Leadership Skills for Junior/New Managers (1 day)

Course Overview

First line management positions are often filled through promotion. Without training, these new managers lack the skills they need to run their teams effectively. This skills gap is creating ineffective form of leadership across the country.

The purpose of this course:

This course will develop the skills and confidence you need to work effectively with your team and learn how to deal impartially with difficult situations. For team leaders attending, this course helps you develop your skills in an organised and professional way.

Benefits for your organisation:

Many new managers suffer stress and disillusionment in the first few months in their appointment due to lack of skills. The course will remove this concern and provide your organisation with new leaders who understand how to direct their teams and build group synergy

Benefits for you as an individual:

You will meet and communicate with other first-time leaders, leaving you with extra confidence to assert yourself in your leadership role. You will learn how to improve team performance, by motivating individuals and building a team that will provide a sense of purpose and achievement for all its members.

Audience

The main beneficiaries of this dynamic course are those newly appointed, or about to be appointed, to management positions.

Course Outline

You will learn how to:

• How to make an effective transition between team member and team leader
• The three critical factors of leadership success
• Identify the three critical actions of leadership
• Recruit new team members
• Understand and outline the behaviour of success
• Manage people and resources effectively
• Understand and implement leadership styles
• Put motivation theories into practice
• Use key communication techniques
• Make leadership decisions
• Understand the process of management
• Delegate important tasks
• Run effective meetings
• Understand what makes an effective team
• Control the 'satisfiers' and 'dissatisfiers' that control work output
• Set and monitor targets and reporting standards

Leadership Skills for Junior/New Managers (1 day) / MD-LSNM1