LTFE Dynamic Leadership Programme

The London Training for Excellence Dynamic Leadership Programme is a comprehensive five-day course that will help your leadership skills make a quantum leap to the next level of performance, productivity, and effectiveness. It will give you the tools to master leadership skills to accelerate your career.

The course is practical, interactive and well planned with plenty of ‘stretch’ to make the course suit the needs of the individual..

Objective

The course will enable you to:

• Develop your personal awareness in order to have greater impact
• Meet existing and future business challenges with capability, credibility and confidence
• Develop the skills, knowledge and competencies that maximise your management and leadership potential
• Motivate change by inspiring people to action
• Understand the communication processes necessary to develop an effective team
• Identify own levels of resilience and how to become more resilient
• Build team resilience, think and lead in a more positive and resilient way
• Understand own preferred communication styles and those of your team
• Be skilled in and able to use more varied coaching techniques
• Lead with greater flexibility for more effective outcomes
• Identify what it takes to become a future leader
• Understand own Values and how to inspire teams
• Build team vision and strategy
• Determine your Authentic Leadership Style
• Have fun!

Course Outline

Day 1: Leading in Action

Session 1: Starting with the end in mind

A warm welcome, brief introduction and an outline of the Leadership programme. Introduce the Support and Challenge model as a way of contracting in the room and as ways of working together as a team and with own teams.

Session 2: It’s all about me

Using disclosure to start to build trust and rapport within the team with an opportunity to story tell.

Session 3: Action Centred Leadership

Analyse John Adair’s Action Centred leadership model, which focuses on the balance of leadership between Team, Task, and individual.

Session 4: Leadership V’s Management

Introduce the concept of the Leader / Manager Continuum and the skills and behaviours

required

Session 5: Think Change

An experiential session that demonstrates behaviours in change and insights into how to better lead themselves and teams though change.

Session 6: Our Iceberg is melting

Understand how to lead and land change effectively using Dr John Kotter’s 8 step process

Session 7: Review of the day

Day 2: Building High Performing teams

Session 1: Learning review and Check-in

Review and reflections from the previous day

Session 2: Functioning teams

Introduce Patrick Lencioni’s model: “The five dysfunctions of a team” to help identify what it takes to make a high performing team

Session 3: Communication

Understand different communication styles, identify own style and how to communicate effectively with impact to team and individual, including feedback

Session 4: Resilient Leadership

Understand own levels of resilience, build a better understanding of how to support team resilience. To think and lead in a more positive and resilient way

Session 5: Managing Confidence Levels

Look at confidence, how it effects our ability to be resilient and how to manage and become a more confident leader

Session 6: My Plan

Build on the learning from the day taking a deeper dive into resilience using the Wheel of Life

Day 3: Leading Others

Session 1: Learning Review and Check-in

Review and reflections from the previous day

Session2: Flexible Leadership

Gain an insight and awareness into preferred and habitual leadership styles and understand the implications for own teams. To develop a more consciously flexible leadership style.

Session 3: The Power of Direction

Looking at the skill and lost art of direction.

Session 4: The Art of Coaching

Understand the power of coaching and when to use it. Introduce the London TFE coaching framework. Build on current coaching techniques and practice different coaching models.

Session 5: Support

Looking at current business issues and share a problem-solving tool

Session 6: The Art of Delegation

Know when and how to delegate and create room for growth.

Session 7: Motivating Teams

Identify what motivates self and others and start building individual bespoke motivational plans for own teams and look at how personal values link to motivation.

Session 8: Putting it into practice

Consolidate the learnings from the day. Build an ongoing action plan for continuous improvement of self and others.

Close: Review of the day and feedback

Day 4: Inspiring Authentic Leadership

Session 1: The Fine Art of Storytelling

A reflection of the Leadership Journey to date, how leadership has developed and practice the Art of Storytelling as a key leadership skill

Session 2: Being a Future Leader

Becoming forward thinking, using visioning to build Leadership capability

Session 3: Understanding my Leadership Values

Understand own Leadership values and how to use values to inspire

Session 4 Creating a Vision and Strategy

Create a team Vision and Strategic direction. Experience writing own inspiring and compelling Visions and review/build strategic direction

Session 5: The Importance of Trust as an Inspiring Leader

Experience being trusted and trusting, to understand the trust equation and own trust quotient

Session 6: Being an Authentic Leader

Defining your own Authentic Leadership in order to Inspire and Lead Teams

Close: Review of the week

Day 5: Influencing

This session will enable you to

• Understand what it takes to influence strategically
• Gain insight from powerful influencers and negotiators – from within and outside of the business
• Gain real insight into your own influencing and negotiation skills
• Increase your impact with masterly language – the words and tones that land well and create a win: win situation for you and your stakeholders
• Learn tools and techniques to take back into the reality of your business world

Pre work

Come with a real future influencing scenario

Session 1:“Who’s got the POWER!”

To establish different sources of power that each leader can harness, which is their favourite and how can they explore other power bases

Session 2: The Model

Introducing the London Training for Excellence framework for effective influencing

Session 3: Strategic influencing

Explore how to structure an influencing opportunity using strategic thinking

Session 4: Building and Influencing Strategy

Understand how to build a strategic influencing plan, including the science of persuasion and negotiation guru

Session 5: My stakeholders

Introduce varying stakeholder tools to identify and analyze stakeholders

Session 6: The language of influencing

Identify different Influencing styles, looking at why, when and how to use them

Session 7: Consolidation

Consolidate influencing strategy and learnings