Leading: Versatility for experienced managers
Aim: Adapting your leadership style to get the best out of your team
This results in:
- Understanding yourself and others to increase your influence
- Improved communication and co-operation between manager and team members
- Greater contribution by team members
- Effective leadership for team members according to their varying needs
- Motivated and committed direct reports
How?
- Pre-course questionnaire to support clear personal learning objectives
- Applying a framework for understanding the needs of followers
- Diagnosing current style with direct reports and its pros and cons
- Planning how to discuss and agree what direct reports need from you
- Profiling you and your team using DISC
- Analysing the strengths and weaknesses of the team’s profile
- Learning how to employ other leadership styles as needed
- Planning to complement and mitigate for the team’s strengths and blind spots
The course focuses on:
- Applying the concepts of Situational Leadership to each direct report and the team as a whole
- Becoming adept at identifying what direct reports need from you
- Getting the best from each team member, whatever their confidence or competence
- Improving your versatility in working with colleagues of all personality types
- Building confidence to negotiate and agree your role with your direct reports
- Practising versatility with different personalities in real life case studies
- Practical tips for communicating and building relationships with all types of people
Length of course: 2 or 3 days, depending on requirements
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