THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP  :  RAISING YOUR GAME

This highly participative programme uses participants own learning goals and organisational scenarios to explore various aspects of leadership The Emphasis is on helping leaders to understand the impact that their own personal drivers and personality have on their leadership style. The course uses a mixture of group sessions and one-to-one coaching to ensure that each candidate achieves the maximum learning from the event. The event is only delivered to a small group of participants in order to ensure that individual learning goals are met.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

Managers, Professionals and Executives who want to achieve more by learning how to build winning relationships and how to get the most out of others. It is for those leaders who are keen to maximise their effectiveness and become excellent leaders. Participants will:

Achieve a greater understanding of themselves and the impact this has on their leadership style

Be better able to motivate, develop and gain buy-in from other people

Be able to utilise a wider range of leadership and influencing styles

Have a more positive impact on the performance, motivation, job satisfaction and self-esteem of their staff

CONTENT

3 Days face to face training

4 one-to-one coaching sessions

Psychometric Leadership profile

DAY ONE

Flexing Your Leadership Style. This day includes: discussion and exercises around the different leadership styles. Looks at the impact that individual personality has on preferred style. Provides practice in using the skill of ‘Reflection’ and explores the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. Concludes with an action planning session to practice different leadership styles and a follow up coaching session two weeks later to review progress and findings.

DAY TWO

Creating Winning Relationships. This day starts with a review of the previous module and the opportunity to share learning experiences of practicing leadership styles. This module goes on to look at : building excellent relationships and managing conflict, coaching skills, creating rapport through language and gesture and active listening skills. This day concludes with an action planning session and a coaching session two weeks later to review progress and refine learning goals.

DAY THREE

Managing Your Organisational Impact. This module commences with a review of the previous module and the opportunity to share learning experiences. It then goes on to look at: engaging and motivating staff, creating a vision of success, decision making and the extent to which personality impacts on the extent to which we take risks. This day concludes with an action planning session and a coaching session two weeks later to review progress against goals and action plan for the future.

DATES FOR 2010

(Given that these courses are only delivered to small groups of participants at any one time, it is sometimes possible to be flexible about the actual dates that are offered)

Early to mid Jan	Psychometric profiling
Mid to end of Jan	Face to face coaching session
17th February	First training day
17th March	Second training day
28th April	Third training day

*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.

Early to mid March	Psychometric profiling
Mid to end of March	Face to face coaching session
21st April	First training day
20th May	Second training day
15th June	Third training day

*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.

Early to Mid may	Psychometric profiling
Mid to end of May	Face to face coaching session
10th June	First training day
8th July	Second training day
4th August	Third training day

*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.

Early to mid September	Psychometric profiling
Mid to end of September	Face to face coaching session
7th October	First training day
3rd November	Second training day
8th December	Third training day

*There will be a telephone coaching session after the first two training days and a final face to face coaching session after the final training day.

Venues

This course is currently delivered at two venues in Tameside, the Broadoak Hotel and Katherine Cavendish House. Both venues are close to the motorway and have free parking. Alternatively, the course could be delivered on your premises which potentially saves you both money and time.

Costs

We appreciate that these are difficult economic times for everyone so we will not charge you any VAT on courses within this financial year.

The total cost of each course is £1,500 per person (no overnight accommodation provided). 66% business link funding may be available for North West companies who have between 5 and 999 employees.