Leadership Management Training Course - 2 Days

Leadership and management training open courses in Manchester, Birmingham, Gloucester, Milton Keynes, Swindon, Oxford, London, Nottingham, West Midlands, Edinburgh – Scotland

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This leadership management training programme is designed to help you to gain more confidence by showing you exactly how to get the best from yourself and others, each day.

We will show you  practical methods to help you become more effective and confident.

The purpose of the training is to improve performance and create a friendly and productive working atmosphere.

Leadership management training objectives

Our management training focuses on the six essential leadership management skills, namely:

1. To set and achieve goals.
2. To communicate clearly.
3. To manage time and prioritise work.
4. To manage conflict and handle difficult people.
5. To create and sustain a positive mental attitude, especially during tough times.
6. To inspire others and create a positive, productive atmosphere.

Day One - Leadership Management Training:

Day Two - Leadership Management Training:

Day One - The Effective Leader Manager

Leadership training - Day One AM

Introductions
How do you get the best from yourself and others?

Develop the following six key leadership skills.
1. To develop a definite goal focus.
2. To communicate clearly, persuasively and confidently.
3. To intelligently organise people, and effectively prioritise work.
4. To confidently manage conflict and handle even you’re most difficult people.
5. To self- motivate with a positive mental attitude and to easily handle your stress.
6. To inspire others and create a positive and productive atmosphere.

The first quality of leadership
To provide clarity of purpose
1. Clear vision - The big picture
2. Goal focus
3. Standards- create a “Personal code of conduct”
Notes and then practice

Second quality of leadership
To communicate with clarity and enthusiasm
1. Leadership requires accurate language
2. You need to prepare clear definitions of your most important ideas
3. Concentrate on what you can do, not what you cannot / won’t do
4. Develop the art of intelligent questioning

Leadership training - Day One PM

Conflict Management Training
Conflict can be beneficial or destructive depending on how it is managed.
Proper conflict management requires that you: -
1. Always protect their “self concept”
2. Tell them precisely what is wrong
3. Give them a way out of the conflict situation
4. Be objective and specific, not emotional and inflammatory
5. Distinguish reasons from excuses and have a different policy for each
6. Know when to negotiate and when not to

Ten tips for constructive conflict management

Leadership training summary
Action plan.

Day Two - Time Management and Leadership Development

Leadership Training

Leadership training - Day Two AM

Time management training
What is the best use of your time right now?

Use the two principles of “deadline pressure” and “value” as key indicators.

1. Q1 Crisis zone
2. Q2 Productive zone
3. Q3 Busy zone
4. Q4 Fruitless zone

Distinguish between being “Busy” and being “Productive”

Handling the three time wasters
1. Other peoples interruptions
2. Your own bad habits
3. Poor or non existent management systems

Delegation
1. Good reasons to delegate
2. Bad reasons to delegate
3. How to delegate
4. Why people who should delegate - don’t

Prioritisation
Manage your priorities by means of a decision matrix.
Answer the question: What is the most valuable use of my time right now?

Manage interruptions by means of the 80/20 principle
1. The Pareto time management principle states that 80% of the value comes from 20% of the causes
2. 80% of the value of the interruption will be in 20% or less of what they say
3. Manage the interruption using the “Pareto question”

Leadership training - Day Two PM

Leadership training - a positive mental attitude

Positive mental attitude training and how it affects tangible results
1. Positive mental attitude. How it works
2. Positive mental attitude techniques
3. Manage your own mind. (Do not allow your thoughts or language to be become destructive)
4. The language of a leader

The EDISON success formula
1. Know your outcome
2. Formulate your best plan in writing
3. Take decisive action
4. Gather and evaluate the feedback. Both positive and negative
5. Make progress by continually adapting and evolving

Recognise that the success formula is a continuous process

Failure formula
1. Indecision or unclear targets
2. No written plan - wing it
3. Procrastination – put it off
4. Become disheartened in the face of set backs and disappointments
5. Stand still. Do the same thing this year as you did last year

The value of “Critical Feedback”
1. The role of failure in success
2. Forms of feedback. Constructive and destructive

Turning negative people into positive
1. Four steps to an emotion
2. Beware asking “Killer questions”
3. Instead; ask intelligent “Problem solving questions”

Leadership training - Final summary
How will this management training help you to get the best from yourself and others?

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Price for open training course

The Leadership Management training course costs only £325 +VAT per delegate per day. For this price we provide:

• Full days training
• Tea, coffee and cakes
• Lunch
• Full course notes
• Written action plan
• Certificate
• Access to the Post Course Portal

Plus 3 months free telephone coaching

To answer any on-going questions, you will also receive email and telephone support from your trainer after you have attended the course.

Whilst you are implementing what you have learned we will be there to help you if you need us for advice, guidance and coaching.

The training method follows this general pattern:

1. The trainer gives a clear explanation of the point in question.
2. The trainer then demonstrates the principle and gives specific examples.
3. Then, the delegates practice by doing an exercise with each other.
4. The delegates practice by doing exercise with the trainer.
5. All points are supported with full written notes to take away.
6. Delegates are asked to write down an associated action, for each point made.
7. (At the end of the day, we have about twenty such actions, from which the delegates choose six which are the most personally meaningful).

Note: we do not believe in placing people in any situation of embarrassment by demanding that they 'perform' in front of the whole group. So you can relax: come on this course and be at ease; ready to learn new skills!

Price for in house training course

Please call us on 01452 856091 to discuss your requirements for the in house training course.

If you want to know more about the Effective Leader training course or its suitability for you or a colleague call us on +44 (0) 1452 856091.

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