Leadership for Directors Course 2 Days

• "Excellent" Delegate Comments on the Tutors and Other Leadership Training Courses

  “Excellent overview of leadership skills with practical tools and suggestions for implementation”
  Chief Financial Officer – Bexley Care Trust

  “Very well presented, good content”
  Personnel Manager – Adviser Breakthrough

  “Good trainer – liked the humour”
  MD – NHS Bexley

  “This is my second workshop with this trainer who is absolutely fantastic. He makes the workshop fun, interesting and is very knowledgeable”
  Community Development Manager – London Borough of Camden

  “Excellent, relevant and real.”
  Vice Principal, West Cheshire College

  “Energetic, interesting, captivating, inspiring – very enjoyable day! Thank you.”
  Head of Design

  “Good refresher on leadership, time to think with some excellent anecdotes.”
  Deputy Principal, BHASVIC

• Leadership for Directors Course Overview

  Institute of Leadership and Management approved training centre for Leadership and Management training courses

  Good leadership is invaluable to any organisation. It creates a sense of purpose and belonging. It increases sustainable profits, helps to motivate and retain good people, as well as increasing customer satisfaction and retention.  Everybody wins and the workplace generally becomes a much happier and more successful business environment.

  Team work is promoted and respected, alongside individual talent. All the team members strive for the success of the organisation, and that of the team, as well as their personal success. Nobody wants to let anybody else down and everyone is team and client/customer focussed.

  Leadership is about inspiring and motivating groups of people to perform at their peak. Team performance can often be improved, or made worse, simply by changing the team leader. Good leadership encourages a better outcome from the group, than they would otherwise produce.

  Great leadership is about connecting the different functions of the business, in such a way that their combined performance is greater than the sum of their separate performance parts. It is akin to the extra value and quality that a great conductor brings to a group of individual musical virtuosos.

  This Leadership for Directors course will explain why good leadership is one of the most important factors necessary for sustainable success. It will explain the attributes and skills needed to be a great leader. Directors will learn that good leadership arises from the application of personal attributes applied using expert learned knowledge and organisational tactics.

  Chartered Management Institute Recognised Training Centre for Director and Executive Training Courses

  This 2 day training course is designed for both experienced and newly appointed leaders, who wish to deliver excellence in their roles as leaders.  This is a highly practical workshop, which will deliver the necessary underpinning knowledge in a way that will enable you to exercise those skills to achieve Excellence within the company.

  The Chairman of the Board, along with all other Company Directors and Senior Executives, will benefit from this course.  The training course is delivered by some of the top Leadership and Management tutors in the UK. They are deeply involved with Leadership and Management at all levels and have a wealth of practical experience at their fingertips, as well very strong theoretical knowledge.

  To ensure that the Leaders attending this training course will get the maximum possible benefit from their time and that the discussions will be at their most effective; the delegate numbers are limited to a maximum of 9. However, for internal single company courses, if requested to do so, we would be prepared to accommodate more attendees.

• Leadership for Directors Course Content

  We will be exploring the implications, responsibilities, challenges and opportunities for leaders; as well as the main styles and attributes of good leadership. The day will be based on best practice examples, drawn from a variety of environments and built around a succession of practical exercises and relevant discussion points.  The course looks at a range of leadership ideas from a broad variety of perspectives.  In every case we emphasise what will work in practice and any limitations in some of the theoretical approaches.  There is a great emphasis on the real world and what generates genuine sustainable success.

  What is Leadership all about?
  • A general overview of some of the crucial aspects of leadership.
  • Why do we need leaders?
  • Internal and external leadership

  Does leadership make a difference?
  • Are leaders born or made?
  • Is it mainly the qualities of leadership or the activities of leadership that are important?
  • What is the first task of a leader?
  • Setting directions and how to proceed.
  • Leadership and change

  Three Areas of Leadership:
  • Technical, Administrative, People
  • People responsibilities include?
  • Management versus leadership
  • Manage the people not the task

  Leadership approaches:

  • Situational and functional requirements
  • What do good leaders do?
  • What do they have in common
  • What do you do?
  • What are the gaps and why do they exist?
  • Could you modify your own leadership style
  • Would modification be desirable
  • The task, the team and the individual – Action Centred and other leadership approaches
  • Top Leadership styles today, with exercises to demonstrate

  Personal preferred leadership style?
  • Weaknesses and strengths of your preferred style
  • Suggest a personal action plan to minimise your own leadership weaknesses and to maximise your leadership strengths

  Motivation

  • What does the latest research say?
  • Provide a motivating purpose – enhance the pride of your team in the value and importance of their work
  • Create a sense of belonging to a group.  Consciously use “belonging cues”

  Values and signals

  • What should the values of good leaders be and how should they signal these?
  • Should you lead by example?
  • Is collective cabinet responsibility best, or would a presidential style produce better results?
  • What do organisations with widely accepted best of breed Leadership do?
• Leadership for Directors Course Leaders

  The Senior Course Leader is probably one of the best qualified people in the world to deliver this course.  He is a former Microsoft Finance Director.  Until late 2019, he was based in Seattle, in charge of the $4bn turnover Windows Application division.  During his last two years with Microsoft, he was part of the elite Microsoft Leadership Coaching team that nurtured and cultivated the talents of the Microsoft Senior Executive talent pool.

  He holds an Oxford University M.Sc. and is an accredited international executive coach.  He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, an FCA.  He has extensive experience in Leadership training and coaching and in the UK has delivered leadership training courses and coaching for the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the ICAEW.

  The course tutors are very well qualified and highly experienced individuals.  Their delivery styles are dynamic, approachable and highly interactive, enabling them to deliver a workshop that you will benefit from and equally importantly, one that you will remember and be able to put into practice in your company enjoy.  Their courses are typically assessed as “Excellent” by their delegates.  The Senior Course Leader will always assume the lead role and deliver the majority of every course.

   

• Who Should Attend This Leadership for Directors Training Course

  This 2 day training course is designed for both experienced and newly appointed leaders, who wish to incorporate best leadership practices within their own leadership style.  This programme is also well suited for those about to be appointed senior leaders.  This is a highly practical workshop, which will deliver the necessary underpinning knowledge in a way that will enable you to exercise those skills to achieve Excellence within the company.

  Leadership does not require charismatic natural born leaders, but it is about what the attitudes and behaviours are of our leaders.  Good Leaders are mainly identified by what they “do”, not by their natural skills and characteristics.

  The Chairman of the Board, along with all other Company Directors and Senior Executives, will benefit from this course.  It is delivered by some of the top Leadership and Management tutors in the UK. They are deeply involved with Leadership and Management at all levels and have a wealth of practical experience at their fingertips, as well very strong theoretical knowledge.

  To ensure that the Leaders attending this training course will get the maximum possible benefit from their time and that the discussions will be at their most effective; the delegate numbers are limited to a maximum of 9. However, for internal single company courses, if requested to do so, we would be prepared to accommodate more attendees.

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• Leadership for Directors Training Course Learning Objectives

  Through exploring several practical leadership exercises, by the end of this training course participants will be better able to:

  • Have a clear idea of why we need leaders
  • Fully understand the roles and responsibilities of good leaders
  • Recognise and understand the characteristics and attributes of good leaders
  • Have a very good understanding of their own natural leadership style, and its strengths and weaknesses
  • Know and understand the impacts of the main leadership styles
  • Recognise how to adjust their own leadership styles to suit the strengths and weaknesses of their own team members
  • Fully understand the roles and responsibilities of leaders
  • Recognise how to determine the best ways to improve their own performances as leaders and the performances of their teams and how to develop the individuals within those teams
  • Be able to understand the requirements their own style of leadership and how that impacts the performance of their teams
  • Have a clear idea of how to tackle essential matters such as motivation, discipline, communication etc.
  • Define, analyse and interpret the leadership issues inherent in any decision scenario.
• Internal Leadership Talent Pool Development

  This training workshop and subsequent leadership coaching can be delivered as internal training courses and coaching at your premises. Even with groups as small as 6 delegates, the course fees per person for internal training workshops can be lower than for open events. The potential savings are even greater, if the travel time and the travel costs of the delegates are included.

  Running training workshops internally is very convenient and it allows the participants to explore how key issues will impact on them and their organisation. Then as a team they can begin to agree upon a development action plan, with priorities. This approach is favoured by many of our clients as it combines a high quality service with excellent value for money and a highly effective route for senior executive development.

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• Certificates of Professional Development

  We are accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management as an approved training centre for Leadership and Management courses.  The logo of the Institute of Leadership and Management along with that of Excellence in Learning will be on the certificates.

  This course is recognised for CPD purposes by most professional institutes and associations including the Institute of Leadership and Management, the Institute of Directors, the Law Society, the CIM, the CMI, the ICAEW, the Institute of Learning and the CIPD. Formal Certificates of Professional Development will be issued to all participants who successfully complete this course.

  These certificates will enable participants to evidence the update of their CPD records. The workshop will consider how to best apply the knowledge gained by the delegates upon their return to the workplace. This element of the programme is designed to maximise the benefits of attending the course.

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