Leadership Development Programme
Leadership Development is not a cost, it is a positive investment in your business.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, leadership is defined as “the action of leading a group of people or an organisation.” The essential focus lies on people, not solely on processes or things.
There is an old, but very true saying: “People join great businesses, but leave poor leaders.” As HR professionals we see this a lot. In most cases, this is not entirely the fault of the leaders themselves.
Most people learn a trade, go to university or receive training to carry out their role well. On this basis, they do well in that role. They are then promoted into management or leadership roles. However, in many cases, no thought is given to training and developing people for such important roles within the organisation. They do their best and often manage people the way they were managed since they don’t know any difference, with mixed results.
People Matters HR recognises that leadership is a skill. We believe in developing individuals to become effective leaders, enabling them to maximise the potential of their teams. By nurturing their employees’ abilities, engaging them effectively and enhancing their performance, businesses can improve overall organisational performance while simultaneously reducing recruitment costs and saving time.
We will cover:
Preparation
Before the first module you will be asked to complete two ‘Lumina’psychological profile questionnaires. Lumina Spark provides you with a greater enlightening insight into yourselves, your strengths and how you work and communicate with others.
In addition to this you will complete, a ‘Lumina Leader’ questionnaire. This gives you a detailed insight into your leadership style, how you react under pressure, your leadership strengths and the areas that you can develop.
FULL DAY
Workshop 1: Leadership
This workshop helps you to understand yourself and your organisation more and how to understand different leadership styles, so that you can engage with your people and be an effective and authentic leader.
- The concepts that drive business
- Leadership v Management
- Leadership Styles
- No problems only solutions
- Decision making
Workshop 2: Knowing Yourself
A leading Occupational Psychologist reviews and provides feedback about the Lumina Spark psychometric tests completed before the leadership development programme so that you gain a better understanding about the way you interact with others. Giving you greater insight into the way you lead.
HALF DAY
Workshop 3: Team Leadership
This workshop the previous session in understanding yourself and how your behaviour and the way you communicate impacts on your team members. The session then builds on the concepts that drive business to bring your team members together, operate better within their team and work better with others to improve the performance of the business as a whole.
- Being an Authentic Leader
- Communication
- Diversity
- Leading Teams
- Silo Mentality
- Wellbeing
HALF DAY
Workshop 4: Leading Change
This workshop explores your organisations readiness to change, and how you as the leader consults and communicates the changes to your people to engage and get buy-in, helping to bring about successful change.
- What is change?
- Readiness for change
- Change Leadership
- Overcoming Barriers
HALF DAY
Workshop 5: Employment Law Quiz & Time Management
These workshops provide an overview of current employment law and ACAS codes of practice and the implications for leaders and the organisation if the correct process is not followed. We also look at how leaders can manage their time more effectively and how this benefits their people and the team.
- Employment Law Quiz
- The Eisenhower Principle – Urgent v Important
- Beware of Monkeys – Delegate
- Time management tips
HALF DAY
Workshop 6: Managing People Issues
This is a practical workshop looking at a variety of situations that leaders face and how they should deal with them constructively, as a reasonable employer, within employment law and policy.
- Nipping things in the bud
- Managing under performance
- Giving feedback
- Managing absence
- Capability
- Investigations
- Discipline
- Grievance
- Hearings
HALF DAY
Workshop 7: Performance Appraisals
This session is all about improving the performance of team members by exchanging honest feedback and agreeing individual goals, which are linked to the company’s objectives. By ensuring that everyone is engaged in delivering the vision, mission, values and business plan, the individual and the company’s performance will improve across the board.
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Options for managing performance
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The basics
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Preparation
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Feedback
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Objective setting
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After the appraisal
- Hearings
HALF DAY
Workshop 8: Recruiting
Knowing the importance of recruiting and interviewing professionally and within employment law and ACAS guidelines, will improve the company’s performance and the retention of valued employees.
- A cost or an investment
- Job analysis
- Job Description and Person Specifications
- Shortlisting
- Effective interviewing
- Making the decision
- Pre-employment checks
- Induction/managing probation
Executive Coaching
Following the program of workshops, every delegate is provided with three hours of executive coaching sessions to underpin the learning and embed it into the way you lead and develop your people. With the goal of improving their engagement and the performance of the business.
HALF DAY
Follow up: Progress review
(3 months after workshop 8)
Three months after the core programme, the delegates come back together to discuss how they have implemented the learning outcomes in their workplace. This peer review will generate further learning opportunities and an action plan setting out the next steps in improving employee engagement and performance.
Want to know more?
Please get in touch if you would like to book your management team onto our Leadership Development programme.
As Managing Director of an international organisation based in Leicestershire, we recognised that to help the organisation grow further, we needed to develop our managers leadership skills.
We engaged Niel Cope from People Matters HR, who put together a bespoke leadership development program. All our managers from across the UK, including myself and other directors attended. Niel delivered a number of workshops designed to meet our needs, to develop and stretch our managers to become leaders of people.
We commissioned People Matters again, to develop to develop our skills in recruiting and retention of employees and to design a competency based performance management system to further engage and develop our people and coached our leadership team to engage with this effectively.
If you are investing in the development of your leadership team, I would highly recommend speaking to People Matters HR.
Stuart Revill
Managing Director
The TruNet Group
As Managing Director of an international organisation based in Leicestershire, we recognised that to help the organisation grow further, we needed to develop our managers leadership skills.
We engaged Niel Cope from People Matters HR, who put together a bespoke leadership development program. All our managers from across the UK, including myself and other directors attended. Niel delivered a number of workshops designed to meet our needs, to develop and stretch our managers to become leaders of people.
We commissioned People Matters again, to develop to develop our skills in recruiting and retention of employees and to design a competency based performance management system to further engage and develop our people and coached our leadership team to engage with this effectively.
If you are investing in the development of your leadership team, I would highly recommend speaking to People Matters HR.