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Chartered Management Institute Recognised Training Centre for Director and Executive Training Courses.

To ensure that the Leaders attending this training course will get the maximum possible benefit from their time and that the discussions will be at their most effective; the delegate numbers are limited to a maximum of 12 for in person courses and only 8 for the live online courses.

Chartered Management Institute Recognised Training Centre for Director Training Courses.

Formal Certificates of Professional Development will be issued to participants who successfully complete this training course, in print for the 2-day training course and by email for the 1-day training course. These certificates will be accepted as evidence for CPD purposes by most professional institutes and associations, including the Law Society, the CIM, the CMI, the ICAEW, the Institute of Learning and the CIPD.

This Leadership and Management Training Course provides comprehensive coverage of the essential skills of effective leaders.

Some points to consider about leaders that will be addressed in this course:

• Most people become leaders with very limited or perhaps no formal leadership training or advice
• Leadership is not easy; although anyone might do a decent job of steering the ship when the waters are calm; it takes a leader to handle choppy waters
• The final 20% of individual work effort is said to be discretionary and therefore requires extra encouragement and motivation
• Some teams and organisations, undoubtedly perform much better than many others facing apparently similar competitive forces and regulatory procedures, with equally qualified and experienced staff
• Levels of sickness or absence vary enormously between teams and organisations employing similar people to fulfil the same roles within the same sectors
• Change is constant; whilst some leaders welcome and embrace change, looking for the new opportunities within it.  Others pointlessly fight against it.  The tide cannot be held back, no matter how hard you push
• Some organisations demand blind obedience, often confusing it with real commitment
• Some leaders work to the wrong time horizon; chasing ever greater short term success at the expense of long term sustainable success
• Some organisations fail to define what success looks like and how they are going to measure it, which makes it very difficult to recognise when you get there, or even if you are progressing towards your target

All of the above points are often made much worse by the lack of any real ongoing strategic planning developments; other than a general approach of, “how do we do better, what we did last year”.  This means that a strategy, which may have been determined many years ago, can often become a sacred cow, which must be protected and implemented at all costs.  Given that change is a constant, being frozen into what must eventually become an outdated strategy, suited to a world that no longer exists, can never be a recipe for long term success

• "Excellent" Delegate Comments on the Leadership Training Courses

  “Excellent overview of leadership skills with practical tools and suggestions for implementation”
  Chief Financial Officer – Bexley Care Trust

  “Very well presented, good content”
  Personnel Manager – Adviser Breakthrough

  “Good trainer – liked the humour”
  MD – NHS Bexley

  “This is my second workshop with this trainer who is absolutely fantastic. He makes the workshop fun, interesting and is very knowledgeable”
  Community Development Manager – London Borough of Camden

  “Excellent, relevant and real.”
  Vice Principal, West Cheshire College

  “Energetic, interesting, captivating, inspiring – very enjoyable day! Thank you.”
  Head of Design

  “Good refresher on leadership, time to think with some excellent anecdotes.”
  Deputy Principal, BHASVIC

• Leadership Course Overview

  Leadership is about inspiring and motivating groups of people to perform at their peak.  We all know that team performance can often be improved or made worse simply by changing the team leader.  Good leadership encourages a better outcome from the group, than they would otherwise produce.

  Good Leadership creates a sense of purpose and belonging amongst the group.  Everybody knows what the overall organisation purpose is and where they fit in.  Team work is promoted and respected, alongside individual talent.  All the team members strive for the success of the organisation, and their own particular team, as well as their personal success.  Nobody wants to let anybody else down and everyone is client/customer focused.

  It is clear that good leadership is invaluable to any organisation.  It increases sustainable profits, helps to motivate and retain good people, as well as increasing customer satisfaction and retention.  Everybody wins and the workplace generally becomes a much happier and more successful business environment.

  This 1 day training course is designed for both experienced and newly appointed leaders and Managers, who wish to deliver excellence in their roles as leaders.  This is a highly practical workshop, which will deliver the necessary underpinning knowledge in a way that will enable you to exercise those skills to achieve Excellence within the company.

  The Chairman of the Board, along with all other Company Directors and Senior Executives, will benefit from this course.  The training course is delivered by some of the top Leadership and Management tutors in the UK. They are deeply involved with Leadership and Management at all levels and have a wealth of practical experience at their fingertips, as well very strong theoretical knowledge.

  To ensure that the leaders attending this training course will get the maximum possible benefit from their time and that the discussions will be at their most effective; the delegate numbers are limited to a maximum of 12 for in person courses and only 8 for live online courses.

  However, for internal single company courses, if requested to do so, we would be prepared to accommodate more attendees.

• Course Content

  We will be exploring the implications, responsibilities, challenges and opportunities for leaders; as well as the main styles and attributes of good leadership. The day will be based on best practice examples, drawn from a variety of environments and built around a succession of practical exercises and relevant discussion points.  The course looks at a range of leadership ideas from a broad variety of perspectives.  In every case we emphasise what will work in practice and any limitations in some of the theoretical approaches.  There is a great emphasis on the real world and what generates genuine sustainable success.

  What is Leadership all about?
  • A general overview of some of the crucial aspects of leadership.
  • Why do we need leaders?
  • Internal and external leadership

  Does leadership make a difference?
  • Are leaders born or made?
  • Is it mainly the qualities of leadership or the activities of leadership that are important?
  • What is the first task of a leader?
  • Setting directions and how to proceed.
  • Leadership and change

  Three Areas of Leadership:
  • Technical, Administrative, People
  • People responsibilities include?
  • Management versus leadership
  • Manage the people not the task

  Leadership approaches:

  • Situational and functional requirements
  • What do good leaders do?
  • What do they have in common
  • What do you do?
  • What are the gaps and why do they exist?
  • Could you modify your own leadership style
  • Would modification be desirable
  • The task, the team and the individual – Action Centred and other leadership approaches
  • Top Leadership styles today, with exercises to demonstrate

   

  Personal preferred leadership style?
  • Weaknesses and strengths of your preferred style
  • Suggest a personal action plan to minimise your own leadership weaknesses and to maximise your leadership strengths

  Motivation

  • What does the latest research say?
  • Provide a motivating purpose – enhance the pride of your team in the value and importance of their work
  • Create a sense of belonging to a group.  Consciously use “belonging cues”

   

  Values and signals

  • What should the values of good leaders be and how should they signal these?
  • Should you lead by example?
  • Is collective cabinet responsibility best, or would a presidential style produce better results?
  • What do organisations with widely accepted best of breed Leadership do?
• Training Course Leaders

  The Senior Course Leader is a former Finance Director of Microsoft (until late 2019).  He was in charge of their Seattle based Commercial Windows Application division, a $4bn annual turnover business.  During his last two years with Microsoft Inc. he was also a designated internal Leadership Coach.

  He holds an Oxford University M.Sc. and is an accredited international executive coach.  He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, an FCA.  He has extensive experience in Leadership training and coaching and in the UK has delivered leadership training courses and coaching for the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the ICAEW.

  Another Course Leader is a Chartered Director; the Institute of Directors Board Director qualification, a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.  He is a former member of the European Management Consultancy Committee of KPMG Management Consulting Europe, the EMCC.   He has also served as the FD and later the CEO of a Plc.

  He serves on the Thames Valley Board of the Chartered Management Institute and has completed 12 years on the Chartered Director and the Standards Committees of the Institute of Directors. The Chartered Director Committee of the Institute of Directors advised the Institute of Directors for more than 12 years, as to what UK Board Directors should know and do, in order to properly fulfil the role of a company director.  He has been closely involved, at a senior level, for more than 20 years in all aspects of the professional development of UK Directors and Leaders.

  He has over 30 years of successful UK and International experience, including 7 years as the Finance Director, Company Secretary and then the Chief Executive of a Plc, as well as 14 years with KPMG Management Consulting, IBM and Arthur Andersen.

  The course tutors are very well qualified and highly experienced individuals.  Both of these will be involved in the delivery of your workshop.  The Senior Course Leader will assume the lead role.  Their delivery styles are dynamic, approachable and highly interactive, enabling them to deliver a workshop that you will benefit from and equally importantly, one that you will remember and be able to put into practice in your company enjoy.  Their courses are typically assessed as “Excellent” by their delegates.

   

• Who Should Attend This Training Course

  This programme is ideal for Highly experienced and competent leaders, who would like to become even better leaders, who want to ensure they’re ‘doing it right’; and for those looking for ‘best practice’ of leadership activities and attitudes. Leadership is not primarily about charismatic characters, but it is about what good leaders “DO”.

  This programme is also well suited for newly-appointed senior leaders and for those about to be appointed senior leaders.

  To ensure that the Leaders attending this training course will continue to get the maximum possible benefit, delegate numbers for in person courses will be limited to a maximum of 12 and for the live Online Courses a maximum of 8.

   

• Training Course Learning Objectives

  By the end of this training course participants will be better able to:

  • Define, analyse and interpret the corporate governance issues inherent in any business scenario
  • Understand and quantify the impact of any particular course of action upon the fundamental corporate governance issues and concepts
  • Recognise and comply with the statutory requirements of the Companies Act 2006
  • Become familiar with the key aspects of the range of the insolvency laws and regulations with which Company Directors should comply
  • Understand the key aspects of the UK Corporate Governance Code and how good corporate governance can maximise company performance
  • Identify and discuss the key ethical and governance issues facing any organisation
  • Analyse and make sound Board decisions based upon a deeper understanding of the corporate governance issues and the statutory duties of a Company Director
  • Understand the wider corporate governance impact of any business decision and its strategic interaction with all aspects of the organisation
  • Become more familiar with the key elements of the most important aspects of Strategic Management
  • Become better able to make a strong contribution to Board discussions and decision making
  • Understand and implement a framework for Strategic Risk Management
  • Understand the personal and corporate ramifications of any potential insolvency issues
  • Avoid assuming any unnecessary personal liabilities through an imperfect knowledge of the law relating to Company Directors
  • Communicate more effectively and easily with fellow Board Directors and key advisors; through an in depth understanding of corporate governance and Strategic Management techniques

  All of the above points are often made much worse by the lack of any real ongoing strategic planning developments; other than a general approach of, “how do we do better, what we did last year”.  This means that a strategy, which may have been determined many years ago, can often become a sacred cow, which must be protected and implemented at all costs.  Given that change is a constant, being frozen into what must eventually become an outdated strategy, suited to a world that no longer exists, can never be a recipe for long term success.

• Internal Staff Training and Development

  This training workshop, along with most of our other best practice training workshops, can be delivered as an internal training course at your premises. Even with groups as small as 6 delegates, the course fees per person for internal training workshops can be lower than for open events. The potential savings are even greater, if the travel time and the travel costs of the delegates are included.

  Running training workshops internally is very convenient and it allows the participants to explore how key issues will impact on them and their organization. Then as a team they can begin to agree upon a development action plan, with priorities. This approach is favoured by many of our clients as it combines a high quality service with excellent value for money and is a highly effective route for staff development.

   

• Certificates of Professional Development

  This course is recognised for CPD purposes by most professional institutes and associations including the Law Society, the CIM, the CMI, the ICAEW, the Institute of Learning and the CIPD. Formal Certificates of Professional Development will be issued to all participants who successfully complete this course.

  These certificates will enable participants to evidence the update of their CPD records. The workshop will consider how to best apply the knowledge gained by the delegates upon their return to the workplace. This element of the programme is designed to maximise the benefits of attending and enable participants to make valued judgements when recording CPD activities.