MG84
Course Contents
Module 1 - Leadership Styles and Techniques
On Day One the course covers different styles of leadership
Key Topics
- Leaders are they born or made?
- What is leadership and why is it important in driving change
- What are the different styles of leadership, and when should they be used
- What are the key leadership challenges
- What are the differences between Leadership and Management
- Leadership and Influence, and how to increase the influence
- What is your leadership brand
Module 2 -Leading & Managing Teams
On Day Two the course covers how to build, engage, motivate teams that deliver amazing results.
Key Topics
- How to engage and motivate teams
- What teams are looking for from their leader
- Importance of Emotional Intelligence
- How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
- Using the MCCL (Managing, Clienting, Coaching, Leading) Model to increase Leadership effectiveness
- Leaders as coaches and to use different coaching techniques
- Case Study and workship
Module 3 – How to Lead Initiatives Successfully
On Day Three the course will focus on leading initiatives, running projects, and driving change. Understanding the FAST Framework and how to use it to increase successful outcomes.
Key Topics
- Overview of FAST Framework for driving change, it’s history, it’s key components and positive impact on projects, businesses and organisations.
- Understanding Focus its importance, how and why we lose it and the impact of that.
- Techniques to increase Focus, ensuring alignment of goals with strategy, and understanding the benefits that they can bring.
- Understanding Accountability, it’s impact and importance on organisations, how and why we lose, and the impact that has on ownership and results.
- Understand the impact of blame, and how to avoid it.
- Learn techniques for increasing Accountability, Empowerment and Ownership which increase effectiveness.
- Case study and Exercise on Focus and Accountability
- Understanding Simplicity, it’s importance, how and why we lose it and the impact that has.
- Learn where complexity comes from, and how it kills understanding, engagement and execution.
- Techniques to increase Simplicity, ensuring team understanding and helping to build confidence, and understanding the benefits that this can bring.
- Communication techniques to ensure alignment and understanding
- Understanding Transparency, it’s impact and importance on organisations, how and why we lose, and the impact that has on ownership and results.
- Learn techniques for increasing Transparency, and how to track your initiative and maintain progress and increase motivation.
- Simplicity and Transparency Case Study and Exercise
- Understand the interrelationships between Focus, Accountability, Simplicity and Transparency, which can be compounded to drive even more effectiveness and efficiency and accelerate rate of success
- Learn techniques to perform a FAST assessment to identify areas of opportunity and benefit
Module 4 – Understanding Culture and Culture Change
Day four of the course covers culture, what it is it, how is it created, what is the impact of culture on an organisation and any change initiatives they are implementing.
Key Topics
- What is culture, where does it come from and why it is important
- What are the key drivers of culture, values, role models, rituals, and reinforcement
- Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast
- Key components of the culture you are looking for
- Organisational change resistance and techniques for overcoming it.
- Organisation Culture Adoption profiles
- Identifying Culture Change Champions
- Strategies for each organisational group
- Leadership and culture change
- Case Study and Exercises
Module 5 – Creating a Sustainable Culture Change
On Day five we look at the different types of culture and how to define and implement the right culture for your organisation
Key Topics
- Employee engagement techniques
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Aligning personal and organisational needs to help drive engagement and reduce resistance
- 3 Step Culture building approach Say It, Live it, and Reinforce it.
- Why motivation is not enough
- Engagement, Empowerment, Excitement
- Role of reward and recognition in embedding cultural change
- Measuring cultural change success
- Why culture changes fail
- Case Study and Exercises
