Executive Leadership Programme

Leadership Skills For Senior Managers

3 Days - Residential

Leadership is about making things happen, putting your stamp on the future. Research clearly indicates that leadership skills can be identified and developed through leadership training.

"Very thorough course. Very professionally presented. Subject matter was highly relevant and transferable to the workplace”

No other senior level leadership training course gives you more…

Delegate spaces available on the following course dates:

Residential Courses
The course fee includes all course materials, use of video and other training equipment as required. Lunch and light refreshments are included in the fee for all courses of one day, or longer, in duration. The number of delegates attending each course is limited in order to ensure individual participation. Delegates participate in evening syndicate exercises and are therefore expected to stay at the training venue for the duration of the course. The course fee does not include the delegate's overnight accommodation costs.

 

Programme Contents

• Competitive Factors
• The Leadership Audit
• - How Do You Perform?
• The Hallmarks of a Successful Team
• The Challenge of Leadership
• - Managing vs. Leading
• Leadership and the 7 Stages of Business Growth
• Leadership Style
• - What is Your Natural Style?
• - Different Styles Create Different Team Climates
• - Style Flexibility
• - New Research
• Organisation and Control
• - Providing a Vision for Your Team
• - Setting Objectives and Performance Criteria
• - Getting "Buy In"
• Practical Teambuilding Exercises
• - Building Successful Teams
• The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
• - Knowing Yourself and the Impact You Have on Your Team
• Team Learning Reviews
• Communication Skills
• - One of the Most Important Skills for a Leader
• - Team Communication Needs
• Growing and Strengthening Your Team
• - The Four Key Stages, Which Stage is Yours?
• Coaching: A Core Leadership Skill
• - Demonstration
• - Practice Using Live Problems
• Self Appraisal and Image
• Managing Change
• - The Key Transitions
• - Force Field Analysis
• - Practical Steps
• Motivating Your Team
• Delegation
• - Benefits, Blocks and Stages
• Stress Management
• - Symptoms: Self and Team
• - Personal Assessment
• Business Politics
• - What Drives You?
• - Different Drivers Mean Different Politics
• Action Planning For You and Your Team

You will get from this course:

• 1. A solid understanding of modern business leadership principles and practice
• 2. Techniques that will allow you to develop into a great leader
• 3. The knowledge and skills to build strong, successful teams under you
• 4. Practical solutions to leadership issues
• 5. Discrete expert advice and personal coaching
• 6. A Course Certificate
• 7. CD of up to date self-development and reference materials to reinforce your learning
• 8. On going support via e-train, Spearhead’s scheduled e-communications of additional tips and advice to sustain your motivation and support your personal development when you are back at work
• 9. Access to the Spearhead telephone Help-line so you can get individual post-course support from your tutor when you want it


Description of course:

This executive leadership training course is one of our senior management development courses and is designed specifically to enhance executive level performance. Leadership is recognised as a core skill for senior managers and this three day course provides an intensive look at what is required to lead at an executive level and how to do it. This course is highly interactive from start to finish and uses case studies, discussion groups and practical exercises backed with input from our expert tutors to provide individual coaching to each delegate. Thus, as the programme develops, each delegate builds a solid foundation of the techniques and skills essential for effective leadership in today’s business environment.

As part of this executive training course each delegate completes a leadership audit. This audit has been specially designed to help each delegate analyse how they currently perform as a leader and the effect (both positive and negative) of their leadership style on their team’s growth and performance. Armed with this important information, the 7 stages of business growth and the leader's role at each stage is covered and the difference between managing and leading clearly identified.

Fundamentally, unless people are following the leader’s vision and objectives leadership is not happening. Just how to get people to do this is a challenge every leader has faced. In this course the keys to getting people to follow willingly are covered in detail, so ensuring that each delegate can use the skills taught and so provide better leadership to their team after the course.

Leaders succeed because their teams can achieve more. Critical to this success is the ability to develop the potential within the team and the leader has clear responsibility for the development of this potential. Some managers rely on others to develop the potential of their people, but research has revealed that it is the ability to coach staff to greater personal achievement that is the true hallmark of a good leader. Despite this, coaching is perhaps one of the most overlooked of all the leadership skills taught. Not on this course. Our experience shows that many senior managers find this skill hard to master, so our expert tutors will guide you through the how’s of coaching in a very practical, hands-on manner. Many executives have reported how valuable this part of the programme is and how it has helped them raise the performance in their teams.

In summary, this leadership training course is a great investment of valuable executive time because in three days this programme will change your life. It will challenge the way you currently manage and help you perfect your leadership skills, however experienced you are. By applying the techniques taught on this course you will be well on the way to becoming a great leader for your organisation.

If you want to consider a package of executive training courses for your senior management team, please contact us to discuss your requirements. We have many standard programmes that you can choose from, so you are sure to find a training course aimed the level of expertise and discipline you need. And because all of our open training courses run regularly throughout the year it is easy to integrate one of our open courses, such as managing change or financial awareness into the development plans for your team. 

Alternatively, any of our training courses can be run exclusively for your managers at your own training location and on a date or dates to suit your business needs. We call this in company training and we will work with you to ensure continuity between the courses we deliver and your own in-house executive leadership training.

If however, you lack the experience or resources to design, develop and deliver in company management training courses then we can also do this for you. Whether you want us to simply design and develop some or all of the contents for you – so that you or your own trainers can deliver it, or whether you want us to design, develop and deliver an entire programme we will work with you to achieve your management development needs.

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