Leadership Development (October 16 & 17, 2024)

Highly developed leadership skills form the foundation of a well-functioning organisation and a satisfying professional career.

Every modern workplace faces unprecedented challenges driven by accelerating technological advances, increasing complexity and expectations, consumer demands and societal pressures. In this context, leaders require exceptional skills to lead themselves and their teams to peak performance.

This program provides detailed knowledge and practical skills in leadership of yourself and others. it also explores the relationship between leadership, management and an understanding of the dynamics of organisational life. 

The 4 key areas covered include:

Leadership and Management & Leadership Key Competencies Framework

• Examine the key principles of effective leadership and management

• Present contemporary frameworks and useful models of leadership

• Explore the challenges of stepping into authority and utilising personal agency

• Build on a comprehensive leadership competency framework, assisting participants to identify their own leadership strengths, the competencies required in their current roles and opportunities for further development

Self-Leadership and Leader Resilience

• Explores skills vital to high performance, self leadership and resilience in leaders and their staff

• Addresses frameworks and strategies for building resilience and burnout prevention

• Identify signature strengths and their application to workplace roles and performance

Build Emotional Intelligence

• Presents an internationally recognised model of Emotional Intelligence, which will be immediately practical and useful to participants for self management and staff management

• Understand ways to build an emotionally intelligent workforce

Bring out the best in others – Building development focussed relationships

• Understand the key skills in bringing out the best in each staff member, building authentic relationships that enable and support developmental conversations and build performance

• Examine the 5 crucial conversations for leaders that can be used for managing staff and managing performance, managing up and managing relationships with peers and managers

• Explore strategies for giving empowering and useful feedback

Michelle provides in house leadership training to a variety of organisations from one day workshops through to 6 full day programs. Her leadership training is sought after, due to Michelle’s expertise in people and conflict management and the focus on leader resilience and emotional intelligence.