Leadership Development - Leading and Motivating Teams

Many organisations today spend inordinate amounts of money investing in fixed assets, machinery, processes etc, with the aim to improve efficiency, remove human intervention, increase quality and maximise productivity.

Despite this heavy investment, problems still exist within many organisations with low employee retention, absenteeism, low morale, stress, low productivity, resistance to change etc. Research has indicated that the main reason for several, if not all of these issues, is down to poor leadership and management skills and an over reliance on systems and processes.

Clearly for organisations to be successful, developing and retaining highly motivated and enthused employees should be a priority for senior management. Creating a working environment where people willingly expend effort on a defined task, requires management to demonstrate good leadership skills and behaviours. Since no one leadership style or behaviour works in all situations, leaders and managers need first of all to be able to recognise their own leadership style and behavioural characteristics. Secondly they need to be able understand what makes a good leader and as a result recognise and make changes to their own leadership style so they become more effective when leading and managing others.

Over the decades, there has been significant amounts of research undertaken to assess what makes a good leader and why people want to follow them. What is clear is that good leaders have clarity of vision, communicate well at all levels and possess a variety of leadership skills and behaviours they can call upon when required. Good leaders also have a canny understanding of what motivates individuals to action and use this knowledge to improve individual, team and personal effectiveness.

In this two day leadership and team development program, participants complete a number of psychometric personal style inventories that provides them with a clear insight to their preferred style of leading and managing others. The personal inventories highlight how each participant has differing styles and motivations. One of the major failings of team leaders is to assume that everyone is influenced by the same motivations as their own. Being able to recognise these styles and motivations in self and others is a first step along the pathway to effectively leading and motivating employees and teams.

All participants practice leadership development and team working skills directly by taking part in an experiential exercise where they are organised into teams and are tasked with developing a business. In the simulation, participants have the opportunity to choose a leader, develop team working skills, experience decision making, assess their own and others ability to successfully lead, appropriately delegate tasks, assign roles and responsibilities etc.

Leadership Course Objectives

• Identify your current preferred leadership styles and practices.
• Recognise the difference between leadership and management and how different styles impact on performance.
• Learn what makes a good leader.
• Learn how to motivate individuals to willingly expend effort on a task.
• Develop a toolbox of motivational skills.
• Understand how to develop and influence others.
• Learn how to choose an appropriate leadership style based on the situation at hand.
• Develop decision making skills and chose appropriate decision making styles increasing chances of successful implementation.
• Recognise and learn how to manage stress within the team.
• Managing team dynamics to ensure that the team is working at peak performance
• Identifying team member strengths and their role preferences
• Recognise behaviour traits in self and others
• Gain a better understanding of differing personalities and what motivates them, leading to better communications and teamwork.
• Allocate tasks and learn when and how to delegate to reduce overload and burnout.
• Understand how teams develop over time.
• Build supportive and effective teams and networks.
• Recognise and understand different team roles and their importance in developing effective teamwork.
• Learn how to lead groups to deliver objectives and outcomes.

This course is facilitated as an in company program. The course requires a minimum of six delegates in order for the business simulation to work effectively. Please request further information by contacting Peter on 07818 244084 or click the request information button below.