Excellence in Leadership

Learning outcomes

Understanding the management role
By the end of the session, delegates will understand:

• organisational purpose, stakeholders, structures, functional areas and managerial roles
• the specific responsibilities of middle managers in enabling an organisation to achieve its goals
• how communication and interpersonal relationships affect managerial performance in the workplace
• barriers to communications and effective interpersonal relationships and how to devise strategies to overcome these
• how to critically assess their own knowledge, skills, personal attributes and behaviour and how these affect their managerial ability
• how to identify areas for personal development to improve their own managerial behaviour
• how to plan and set priorities for future development

Leading innovation and change
By the end of the session, delegates will be able to:

• identify an opportunity for innovation and improvement in the organisation and the rationale for this choice in the context of organisational objectives
• evaluate innovation and improvement to determine feasibility and viability
• lead and manage change within an organisation
• identify benefits and implications of the change for stakeholders
• provide a detailed implementation plan that will lead stakeholders through the change

Delivering impactful presentations across the organisation
By the end of the session, delegates will be able to:

• effectively present their ideas to their board or teams
• identify the aims and objectives of a presentation and the intended audience
• research and evaluate information
• plan the content of the presentation and prepare visual aids
• prepare the location, equipment and materials for a presentation
• present an argument that is substantiated by facts
• respond appropriately to questions from the audience
• evaluate their own ability to make professional presentations

Ideal delegate profile

The ideal delegate will have the ability and opportunity to:

• Demonstrate recognisable management and leadership skills
• Implement improvements in organisational performance
• Encourage innovation
• Be involved in developing strategic business plans
• Manage risk
• Plan workforce requirements

The ideal candidate:

• Should have the experience, capability or potential to handle complex and unpredictable work situations effectively
• Be able to critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data to make judgements and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution
• Be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
• Have the experience, capability or potential to innovate and work in a creative way
• Have the ability to respond to change and ability to multi-task
• And finally and very importantly the ideal candidate has:
  • the opportunity in the role, to produce reports and assignments to an A level literacy standard
  • the time, the energy, and the drive to complete assignments within the given time
  • the commitment to attend ALL the days