Lead and deliver strategic change for your organisation

For many highly skilled specialists and functional experts, continued career progression often means moving into a role that requires management responsibility. Given most of your career has likely to have been spent honing your specialist skills this can feel a leap into the unknown. This course is aimed at helping you to build confidence in your people management ability and develop key skills to support your transition.

Who is the course for?

The course is aimed at senior technical professionals, functional experts and specialists who are developing their career into managerial roles.

What will I learn?

Through this one day course you will:

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a manager
• Understand the nature of manager as leader
• Identify the challenges in transitioning from expert to people manager
• Learn the importance of making time to manage
• Learn to let go – when to do and when to delegate
• Develop your ability to achieve results through others
• Enhance your relationships by building emotional intelligence
• Build personal resilience by understanding your strengths and potential derailers
• Create your ongoing success plan

To register your interest and to book your place, please contact Vanessa Harrison.

Raising the game: From manager to leader

Making the move from manager to leader is not just about doing more of what you already do. Leadership is a different role. As such it requires a new way of working, a different way of thinking and a new set of skills. What got you to be a good manager won’t necessarily help you to be a great leader. This course is aimed at helping you to make that transition and to learn to lead at a higher level.

Who is the course for?

The course is aimed at experienced managers who are new into leadership roles.

What will I learn?

Through the four core building blocks of: “doing” leadership; thinking like a leader; being a leader and leader as learner you will:

• Understand the relationship between management and leadership
• Recognise the levels of leadership in an organisation and the tasks, responsibilities and activities of each
• Understand the challenges in transitioning from manager to leader
• Develop a leadership mindset
• Create value through authentic leadership
• Build leadership resilience by understanding strengths and derailers
• Build collaborative networks
• Create your success plan

To register your interest and to book your place, please contact Vanessa Harrison.

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