This practical, enjoyable day will give you the tools to go and do your job effectively and the opportunity to practise using them in a safe and supportive environment before putting them into practice for real back in the workplace.
To inspire, you need to be inspired!Having the right set of skills, tools and techniques helps us to manage in a productive and beneficial way.
Above all, the workshop will inspire you with the determination to engage with the people you manage to produce greater levels of achievement.
This workshop will enable you to:
Understand what the role of the manager is
Engage and inspire a team to perform
Recognise the range of styles appropriate for different situations and how your communication style impacts
Provide clear direction on your team's purpose, role and responsibilities
Understand how to create a motivating environment for those who report to you
Hold them accountable for delivery
Hold performance conversations
Review and evaluate your learning and have a plan to take back and implement at work
1 Bringing the role to life
Starting the day with sharing your current ideals and approaches using the pre workshop task
Understanding what you bring to your role and your objectives for the day
2 The role and responsibilities of a manager: an overview
Responsibility and accountability
Producing results
Managing teams
Developing individuals
3 Communication excellence
The model of a team communicator
What type of communicator are you and what about your team?
Practical interactive group exercise
4 Your role as a team leader - shaping how we work using the organisation's values
Your role
Your team's role
Enabling your team to deliver in a changing mindset
5 Engaging and motivating your team
Exercise: using a leadership model to explore how you are enabling your team to engage with current change, what's getting in the way and how you will manage this in your organisational context
Peer and group task and discussion
6 Addressing motivation at team and individual level in times of change
Exercises:Identifying approaches to motivating people at work based on a work based model of motivation: team taskExploring a behavioural model of motivation: team discussion
Review in plenary
7 Holding people accountable
The work cycle model of team performance:
Agree purposeSet objectivesMonitor performanceProvide feedbackCompliance vs. commitment
Professional discussion in small groups
Exercise: Practising short conversations using peer coaching support
8 Review of learning and action planning
Personal review and action planning
Group review of learning
Evaluation