DESIGNED FOR: management trainees and those who have been identified as having potential to grow into managerial roles. Participants should have been with their employers for at least 12 months.
AIMS TO:
- Rapidly develop leadership potential and team skills
- Improve organisational and planning skills
- Develop leadership and communication styles through improving assertiveness, delegation and motivation
- Increase skills and awareness of accounting practice
- Strengthen abilities to plan and implement projects at work
ACHIEVED BY: a five part programme totalling 12 days spread over 12 months. The initial module is based in the Lake District and uses the outdoors to develop leadership and team skills Practical work-based projects link the units and ensure the application of learning and practice back at work A strong sense of group identity gives continuity to the development process and encourages cross-fertilisation of ideas from peers in similar roles
COURSE CONTENT
Unit 1 – Outdoor Development Programme
- Problem Solving
- Working as a Team
- Leading a Team
- Making Decisions
- Personal Development
- Project – Personal Development Plan
Unit 2 – Leading Team Safely and Effectively
- Leadership Style and Delegation
- Building and Monitoring teams
- Responsibilities for Health and Safety
- Project – Safety
Unit 3 - Planning and Organising Work
- Setting Clear Aims and Planning Tasks
- Time and Personal Planning
- Motivating Self and Others
- Work Study Techniques
- Project – Work Organisation
Unit 4 - Communicating and Presenting Ideas
- Employment Law Workshop
- Budgeting and Finance
- Communication Skills and Assertiveness
- Seeking Consensus in Meetings
- Presentation Skills and Structure
- Project - Presenting the new method persuasively, and then making it happen
Unit 5 - Managing Customers and Projects
- Internal and External Customers
- Managing Projects
- Tackling Crisis
- Personal Feedback
