Foundations of Leadership for New Leaders (2 day course)

This two day course provides essential team leadership skills to those who are newly promoted to a leadership role.

Building on your existing experience and knowledge, it will equip you with a new set of skills and behaviours to enable you to deliver your new leadership responsibilities with confidence. We will consider how you can motivate, engage and empower people to build and lead an effective, high performing team.

This course is extremely practical and will focus on three main principles that will enable you go back to your leadership role ready to practise and improve.

Those principles are:

• Lead rather than manage, have faith in the people you are leading and empower them to do their jobs rather than micro-managing their every move;
• Recognise that those you lead will only be able to do that if they have the skills to do their job, so develop a culture of learning, reflection and feedback, so that everybody knows their role and can carry it out;
• Develop your communication and interpersonal skills so that you genuinely build a team rather than a loose collective of people.

Over two interactive days, the course will cover:

Day 1

• Introductions and objectives
• What does leadership mean to you?
• What makes a leader great?
• What is your leadership style? (And what other styles might you need to adapt at certain times?)

• Working successfully with others
• Characteristics of exceptional teams
• Building a successful team including the importance of diversity and listening
• Working as a team

Day 2

• Excellence in leadership communication
• Effective feedback (and its importance)
• Managing Difficult Conversations
• Effective delegation (and conversations around it)
• An introduction to Coaching and Mentoring including the opportunity to gain practical experience of coaching and being coached
• Reflective leaders and reflective teams
• Creation of individual action plans.