Effective Leadership Skills

Effective Leadership Skills
1 day

Course Aims
To consider the principles of leadership and practice the personal skills involved in effective team leadership.

Assumed Knowledge
A basic understanding of teams and team dynamics gained from attendance on a Team Building course or from past experience.

Course Audience
Anyone who has to lead a team in the changing working environment of openness and empowerment.

Course Summary
• What is Leadership? – The Born Leader – The Taught Leader – The Basic Requirements – What You Have to Be or Become – Functions of Leadership
• Leadership Skills – Diagram of Leadership Elements – A Working Model for a Leader – Achieving the Task
• Meeting Individual Needs
• Maintaining the Team
• JOHARI WINDOW – Introduction – Johari Window Diagram
• Giving & Receiving Feedback – Introduction – Giving Feedback – Receiving Feedback – Feedback Characteristics – Values & Skills – Style Analysis Scoring
• Leadership Styles – Leadership Styles
• Management Styles – Blake & Mouton Management Styles – Typical Managerial Behaviour in each Style
• Belbin Team Roles – Belbin’s Eight roles – Significance of Belbin’s Roles for Leaders
• Stages of Team Development – Team & Group Stages – Issues in Team life Cycle – Behaviours in Team life Cycle
• Action Planning – Individual action planning