Strategic leadership occurs in three key places within an organization: (1) At the top, where strategy for a number of business units is formulated over a given time period; (2) In the middle, where top down strategy is translated into a business unit or regional strategy and goals are created; and (3) At a department level, where the business unit strategy goals are translated into a number of individual objectives which are executed. At these three key levels, strategic leadership provides the scope and direction to help drive success for the organization. A major part of this success is derived from effectively managing continuous change through improvements to both people and processes. For that reason, all executives and managers must have the tools necessary for strategy formulation and implementation, and they must be ready to use those tools at a moment’s notice. Managing in an environment of change and uncertainty requires strategic leaders to consistently maintain a sense of direction, while simultaneously building ownership of goals and objectives for action within the teams they are responsible for leading.

At Trainers without Borders, we believe that if you’re an aspiring manager you can learn to be a great leader. This foundation course provides you with key insights, tips and skills to better manage, perform, motivate and ultimately become a successful leader. During this introductory 3 days course, you will learn why management matters, and how successful leaders build high performing teams. Ultimately, leaders develop others to make a significant contribution to their work. If you are looking to increase your skills around management and leadership, and if you believe you have what it takes to lead, then register now to start this evolution.

Learn practical tools that you can use in real-life situations.

• Learn new Leadership and Management techniques
• Get the best performance from yourself and others
• Communicate your goals with greater clarity and confidence
• Properly plan, prioritise, and delegate tasks: Effective time management skills
• Handle difficult people and manage conflict situations
• Improve your motivation, self-confidence and self-control
• Create and sustain a Positive Work Atmosphere in the rest of the team

Leadership – Role, Skills and Styles

• Definition and the Leadership Grid
• Collaborative leadership
• Transitional leadership
• Visionary leadership
• Situational leadership

 Leadership and Self-Management

• How do you get the best from yourself and others?
• Self-assessment tools and approaches
• Leadership traits and styles (theory and application)
• Emotional intelligence
• Gender and leadership
• Develop the six key leadership management skills
• How to develop goal focus
• The accurate use of language: clear, persuasive and friendly
• Distinguish the positive critic from the negative cynic
• How your mental attitude affects your results
• Inspire more optimism and motivation in yourself and others
• Eliminate fear and replace it with confidence
• Time management training
• Understanding “deadline pressure” and “value”
• Distinguish between being “busy” and being “productive”

Leadership and Communication

• Define your most important ideas
• How to handle difficult people
• Use factual, objective language
• Prepare your message in advance
• Distinguish Reasons from Excuses
• When to compromise and when not to
• Action plan

Leadership and Problem-Solving

• Problem solving steps
• Identifying the problem
• Techniques for developing alternatives
• Getting consensus
• The leader as a problem solver

Leadership and Management

• Authority Vs. Responsibility
• Delegation and Acceptance
• Roles and relationships
• The manager as a leader
• Being a leader: Bridging the gap
• Managing poor performance
• Group exercise (break away session and report back)

Leading people

• Understanding and leading individuals
• Coaching, mentoring and facilitating
• Creating and leading teams

Direction and strategy

• Strategic focus and direction
• Shaping values and cultures
• Change leadership

Developing leaders

• Models and theories of leadership development
• Leadership development for yourself
• Leadership development for others

Influential leadership

• Influence and persuasion
• Working with politics and power
• Leadership beyond the municipality

Conducting Meeting

• The ability to plan a meeting and structure an effective agenda
• Describe the benefits of having an agenda
• Techniques to deal with different view during the meeting
• Ability to effectively manage the three phases of a meeting — before, during, and after
• Tools and structures to run an effective meeting
• Ability to successfully facilitate challenging situations
• An understanding of how to use strategies and techniques for dealing with difficult behaviors
• Checklists, tools, and formats for face-to-face and virtual meetings

Application of Organisation’s Code of Conduct at the workplace

• the humanity of a human being
• five facts of workplace ethics concept?
• create and implement a workplace code of conduct
• explain Work Relationships to your team members
• understanding about workplace Safety
• Manage Conflict in a Team and Resolving Issues
• How do you react to conflict?
• Recognising and addressing conflict in teams

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