Course Introduction

This Oxford Management Centre training course helps participants gain masterful skills for leading others, and it enables them to elicit the highest levels of performance from both teams and individual contributors. By participating in this training course, delegates will gain invaluable insights into what it takes to motivate, influence, coach and mentor employees, as well as learn techniques for managing performance, for dealing with conflict constructively and for developing direct reports to their full potential. As a result, those investing in this course will gain the opportunity to take their leadership skills to the next level.

Participants who attend this highly experiential and interactive training course will understand that, by attaining higher levels of leadership self-awareness, they create a solid foundation from which they go on to build crucial managerial abilities, such as leading people through change, communicating at the highest levels of effectiveness and creating an extraordinary team climate. The training course represents a comprehensive leadership development journey, one that will benefit not only the participants, but also their teams and their organisations.  

This Leadership Competencies for Leading Others training course will highlight:

• Approaches for exploring your personal leadership style
• Techniques for building a high-performance team climate
• Developing others to their full potential
• Managing and leading people through change
• Communicating for influence and success

Objectives

At the end of this Competencies for Leading Others training course, you will have learned how to:

• Understand your own leadership behaviours and preferences
• Create a team culture from which extraordinary performance can flow
• Coach and mentor your team members and individual contributors
• Motivate, influence and inspire your team
• Deal with conflict efficiently and constructively

Training Methodology

This Leadership Competencies for Leading Others training course utilizes a blended learning approach, and it employs a variety of adult learning techniques such as action learning, group discussions, video case studies and self-reflection exercises. The resulting variety helps delegates to stay engaged throughout the course, feel challenged and draw quick wins for their own development. It also ensures delegates will receive opportunities to link their learning to the real-world challenges they face back in the workplace.

Organisational Impact

Organisations of those who attend this Leadership Competencies for Leading Others training course will benefit in a number of ways:

• Grow leadership capabilities
• Increase levels of motivation and engagement throughout the organisation
• Raise your reputation as an employer of choice
• Reduce disengagement and absenteeism caused by poor management behaviours
• Increase your leadership bench strength
• Build a workforce that thrives and that pulls the organisation forward

Personal Impact

Attendees will benefit in a variety of ways:

• Increase your impact as a manager and leader
• Understand your leadership behaviours and the impact they have on others more clearly
• Become a savvy communicator within your business
• Accelerate your prospects for promotion and career success
• Raise your leader profile and your levels of influence
• Become a manager people will want to work for

Who Should Attend?

This Oxford Management Centre training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit: 

• Supervisors and Team Leaders
• Newly appointed managers
• Functional, Divisional and Regional Managers
• High potentials and individuals earmarked for future leadership roles
• Middle and senior managers wishing to brush up on their ability to lead others
• Anyone who wishes to increase their leadership skills

Course Outline