Building Personal Leadership Skills: Creating Stronger Relationships for a Stronger Organisation

INTRODUCTION

This seminar will provide the essential keys to becoming a great professional leader in modern business. Here you will learn how to lead your team effectively and to motivate them to achieve the stronger relationships you need to build a stronger organisation.

The 5-day programme will enable participants to become the professional leader who can inspire, motivate and achieve.

The seminar will highlight:

• The essential keys to successful leadership in business
• How to build a successful team which achieves required results
• How to create a learning environment at work where team members can grow and develop new skills
• How to stay on seminar whilst constantly refocusing your group’s or your department’s goals.
• How to become a leader who can innovate and add value to your organisation, your customers and your stakeholders.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this programme you will be able to:

• Become a visionary, innovative and successful team leader
• Use a leadership style that works effectively with different situations
• Inspire your team to greater motivation, knowledge and skills
• Identify opportunities for strategic alliances with colleagues
• Become a successful communicator, coach and mentor

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Participants at this seminar will receive a thorough training in the subjects covered in the seminar outline, with the tutor using a variety of proven adult learning, teaching and facilitating techniques.

• Seminar methodology includes group discussions, practical exercises, personal profiling and case studies
• Material is presented in a relaxed style to achieve maximum participation
• The focus throughout is on sharing practical ideas to create stronger business relationships and a stronger organisation

ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT

The seminar will focus on the development of successful leaders who are able to add value to the organisation in which they work. This will include:

• Techniques for achieving successful leadership in the workplace
• Clear communication of business objectives
• Alignment of team members’ behaviour to meet organisational goals
• Ability to move a department or unit forward by achieving business goals
• Development of the abilities of team members
• Motivation of team members to achieve ongoing business success

PERSONAL IMPACT

Participants will develop the personal skills to be an effective leader of a work group. These include:

• Ability to use a range of leadership skills to motivate others
• Increased confidence and awareness of own strengths
• Ability to develop team members and their motivation
• Ability to increase the personal contribution of team members
• Development of personal communication skills
• Ability to work successfully with wide range of stakeholders and customers

Agenda

Day1 - The need for leadership in the modern workplace

• The background against which we manage and lead in today’s business
• The difference between doing, managing and leading
• Characteristics of highly effective leaders
• What leaders do to achieve results; leadership style; transformational leadership
• Leaders and practical motivation
• Developing a personal leadership mind-set
• Personal profiling: knowing our own leadership strengths and areas to develop

Day2 - Building and leading successful teams

• Achieving the high-performing team
• Developing team members
• Working successfully across team boundaries – team working and strategic alliances
• Identifying the essential factors in motivation. Linking theory to practice.
• Decision-making with teams
• The benefits and barriers to delegation: knowing what and how to delegate – the different delegation styles.

Day3 - Developing the key players: from performance appraisal to performance management

• Successful performance appraisal: the essential ingredients and the benefits
• Leading performance appraisal forward to performance management
• Teleological thinking and target setting
• Agreeing and working towards objectives
• Building on success and recognising achievement
• Dealing with performance gaps
• Everyday coaching as a performance management tool
• Coaching styles and behaviours
• The leader as a mentor

Day4 - Key communication skills of leaders

• The essentials of effective interpersonal communication in the leadership role
• Personal communication skills: confidence, clarity, understanding and trust
• Communicating successfully with the team, with colleagues and with stakeholders
• Understanding assertiveness in leadership
• Using assertiveness to achieve win-win outcomes
• Communicating effectively in difficult situations

Day5 - Leadership strategies, ongoing success and tools for building a learning environment

• Defining a learning organisation
• The benefits of creating a learning environment and steps to achieving this
• Creating opportunities for team members to develop experience and confidence for ongoing success
• Managing and leading change: creating a shared vision
• Leading successful change in modern business
• Action planning for return to work: seminar members will develop an action plan of Personal Leadership Actions they intend to apply on return to work.