Leading, influencing and teams
4 Day Course
How good are you at getting things done through other people?
What is the course?
- designed for new or experienced managers, team leaders, project leaders, supervisors and senior team members, in fact anyone whose job requires them to get things done by, through or with other people
- draws on much psychology and behavioural research into leadership and management situations
- introduces management skills from three aspects: leadership (the "me" aspect); influencing and motivating others (the "you" aspect) and behaviour in teams (the "we" aspect)
- encourages delegates to relate the lessons and models to their own workplace situation
- comprises: classroom tuition, practical workshops, individual coaching and peer and instructor feedback
What are its objectives?
On completion of the course, participants will:
- know leadership qualities and leadership styles as related to their own jobs and colleagues
- understand research models on work motivation, know their own and others' motivations
- know and have practised a model for coaching as a management style
- understand the importance of openness and the role of feedback as an interpersonal skill
- know and understand team roles and their application to the workplace
What topics are covered?
Numerous research approaches, models and tools for managers, including:
- the role of the manager
- Blanchard's Situational Leadership model
- Likert's management systems and styles
- McClelland, McGregor, Maslow and Herzsberg's models for motivation
- Hunt motivation index
- coaching: Whitmore's GROW model
- team roles inventory
- power, work planning and delegation