From Management to Leadership

Leading a team, department or organisation is very different from actually managing it. Leadership is a unique skill-set that has to be developed deliberately. This unique course is the only one of its kind specially designed to provide you with a firm foundation in the key skills, strategies and techniques that will eventually make you an effective leader.

Course Overview

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Quite simply, this is the only structured programme that has been formulated specifically for the new leader or for those preparing to take on a leadership role within their work. You may already be a manager, but are you a leader? Do you have the qualities to become a leader? If not, this course will probably be the most important investment you make in your career so far. Employers are now looking people who can genuinely lead their staff, department, projects and organisation to success – leadership skills are an extremely valuable commodity and need to be learnt (rarely are they naturally acquired). The course is crammed with practical strategies and ideas that master leaders have utilised to take themselves and their companies to the top of the pile. You will receive intensive expert coaching in all the fundamentals secrets of leadership – all you need to get started on the right track, immediately.

You will benefit from:

The importance of developing vision and values
Continuous improvement, Kaizen and six sigma
How to tackle the tough decisions that you will experience as a leader
Using the skills of influence to win commitment
How to empower teams for top performance
Why you need to become an innovator, and how you can develop this essential mind-set
Using strategic thinking to define direction and strategy
..and many other essential topics.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Anyone who finds themselves in a leadership scenario
Anyone likely to take on a leadership role in the future
Managers looking to enhance their leadership abilities
Team leaders looking to increase performance
Project leaders and managers
Heads of departments
Managers who have received no formal leadership training
Anyone who wants to master the fundamental skills of leadership in order to achieve greater personal and professional success

Booking Information

Dates	Prices	Book This Course	Discount
04 - 05 Nov 2010	£ 995		-

This course will be held on the above listed dates in central London. For more information about venue please click here.

Programme Details

"An intensive new training programme specifically designed to provide you with the essential skills, strategies and techniques to become a highly effective leader."

UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP

Management v leadership - constancy v change.
- Why has leadership become so important in recent times?
- What is required and expected of you as a leader?
- Your role and responsibilities
The key qualities which make a great business leader in the 21st century.
- Transactional leadership
- Transformational leadership
The four dimensions of leadership.
Understanding the popular leadership models
- Covey
- Rosen
- Kouzes Posner
Diagnostic questionnaire – how do you rate as a leader?
What do you need to get better at?
- An objective skills audit
- Starting a programme for effective skills development

ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR NEW LEADERS

Understanding the bigger picture, and thinking longer term.
- Defining direction and strategy for you, your teams and your organisation
Innovation in business – what it means and how it dramatically improves results.
- Examples of leadership innovation in action
Tools for continuous improvement – six sigma and process mapping.
- Understanding the practicalities of the different tools
- Applying the tools in your organisation

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF VISION AND VALUES

What does a vision look like?
What are values in a business context?
How to align vision and values:
- Personal
- Team
- Company
Using vision and values to build an effective team.
- Effectively communicating your vision to the team
The four characteristics of a great team:
- Shared goals
- Clear roles
- Clear communication
- Absolute trust
- How to achieve them.

TAKING TOUGH DECISIONS

Leaders are judged by their ability to take tough decisions – how do you currently measure up?
Typical leadership dilemmas and how to resolve them.
Managing difficult situations, conflict and people
Six most common decision making errors and how to avoid them
Four approaches to decision making – instant, rational, political and inspirational.
How to choose the best decision making approach
How to thrive on the wrong decision
Facing up to ethical challenges.
Why ethics didn’t used to matter in business and why they matter now.

WINNING COMMITMENT – UTILISING PROFESSIONAL INFLUENCING TECHNIQUES

Five influencing strategies and top tips for each one.
Telling:
- When it’s right simply to tell people what they have to do – and how to do it with confidence and style.
- Five things to tell people when you delegate work to them.
Selling:
- How to build rapport in order to be highly persuasive.
Negotiating:
- What win-win really means
- How to get a win-win and what to do when you can’t.
Problem solving:
- How to be more creative.
Facilitating:
- Great coaches don’t have all the answers but they do know how to ask the right questions – developing your questioning techniques
- Learn this key leadership skill and how to apply it one to one and in groups.
How to choose the right influencing style for the situation.
An introduction to Emotional Intelligence.
When it’s right to make your people feel good and when it’s right to make them feel bad – and how to do it.
Empowering teams and individuals for improved performance
The importance of state management in leadership roles
- Techniques for managing your state
- Techniques for managing other people’s states

CRITICAL SUCCESS SKILLS FOR TODAY’S LEADERS

How leaders use their time differently to managers.
- Setting objectives and priorities
- Defining limits for you and your team
Trust as the bedrock of great leadership.
- Trust and organisational success
- Developing and maintaining trust through integrity
- Becoming a role model for those you lead: What kind of leader do you want to be?

NEXT STEPS IN YOUR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Producing your own personal leadership development plan
- Using your plan to take your leadership skills to the next level
- Taking action – the difference that makes a difference in every leadership role.

Course Leader

Larry Reynolds is MD of 21st Century Leader, a consultancy which helps companies to choose the best way to develop effective and ethical leaders. Larry has helped to develop leaders and build high performance teams in a wide range of organisations including AstraZeneca, Birmingham International Airport, Bloomberg, DuPont, First Choice, Kingston University, London Borough of Camden, Manchester Metropolitan University, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Northern Arts, Oxfam, Robert McBride, Rotary Watches, Save the Children, Skipton Building Society, Transco, Volkswagen Group and many others. many others.

In addition, Larry is a well-known author whose books include: Beyond Total Quality Management, The Trust Effect, The 21st Century Leader and Business Focused Training. He has an MA from Cambridge University, as well as a PGCE and MBA. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.