Leadership in Practice

The Leadership in Practice Programme is for those looking for a practical leadership programme covering current theory and practice applicable to your everyday context. Participants can be new and/or experienced managers, or those with leadership potential.

The aim of the Leadership in Practice Programme is to ensure that those in leadership roles:

Day

Workshop Name

Content includes

1

Workshop 1 - Leadership is a privilege
What kind of leader do you want to become?

• Craft a personal leadership vision
• Clarify your guiding values
• Be the example
• Determine your purpose
• Accept responsibility

2

Workshop 2 - Clarity precedes success
Where are you going?

• Envision a compelling future
• Connect the dots
• Clarify your expectations
• Set the standards
• Monitor performance

3

Workshop 3 – Putting relationships first
How will you build relationships?

• Build a high performing team
• Establish your networks
• Value diversity
• Delegate
• Share leadership

4

Workshop 4 – Expressing yourself
How do you value your people?

What do you need to prepare for?

• Care for your people
• Recognise ‘right behaviours’
• Celebrate achievement
• Call ‘inappropriate behaviour’ early

• Planning – short, medium and long-term
• Assess risk
• Be a problem-solving & decision maker

5

Workshop 5 - Dealing with conflict
How will you prevent / reduce conflict?

• What is and isn’t conflict
• Understanding the conflict spiral
• Stop the enlisting
• Dealing direct
• Agreeing team processes

6

Workshop 6 – Tapping potential
What’s in your development plan?


How will you improve?

• Take responsibility for your own career
• Choose a mentor & learning buddy
• Building capacity in others
• Develop a succession plan
• Create opportunities to stretch people!

• Expose yourself!
• Challenge the status quo
• Encourage initiative & creativity
• Tap collective intelligence
• Promote safe risk-taking