Managing Through Leadership

Rationale:

The ability to manage and lead are two distinct functions that simultaneously overlap during the course of any organisation. Understanding the distinction and placement of both roles, will enhance your efforts to successfully motivate your staff and achieve your organisational goals and objectives.

From an operational or strategic standpoint, embracing individual differences is key to managing and leading change that will directly affect team and cultural dynamics – this being both a mindset and skill set provided in this course.

Upon completion of this course, you will attain creative strategies to coach, develop, motivate and support your team, the essential skills to manage and lead, and feel more confident that you’re the right person for the job.

Who Will Benefit?
Anyone who is presently in a leadership role and has not had any formal leadership training or needs to re-focus and build on previous training.

Those who are moving into leadership will also benefit from this course.

What Is the Duration?
In-house: We tailor to your needs whether it be a 2 hour presentation, half or full day training or a long term program – it’s your choice

Open-schedule: One day (When listed on our open-schedule calendar)

course contents

Module One:
Roles of a Team Leader
Overview of the Team leader’s key roles.
_Roles of a Team Leader
_Basic Principals of Organising
_The Two-way Pull

Module Two:
Planning to Succeed
How to effectively plan for team results.
_Planning for Team Results
_Key Steps when Planning for Leadership

Module Three:
Leading and Influencing
Discovering personal leadership styles and how to effectively use various styles of leadership.
_Leading and Influencing
_Boss or Leader
_Task and People Orientated Leadership
_Styles of Leadership

Module Four:
Leadership and Group
Dynamics
The key factors relating to developing positive group dynamics.
_Group Dynamics
_How Groups Work
_Situational Leadership

Module Five:
Management Tools
The coaching and mentoring process.
_What is Coaching?
_How to Coach
_The Process of Delegation
_Change Management
_Positive Problem Solving

Module Six: Meeting Skills
Maintaining positive control through effective team meetings.
_Benefits of Team Meetings
_Briefing Topics

Module Seven:
Performance Teams
Factors that make teams perform effectively.
_Developing Performance Teams
_Characteristics of Performance Teams
_How to Improve Performance
Motivation
_Behavioural Styles