This course introduces novice leaders and managers to the leadership styles and management approaches that are effective in today's working environment. It helps them assess their leadership qualities, strengths and weaknesses, and understand how teams work, interact and grow so they can manage their team from co-existence to collaboration, from inception to high performance.
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Module 1 (31 mins) What is Leadership?
Leadership Styles
What it takes to be a leader
Module 2 (33 mins) Foundations of Teamwork
Developing Team Trust
Setting the Guidelines for Performance
Establishing Clear Purpose and Goals
Module 3 (18 mins) Facilitating Teamwork
Improving Group Dynamics
Module 4 (23 mins) Growing your Team
Stages of Team Growth
Key Learning Outcomes
Once participants have completed this programme, they will have the skills to grow high performing teams through effective team leadership. Specifically they will be able to:
- Understand how and when to use different leadership styles to meet individual, team and business goals.
- Optimise the skills and qualities necessary to build a successful approach to team building.
- Understand group dynamics and the effect they have on individuals and on team relationships.
- Build an atmosphere of trust and rapport, where participation and problem solving are encouraged and differing world views are understood.
- Set and manage ground rules for the team and the task.
- Establish clear purpose and SMART team goals – goals that are motivational.
- Use their management and leadership skills to progress a team through the development stages, from forming through to performing.
Balance Learning Classroom Resource Packs have been designed to make it easy for trainers and line managers to deliver classroom sessions to help students develop skills and understanding. Each pack includes:
- A Workshop Guide
- Reproducible Student Handouts
- DVD or CD-Rom containing slides and video clips
For more information about our Classroom Resource Packs please click here.
The purpose of this workshop is to help students understand what the organisation expects of its leaders, practise some of the skills required, and analyse their strengths and development areas, and plan how to lead their team going forward.
Sessions include:
- Introduction to Leadership and Teamwork
- What is Leadership? - including Leadership Styles and What it Takes to be a Leader
- Teamwork - including Stages of Team Growth, Improving Team Culture and Dynamics, Establishing Clear Purpose and Goals, Setting Guidelines for Performance, Develop Team Trust and Towards Performance
- Closing Session
Our unique three-step approach is the flexible blend of the above e-learning, CD-Rom or DVD learning with our dynamic classroom techniques and practical workplace activities. Our blended process is flexible and its components can be used in a variety of combinations.
This training blend can be scheduled and automated by our easy-to-use piece of software, The Balance Portal, which has an optional 360° feedback module. Alternatively, online components can be used within a SCORM compliant LMS.
During the Action activities, the emphasis is very much on helping the participant use opportunities within their normal working environment to implement their new knowledge and or skills. They will be building confidence outside the protected environment of the classroom sessions.
Participants are assigned Action Dimension™ Activities at regular intervals via email. This is the trainer’s opportunity to support the participants as they take the knowledge and skills they’ve learned and apply them to real workplace situations.
