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 This
generic leadership skills course has been
designed for all those with responsibility (or aspiring) for
managing and supervising others. It provides a foundation
in leadership skills and a number of essential management
competencies. An option exists to use the course as an assessment
centre prior to candidate promotion or selection
for a development programme leading to a management
qualification .
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| Day 1 | Starts
with an overview of what is management, its functions, roles, skills and qualities
etc. to generate an understanding and consensus of how management differs from
what leadership actually is. That said other leadership definitions can apply
so what, arguably, is important is an appreciation of leadership within business
and specifically within participants own organisation. The ensuring debate should
be stimulating! With this insight, coupled with evidence from cultural diagnostics,
the need for leadership skills and how leadership can be achieved and best executed
can be examined. What needs to emerge is a pragmatic leadership
style geared to getting results within the boundary of practice acceptable
to the organisation and team members. To achieve a team synergy greater
than the sum of its parts requires the establishment of team values.
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| Day 2 | Will focus on identifying and
developing the leadership skills needed to achieve tasks and
deliver results. Styles and processes will underpin situational leadership and
team working issues and the significance of team mix will be revealed through
studying team roles. The practical work of the leader as a director and
motivator of people will be reviewed and the functions of management will be examined
in greater depth
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| Days 3 - 5 | Will be
residential, see action centred learning and can include team
building activities
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| Day 6 | Will focus on
the leadership role as a developer of people, and the leadership skills, procedures
and systems involved. This will include an assessment of performance review
and development systems and use of personal development portfolios
. Exercises will be used to practice developer skills and to help a colleague
to build a PDP.
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| Day 7 | Individuals
will finalise self and peer assessments, and various studies and exercises, including
organisational diagnostics. These will be presented in front of the
organisation's managers and course sponsors. The leadership
skills course will end with a surgery to review problems, needs and
personal action plans.
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NB1:
during the residential team building module individual skills will be
continually practiced by participants taking turn to plan, co-ordinate resources
and execute various tasks. NB2: throughout
the leadership skills course reviews will be made of task accomplishment, resource
and management utilisation, leadership styles, behaviours, roles and skills
etc. NB3: leadership skills questionnaires
will enable individuals to self assess, in addition group effectiveness will be evaluated
with feedback provided from peer members and tutor. This leadership
skills training course is a natural precursor to sending team leaders with their
team members on our team building course. | 
