Introduction to Leadership
Designed For: Newly or recently appointed managers leading teams (duration: two days).
Objectives
- To give delegates the tools to develop leadership capabilities and inspire
their teams to greater performance in the workplace
- Gain greater understanding of a leader’s responsibilities
- Create and maintain an efficient, effective, and motivated team
- Maximize your team performance by understanding human behaviour and
focusing on the needs of the individual and the team
What you will take away
- An Improved ability to communicate and motivate your team
- Strengthen your techniques for managing different levels of performance
within the team
- Specific plans and actions for implementing
Programme Content
- What is Leadership? What qualities or skills do you need to be a leader?
- The difference between leadership and management
- The role of effective communication
- Defining and communicating your vision
- Setting Objectives
- How to gain commitment
- Adapting your style to gain the best out of others
- Understanding what makes others ‘tick’
- Relationship Management
- Managing conflict
- How to Lead by example
- Individual leadership qualities and strengths
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear
Socrates
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are
John Pierpoint Morgan
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time
Abraham Lincoln
Problems cannot be solved within the framework within which they were created
Albert Einstein
You must be the change you wish to see in the world
Mohanda Ghandi
If you can dream it you can do it
Walt Disney
Success depends upon where the intention is
Gita Bellin
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure
Peter Marshall
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it
Mother Teresa
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree
Martin Luther
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can’t, you’re absolutely right
Henry Ford
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
Albert Einstein
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow
Anon.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one
Elbert G Hubbard
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step
Lao Tzu
