Leadership Development Programme

It is common for people with good operational skills who demonstrate technical competence to be promoted to managerial or leadership positions before they are adequately equipped. This occurs because of an often-incorrect assumption that functional competence will transform into good leadership and that leadership is a skill that does not have to be taught or practised.

So, what makes a good leader and how similar are leadership and management roles?

A very quick Google search on leadership will reveal a number of myths about leaders and leadership. Some of the most common are:

• Great leaders are born, not made
• You have to be the boss to be a good leader
• Leaders have all the answers
• All good leaders are charismatic

We believe that good leaders perform better as managers, largely because they enjoy a greater level of support from their subordinates. It follows therefore that we encourage all staff who have aspirations for promotion, to prepare well in advance for supervisory and managerial roles by studying and practising leadership skills as soon as possible.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Our LDP is intended for high-potential staff with managerial aspirations, as well as those who are already senior managers or executives, including heads of department, section heads or divisional heads with more than one team reporting to them. Delegates will gain critical skills and knowledge enabling them to influence others to accomplish objectives, and to build goal-directed, motivated and successful teams.

The course is about Leadership, not the functional day-to-day activities of management which we offer in a number of other programmes.

WHAT WILL BE COVERED

Module One – 1 Day

• SELF AWARENESS
  • Your locus of control
  • Self-efficacy
• SELF-REGULATION
  • Managing your stress
  • Managing your time
  • Developing resilience
• BUILDING TRUST
  • Integrity
  • Creating trust in the team
  • Managing accountability and responsibility
• SELF EXPECTATION
  • Understanding how your own expectations affect your success
  • Understanding how others' expectations affect your success

Module Two – 2 Days

• DEFINING LEADERSHIP
  • Definitions of leadership
  • Difference between leadership and management
  • Roles and responsibilities of leadership and management
  • When to lead and when to manage
  • How do you know you are leading?
• LEADERSHIP THEORIES
  • Trait leadership theory
  • Servant leadership
  • James Burns's transformational and transactional leadership theories
  • Visionary leadership
  • Situational leadership
• LEADERSHIP SKILLS
  • Communication
  • Accountability and responsibility
  • Creating synergy
  • Innovation and creativity
  • Developing people
• APPLY LEADERSHIP TECHNIQUES TO THE TEAM
• EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP TECHNIQUES
  • Methods to evaluate the effectiveness of a leadership action plan
  • Improving the effectiveness of leadership

Module Three – 2 Days

• WHAT IS MOTIVATION?
  • Motivation in management
  • Why is motivation important?
• MOTIVATION INDICATORS
  • Indicators of low and high levels of motivation
  • Effective teams
• MOTIVATION OF SELF AND OTHERS
  • Identify what motivates you
  • The three motivational drives
  • Identify strengths and areas of development of the team
• THEORIES OF MOTIVATION
  • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
  • Herzberg’s two-factor theory
  • John Adam’s equity theory
  • Vroom’s expectancy theory
  • David McClelland’s needs theory
  • Deci self-determination theory
• TEAM DEVELOPMENT
  • Group dynamics
  • Team development
  • Websites for ideas on team-building activities
• ACTION PLAN
  • Steps in creating an action plan for team building
  • Obtain commitment from the team to achieve the action plan
  • Implement and monitor an action plan

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