The Building Better Leaders programme

Explore the application of proven leadership skills and theory, suitable for both new and experienced leaders:

• Understand the difference between leadership & management

• Learn essential leadership skills including the Four Leadership Styles

• Craft the most effective leadership style for your teams needs

• Learn how to lead different team members

• Discover the importance of your leadership shadow

• Better understand the impact you have on others, improving self-awareness, and leadership effectiveness.

Explore learnings from miscommunication, resulting in better difficult conversations and communication:

• Improve your communication style with your team members

• Master the art of difficult conversations

• Learn how to give useful, detailed & constructive feedback

• Better understand how you respond to team members when under pressure

• Appreciate the benefits of asking more questions, making fewer statements

• Better understand how your emotions and feelings impact your team.

Learn the theory of effective goal setting and how to apply this to the appraisal and personal development planning process:

• Better understand the benefits of setting personal & business goals

• Learn how & where to use different types of goals for better results

• Accelerate your results through combined team goals

• Better team performance through engaging appraisal conversations

• Get new starters in your team to flourish quickly

• Easy to remember framework for all your goal setting needs.

Explore proven techniques for running more productive meetings, to better manage your teams outputs:

• Enjoy shorter productive meetings

• Avoid wasting time and getting off track with effective agenda design tips

• Increase delegate participation and greater idea generation

• Understand your role and behaviours required in any given meeting

• Make better decisions in a shorter time frame

• Benefit from clear and concise meeting recall for improved actions.

Build better working relationships through an understanding of preferences using the Myers Briggs Types indicator:

• Appreciate the value of different team members working preferences

• Identify where in your team you need to focus in order to stay ahead

• Build a more rounded team with complimentary skills

• Improve team effectiveness and motivation for work

• Discuss techniques for working more effectively together

• A fun and effective team building day activity.

Help people realise their potential through coaching methods and tips:

• Understand the value of how to use coaching

• Learn when to use mentoring, rather than coaching

• Easily begin a coaching conversation with a memorable process

• Learn how to use powerful & incisive questions

• Help team members find solutions for themselves rather than being reliant on you

• Use easy to follow coaching methods

• Increase your listening skills for better conversations.

Understanding your team and your own personal values and how these relate to your organisations values:

• Learn how to experience a more meaningful and fulfilling work life balance

• Understand why we believe what we believe

• Be more motivated and directed towards our values

• Better understand one another through shared values

• Improve our own tolerance and understanding of others

• Understand the difference between values and motivation

• Enable team members to act and behave more intentionally.

An interactive introduction to Transactional Analysis and how the drama triangle plays out in relationships:

• Understand the 3 roles everyone adopts in a difficult conversation/relationship

• Learn how to manage your reactions & emotions in your relationships

• Improve your awareness/ questions/ responses for easier conversations

• Help other people with the quality of their relationships

• Make more sense of your past challenging experiences

• Reduce your stress with better behavioural understanding.

Learn how to better manage and lead through periods of change including psychological reactions and why people resist change:

• Increase your awareness of how change affects different people in your team using the change curve

• Understand how you can help people transition for better outcomes

• Learn more about why people worry about change

• Help people understand their default behaviours for better results

• Implement personal changes in your life to better effect

• Get better at implementing change with 10 essential steps.

Get more out of your day by working smarter not harder with proven time management techniques:

• Embed the overall time framework to get more from your day

• Implement new and varied ways of working to get more done

• Use different approaches for different tasks and get better results

• Help your team to become more focussed and results orientated

• Prevent stress and burnout in your role

• Avoid firefighting by creating more time for planning and thinking.

Confidently and effectively manage conflict in a healthy way:

• Increase team participation in communicating their ideas

• Use conflict in a healthy way to improve creativity

• Tackle the elephant in the room for better team harmony

• Ensure you are able to spend your time on the most important aspects of your role

• Your team will regard meetings as interesting and lively

• Accomplish more tasks contributing to your results and personal development.

Keep your team engaged by understanding what motivates and influences them individually and collectively:

• Understand the value of what truly motivates people

• Learn how different people want to work, to see better results

• Get more from your team by knowing their personal motivators

• Easily spot and rectify peoples demotivators

• Use different influencing skills for better results

• Learn the three different types of influencing

• Understand the most important behaviours for better careers.