Leadership Overview
Leadership Skills
The world of work is changing. The explosion of new businesses and ever-faster technologies has meant that basic requirements - of skills, attitudes, motivations - have shifted. Are your staff adapted to live and work in this new and highly-pressured environment? How can you best lead a new team into such uncharted territory?
Coaching and leadership development can help your colleagues and employees to develop skills and competencies that are needed now, and strengthen those they will need to use or display in the future. This should build a stronger, more effective, more easily-led team.
e-coaches Leadership Coaching
At e-coaches, we aim to help you to help those you work with - whether it is in encouraging them to develop effective time-management or decision-making skills, or by pushing them to explore new ways of problem-solving.
Your colleagues will learn to take more responsibility for making things happen. Leadership is about getting things done through people - so while e-coaches programmes assist with the development of your staff, they will also encourage the growth of your management's leadership skills.
We can work with you to create a programme of leadership training to meet your needs. Modules can include:
- Core Management Skills
- Identifying key skills for managers to equip them to manage and lead in a changing world
- Identifying current personal styles, skills and strengths, and targeting development areas
- Situational leadership
- Motivation and reward
- Delegation
- Working in Teams
- Recognising the need for improving the performance of teams
- Defining the characteristics of effective teams
- Understanding the responsibilities of both leader and members in achieving objectives
- Group dynamics and processes
- Managing Change
- Changes in organisations and working cultures, and the implications for managers
- Managing personal change
- Supporting staff through change
- Evolving realistic strategies for implementing change
- Facilitation Skills
- Skills and process of facilitation - what you need and how you do it
- Observing behaviours, receiving and giving feedback
- Agreeing roles and responsibilities
- Dealing with conflict
- Group facilitation and one-to-one coaching and facilitation
- Interpersonal Skills for Leaders
- Communication skills and techniques
- Listening and questioning skills
- Constructive criticism
- Assertiveness
- Handling conflict
- Negotiating
- Influencing skills
- Body language and voice tone
- Coaching and Support Skills
- What is coaching, and how do you do it?
- Manager and coach - is there a conflict?
- Developing your staff
- Setting up support structures
- Collaborations and Partnerships
- Working collaboratively with clients, customers and suppliers
- Cross-functional teams
- Working together - defining objectives, and establishing working codes of practice
- Creativity and Innovation
- The power of the mind
- Tapping into your powers of creativity and imagination
- Innovative problem solving
- How to encourage your own creativity, and that of others