This leadership course is designed for middle managers to senior managers who aspire to further develop their approach to leadership and fine tune their business management skills. It covers leadership theory, leadership styles, other types of ‘intelligence’ required of leaders and the application of management skills to build successful teams and business outcomes.

This leadership course also embraces the business management skills of change management theories and risk management principles. Particular focus is on how each of these disciplines interface, and how they can synergistically lead to team and business successes.

Aims

This aims of this course are to:

• advance and broaden your leadership skills to a higher level of proficiency
• equip you to lead teams more effectively for achieving overall business outcomes
• seize opportunities, facilitate change and mitigate risks for teams you lead and organisational units you manage
• influence and negotiate with team members and other stakeholders, operating with higher levels of self awareness and management.

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 to challenging business circumstances
• develop and lead high performing teams
• steer organisational change using a change model that reflects your leadership style
• facilitate a team that embraces opportunity whilst mitigating risk
• lead business decision-making whilst empowering your 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 performance 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

Intended audience

Suitable for middle managers to senior managers who are on track to develop their leadership and management skills to the next levels. This is course is suited for managers from commercial, government or not-for-profit organisations and any industry.

Delivery modes

• Face-to-face, presenter-taught workshop
• Online workshop via the platform Zoom

This course is interactive, utilising role-plays, group discussions and demonstrations in applying course material.

Materials

Course materials are distributed electronically using Dropbox.