• Complete an online self-reflection questionnaire around your confidence to lead, and your leadership style 
• Complete an online questionnaire to identify your communication style

Day one is all about you and your leadership style, it is about how to bring out the best in you and others, whilst being authentic. You will be excited about your role as a leader, have the space and opportunity to self-reflect in order to work successfully with your team. 

• The core of an effective culture — why put people at the heart of what you do?
• Identify who you are as a leader and your leadership attitudes and skills
• Find a buddy to work with, to support, and to hold to account for actions through the programme
• Create Psychological Safety at Work to enable high performance
• Build trust and credibility within your organisation
• Develop your emotional intelligence, through understanding how your brain works
• Using your pre-programme preparation, understand your communication style, how to adapt it to work successfully with others
• Introduce the Happy Workplace online portal – to help you build positive habits

eLearning Between Days One and Two

Discover how to be more productive and less ‘busy’ by identifying and changing your reflection, prioritising, email and meeting habits. 

Day two is all about learning and applying the tools you need as a leader to help your team feel motivated, empowered and valued. You will achieve this by understanding the benefits of successful 1 to 1’s, as well as through a series of practical exercises based around active listening, coaching your people to success and having crucial conversations. 

• Effective 1 to 1’s – what are they, why do them, who sets the agenda, what should you discuss
• Listening to understand rather than be understood — how to do this mindfully with the aim of valuing the other person
• The core of great leadership — coaching your team to success by empowering them to discover their own solutions
• Your role as coach and understanding what works and what doesn’t
• Why, and how, to use TED invitations to develop your coaching skills
• Practice coaching and being coached
• The benefits and steps to providing positive feedback
• How to prepare, behave and present yourself assertively when giving feedback
• Practise a proven technique to prepare for important situations
• Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue
• Make it safe to talk about almost anything
• Be persuasive, not abrasive
• Improve your professional working relationships through your conversations

Online Questionnaire Between Days Two and Three

Discover your top five strengths through a robust on-line questionnaire developed by Gallup – the StrengthsFinder.

Day three of the programme is all about understanding and applying a culture of autonomy and job ownership enabling and empowering your team to be the best they can be. A key part of this is learning about your strengths and how they enable you as a leader, as well as giving you a tool to discover the strengths of your people. 

• Working adult to adult — understanding transactional analysis, the effect it has on your relationships and within the workplace
• Learn the skills to become a multiplier of your people’s talents
• Who makes the decisions currently and what might you change about this?
• Enable trust and autonomy, within clear guidelines to create true job ownership
• Be open and transparent in the information you share – what is off limits to staff?
• Discover the difference between accountability and responsibility
• Review your delegation habits and understand the key steps to delegating successfully
• Identify what stops you delegating and challenge these behaviours
• Pre-approval — what is it, what are the benefits of it and how to implement it?
• Using your online questionnaire results, understand your strengths and how well you are currently using them in your role
• Discover the four domains of leadership strength
• Review how well you know your team’s strengths and how much they are using them in their roles

Online Questionnaires Between Days Three and Four

Complete a second online self-reflection questionnaire around your confidence to lead, and your leadership style now

Day four of the programme is all about the skills and approaches you will need to keep things on track with your people. It will also provide the space and opportunity to reflect on your leadership journey through this programme and recap what you have learnt and actioned. You will present your key learning and leadership purpose to the group. You will build on this vision to embed the changes and establish the habits you want to adopt to transform yourself and your team.

• Initiating conversations that matter: Practise a proven technique to prepare for important situations. Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue. Make it safe to talk about almost anything.
• Maintaining dialogue: Discover tools for keeping dialogue open even in the most difficult circumstances. Improve your professional working relationships through your conversations.
• Resilience: Understand the five ways to wellbeing and the practical steps we can take in each area. Build and nurture the resilience of your team. Recap the elements from the programme that can set your team up for resilience.
• Your Leadership Purpose: Identify your leadership purpose and vision for yourself and your team. Draw up a personal, practical action plan beyond the programme.