Leadership Skills for New Managers Kallang, Central

Course details

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 changing demands of their role. They have to be aware of their strengths and development needs. This Leadership for Managers Workshop will enable participants to more competently execute their management role.

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