Description
“Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people.” Those are the words of Business Coach, Kathy Austin. You have undoubtedly developed valuable skills in your management position, such as managing people, projects, budgets, and timelines. These skills focus on detailed action points and tend to be centred around solving problems and delivering project outcomes.
In the ‘New to Leadership’ online training, look at how to move from manager to leader. How to widen your strategic outlook and build further upon your existing people management skills. This shift doesn’t mean that the skills you have developed and used in the past are not useful, but it might be that they are not the skills you need to focus on for the next move into a leadership role.
By mastering the skills covered in this online course, you can motivate teams, communicate effectively, and establish a unified vision. Ultimately, you’ll enhance your effectiveness and unlock opportunities. Leadership goes beyond just wielding authority; it necessitates understanding the interests of those you lead.
Everyone has their own image of a good leader. Some believe that leadership is about commanding respect from your employees so they won’t hesitate to follow orders. Others think it’s about building trust and making people want to work with and for you and your vision. A leader should be a coach and a mentor to those who follow them. Leadership is not about holding a firm grip of authority over others. It’s about helping them develop and grow so that they can be active contributors to your aligned goals.
What topics are included in the New to Leadership online training?
• Moving from Manager to Leader
• Leadership: How to Negotiate
• Leadership: How to Network
• How to be an Effective Interviewer
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Communication and Collaboration
• Exit Interviews
• How to Build Confidence and Become More Assertive
• How to Build Rapport
• Influence and Impact: How to Affect Those Around You
• Performance Management
• Spotting Talent in your Team
• When to Protect Your Team
Each online course of this ‘New to Leadership’ training includes a 10-minute evidence-based, engaging audio track underpinned by a transcript, a further reading list, an infographic, and multiple-choice questions.
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Learning objectives
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Distinguish the main differences between a manager and a leader
• Identify ways to adapt your management style to lead in different situations
• Discover how to become a visionary thinker that inspires success in your organisation
• Establish the benefits of negotiation and the different negotiation strategies, as well as identify some effective ways to negotiate
• Establish the benefits of networking
• Explore the different types of networking and some effective ways to network
• Build rapport with active listening and supportive vocabulary
• Change your body language to encourage empathy
• Establish how to find inner confidence and become more assertive.
• Examine a range of skills for improving assertiveness.
• Discover the distinction between aggressiveness and assertiveness.
• Understand the importance of communication and collaboration when it comes to effective leadership
• Identify impactful techniques for improving your (and your team’s) communication and collaboration
• Discover how to be an effective interviewer
• Know the value of proper preparation, fore-fronting empathy, good note-taking, active listening, avoiding unconscious bias, and selecting the right questions.
• Identify the importance a talent management strategy has in modern organisations
• Discover how talent management strategies have begun to focus on ‘potential’ to address constantly shifting skill gaps.
• Uncover the 5 key elements of potential to look for in your team
• Understand what it actually means to protect your team and what it is your team needs protecting from
• Distinguish between protecting your team and encouraging accountability
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements
Course assessment and certification
On completion of the course a downloadable certificate is immediately available