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Leadership Skills Training Course in Manchester

Our 1-day CPD accredited Leadership Skills training course is delivered as an open course in Manchester or online. We can also deliver the course in-house just for your business as an in-person course across the North West or a live virtual online course.

Leadership Skills Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our Leadership Skills course in Manchester:

  • 1-day training course delivered in-person in Manchester or online
  • Delivered anywhere in the UK as an in-house course
  • CPD Accredited - equates to 6 hours of CPD
  • Booking is easy. Just select a location, a date and hit Book Now!

Leadership Skills Course Manchester – The Details

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Course Overview

Course Aim

Our Leadership Skills course in Manchester 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

Here's what we cover in our Leadership Skills training course in Manchester.

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
Leadership Skills
  • 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
A simple approach to leadership
  • 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
Basic Leadership Skills
  • 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
Managing Performance
  • 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)
Leading a Team
  • 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
Skills Practice
  • An opportunity to practice the skills

When you bring this Leadership Skills course in-house, the content above can be tweaked and changed to meet the needs of your team.

Accreditation

Our Leadership Skills training course in Manchester 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.

The same accreditation applies when we deliver this course as an in-house course for you too.

CPD Accredited

Download the Course Brochure

Download a copy of our Leadership Skills training Course Brochure below.

Download Leadership Skills Course Brochure

Our Approach

No PowerPoint

Yes, you read that right! We’ve removed PowerPoint from our in-person training courses. Instead we use more creative ways to deliver content and generate discussion.

Always Interactive

No matter how you attend, our courses are interactive and designed specifically for the delivery method being used.

Practical Tools

We minimise theory and focus on practical tools you can take away and use immediately in the workplace.

Clear Pricing

Transparent pricing for open courses and clear all-inclusive quotes for in-house and bespoke work.

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