Leading Teams for Emerging Leaders

Overview:

Introduction:

Leading teams is a critical skill for emerging leaders as they transition into roles of greater responsibility. This focuses on building the capabilities to inspire, guide, and manage teams effectively while fostering collaboration and achieving organizational goals. This training program is tailored to equip emerging leaders with the essential skills and knowledge needed to effectively lead teams. Through interactive sessions and practical exercises, participants will learn key leadership principles, communication strategies, and team management techniques.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify the key traits of effective leaders and the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI).

• Build and lead high-performing teams through effective motivation and decision-making.

• Enhance communication skills with active listening and questioning techniques.

• Promote creativity and innovation within teams, encouraging a culture of experimentation.

• Manage and lead change by addressing resistance and guiding teams through the phases of change.

Targeted Audience:

• Senior Executives/Directors.

• Senior Managers.

• Managers.

• Employees identified as High Potential and Talent.

Program Outline:

Unit 1:

The Need for Leadership in the Modern Workplace:

• From technical expert to leader.

• The difference between managing and leading.

• Characteristics of highly effective leaders.

• Transformational and transactional leadership.

• The importance of Emotional Intelligence (EI).

Unit 2:

Building and Leading Successful Teams:

• Achieving the high-performing team.

• Stages of team development.

• Identifying the essential factors in motivation.

• The benefits and barriers to delegation.

• Decision-making with teams – avoiding group think.

Unit 3:

Key Communication Skills of Leaders:

• Effective interpersonal communication in the leadership role.

• Communicating successfully – Avoiding communication barriers.

• Active listening and questioning skills.

• Understanding your personality file.

• Developing self-awareness.

Unit 4:

Creativity and Innovation:

• Disruptive companies.

• Becoming a disruptor - personal qualities and techniques.

• Extreme cultures and extremely successful organ organizations what we can learn from them.

• ‘Agile Leadership’ – what it is, what it isn’t.

• Motivating people to innovate, experiment, and, 'fail fast' with new ideas.

• Presenting new ideas with influence and passion.

Unit 5:

Leading & Managing Change:

• The key drivers of change.

• The difference between change management and change leadership.

• Overcoming resistance to change.

• Change at the individual, team, and organizational level.

• The five psychological phases of change and their effective management.