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Leadership Skills Training Course
- Practical Leadership Skills training course delivered in 15 locations across the UK and online
- Delivered anywhere in the UK as an In-House course
- CPD Accredited - equates to 6 hours of CPD
- Learn key skills and approaches to lead a team successfully.
Course Overview
Course Aim
Our Leadership Skills course aims to provide you with a range of practical tools and ideas to lead your team effectively.
The course is useful if you are new to leadership or an existing leader looking for a refresh of your current skills.
Course Objectives
By attending this Leadership Skills training course, you will:
- Know the difference between leadership and management and when to apply each function
- Understand the wide range of skills you will need to possess to be an effective leader and manager
- Know a range of leadership approaches and the situations each should be used in
- Be able to get the team to a high performing standard in as short a period as possible
- Have built a clear development plan to develop the skills learnt in the workshop further.
Course Content
What is Leadership?
- Defining what is meant by leadership
- The differences between leadership and management
- Understanding when to lead and when to manage
- The impact of in-balance between the two
- What are the skills required to be an effective leader and manager?
- Exploring why these skills are needed
- Stepping up into a leadership role
- What to do in the first days, weeks and months and how to apply this retrospectively
- Using a simple leadership model to understand how it’s done
- Looking at a range of leadership approaches
- Linking a basic understanding of personality to communication, leadership and management
- Questioning and listening and coaching conversations
- Motivating and inspiring the team
- Communicating vision and setting clear direction and expectations
- Influence and engagement – being a role model for your team and creating willingness and want to succeed
- Delegation – what it is and how to delegate tasks that lead to successful outcomes
- Dealing with under-performance
- Setting SMART goals and objectives and using OKR as an alternative
- Effective performance management discussions
- Performance and development planning
- Tricky conversations – what you should say and what what you should so – and the opposite (what to avoid)
- Using the skills we’ve described and linking these to teams rather than individuals
- The team lifecycle model and how to build a high-performing team
- An opportunity to practice the skills
Who Should Attend?
This leadership skills training course is for anyone who wants a higher-performing team.
If you want to:
- Increase motivation
- Improve team and individual performance
- Achieve your team goals
- Have a wider leadership toolkit
- Manage under-performance
- Have better team morale
The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.
What You Get
In-Person Open Courses
A 1 day training course in one of our comfortable venues with one of our highly experienced Leadership Skills trainers. You also get:
- Refreshments throughout the day and lunch
- Course materials to take away
- A course certificate
- Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
Online Open Training Courses
A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced Leadership Skills trainers. You also get:
- A highly interactive online experience
- Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
- A digital copy of the course materials from the course
- A digital course certificate
In-House Delivery
A 1 day training course with one of our highly experienced Leadership Skills trainers at your location. You also get
- Course materials for each delegate to take away
- A course certificate
- Reporting on delegate evaluation
- Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
Delivery Options
In-Person Open Courses
Our Leadership Skills course is delivered in-person at venues across the UK. The cost of our in-person courses includes delegate materials, refreshments throughout the day and lunch. We deliver the course in the following locations:
Online Open Training Courses
Our Online Leadership Skills course is an interactive live virtual course. The content remains the same but the delivery and approach has been re-imagined for the virtual environment. Our online training courses are delivered by Zoom.
In-House Delivery
We can also deliver this Leadership Skills course just for your organisation. We can do this in-person at your office or a location of your choice or as a live virtual training course. We can deliver this via Zoom, Teams, Webex or any other platform that you are currently using and comfortable with.
Accreditation
Our Leadership Skills training course is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. This demonstrates our commitment to quality and industry best practices and you can be sure that the course you receive has been assessed to ensure it meets its objectives.
This course equates to 6 hours of CPD. After completing the course you will receive your CPD certificate and learning path document as record of your attendance.
Download the Course Brochure
Download a copy of our Leadership Skills training Course Brochure below.
What You'll Learn
Here's a selection of the tools and ideas you will learn on this Leadership Skills training course.
What is Leadership?
Leadership is a term that describes an approach to getting a person or group of people from point A to point B. It often sits alongside the term management.
These two terms together are 2 different ways to get a person or a team from point A to point B. Both have their upsides and downsides. Each should be used at the correct time, with the correct person in the correct situation.
Learn more about what Leadership is by reading our article What is Leadership.
The Skill/Will Matrix
The Skill/Will Matrix is a tool that is used to assess performance and provides guidance on how a leader or manager should adjust their leadership or management style based on where a team member is in the matrix.
The Skill/Will Matrix was presented by Max Landsberg in his book the Tao of Coaching and is a variation of the Situational Leadership Model that was developed by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey.
Learn more about the Skill/Will Marix by reading our article the Skill/Will Matrix.
The GROW Coaching Model
The GROW coaching model was developed in the 1980s by Sir John Whitmore, Graham Alexander and Alan Fine. It is described in the book Coaching for Performance by Sir John Whitmore. The GROW coaching model describes a framework for coaching and helps us to have more structured coaching conversations.
GROW stands for Goals, Reality, Options, Will/Way Forward. It helps us provide some structure to a coaching conversation to help others achieve their goals or improve their performance.
Learn more about the GROW Coaching Model by reading our article the GROW Coaching Model.
Adapting Your Style Based on Personality
Learn how to adapt your communication style to meet the needs of your team members to motivate, influence and engage them.
We'll use the methodology from our own personality profiling tool Target Personalities.
Dean Spitzer's 8 Desired of Motivation
Dr. Dean Spitzer described 8 desires of motivation in his book titled Supermotivation. Spitzer’s 8 desires of motivation are somewhat linked to Hertzberg’s internal motivators and provide some guidance on what motivates us and other people.
Unlike other motivational models and theories, Spitzer’s 8 desires of motivation go some way to provide a more practical approach to motivation by providing tiles and actions to the actual motivators, rather than trying to provide a more physiological angle of understanding.
Learn more about the 8 Desires of Motivation by reading our article Dean Spitzer's 8 Desires of Motivation.
How to Set SMART Objectives
In this article, we look at how to set SMART objectives. SMART objectives or SMART goals help make objective and goal setting easy. They ensure your goals and objectives provide clarity and increase your chances of getting more things done.
SMART objectives and goals are a key component of time management, performance management and management & leadership. SMART as a tool is often used incorrectly or used for the wrong things, as not every goal or target can be SMART.
Learn more about SMART Objectives by reading our article How to Set SMART Objectives.
Plus many more practical tools and techniques.
You can see more articles about Leadership Skills in the leadership skills section of our blog.
Our Team
Here are the trainers that deliver our Leadership Skills training course.
Andrew
Andrew is a learning and development professional who has significant experience of delivering a range of HRD solutions and has worked with major worldwide clients to deliver performance improvement and cultural change.
Lynne
Lynne is an experienced and enthusiastic Trainer, Coach and Facilitator who draws on her successful career as a Leader, Manager and Buyer to create interesting and dynamic courses and workshops. Lynne is qualified in Negotiation training by the Negotiation Training Academy, a Mary Portas Master Trainer and Worldhost The principles of Customer Service – Retail.
Rachel
Rachel is a positive and proactive business development Trainer, Presenter, Project and Event Manager, with over 20 years of experience in business sectors such as education, retail, hospitality, tourism, financial services, care and the public sector.
Allan
Allan is an experienced trainer who specialises in management and leadership skills, communication, interpersonal skills and personal effectiveness courses.
Ward
Ward is a business psychologist and Principal Practitioner with the Association of Business Psychologists with extensive experience in the field of learning and development, helping organisations and individuals to maximise their potential. Ward has worked in Senior Learning & Development roles with various organisations including, Local Council, Mencap, Barnardo’s, Sense, Marie Curie, Channel 4, 2 entertain, BBC Worldwide, Just Eat.
Declan
Declan has over 20 years working in Learning & Development for a multi national corporate organisation, providing training in a range of different subjects around management and leadership skills. He has a passion for developing people to achieve their potential.
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Susan
Susan is an inspirational Leadership, Sales and Customer experience trainer. She has vast experience delivering engaging training sessions in these subjects.
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Alison
Alison has worked as a lecturer in management studies and a programme director for CMI. She has a background in retail management and delivered courses to CIPD, ILM and diploma level. Alison delivers highly engaging and interactive sessions in a range of different subjects.
Aidan
Aidan is a vastly experienced Learning and Development professional with excellent interpersonal skills building great internal and external relationships over 20 years across a wide range of sectors and settings. Specialising in building and delivering Leadership and Management Development learning interventions as well as devising Learning and Development strategies at the highest levels.
Locations
Leeds
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Leeds.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Leeds from the Studio, Riverside West, Whitehall Road, Leeds, LS1 4AW.
The venue boasts light and modern meetings rooms with air conditioning and plenty of natural light. Refreshments are available in the spacious delegate breakout areas and a hot buffet lunch served outside of the room. Snacks are also available throughout the day.
The venue is a 10 minute walk from Leeds city centre and also from Leeds station. Chargeable car parking is available a few minutes walk from the venue.
Newcastle
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Newcastle.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Newcastle from the Leonardo Hotel, Scotswood Road, Newcastle, NE1 4AD.
The venue is located a 10 minute walk from Newcastle city centre and Newcastle Central station.
The venue has comfortable meeting rooms with natural light and air conditioning. Refreshments are available throughout the day in the delegate breakout area and a buffet lunch will be served in the room.
Chargeable public car parking is available nearby.
Birmingham
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Birmingham.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Birmingham from Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, Hill Street, Birmingham B5 4EW.
The venue is located 5 minutes walk from Birmingham New Street Station and attached to the Holiday Inn Hotel.
The venue has modern meeting rooms with breakout areas and air conditioning.
Refreshments are available throughout the day from the delegate breakout areas and a buffet lunch will be served in the on-site restaurant.
Chargeable city centre parking is available nearby.
London
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in London.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in London from andMeetings London Aldgate, the White Chapel Building, London, E1 8QS.
The venue is located in the City close to both Aldgate and Aldgate East tube stations and a 10 minute walk from Liverpool Street Station.
Other nearby transport hubs include Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street and Whitechapel tube, overground and Elizabeth Lines.
The venue is also well served by local bus routes
If you need to stay over, there are plenty of city centre hotels nearby including the Travelodge London City hotel, Canopy by Marriott and Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge.
The venue has a range of modern air conditioned meeting rooms. Refreshments are available in the room throughout the day and a buffet lunch provided.
Norwich
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Norwich.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Norwich from Holiday Inn Hotel, Ipswich Road, Norwich, NR4 6EP.
The hotel is a 10 minute drive from Norwich city centre.
The venue has comfortable meeting rooms with natural light. Refreshments are available throughout the day from the delegate breakout area and a buffet lunch will be provided.
Ample free parking is available on-site.
Southampton
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Southampton.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Southampton from the Novotel Hotel, West Quay Road, Southampton, SO15 1RA.
The venue is located a few minutes walk from Southampton station which provides excellent rail and bus links.
The venue has comfortable meeting rooms with air conditioning. Refreshments are available from the delegate refreshment stations and a buffet lunch will be provided in the on-site restaurant.
Parking is available on-site (you must register your vehicle with reception on arrival).
Milton Keynes
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Milton Keynes.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Milton Keynes from Kents Hill Park Training and Conference Centre, Timbold Drive, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ.
The venue is location approximately 10 minutes drive from central Milton Keynes and Milton Keynes Central station.
The venue offers spacious and comfortable meeting rooms with plenty of natural light and air conditioning.
Refreshments are available throughout the day from the delegate refreshment area and a hot buffet lunch will be served from the on-site restaurant.
There is ample free car parking on-site.
Nottingham
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Nottingham.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Nottingham from the Leonardo Hotel, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3BJ.
The venue is located a few minutes walk from Nottingham station, providing great city centre rail, bus and tram links.
The venue has comfortable meeting rooms with natural light and air conditioning. Refreshments are available throughout the day from the delegate breakout area and lunch will be served in the room or in the on-site restaurant.
Discounted parking is available in the hotel carpark which is located on the opposite side of the railway bridge. Parking is also available in the train station car park.
Cardiff
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Cardiff.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Cardiff from the Clayton Hotel, St Mary Street, Cardiff, CF10 1GD.
The venue has modern and comfortable meeting rooms with air conditioning and lots of natural daylight. Refreshments are served in the delegate breakout area and lunch will be served either in the on-site restaurant or in the meeting room.
The venue is located in Cardiff city centre, a few minutes walk from Cardiff Central station and public transport stops in St. Marys street.
Glasgow
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Glasgow.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Glasgow from the Mercure Hotel Glasgow City, 201 Ingram St, Glasgow G1 1DQ.
The venue is centrally located and 10 minutes walk from Glasgow Central station and 5 minutes walk from Glasgow Queen Street. The venue is also well serviced by other city centre transport links including busses and underground.
The venue has comfortable meeting rooms with air conditioning. Refreshments are available throughout the day from the delegate breakout area and lunch will be provided in the meeting room.
Chargeable public parking is available nearby.
If you need to stay over in Glasgow, the venue itself has excellent accommodation. Other nearby hotels include the Premier Inn hotel on George Square and the Travelodge Glasgow City Centre
Belfast
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Belfast.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Belfast from the Leonardo Hotel, Great Victoria Street, Belfast, BT1 6DY.
The venue is centrally located, just a few minutes walk from the main central area of Belfast and from Grand Central Station. The venue has modern meeting rooms with air conditioning and natural light.
Refreshments will be available throughout the day in the meeting room and a buffet lunch served either in the room or the on-site restaurant.
Discounted chargeable parking is available near to the hotel. Details of which car parks and how to obtain the discounted rate will be available in your joining instructions.
Bristol
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Bristol.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Bristol from Engineers House, The Promenade, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3NB.
The venue is located in the Clifton area of Bristol and has light and bright meeting rooms with air conditioning and natural light.
Refreshments are available throughout the day from the delegate refreshment stations and a hot buffet lunch will be provided from the on-site restaurant.
The venue is located approximately 15-20 minutes by car from Bristol centre and Bristol Temple Meads station and 5 minutes from the West End area. The venue is on a bus route serviced from Temple Meads and the city centre.
Limited parking is available on-site and overflow parking in the surrounding streets (you will need to obtain a parking permit from reception).
Manchester
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Manchester.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Manchester from Manchester Conference Centre.
The venue has modern, comfortable meeting rooms with plenty of natural light and air conditioning.
Refreshments are available through the day and lunch will either be served in the on-site restaurant or in the room.
The venue is just a short walk from Manchester city centre and from both Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations. A multi-story public carpark is available next to the venue (chargeable).
Liverpool
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Liverpool.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Liverpool from the Novotel Hotel, 40 Hannover Street, Liverpool, L1 4LN.
The venue has modern and comfortable meeting rooms with air conditioning and natural daylight. Refreshments are served in the delegate breakout areas and lunch will be served in the meeting room.
The venue is located in Liverpool city centre on the outskirts of Liverpool One, a few minutes walk from Liverpool Lime Street and Liverpool Central Stations. Payable public car parking is available next to the venue.
If you need to stay over in Liverpool, the venue itself has excellent accommodation, but alternatives include the Premier Inn Hotel Liverpool One which is right next to the venue too.
Edinburgh
We deliver our Leadership Skills training course as a scheduled open course in Edinburgh.
Venue: We normally deliver our Leadership Skills training course in Edinburgh from Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, 16 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SU.
The venue is located in St. Mary Street, a short walk from Edinburgh city centre and a 10 minte walk from Edinburgh Waverley station.
The venue offers comfortable meeting spaces with air conditioning. Refreshments are available throughout the day from the delegate breakout area and a hot lunch will be provided in the on-site restaurant.
Chargeable public parking is available nearby and the venue is well serviced by city centre bus and train links.
If you need to stay over in Edinbugh, local hotels include the Travelodge Edinburgh Central (St Mary Street), the Holiday Inn Express Edinburgh Royal Mile, Leonardo Royal Edinburgh and hub by Premier Inn Edinburgh Royal Mile.
Reviews
What people are saying
Here are the most recent reviews that have been left for our Leadership Skills course.
4.9
4.9 out of 5 stars (based on 108 reviews)
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Excellent training
Andrew helped our team hone our leadership skills, definitely recommend!
-Tamer Aray – 07/05/2026 – Leadership Skills
Leaderships skills
Well run course that I enjoyed and would recommend to anyone wanting to progress into a leadership role
-Regan Elfleet – 07/05/2026 – Leadership Skills
Leadership Skills Course
Great course, online, very valuable content. I'm able to understand people better and their behaviours and what they are trying to do. The instructor/coach of the course was excellent, knowledgeable, calm and all the timings throughout the day were spot on. Thank you so much, just what I needed and hope to do another course soon.
-Emma Bancroft – 06/05/2026 – Leadership Skills
Leadership Review
Great course learned a lot
-Fahed Chehabeddine – 29/04/2026 – Leadership Skills
Curating a tool box of Leadership skills
A great informative course with lots of new skills learnt, It really demystifies the role of a leader and focuses on what is important, the people!
-Fiona Brownlie – 29/04/2026 – Leadership Skills