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The Essentials of Leadership & Management

Innovation, Enlightenment and Agility

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This training course is split into the following modular components:

MODULE I The Essentials of Leadership
MODULE II The Management Essentials

This comprehensive course consists of two modules that can be attended as a full 10-Day event or as separate 5-day courses.

Why Choose Us

The Essentials of Leadership & Management Training Course is designed to equip professionals with the vital leadership and management skills they need to succeed. This course focuses on developing practical, collaborative leadership practices that are highly effective in any organization. It helps participants harness the potential of their team members, enhancing productivity and fostering teamwork. Throughout this training, delegates will learn how to manage teams efficiently, solve complex problems, and hold their team accountable while building a culture of trust and respect.

The course also provides an essential overview of management principles for those new to supervisory roles. If you are transitioning from a technical expert to a leadership position, this course offers valuable insights and tools to smooth that transition. It empowers delegates to become leaders who inspire and support others in their professional growth.

Key highlights include:

  • Understanding leadership styles and their impact
  • Building collaborative, high-performance teams
  • Developing strategies for using personal leadership power effectively
  • Mastering performance management processes
  • Applying the 4D Management Model (Direct, Delegate, Develop, Deliver)

By the end of the course, participants will have the necessary skills to lead with confidence and improve team dynamics, ensuring both personal and organizational growth.

Why Choose The Essentials of Leadership & Management
Course Goals

What are the Goals?

The Essentials of Leadership & Management Training Course offers the following key objectives:

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

  • Identify the core competencies required for effective leadership
  • Understand the ethical considerations and values that drive long-term success
  • Select and apply supervision tools to accelerate team performance
  • Leverage performance management processes for organizational growth
  • Develop and monitor personalized action plans for personal and team improvement

Who is this Training Course for?

This Leadership & Management Training Course is perfect for professionals at various levels who want to enhance their leadership and managerial skills. It is especially beneficial for:

  • Employees preparing for supervisory or managerial roles
  • Current supervisors seeking to expand their management expertise
  • Team leaders, operations managers, and production supervisors
  • First-time managers with little to no formal management training
  • Young professionals identified as high-potential future managers
Learning Approach

How will this Training Course be Presented?

The Essentials of Leadership & Management Training Course is delivered using a dynamic, hands-on approach to ensure deep engagement and effective learning. The course utilizes proven adult learning techniques, combining interactive sessions, group discussions, and self-reflection exercises.

Course delivery will include:

  • Presentations to introduce core concepts
  • Videos and case studies to highlight practical examples
  • Group exercises that foster collaboration and critical thinking
  • Self-reflection exercises to strengthen personal leadership development

This comprehensive learning approach ensures that delegates can immediately apply what they learn in a real-world context, gaining the confidence to lead and manage successfully.

The Course Content

MODULE I

The Essentials of Leadership

Agility – the Norm
  • Leadership Principles, Perceptions and Praxis: essential themes
  • Changing Paradigms, New Demands and Enlightened Leadership
  • The New Normal; changing environments, expectations and challenges
  • Leadership by “design”, building agile, responsive and decisive leadership
  • The Leader Within; innate qualities personality performance, style and outputs
  • The External Environment; leading and navigating in turbulent times
Leading Exceptional Performance
  • The Leadership Management Debate. Do I Lead or Manage?
  • What Leadership style does my organisation require?
  • 360 Leadership; competence assessment, review and peer coaching
  • Leading the focused agile team.: mission, vision values and SMARTER measures
  • Communicating Organisational and clarifying team purpose
  • Charismatic leaders and Storytelling: acknowledging success and lessons learned
Leadership that Inspires
  • Trust- the essential ingredient in the new normal
  • Motivational leadership: the Emotionally Intelligent leaders
  • Engagement and well-being: Scope, Support, Connection, Voice
  • Diagnostic tools for organisational and team development
  • Whole brain thinking divergent and convergent thinking
  • Decision Making and the power of diverse thinking
  • Collective wisdom, constructive dissent and innovative outcomes
Leading an Innovative Culture
  • Leading change and transition issues ingenuity and innovation
  • Solution focused methodology: Accentuating the positive and the possibilities
  • Utilising soft system methodology for innovative insights into change
  • Using Nature and multiple intelligences for creative outcomes
  • Assessing culture and organisational creativity for agile responsiveness
  • Entrepreneurial creativity. How creative am I?
Leadership Priorities
  • Global chaos: impact, learnings and responses 
  • Resilience, Well-being and Mindfulness:  key people deliverables
  • Planning for Crisis; beware the “black swans”
  • Ethical leadership for sustainable organisations
  • Reframing the Business Model Canvas to create value and sustainability
  • Action planning for future improvement
MODULE II

The Management Essentials

Fundamentals for Managerial Leadership
  • Making the transition into management: new skills, fears and expectations
  • Key accountabilities. Purpose, Responsibilities, Accountabilities
  • Understanding self to understand and lead others: psychometric profiling
  • Managerial Leadership: Changing Perceptions and New Demands
  • Applying theoretical models to the management process
  • Current global research to inform our practice
Managing Peak Performance in Self and Others
  • What style of management does my organisation require?
  • Psychometric assessment on personality and management style
  • Driving continuous change for improvement through creative agility
  • Clarifying Organisational and Team Purpose: “alignment through line if sight”
  • SMARTER objectives for the 21st century: balancing environment and technology
  • Assertive behaviour and conducting successful performance reviews
Creating a Dynamic Team in an Age of Technological Challenge
  • Creating the Highly Effective Team: “in house” and “virtual”
  • Characteristics of Dysfunctional teams
  • Generational issues, diversity, challenge and harnessing potential 
  • Team audit: evaluating current performance to initiate future progression
  • Managing collaboration and collective wisdom:  the challenge of AI and “digital transformation”
  • Managing Change, the “What if” Factor., Transition and Crisis
Motivational Coaching and Positive Outcomes
  • Motivation to Engage: Scope, Support, Connection, Voice
  • Communication to Connect, Clarify, Convince and Convey
  • Constructive feedback, conflict and handling difficult conversations
  • Coaching Models for individual and team success; practical sessions
  • How well do I motivate my people? What more might I do?
  • Reflection: Ten things the great boss does every day
Personal Prioritisation and Future Focus
  • My key deliverables and the competencies I need to demonstrate
  • “Problems, issues and concerns: constructive group feedback
  • The Golden Rule: achieving goals through the effort of others
  • Delegation for Development. How well do I delegate?
  • Presentation skills: Inform, Illustrate, Influence, Impact, Initiate
  • Action planning for post workshop improvement
Recognition

Certificate

  • • Wallstreet Development Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course.
Collaborations

In Partnership With

Anderson Copex Coventry