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 The task of management in modern organisations is to get the best out of people so that organisational objectives can be achieved. Many organisations are developing new cultures with flatter, responsive team structures, empowered to take action to meet goals and targets. There is less emphasis on the classical command and control role of multi-layered management hierarchies.
To meet this revolution leadership and attendant behaviours and approaches to team building have changed. Today leadership and team building endeavours provides a consistent, flexible approach to management across an organisations functions.
This 7 day course includes a 3 day action centred learning module .
The course is ideal for newly appointed or aspiring team leaders and provides an essential precurser to team building programmes.
see www.actioncentredlearning.co.uk for team building events
Programme Introduction
This generic leadership skills course has been designed for all those with responsibility (or aspiring) for managing and supervising others. It provides a foundation in leadership skills and a number of essential management competencies. An option exists to use the course as an assessment centre prior to candidate promotion or selection for a development programme leading to a management qualification .
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| Day 1 |
Starts with an overview of what is management, its functions, roles, skills and qualities etc. to generate an understanding and consensus of how management differs from what leadership actually is. That said other leadership definitions can apply so what, arguably, is important is an appreciation of leadership within business and specifically within participants own organisation. The ensuring debate should be stimulating! With this insight, coupled with evidence from cultural diagnostics, the need for leadership skills and how leadership can be achieved and best executed can be examined.
What needs to emerge is a pragmatic leadership style geared to getting results within the boundary of practice acceptable to the organisation and team members.
To achieve a team synergy greater than the sum of its parts requires the establishment of team values. |
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| Day 2 |
Will focus on identifying and developing the leadership skills needed to achieve tasks and deliver results. Styles and processes will underpin situational leadership and team working issues and the significance of team mix will be revealed through studying team roles.
The practical work of the leader as a director and motivator of people will be reviewed and the functions of management will be examined in greater depth
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| Days 3 - 5 |
Will be residential, see action centred learning and can include team building activities
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| Day 6 |
Will focus on the leadership role as a developer of people, and the leadership skills, procedures and systems involved. This will include an assessment of performance review and development systems and use of personal development portfolios . Exercises will be used to practice developer skills and to help a colleague to build a PDP. |
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| Day 7 |
Individuals will finalise self and peer assessments, and various studies and exercises, including organisational diagnostics.
These will be presented in front of the organisation's managers and course sponsors.
The leadership skills course will end with a surgery to review problems, needs and personal action plans.
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NB1: during the residential team building module individual skills will be continually practiced by participants taking turn to plan, co-ordinate resources and execute various tasks.
NB2: throughout the leadership skills course reviews will be made of task accomplishment, resource and management utilisation, leadership styles, behaviours, roles and skills etc.
NB3: leadership skills questionnaires will enable individuals to self assess, in addition group effectiveness will be evaluated with feedback provided from peer members and tutor.
This leadership skills training course is a natural precursor to sending team leaders with their team members on our team building course.
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