Effective Management and Leadership Styles
Effective Management and Leadership Styles
OBJECTIVES
- Identifying your current preferred management and leadership style
- Choosing the most appropriate management or leadership style for a given situation
- Understanding the impact of different styles on others
- Increasing your ability to motivate and develop others
- Using an effective influencing style
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The course is aimed principally at functional professionals and those aspiring to senior positions wishing to expand the repertoire of styles available to them.
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1 – Defining Your Role
- Management or Leadership?
- 21st-Century Leadership
- Meeting the Organization’s Needs
- Dealing with Dilemmas
Day 2 – Developing an Effective Management Style
- Self-Knowledge
- Influence, Authority & Power
- Behavior & Behavior Change
- Leading by Example
- The Role of Emotions
- Rapport
Day 3 – Different Management and Leadership Styles
- Hands On or Hands Off?
- From the Front or From a Distance?
- Delegating or Empowering?
- Consulting or Directing?
- Carrot or Stick?
- Conforming or Challenging?
Day 4 – Adapting Your Style
- Approaches to Leadership
- Developing Team Members
- Developing a Supportive Environment
- Reading the Signs
- Developing New Thinking
Day 5 – Personal Development
- Practical Solutions: Identifying Needs
- Practical Solutions: Goal-Setting
- Practical Solutions: Development Planning
- Practical Solutions: Mentoring
- Practical Solutions: Action Learning