Leadership Skills Course

Is this leadership skills course right for me?

This leadership skills course is designed for anyone who leads a team either on a line or project basis, at any level. This leadership training course is particularly suitable for people who are required to lead teams through times of change. It is ideal for leaders who wish to contribute to their businesses in a more strategic way.

What will I get out of this leadership skills course?

By the end of the leadership skills training course you will be able to:

• Identify the differences between managers and leaders
• Draw up a checklist of leadership qualities
• Identify whether your time is spent effectively in different levels of leadership
• Utilise emotional intelligence to improve relations
• Improve the engagement levels of your team
• Improve your collaborative problem solving
• Lead your team effectively through change
• Understand your team's core values
• Design a new vision for your team

Related courses in our range

• Essential Management Skills
• Building and Leading High Performance Teams
• Excellence in Management
• Coaching Skills
• Managing a Changing Environment

What does this leadership skills course cover?

Managing and leading

• Differences between managing and leading
• Leadership qualities –- personal benchmarking

Leadership levels

• Leadership theories
• 3 key levels of leadership -– operational, tactical, strategic
• Identifying current use of time across the leadership levels
• How to become more strategic in your approach

Tactical leadership

• Using Emotional Intelligence in order to improve working relationships with internal and external customers
• How to improve employee engagement levels
• Leading collaborative problem solving in your business
• Leading through change
• The difference between organisational change and personal transition
• Leading yourself and others through the stages of personal transition
• Creating the conditions to support change
• Working with resistance to change and making change work

Strategic leadership

• How leaders should contribute strategically to the overall business
• Identifying your team’s values and how you role model these values
• Vision as inspiration
• Developing a new vision for your team

Case study and action planning

• A case study will be used to highlight key areas for learning and action covered over the 2 days
• Action plans to be drawn up for implementation in the workplace