Fundamentals of Leadership and Management
This course can be customized and delivered to your team where and when it's convenient for you.
Online / On-site
OVERVIEW
Description
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Understand your role and responsibilities as a leader and how to establish the trust of your
- Recognize and use your DiSC style and understand the needs of others on your
- Identify the behaviours associated with emotional Intelligence and understand how they can contribute to your leadership
- Apply theories of leadership to understand why people will choose to follow you, and stay motivated and retained in the
- Learn to support the building and effectiveness of
- Provide and receive useful and helpful feedback to enhance performance and understand the challenges the team may
Description
If you have recently been promoted to a supervisory or management position or want to sharpen your skills to become a more effective leader and manager, this course will help you master some fundamentals of business by learning the language of leadership and management.
You will learn how to make a successful transition from employee to manager and to confidently take on the mantle of leadership. You will learn the skills required to delegate responsibility and engage your employees on multiple levels. A large part of a manager’s job involves getting things done through other people, and this course will help you understand how to influence and direct other people’s performance. Finally, you will learn how to get the most out of your team by understanding the different behaviors within it, build trust and resolve conflicts. In addition, you will discover an insight in your own ability to lead your team to accomplish the mission.
Course Outline
- Team building
- Human Behaviour
- Emotional Intelligence
- Situational Leadership
- Leadership and Power
- Decision Analysis
- Effective Communication Skills
- Performance Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Organizational Values
- Organizational Change
- Vision, Mission, and Strategy
Who Should Attend
- Managers & Supervisors
- Project Managers
- Business Owners
- Directors & VPs
Special Features & Requirements
The DiSC Tools used for this course is DiSC Classic 2.0 assessment
The DiSC individual profile will be included for students to review before class. This will provide students with better insight in their own behaviour, as well as self-awareness moving forward through the course material. In addition, the course is based on leadership improvement and soft skills.
It is a requirement that every student has their own laptop/computer with their web cam activated for the duration of the course. Body language and visual clues are 50 % of how humans communicate, therefore these resources are required to establish maximum student participation. This will ensure a more beneficial learning experience for everyone!
Completing the fundamentals course will prepare you for participating in Advanced Leadership: Leading and Managing Engineering Organizations, which dives deeper into strategic leadership, high-level decision-making, and the complexities of managing engineering teams and organizations.
Course Outline
Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes and the Assessment Method
Syllabus
Day 1
- Team Building
- Trust and COG’s Ladder
- Human Behaviour
- DiSC profiles, Duty assignments, job motivations, Profile counseling, and job mismatches
- Emotional Intelligence
- Self-awareness, Self-regulation, self-motivation, social skills
Day 2
- Situational Leadership
- Readiness matrix, leadership styles
- Leadership and Power
- 4 types of positional power, 3-types of personal power
Day 3
- Decision Analysis
- Effective Communication Skills
- Performance Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Organizational Values
Day 4
- Organizational Change
- Reaction to change, change stages
- Vision, Mission, and Strategy
Test-Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes
Concluding Remarks and Final Adjournment