Business Skills Moving from manager to leader classroom

Have you experienced any of the following on projects you manage:

Rising costs?
People not delivering?
Schedules slipping?
Unreasonable expectations on the part of stakeholders
Communication break downs?
Sagging morale?
Lack of focus or motivation by team members?

Even with the best leadership in the world problems still occur, it’s how you respond that counts. Leadership means enabling others to find the energy, motivation and willingness to achieve extraordinary things – to overcome difficulties they didn’t know they could overcome, and to turn project disaster into project success. Leadership is helping others achieve excellence by their own efforts.

Course overview

About the course

Moving from manager to leader requires real commitment alongside a set of practical skills. This course provides all the understanding, skills and approaches you need to become an even more committed and effective leader of project teams.

What's covered?

Indicative content:

‘Practical leadership in action’ exercise

Leaders and leadership

What's the point of leaders? What do we want?
What does leadership mean?
Difference between management and leadership
Qualities of good leadership
Leadership nature or nurture?

Authentic leadership?

Values exercise
What are your key values?
Inspirational leadership

Leadership styles

Leadership styles questionnaire (Goleman)
Styles: directive, visionary, affiliative, participative, pace-setting, coaching
Employee engagement and motivation

Leadership skills

Assertiveness in leadership (review)
Hot seat (self-assessment)
Developing a compelling vision
Communication
Vision for your team - what is vision and why?
Strengths and weaknesses
Modelling
Being a role model

Project leadership

Challenging: process
Challenging people to be the best they can be
Enabling others to act: what do you need from me?

Communication

Adult, direct plain English
Non-judgemental, straightforward communication
Clear and unambiguous messages

Coaching

24/7 coaching
Educare – the alternative to ‘telling’
Training, coaching, mentoring, counselling?
Learning theory
What should we coach? 4 categories
2 applicable coaching models (GROW & intervention analysis)

Coaching skills

Presence and active listening
Listening exercise
Questioning – why it is so critical to do it well
Questioning exercise: forming great questions

Practical Coaching skills 1

Action learning (questioning skills)

Practical coaching skills 2

3 case studies (approach and coaching judgement)

Practical coaching skills 3

Live business coaching (practical application of all the skills)

Duration

1 day

Pre and post workshop exercises can be developed for this course at a small additional cost.