Leadership vs Management

This course will equip experienced as well as new managers with new skills and approaches to develop their leadership, management and team skills. This is a challenging and highly participative programme that is designed to give managers the opportunity to experience using proven, effective management techniques, team building skills and motivation boosting methods so that they can immediately benefit from these on completion of the course.

On this course you will identify effective Leadership styles and become familiar with how you use these to inspire and motivate individuals. You will leave this course confident in your ability to lead a diverse workforce through influence not authority. In short you will learn to lead rather than manage, empower rather than direct.

Course Content

Overview

• A framework for analysing team behaviour.
• How to solve conflict within teams.
• Learn about different team styles and understand collective working.
• Motivating others and effective motivational techniques.
• How to set objectives and meet deadlines with defined time schedules.
• The leadership process and improving personal effectiveness.
• How to set goals and measure your personal/team performance.
• Understand how working through and with others is effective in producing excellent results.

Course Outcomes

• Demonstrate effective leadership styles.
• Develop a systematic approach to assess how team members work best with one another.
• Demonstrate improved personal effectiveness through better leadership and teamwork.
• Set goals and measure performance more effectively.
• Apply a range of effective motivational techniques.
• Delegate tasks with confidence.
• Improve your ability to communicate and execute strategies with your team.

Training Methods

By all means, bring your pencil case, and yes, there will be handouts, but there will be a lot more discourse, debate, improvisation, role play, technology, practice and group dynamics. The training will be conducted in a friendly, fun atmosphere, which not only allows for different learning styles, but respects each delegate as an individual and ensures each one is challenged and derives maximum benefit from the course. Our aim is that you will be highly stimulated and encouraged to rethink

Who should attend?

Managers and supervisors who would say “the day-to-day work of my direct reports will be impacted by the projects and initiatives going on right now in my organisation.” It is also suitable for those who are entering a managerial position and want to know more about characteristics of a leader.