The Manager as Leader

Duration: Two Days

Suitable for: Ideal for established middle and senior managers who are looking to bring an extra dimension to their own performance and that of their team. Before the course each delegate completes an Insight Discovery Evaluator to gain feedback on their management and communication style.

Objectives: By the end of the course you will:

• Be clear on your priorities and on the effective management of goals
• Have strengthened personal identity and impact
• Have developed a purposeful sense of mission and techniques for motivating others
• Have pinpointed traits for the personal development of you and your team
• Have developed enhanced communication capability across different, relevant contexts
• Have heightened commitment to and expectations of people, results, innovations and development

Course Description

Day One:

The experienced manger

• Assessing your identity and future vision

• Defining your own competence
• The key criteria for measuring your capabilities in your own context

The four key management and leadership skills

• The importance of planning, leading, organising and controlling

Developing your leadership style

• Using the Insights Discovery Evaluator with individual feedback - see below*

Influencing and connecting

• With your team, peers, senior management and others
• Creating interaction for results

Day Two:

Presentation and meeting skills

• "Soundbite" techniques

The skills of delegating

• Prioritising tools
• Time Management

Coaching and mentoring for improved resultsHandling difficult behaviour and non-performance

The Insights Team Wheel

• Team attributes & contributions
• Assessing your team
• Blending roles and capabilities

*Your Insights Discovery Evaluator provides an individual comprehensive report including:

• General overview of your main characteristics
• Decision making and other attributes
• How you prefer to communicate with others
• How you prefer others to communicate with you
• Strengths and limitations in your preferred style
• A description of your 'opposite type'
• How to handle people of opposite type to you
• A team wheel charting the team member's position

Your course leader provides guidance on your management and leadership development and your action plan.

This course includes a psychometric test.