Leadership Essentials

Leaders are responsible for moving individuals and organisations forward. With our leadership course you can learn to be an effective leader by setting an appropriate example and leading the way.

This two-day course enables participants to appreciate the difference between leadership and management and develop the key skills they need to confidently lead their team to significant achievements. In contemporary organisations, leaders are expected to inspire, demonstrate vision, deliver sustained performance, create a productive and positive team culture, engage individuals and maintain a healthy work environment…and more!  This course provides you with the right mix of skills to be an effective leader.

This course is best suited for people who are in team leader, supervisor or management roles.

Course Times

• 8:30am to 3:30pm each day

Course Content

Introduction

• Learning outcomes and objectives
• Management versus leadership
• What it takes to be an authentic leader
• Five leadership practices

Practice 1. Modelling the way

• Shared Values and Behaviours
• Earning the Trust of Followers
• Develop emotional intelligence
• Levels of Leadership
• Vulnerability

Practice 2. Encourage the heart

• Identifying and understanding different behaviour styles (DISC)
• Adapting your style to communicate effectively
• Creating a positive team environment
• What motivates your team

Practice 3. Inspire a shared vision

• Understand your organisation’s vision and mission
• Discover your why, how and what
• Moving the vision to action (SWOT)
• Planning and goal setting

Practice 4. Challenge the process

• Building change capacity and continuous improvement
• Types of organisational change
• Individual change model
• Why people resist change and how you can influence change acceptance

Practice 5. Enabling others to act

• The stages of team development
• Empowerment through task allocation and delegation
• Provide effective feedback
• Situational Leadership
• Actively coach for high performance, support and engagement

Leading the way

• Building your skillset, style set and toolset by setting personal goals from the course
• Putting it into practice – action plans

• Understand the fundamental differences between management and leadership
• Identify effective leadership styles and practices
• Define the purpose and strategic priorities of your team
• Move the vision to action
• Engage and align your team(s)
• Understand how delegation empowers staff
• Move staff forward by providing feedback and coaching for growth
• Get from good to best as a team
• Explore the nature and impact of positive leadership practices
• Create the right conditions for individuals to perform and contribute to the team
• Build your personal capacity to lead

This course requires no previous training.

“The overall learning experience was great! Facilitator was very engaging, with a wealth of knowledge and experience and was able to expertly guide discussion in the group. Was great to have a combination of resources – PowerPoint and booklet. I really enjoyed the course” – Ashlee from NMHS

“Lovely venue and facilities in a great location. Friendly, engaging and knowledgeable presenter and the handouts are very helpful. This course would enable me to provide more meaningful feedback to my team members” – Katie from CCC

“I liked collaborating with the group” – Karlie from NRW Civil and Mining

“Made me think how I can apply these lessons to different personalities in the workplace” – Carol from Department of Education

“Trainer used life experiences to make the course content relatable and understandable” – Lucy from DMIRS

“Concise breakdown of the tools required to perform at a higher level of leadership” – Linus from EIT

“Covered a broad spectrum of concepts and ideology” – Anne from Main Roads WA

“Great models to take away from the program” – Danielle from Department of Finance

“Interactive and fun” – Shane from Successful Projects

“Engaging, interactive and extremely relevant” – Janet from Mundarda Child Care Centre

“Trainer inspired me to think more about my own approaches to leadership and things I can do to become an authentic leader” – Michael from DMIRS

“Good overview of management” – Warwick from Pentanet

“The best feature of this course was the way the trainer showed us how to apply what we’d learnt to our work” – Syeda from DMIRS

“The best feature of this course was learning the traits of good leadership” – Ibrahim

“I now more confident in my management style and optimistic due to my new knowledge” – Marie from Prastag