Leadership Training & Development Courses 

 

The Business Case for Tailored Leadership Training & Development

Many people are increasingly finding themselves in leadership roles, whether by official title or not. For many, this position comes as a result of their commitment, performance and competence in their current role. The challenges many leaders face, however, are usually not those of technical competence but those of people, relationships, motivation and team performance.

Are you interested in qualifications?  Many of your employees will be.  Government initiatives such as L.I.P. place a great emphasis on them and if you bid for government contracts then they will want evidence of continuous professional development.  In an ever changing world each persons employability and professional portfolio is becoming increasingly critical.

Our courses can be linked to ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management ) who are the biggest providers of leadership courses in the country and have an enviable reputation.  The qualifications are linked to the Qualifications Credit Framework which in a nutshell means you can transfer that learning credits to other courses such as an OU degree.

Added Value:  The links to the MBTI or the SDI or the 16pf can add enormous learning and organisational value to this programme and dovetails well with the ILM indicative content.

Options for Organisations:  For in-house courses we can step between the indoor and outdoor classrooms.  If your cohort is of the same managerial level, project team or department then the challenge of the outdoors mixed with the rigour of the cognitive challenge is a successful and proven combination used by some of the most successful organisations in the world.

Why invest? 

Benefits of our bespoke leadership training & development courses include: Increase self awareness and peer awareness Effective leadership skills Effective communicating skills Coaching Skills Increased motivation of yourself and those you lead Level 5 – strategic skill base Level 5 – coaching skill base Peer feedback skills Nationally Recognised Qualification

Who is it for?

Team Leader Level 2 qualification is aimed at first line supervisors; really anybody who leads at the ‘front line’ and the people they supervise don’t supervise others.  This course will help ignite your enthusiasm for leading or fanning the flames if they have been dampened over the years!

Excellence in Leadership Level 5 is aimed at middle mangers, people with at least 2 years of experience, and whose direct reports are either supervisors or managers.  This course is about striving for excellence and although taught by inspirational leaders there is an expectation you come to most sessions with boundless enthusiasm and willingness to discuss, think and experiment.  Are you ready to start creating inspirational direction?

Dates and locations:

Our Accredited Programmes come to you or to a venue of your choice. As a mobile consultancy, we are able to deliver our leadership training programmes anywhere within the UK and internationally.

Team Leader: ILM Level 2

Do you have team leaders who are either new to the role or who you now wish to qualify possibly before they take the next step up the leadership ladder?  Our Level 2 Team Leader award is a great starting point. 5 days of highly interactive training that links models of leading (developed by people who lead very successfully) to the delegates own workplace. The workbook and course are designed so that as the team leaders participate in various activities they construct the key elements of the assessment ongoing. 

Content includes: Leadership Styles Action Centered Leadership Motivating a team through its different stages of development Communication and Briefing skills Confidence and dealing with conflict Delegation and Problem solving Basic coaching and instructional technique

Team leader with little of no experience?   The course will combine skill practise, knowledge gathering and reflection on your own attitude when leading to give you a firm bedrock to become an effective team leader.  The knowledge is learnt through interactive team activities.  The atmosphere is relaxed, informal with a focus on team leaders learning solid practical tools.

Team leaders with years of experience but no qualification?   Developing our selves is crucial in today’s competitive job environment.  Qualifications are a quick guide to future employers of the level a team leader is at and how much investment that person has put into themselves.  The course will give team leaders a common vocabulary to use with other leaders this is a powerful tool in that it cuts down confusion when discussing issues within teams

Excellence in Leadership ILM Level 5

Are you are a middle or senior manager who wishes to really get to grips with leadership and get the recognition for all that hard work?

Our Level 5 Leadership Certificate, 'Excellence in Leadership', is a cutting edge development journey. This is an invitation course only.  There is an interview process, usually done over the phone, in which we chat about what you will bring to the course, what you want to achieve specifically and how you learn best.

Criteria for joining this course: 

• Desire to be excellent as a leader of human beings.
• High level of participation in all activities and the trainer will lead by example!
• Willing to support and be supported by other leaders in Action Learning Sets.
• Sense of informality and humour linked to an absolute focus on thinking differently about leadership, leading and your staff team.
• Constant willingness to practise new ideas in the real world of leadership.
  

The course is 10 days, spread over 5 modules each of 2 consecutive days per month.  Two key elements make up the structure of this course; Our own Leadership style & development, and the participation in Action Learning Sets.

Content includes:

• What’s the level of motivation in your team and how much personal impact do you have as a leader?
• As a leader how effective are you at communicating and what do you do about it when it all goes wrong?
• How personally in control of your emotions are you in leadership situations?
• How good a role model are you?  Do you lead by walking the walk or just talking the talk?
• How many leadership styles or approaches do you use each day?
• When leading what key personal values drive your decisions?
• In your leadership role how would you coach someone who had the capability but not the confidence?
• Conflict.  Do you hide from it? Increase it! Or use it constructively? Leaders are often measured on this key issue, how do you stand up?

 

What our clients say

"I’m coaching my team much more now and waiting for their ideas, initially frustrating!  But it works and they only come to me now when it is appropriate and they have exhausted their own ideas...more time to think and plan, thank goodness."

"As someone operating at a Director level, I wanted to spend more time taking a broader strategic viewpoint but found myself dragged into fire-fighting.  A key element of my development plan was to enable others more through not imposing my ‘wisodm’ but using my experience and knowledge to draw out of them their own ideas and options.  This approach has had positive repercussions.  It has enabled others to use their own initiative and bother me less!, I have been able to start to plan a cross site training strategy to role out next year and I have identified someone ideal for future promotion."

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