In the twenty-first century, leaders are made, not born. Whatever your current skill-base, you can build on it. In this one-day intensive seminar, renowned leadership and management development consultant Robert Hersowitz will show you how. He focuses on the key factors, competencies, skills and techniques that today's senior managers need to be aware of in order to improve their performance as successful leaders.
If you want to ...
- Keep up-to-speed with best practice in leadership competencies and skill sets
- Examine and explore successful strategies for inspiring and leading others
- Learn how to apply leadership skills and competencies to a wide range of key interfaces including managers, team leaders, key staff, internal and external customers and suppliers (all of whom have diverse needs and work profiles)
- Reinforce and practice skills and techniques that ensure effective leader communication that impacts well on the rest of the organisation
- Evaluate, monitor and measure your own performance with a view to further career growth and personal development
... then this programme is a 'must-attend' event!
Early Bird Discount - SAVE £100!
Book before 18 May 2012 and pay only
£549 +VAT per delegate, rather than the usual course price of £649 +VAT
Target Audience
Anyone within a managerial or leadership role who is wishing to enhance their skills and approaches including:
- Senior Managers
- Senior Executives
- Team Leaders
- Head of Departments
Course Programme
The changing world of leadership
- Organisations, leadership and management culture - current and future trends
- The difference between 'leading' and 'managing'
- Making the transition from manager to leader
- Changing organisational structures
- towards the Fishnet Organisation (fluid matrix)
- how this affects leadership
- The changing role of the senior manager as 'leader'
- Identifying the competencies, skills and attributes that make senior managers effective leaders
- diagnostic tool
- self-testing
Essential ingredients of successful leadership
- Defining leadership
- the senior manager's perspective
- What followers (middle managers) expect from senior managers
- Balancing the leadership equation
- empowerment vs accountability and control
- Defining power and authority in the context of leadership in today's organisations
- Coaching and mentorship
- Inspirational leadership through visions and missions
- Future trends in leadership
- Leading and managing in the world of diversity and multiculturalism
Communication, communication, communication!
- Promoting, translating and clarifying the mission/vision
- The senior manager as high profile disseminator
- Developing and improving an effective repertoire of interpersonal skills and
- behaviours
- How to make an impact and a positive impression
- Building credibility through improving one's own image
- Improving confidence
- The senior manager as facilitator, coach and mentor
- Managing meetings and group sessions
- Managing poor performers and difficult people
- Working with support staff, particularly secretaries and clerical support
- Building and developing the management team
Leading change and transformation
- How change affects organisational stability
- Proactive and reactive aspects of change management
- The role of senior management in driving change forward
- Assessing and evaluating change factors in today's business world
- The nature and process of change and its human consequences
- The impact of change on individuals and groups
- Working with resistance to change
- Seeing change as a positive 'commodity' as opposed to an organisational hindrance
- Dealing with obstacles to change and transformation - lack of resources/finance/staff/equipment
- Identifying champions, backers, floating voters and those who resist change
- Learning to 'rewire the house with the lights on'
- Tools and techniques to facilitate change within the organisation
Course Director
Robert Hersowitz
In a career spanning 28 years, Robert has gained valuable experience in the design and delivery of a wide range of highly successful Management Development Programmes.
He has trained over 35,000 middle and senior managers from 35 countries in Europe, Africa, The Middle East and the USA.
Robert's repertoire covers a full range of Management Development topics that include Leadership, Change Management, Performance Management, Coaching, Time Management, Team Leadership, Presentation Skills, Facilitation Skills, Effective Communication, Personal Effectiveness, Leading & Managing Remote and Virtual Teams, Selling Skills and Cross Cultural Management and Business Networking.
His approach is distinctive geared towards "active learning" strategies where participants are inspired to learn "by doing". In this regard, Robert has become known for his innovative training and learning methodologies.
He has devised and developed a unique set of management tools that enhance and improve managerial and leadership performance.
In addition he is an effective Business Coach and also operates as an Organisational Development Consultant.
