Essential Leadership Skills

Essential Leadership Skills

23 October, 9am - 4.30pm, Gore

This one-day course will provide an introduction to the skills to successfully manage and lead your team. It is designed to assist participants with the knowledge and confidence to ensure they continue on the road to successful management.

Designed for

If you have recently become a leader, manager, or are about to be promoted into your first management position. This is also a great course for business owners and leaders who have had no formal training.

Learning Outcomes

- What matters in teams – the key elements of leading high performance teams

- Leader versus manager

- Appreciating the importance of self awareness

- Building effective communication skills, listening and feedback

- High performance model – skill/will matrix of staff

- Delegation

- Coaching staff using the GROW model

- Dealing with conflict (assertiveness and conflict management styles)

- Importance of motivation – how do you motivate your team?

The course is highly participatory and practical. Participants will be shown the various processes, tools and techniques and then apply them individually or in small group exercises.

Duration

One day, 9am – 4.30pm

Your facilitator – Richard Millar

Richard is an experienced trainer and consultant. His areas of expertise include leadership development, front line management development, team development, executive and personal development coaching, strategic/business planning and accounting for non-accountants training.

Richard has worked in a wide variety of organisations from small to large organisations in New Zealand, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Richard’s depth of business knowledge and skills in sales, marketing, finance and general management coupled with a very practical approach to training and facilitation has provided excellent value to a large number of organisations.

Richard is a member of the New Zealand Society of Accountants and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries & Administrators. He is an accredited DISC® consultant in behavioural profiling and a registered practitioner in MBTI®. He is a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management and is qualified in Moderation and Workplace Assessment with NZQA. He holds the National Certificate in Adult Education and Training. He provides community support as a Justice of the Peace for New Zealand. He is also an approved mentor for Business Mentors New Zealand and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Investment

Chamber members $650+gst | Guests $825+gst

Regional Business Partner (RBP) Management Capability Development Fund. This workshop is registered with the RBP Management Capability Development Fund. To explore if your business is eligible for support contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor at [email protected] or register your business here. Your Regional Growth Advisor will advise you on your eligibility for capability development funding.