Management Training & Leadership Development
Righttrack Consultancy delivers bespoke management training & leadership development solutions:
To enhance organisational effectiveness
To build leadership impact to deliver the strategy
Leadership Development Training
The debate about whether leaders are born or made will undoubtedly go on for ever; one thing that does seem to be agreed is that focusing attention on leadership development training has a positive impact on the abilities of leaders in any organisation.
Leadership Development Training Topics cover:
Raising Self Awareness
Leadership Skills
Communications For Leaders
Creating High Performing Teams
Leading Change
It is often said, “If you want to understand others, first understand yourself”, and this is a fundamental step in our strategy for leadership development. If a leader analyses their own strengths they are able to use them to the full, whilst managing weaknesses ensures that these do not have a negative impact on overall fulfilment of the role.
Self analysis
An instrument that we recommend and frequently use to facilitate self analysis is the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®). For those not familiar with the MBTI, it is one of the world’s leading personality tools. It provides both individuals and teams with an understanding of their own and others’ personality style. By understanding and recognising the differences between the personality types, individuals and groups are able to work together more effectively and efficiently, improving communication and reducing conflict.
The benefits of using MBTI can include:
People understand themselves, their strengths, and their own personal preferences
Helps to establish a common language leading to increased understanding and greater
respect
Helps people better understand and appreciate individual differences in others
Helps people improve their interpersonal communication
People develop more effective relationships
Self development
Many of our leadership projects include a 360° process where individuals invite a circle of colleagues to give feedback on perceived skills and behaviours. Evaluation of the feedback greatly enhances self awareness, and after leadership development gives a clear measure of the impact of the learning. It is also an indicator of programme effectiveness and return on investment.
Working with you we build the 360° feedback questionnaire and process based on your competency framework. As a development strategy we will often hold workshops for participants involving them in the construction of the questionnaire. This provides thorough understanding of the competencies and how the answers may be interpreted.
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Effective leadership is not just about using the right behaviours it is about being able to adapt those behaviours to suit the situation and keep the organisation motivated to deliver in the face of changing needs.
Leadership style
An essential element of understanding for any leader is the difference between managing and leading. This fundamental awareness will then direct behaviour and actions in all aspects of the leadership and management role.
Together we agree the building blocks and decide the programme duration to achieve your objectives:
Why leadership
Why management
The difference between managing and leading
Great leaders and managers in history
What do I do when I am managing and what do I do when I am leading
Motivating others
No programme in leadership is complete without covering the role of the leader in creating a motivational environment for individuals, teams and the organisation. The ever growing body of material on motivation regularly refers to the published works of arguably the most famous names Maslow, Hertzberg and McGregor. And so this module explores the thinking, the interrelationships and value of these renowned theories. Most importantly participants are directed to translate the learning into practical aspects of their leadership role.
Together we agree the building blocks and decide the programme duration to achieve your objectives:
Classic motivational theory and its relevance today in your organisation
Identifying my motivators
Recognising others motivators
Motivation for leaders
Team motivation in practice
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Effective communication is important for anyone to be successful in business, but for leaders it becomes a critical skill as they need to persuade and influence others across the organisation.
Advanced communication skills
In leadership development enhancing communication skills is an essential part of augmenting effectiveness and influence.
Typically participants will explore models and cover skills such as:
Push-pull
Positioning for leaders – from the front, from behind, along side
Strategies to recognise and adapt behavioural ‘states’
Advanced questioning skills
Behaviours in specific situations
Where appropriate these are contextualised in scenarios, case studies.
Persuasion and influence
Understanding and practicing persuasion and influencing skills is a key element of leadership development. Combined with other elements of a structured programme this module stretches and extends the capability of the developing leader.
Content typically includes:
Understanding the scope of our influence and how to flex it
Appreciating what we can, cannot, or may be able to influence
Understanding the relationship between communication, influence and behaviour
Identifying aggressive and passive behaviours
Using the verbal and non-verbal tools of communication in order to influence
Understanding the causes of personal blocks and barriers
Managing personal strengths and weaknesses
Planning for influence situations
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A leader can only lead if a team is prepared to follow, so creating and maintaining an effective and efficient team is at the heart of successful leadership.
Building the team
Sound leadership will result in higher team performance and the first step in achieving this is building the most effective team.
Typically this area will include:
Identifying personal and organisational values and dealing with conflicts
Understanding team development stages
Adopting leadership styles to suit team development stage
Applying motivational theories in leading teams
Understanding the work of Meredith Belbin; how team roles can direct team composition
Using knowledge of team roles to decide on allocation of work and groups
Working with the team and their Belbin team roles
Achieving peak performance
Achieving maximum performance from the team is a critical function of any leader.
Typically this area will include:
Appreciate the factors that motivate high performance
Agreeing objectives and goals
Giving & receiving feedback
Managing performance meetings
Growing excellent performers
Coaching skills to promote best performance
Handling high and low performance
Getting the best from the team
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Understanding change and its place in the organisation is crucial to the success of every leader. Change happens, whether managed or not, but leading change places you firmly in control.
Planning for change
Anticipating and planning change dramatically increases the success rate, speeds up the process, saves costs and reduces loss of efficiency.
Key factors of development might include:
Factors that drive change
Experiences of change – which changes, what for, how effective?
Planning implementation processes including: people, processes & resources
Understanding the Change Curve
Understanding the pitfalls of change
Communicating the change
Maximising the message
Minimising resistance
Setting meaningful targets to encourage change
Problem solving & decision making
The creative approach to problem solving gives leaders the skills to generate new and innovative solutions which modern businesses need to stay one step ahead of the competition.
Typical areas might include:
Effective problem solving and its role in continuous change and improvement
Problem identification
Golden rules for problem solving
Using problem analysis tools
Identifying solutions use of creative methods
Implementing effective solutions
Selecting the most appropriate solutions
Stakeholder analysis
Risk analysis for the implementation of a solution or change plan
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