Leadership
Enhance your Leadership skills in under a year!
The Leadership Fundamentals program is an interactive program that is designed to give you the tools and the guidance to make real and sustained changes in the way you communicate and lead your team.
This is not a program where you are only taught the theory of leadership. We don't believe in that. We believe that you should receive help and assistance along the way to implement the theory you have learnt.
Not only do you learn from your Practice Advisor but you also have a group of other practice leaders who you can lean on for support.
The schedule for the program requires committing to 1 ½ hour zoom sessions fortnightly for 9 months. The sessions alternate between presentation of new information followed by a review of the homework and practice using the information learned.
Topics covered in the Leadership Fundamentals program...
By adding these skills to your leadership toolbox you will be on your way to boosting employee morale, improving employee engagement and staff retention.
You will empower employees to take ownership of their role and circumstances and ensure that everyone is working toward the benefit of the practice.
Course Overview
Self Awareness
Understand YOUR tendencies with the DISC assessment and 45+ page comprehensive report, provided by an international renowned 3 party provider.
We use this report to explore and understand your own tendencies and observable behaviours in others. In other words, ‘How’ we communicate. This insight can transform the way you approach team interactions as well as potentially enhance your ability to make clearer recommendations with your clients.
Motivations, Behaviours & Emotinal Intelligence
This section explores people’s motivations (the Why) and how that interacts with their behaviour style.
We also discuss the basics of EQ and the impact that has on how you are perceived and how you perceive others.
Successful Teams and Results
We explore the concepts of Patrick Lencioni’s '5 Dysfunctions of a Team' with relation to what a team needs to have to achieve success and get results.
We break down each concept and discuss the implications for you and your team. We also reflect on some possible reasons why some goals may not have been met. This is a helpful lead up to the rest of the program where we learn about tools we can use to help.
Problem Solving
After getting a better understanding of yourself and your team, we spend the next 3 sessions building a toolkit to give you structure and tools to solve the most common issues that arise within a practice.
The tools you will use daily once you become comfortable with them are:
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Skill/Will Matrix
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Framing
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Situation – Behaviour - Impact
Coaching Your Team
These sessions break down the components of the GROW model. The GROW model will give you the tools to guide a team member through developing their own solutions on how to bridge the gap between their current performance and reaching their goals.
Managing Your Teams Performance
This module helps put together the information and skills you have learned and turn them into practical and tangible actions. We look at the ‘ideal’ performance management program as well as consider what aspects you can adopt to enhance employee engagement and alignment
Uncomfortable Conversations
This module shows you how to best use the tools we have learned to facilitate conversations that leads to solutions.
We explore why we perceive some conversations to be more difficult than others. We review templates that you can to help you keep conversations on track in order to achieve the results you are looking for.
Managing Change
This module shows you how to best use the tools we have learned to facilitate conversations that leads to solutions.
We learn the 4-door concept along with tying together all the previous principles around behaviour, communication, and team dynamics.
Given the ever-changing world in which we live and work, mastering the skills and tools to help your team through future challenges with confidence.
Who Should Take This Course
Owners and Managers
Who would like to enhance the performance of their team through a continuous development plan that will align the business needs with an employee’s strengths. We have found that this approach transitions actions from putting out spot fires to one that prioritises proactive and sustainable change management.
Leadership Team Members
who would like tools to create systems and plans that will enhance retention and engagement.
These programs are specifically designed to challenge and involve the participates not only to learn the tools but to use them. In our sessions we take your ‘real life’ challenges and situations and use the tools we discuss to work through them together.
This then provides you with a solid foundation to be able to use these tools in similar situations.
Time Commitment
The Leadership Fundamentals program lasts for a 9 month period.
The schedule involves virtual meetings every 2 weeks with each meeting lasting 60 - 90 minutes. Some meetings will involve training and some will involve help and guidance about the practical implementation of what you have learnt in the trainings.
We believe that in addition to the training and support meetings you should put 1 - 2 hours per week aside to work on what you have been taught.
