The Directors Role in Leading and Managing the Organisation

Date

Jul 15, 2019 - Jul 16, 2019

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Location

Manchester

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This Module reflects current practice in Leadership and management. Candidates will develop and expand their understanding and reflection on how these can be developed in an emerging digital and global economy. Participants can expect to engage in a range of group and individual workshop activities where role play, scenario setting, thought leadership activity and didactic learning will take place.

The taught elements of the course will include an overview of the following areas, to provide scope in the application of the tools and thinking together with core competencies and theoretical perspectives:

Self-awareness in leadership
Developing an inquisitive mind-set
Managing performance and measuring progress
Influencing a positive culture in the workplace
Managing diverse inter-dependent teams
Developing resilience in the workforce
Thought leadership
Team coaching

This module is one of five modules, which together make up the full Directors Development Programme. The module can be taken on its own or as part of the full programme. By attending this course, you will gain invaluable insights from industry experts in to new ways of working, innovative concepts and the latest theories that can be applied instantly on returning to your own organisation

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Overview

This course reflects current practice in leadership and management, focusing on the Director’s role in leading the organisation and managing for success.

The programme will help Directors and senior organisational leaders reflect on their leadership capabilities and develop a better understanding of their strengths, weaknesses and influence on others. Participants will gain an insight in to their role in building a performance focused culture and how to maximise internal resources to build high performing teams. The course has been designed to help Directors gain a better understand of their own corporate dynamics within their senior management teams and enable you to evaluate and improve your personal approach to leadership.

Participants will get the chance to reflect and analyse leadership and different leadership approaches. The course will help attendees develop a sound understanding of effective leadership and how they can adapt and develop their own approach to leadership within their organisation.

At this level, the course will focus on individual self-awareness and the emotional response to a range of work based scenarios and the effect this has on the decision-making process. A range of theories will be used to expand and challenge pre-conceptions of current leadership practices.

Whether you’re an experienced long serving director, newly appointed or an aspiring Director this course will give you a fresh and unique insight in to challenging but critical role of strong leadership in successful organisations. You will be encouraged to consider your own role, board and organisation, bringing relevant issues and challenges to share, discuss and develop solutions. This two-day programme will give you the essential knowledge, skills and confidence to improve your performance as a director and a leader.

Entry Requirements

Work experience: Minimum of 3- 5 years of senior management experience

Academic qualifications: Undergraduate degree. Equivalent, relevant work experience also accepted.

English language: Confident business English (all teaching and learning materials are provided in English only)

Agenda

The programme consists of 7 core elements delivered over 2 continuous days:

Session One: Understanding and Defining leadership

What is leadership?
Different approaches to leadership
Creating a vision
Motivating, engaging and inspiring others
Overseeing the delivery and execution of the vision
Building a coaching a team to achieve the vision

Session Two: Leading The Organisation

Explore the role of the director and the board in the context of leadership
The Board as a team, dynamics and creating a high performing board
Creating, selling and delivering the vision
Understanding the organisational culture and building a performance focused culture
Managing and leading organsiational change
Leading through adversity and managing risk
Inspiring innovation and entrepreneurship
Managing conflict

Session Three: Personal Impact and Influence

Explore how your behaviour and actions as a leader, impacts others
Improve personal effectiveness: Asking for and responding to feedback
Understanding and utilising emotional intelligence
Bridging the gap between intention and impact
Understanding your influence: the importance of voice and body language
Developing leadership mind-set
Creating a personal vision and action plan as a leader.

Session Four: Creating and Managing High Performing Teams

Leading from the front, middle and behind
Creating, managing and sustaining successful teams through strong leadership
Focusing and aligning teams around goals and the vision
Gaining commitment, engagement and accountability
Understanding team dynamics and influence
Tackling and overcoming challenges as a team

Session Five: Inspiring Performance and Measuring Progress

Leadership and motivation
Introducing accountability
The role of performance management and KPIs
Project management principles
Giving and receiving feedback positively
Training and coaching

Session Six: Thought Leadership

Becoming a thought leader
Increasing your strategic visibility and credibility

Session Seven: Further sources of information and support

Tutor(s)

Tim Evans - gunnercookeCONSULTING

Tim is an experienced coach and training development professional of 15 years working in behavioural change, personal development and organisational effectiveness. Operating at all levels of seniority with probity from c-suite through to delivery teams, customer service and sales teams, his focus is on building trust through consistent and supportive challenge of individuals to define and exploit their true purpose and potential.

Tim has a diverse range of skills enabling him to deliver considerable savings in efficiency and staff productivity. With first hand expertise in developing systems in the education sector, he is able to provide teams with the ability to apply strong leadership, improve job satisfactions and engagement, increase customer experience and achieve organisational KPIs.

Tim has experience building a rapport through a wide range of recognised business development and coaching methods – he helps clients to develop a deep understanding of their current practices and challenge their habits and beliefs to become more effective and fulfilled in their working lives.

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Benefits

Through interactive presentations and open discussion and group work, the facilitators will deliver thought provoking sessions, providing you with the key information, details and facts needed in an engaging and memorable environment:

On completion of this module, delegates will:

Have gained insight into the understanding and execution of the day-to-day challenges of leading a diverse workforce.
Have developed the required skills and increased awareness for what is expected to successfully manage teams that operate in the emerging digital and global economy.
Be able to demonstate skills in the application of tools to leverage improvements and business benefts to their organisation.
Have gained the skills necessary to lead and to evaluate their impact on the organisation.
Have developed clear demonstrable skills in the application of tools to leverage improvements and business benefits to their organisation
Have learnt how to lead more strategically and to evaluate their impact on the organisation to leverage business benefit

This module on the Directors role in Leading and managing the Organisation will bring benefits to both you and your organisation. With formal training in Leadership you will improve your personal effectiveness, confidence and influence at board level. Additionally, you will bring a fresh perspective back to your organisation along with innovative models, concepts and ideas to improve the performance and effectiveness of the board and your organisation through a deeper appreciation and understanding of different leadership and management approaches. Your improved understanding will enable you to position yourself for an accelerated path to new heights, either in your current organisation or in a new setting altogether.

Who Should Attend?

This module is aimed towards senior leaders who would like to up-skill and gain a greater understanding of the roles and responsibilities of directors and company boards. The course has been designed to provide aspiring, newly appointed and long serving directors with a unique insight in to personal and corporate accountabilities accompanying the position. Leaders looking to improve their professional effectiveness as a director and influence at board level will benefit from this well structured, engaging and informative module

Accreditation

You can attend the Directors Development Programme Role of the Director and the Board Module Accelerator on an accredited and non-accredited basis

Participants opting for the accredited route will complete this Module as part of the full Directors Development Programme. On completion of all five Modules, delegates can work towards achieving the PGCert in Strategic Leadership for Directors (60 credits).

[Click here for further details about our accreditations]

Participants deciding to opt for the non-accredited route still benefit from the CPD points for attending this Module.

Learning Outcomes