Leadership Skills: Team Management for Middle/Senior Managers

Course Overview

To establish real competitive advantage, organisations must develop high potential leaders capable of inspiring high performance teams through times of continuous change. Today's effective leaders must therefore have the capability and confidence to build and develop focused and motivated teams that deliver outstanding operational performance in line with the strategic goals of the organisation. Powerful leadership seldom happens by chance. Functional competence or personal charisma alone do not ensure success in the role. This course provides the context and framework for leaders to understand and prioritise the actions that they must take in support of the task, the team and the individual. It also highlights the processes and techniques that they have at their disposal to develop and maintain top performance

Audience

All managers and senior staff whose success depends on the effective management of teams and who wish to examine ways in which their current skills could be enhanced.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• identify their preferred leadership style and recognise the situational forces that affect it
• develop leadership flexibility by effectively applying a variety of styles when managing different situations
• use a practical framework for bringing a strategic focus to their role as leaders
• recognise their role in accelerating the development of a team or an individual to high performance

Examinations

• Foundation Certificate in Management Principles
• Certificate in Management Principles
• Diploma in Advanced Management Principles

Course Outline

Leadership styles

• why people follow leaders
• forces influencing choice of leadership style
• self-analysis - your preferred style
• developing leadership flexibility
• putting leadership principles into practice

Teambuilding

• characteristics of high performing teams
• stages of group development
• principles of building a team
• harnessing the different working styles of others
• leadership and team dynamics

Motivation

• understanding human needs as they relate to work
• motivational drivers
• creating an environment in which people motivate themselves
• motivating difficult team members

Organising yourself and others

• own job analysis
• timestealers: common traps managers fall into
• active and reactive work
• planning your time and setting priorities
• barriers to delegation
• delegation: what, to whom, how and when

Improving working relationships

• overcoming communication barriers
• preventing misunderstandings and conflict
• improving the communication process
• influencing enhanced working relationships

Action plan for increased effectiveness

Leadership Skills: Team Management for Middle/Senior Managers / M2