Develop Your Leadership Abilities

If you want to advance within your company, it's likely that you will have to take on a leadership role…

Great leaders and managers are followed because people trust and respect them to make the right decisions - and want to follow their lead. Expand your horizons on this insightful 2-day workshop, and become the leader you are meant to be.

The good news is that leadership abilities can be continuously developed.

"A leader is a person with a compass in his head and a magnet in his heart." - Brand Pretorius, CEO, McCarthy Group.

This two day workshop will deal one on one with the delegates, utilising not only theoretical tools but focusing strongly on practical examples and exercises, whilst at the same time utilising real issues to demonstrate improved efficiencies in dealing with their new responsibilities and challenges. This workshop will equip them with the tools they will need to successfully lead and manage their teams. 

They will have a clear understanding of what leadership and management entails, have improved verbal and written communication skills, have a clear understanding of goal setting, how to manage change and be equipped with enhanced skills in dealing with conflict and difficult situations. 

They will have a clear understanding of their challenges and key role in the organisation and how their improved skills will enable them to lead their team to work together towards achieving the goals of the business. 

TWO DAY WORKSHOP OUTLINE

• Assessing the various ways of successfully managing people and finding the method most suited to you
• Discovering ways of raising sensitive topics in informal meetings to ensure you get the point across
• Knowing when an informal meeting is not going to achieve results and where to go from there
• Training yourself to deal with awkward situations as soon as they arise and not waiting until they get out of control
• Using techniques to discipline your staff in a way that not only corrects their behaviour, but also motivates them
• Communicating effectively with your staff by clearly stating your requirements and listening carefully to complaints and suggestions
• Leading by example: avoiding common unproductive people management behaviours!
• Constantly re-looking and monitoring the way you manage to ensure you are not drifting into bad management habits

Who should attend?

• First Time Managers
• Managers appointed in a new company
• Managers promoted to a position with more responsibilities
• Employees who have been earmarked for succession
• Managers who want to hone their skills

Training approach

Our courses use interactive tools that allow learners to learn by doing.

The experience for learners is fun, rewarding, lasting and integrative, whilst employers are assured of a high return on investment in training.

Front Foot courses are compiled and presented by subject matter experts
and industry specialists to ensure the highest and most current standard of excellence in all our workshops and training.

Yolandé has 12 years’ experience in training. She is an accredited Brain Profiling Practitioner and holds a degree in Theo-Psychosocial Therapy, as well as a National Certificate in Biblical Counselling.

Yolande has facilitated numerous training interventions for many major organisations in corporate South Africa.
Other interests include being an Honorary Game Ranger. Yolandé has completed courses in “Archaeology of the SANParks”, “Earth Science” and “Alien Invading Plant Species”.

As a writer she has contributed to an Afrikaans book of poetry (Boksemdais). Some of her work has also been published by Maskew Miller Longman in an Afrikaans literature textbook for high school learners. She writes weekly columns for Mindtools.com, where she stays in touch with the international business community, trends and developments