Leadership Skills for New Managers

Program Overview:

Sustained Leadership Development is essential for any organisation to stay relevant in the ever-changing scenario in which it operates. New managers have to keep abreast with demands of their role. They have to be aware of their strengths and development needs. This 2-Day “Leadership for Managers” Workshop will enable participants to more competently execute their management duties.

Learning Outcomes

• State the need for improving their skills-set to manage people
• Articulate mindset for personal mastery and self-development
• Describe how to model personal effectiveness as a team leader
• Identify their own strengths and limitations of professional competence and management practices
• Describe key roles and responsibilities for managing self and facilitating team’s contribution
• Explain the importance of communication and developing cohesive teamwork
• Describe how to motivate teams to achieve common goals and team targets
• Describe how to manage conflicts amongst team members
• Identify opportunities for innovation and implementation of changes to work practices for continuous improvement of processes and productivity
• Develop personal action plan for enhancing Managerial Supervisory Skills

Program Content

Part I: Managerial Leadership Development – The Next Lap

• The need for developing Managerial skills-set
• Personal stake in the organisation’s success
• Reflecting on personal mindset for development
• Personal Mastery – The power within to become more competent leaders

Part II: Modelling Leadership Effectiveness

• Leadership traits of competent managers
• Ingredients of Professional Competence and Management Practice
• Identifying and validating personal strengths and limitations
• Key roles and responsibilities for facilitating team’s contribution
• Reviewing development-gaps that retards their managerial roles

Part III: Enhancing Managerial Communication

• The twin-pillar of effective communication
• Becoming  aware of leadership bias
• Body Language – The ‘Silent’ Communicator
• The 3-A Principles of Empathetic Listening
• The 3-Pronged Framework for Feedback

Part IV: Motivating Synergistic Team Performance

• The umbilical link between motivation and goals
• Interdependent nature of cohesive teamwork
• Influencing Team Cohesiveness and Synergy to draw out high performance

Part V: Art of Managing Conflicts

• The pervasive nature of conflicts within teams
• Recognising the impact of conflicts
• Unleashing the power of conflicts

Part VI: Innovation and Change Management

• Need for innovation at the workplace
• Identifying opportunities for innovation to continuous improvement
• Emotional impact of change
• Managing change to improve productivity

Part VII: Transfer of Learning – Personal Action Plan

• Developing Individual Action Plan for enhancing Managerial Supervisory Skills