence to improve results.

• Connect people with vision by understanding what motivates them.

• Increase engagement through team and individual goal setting.

• Lead people through change and overcome resistance.

• Understand how others perceive your leadership skills.

Audience

Managers who already have some experience managing people and are wanting to further develop their core leadership competencies, with a focus on motivating and engaging others to work towards team and organisational goals.

It is recommended you are familiar with the topics covered in the Supervision and Management of People course prior to attending.