Today's Manager - Tomorrow's Leader

Leadership is a major issue in British management. An organisation’s leaders are responsible for setting corporate values, for sponsoring innovation and creativity, for managing risk and for developing individuals and teams. Senior management teams need to recognise leadership potential and nurture it for succession planning and expansion.
CBAs course places the potential ‘leaders of tomorrow’ at its centre and allows them to explore concepts of leadership, to gain the confidence to put these into practise. It will help an individual to recognise his/her strengths and to build on these so he/she moves towards reaching personal and professional goals within the organisation’s management team. It is based on running a series of learning days over 3-6 months. We have run this course for PR consultancies and advertising agencies - but it is transferable to any organisational setting.

Course Content

Individual management and leadership styles
Concepts of leadership
Theoretical models; Belbin, Adair, Harvey-Jones, Handy, Herzberg, Maslow etc
Qualities of a leader
Functions of a leader
Teamwork; team construction; team development
Leadership skills including
Setting an example
Task definition
Planning
Briefing and delegation
Controlling
Evaluating
Motivating
Organising Mentoring and Coaching
Communication and presentation skills for leaders

There will be a reading list and course work between sessions, when the course is run over a period of weeks or months. Participants are then split into learning groups to work on a challenge set by the sponsoring organisation, for example how should we promote better team working within the business; how can managers be groomed into leaders within the business; how can the organisation identify and grow potential leaders early in their careers.

Outcome

By the end of the course delegates should be confident to return to the workplace, familiar with leadership concepts, feeling more confident in their roles and be able to bring qualities of leadership into everyday situations.

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