From Management to Leadership

From Management to Leadership

Quite simply, this is the only structured programme that has been formulated specifically for the new leader or for those preparing to take on a leadership role within their work. You may already be a manager, but are you a leader? Do you have the qualities to become a leader? If not, this course will probably be the most important investment you make in your career so far. Employers are now looking people who can genuinely lead their staff, department, projects and organisation to success - leadership skills are an extremely valuable commodity and need to be learnt (rarely are they naturally acquired). The course is crammed with practical strategies and ideas that master leaders have utilised to take themselves and their companies to the top of the pile. You will receive intensive expert coaching in all the fundamentals secrets of leadership - all you need to get started on the right track, immediately.
You will benefit from:

• The importance of developing vision and values
• Continuous improvement, Kaizen and six sigma
• How to tackle the tough decisions that you will experience as a leader
• Using the skills of influence to win commitment
• How to empower teams for top performance
• Why you need to become an innovator, and how you can develop this essential mind-set
• Using strategic thinking to define direction and strategy
• ..and many other essential topics.

COURSE PROGRAMME UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP

• Management v leadership - constancy v change.
  • Why has leadership become so important in recent times?
  • What is required and expected of you as a leader?
  • Your role and responsibilities
• The key qualities which make a great business leader in the 21st century.
  • Transactional leadership
  • Transformational leadership
• The four dimensions of leadership.
• Understanding the popular leadership models
  • Covey
  • Rosen
  • Kouzes Posner
• Diagnostic questionnaire - how do you rate as a leader?
• What do you need to get better at?
  • An objective skills audit
  • Starting a programme for effective skills development

ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR NEW LEADERS

• Understanding the bigger picture, and thinking longer term.
  • Defining direction and strategy for you, your teams and your organisation
• Innovation in business - what it means and how it dramatically improves results.
  • Examples of leadership innovation in action
• Tools for continuous improvement - six sigma and process mapping.
  • Understanding the practicalities of the different tools
  • Applying the tools in your organisation

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF VISION AND VALUES

• What does a vision look like?
• What are values in a business context?
• How to align vision and values:
  • Personal
  • Team
  • Company
• Using vision and values to build an effective team.
  • Effectively communicating your vision to the team
• The four characteristics of a great team:
  • Shared goals
  • Clear roles
  • Clear communication
  • Absolute trust
  • How to achieve them.

TAKING TOUGH DECISIONS

• Leaders are judged by their ability to take tough decisions - how do you currently measure up?
• Typical leadership dilemmas and how to resolve them.
• Managing difficult situations, conflict and people
• Six most common decision making errors and how to avoid them
• Four approaches to decision making - instant, rational, political and inspirational.
• How to choose the best decision making approach
• How to thrive on the wrong decision
• Facing up to ethical challenges.
• Why ethics didn't used to matter in business and why they matter now.

WINNING COMMITMENT - UTILISING PROFESSIONAL INFLUENCING TECHNIQUES

• Five influencing strategies and top tips for each one.
• Telling:
  • When it's right simply to tell people what they have to do - and how to do it with confidence and style.
  • Five things to tell people when you delegate work to them.
• Selling:
  • How to build rapport in order to be highly persuasive.
• Negotiating:
  • What win-win really means
  • How to get a win-win and what to do when you can't.
• Problem solving:
  • How to be more creative.
• Facilitating:
  • Great coaches don't have all the answers but they do know how to ask the right questions - developing your questioning techniques
  • Learn this key leadership skill and how to apply it one to one and in groups.
• How to choose the right influencing style for the situation.
• An introduction to Emotional Intelligence.
• When it's right to make your people feel good and when it's right to make them feel bad - and how to do it.
• Empowering teams and individuals for improved performance
• The importance of state management in leadership roles
  • Techniques for managing your state
  • Techniques for managing other people's states

CRITICAL SUCCESS SKILLS FOR TODAY'S LEADERS

• How leaders use their time differently to managers.
  • Setting objectives and priorities
  • Defining limits for you and your team
• Trust as the bedrock of great leadership.
  • Trust and organisational success
  • Developing and maintaining trust through integrity
  • Becoming a role model for those you lead: What kind of leader do you want to be?

NEXT STEPS IN YOUR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

• Producing your own personal leadership development plan
  • Using your plan to take your leadership skills to the next level
  • Taking action - the difference that makes a difference in every leadership role.

This courses is scheduled in London and can also be held inhouse