Leadership for Managers

Course review:

This module enables you to develop leadership skills and personal effectiveness required by managers in modern organisations. This is an excellent opportunity to build on your existing experience, skills and capabilities. You will develop your own approach as a leader in a manner which will be consistent with current leadership thinking, the culture of the organisation in which you work and the expectations of the people you lead.

You will further develop your existing skills in influencing, negotiation and handling conflict which leaders need and which will help you to enhance your personal effectiveness. Leadership is a critical aspect of modern management and you will be conversant with a number of different theories and approaches to leadership as well as the key role that a leader has in implementing organisational change. The emphasis is on applying these to your work as a manager. In this way, you can operate more effectively as a manager and contribute fully to the overall performance of the organisation.

The following Knowledge and Skills will be covered in this module:

• Differences between managers and leaders
• Functions of leadership
• Models of leadership
• Influences on leadership behaviour
• Sources of power
• Influencing
• Managing Conflict
• Negotiation
• Levels of change
• Force field analysis - drivers for change; resistors
• Stages of change
• Strategies for change
• Methods of overcoming resistance to change