What is Leadership?

Perhaps it can be defined as the art of influencing people to accomplish a specific goal. 

 Influence

The ability to influence people is a complex task.  If we want others to follow us, we must have the power to sway or affect them.

Our ability to influence others depends on our ability to understand what makes people tick.  Your managers must become avid students of human behaviour and learn what makes people behave as they do.

Does your organisation live with:

• a blame culture
• unclear objectives
• failure to deal with 'Code of Conduct' issues
• failure to manage performance
• lack of feedback and open communication
• inconsistent treatment of individuals
• poor communicating by your managers?

Team / individual

Without people there can be no leading. People give the power to lead by willingly allowing the leader to influence and guide them.  In so doing, people relinquish authority to the leader (followership).

Task

Why lead if there is no objective? How can we influence others if we have no goal to guide them towards? People do not follow for no reason - there must be an end in mind.

High performing teams

Organisational behaviour specialists have created models to identify the clear stages teams move through on their way to becoming a high-performing team.

Tuckman's model is most widely used, which identifies four stages:

1. Forming

2. Storming

3. Norming

4. Performing

Every high-performing team once started out as a group of individuals.

Balancing task and relationship needs

Through working to get things done, teams both perform the task and engage in the relationship. Effective teams balance task (things to be done) and relationship (working together) needs.

Leadership training

'Inspire others through influencing and empowerment.'

Program content

• You can learn to become a leader
• What is the difference between a manager and a leader?
• Are there different Leadership styles?
• Can you cultivate a sense of mission and shared vision?
• How do you seek continuous improvement and innovation?
• How do you empower others by expanding their capabilities and teamwork?
• Learn how to give performance feedback
• Identify the dynamics of employee engagement and team interaction
  
• Acknowledge and reward your team
• Show confidence, display integrity, demonstrate energy and persistence
• Define the EQ - emotional intelligence - of a leader
• Identify the nature of change and its key drivers
• Kotter's eight-step managing change model
• Understand the importance of leading and managing change

Leadership training program outcomes

  

On completion of a Leadership training program participants will be able to:

• Define their role as a leader and identify how that differs from being a manager
• Embrace change and inspire continuous improvement
• Communicate well with others
• Inspire teamwork
  

  
  
  

 Find out more about our training approach

For a pdf of our company brochure, click here

 

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Understand our quality process for customising

Brainpower training has a unique way of tailoring our programs to your people and the situations they face.

1. Diagnostic Conversation TM


 

We can have a structured conversation over the phone about your training needs,
asking you some questions that are usually easy to answer.

There's no obligation, but if you do decide to go ahead, we can forward this info to our Facilitator as your 'brief', describing your specific learning and business-related outcomes.

 

This process is useful to do even before you decide which training provider tomove forward with. During this discussion you can judge if our course content matches what you are looking for and whether we are the right cultural fit for your organisation.

2. Scenarios
Once your course is confirmed, we send our ‘Scenarios' e-mail for you to forward to your peoplerequesting them to send in short situations or dilemmas they may experience in the workplace relevant to the topic.

Alternatively, you can simply come up with 5 or 6 that are representative.


3. Pre-call
In addition, our experienced and qualified Facilitator will contact you by phone prior to the workshop to confirm logistics and what you'd like emphasised or focused on.




Emotional intelligence


Without emotional intelligence, a manager can have outstanding technical training, a highly analytical mind, a long-term vision, an endless supply of terrific ideas, yet still not make an effective leader of people.

Effective leaders manage their own thinking, emotions and behaviour.  They read the emotions of others, display empathy and work with others in a constructive way.

Research shows managers high in emotional intelligence outperform their targets by 20%. Ninety per cent of a leader's results come from their emotional intelligence. 

Relationship management

Leaders inspire and guide people, develop others by helping them improve performance, manage conflict and resolve disagreements, build relationships by creating a shared vision and synergy.



What do people say about our Leadership workshop?


‘I am thrilled to advise that was the most successful training day we have held at Empire Theatre.’

Ann-Marie Ryan, General Manager, Empire Theatres




‘The course was informative, the Facilitator knowledgeable and engaging.’

Eliza Tsun, Business Manager, Danisco 

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