Programme Curriculum & Key Themes Covered

Workshop Prep

Pre-program Registration & Preparation

Preparation

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

Workshop 1

Introducing Leadership

What You Will Learn

  • 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

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Setting your intent
  • Online questionnaire to identify your communication style

Workshop 2

Communication Styles

What You Will Learn

  • Understand your communication style, how you may be perceived by others and how to adapt it to work successfully with others
  • The core of an effective culture: why put people at the heart of what you do?

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Be Productive, Not Busy: Discover how to be more productive and less ‘busy’ by identifying and changing your reflection, prioritising, email and meeting habits.

Workshop 3

Psychological Safety

What You Will Learn

  • Create Psychological Safety at work to enable high performance
  • Build trust and credibility within your organisation
  • Find a buddy to work with, to support and to hold to account for actions through the programme

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Understanding your brain: Introducing your inner chimp

Workshop 4

Emotional Intelligence

What You Will Learn

  • Develop your Emotional Intelligence through understanding how your brain works

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Working adult to adult — understanding transactional analysis and the effect it has on your relationships and within the workplace
  • How good is your listening?

Workshop 5

Introduction to Coaching

What You Will Learn

  • 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

Workshop 6

One-to-Ones and Feedback

What You Will Learn

  • Effective 1 to 1’s – what are they, why do them, who sets the agenda, what should you discuss
  • Holding team meetings that get everyone to contribute and be heard
  • The benefits and steps to providing positive feedback
  • How to prepare, behave and present yourself assertively when giving feedback

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Introducing conversations that matter

Workshop 7

Conversations That Matter

What You Will Learn

  • 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

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Complete management behaviour questionnaire
  • Identify the truth about what motivates us
  • Discover the power of Purpose

Workshop 8

Becoming a Multiplier

What You Will Learn

  • Learn the skills to become a multiplier of your people’s talents and potential

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Discover your top five strengths through a robust on-line questionnaire developed by Gallup & Clifton Strengths
  • 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

Workshop 9

Autonomy

What You Will Learn

  • 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?

Self-Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Generate ideas to make your recruitment processes more inclusive

Workshop 10

Recruitment & Induction

What You Will Learn

  • Discover the key to recruiting the right team members and ensuring their induction is a motivating experience

Self-Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)

Workshop 11

Creating Resilient Teams

What You Will Learn

  • Leading from afar: discover the benefits and risks of a remote team, tools to help you make connection at a distance and real life examples to inspire you.
  • Build and nurture the resilience of your team
  • Recap on all the elements from the programme that can set your team up for strengths and success
  • Understand the five ways to wellbeing and the practical steps we can take in each area

Self Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)

Workshop 12

Leadership Purpose

What You Will Learn

  • Leading from afar: discover the benefits and risks of a remote team, tools to help you make connection at a distance and real life examples to inspire you.
  • Build and nurture the resilience of your team
  • Recap on all the elements from the programme that can set your team up for strengths and success
  • Understand the five ways to wellbeing and the practical steps we can take in each area

Self Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)

Upcoming Enrolment Date

See our available course dates, or contact us for bespoke options for bookings over 8 spaces or corporate training.

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We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

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Online - Happy Leadership Programme

  • Location:
  • Time:
  • Day:
  • Via Zoom Online Lectures
  • 10am - 12pm (UK time — GMT / BST)
  • Session 1 - Saturday, 24th February
  • Session 2 - Sunday, 10th March
  • Session 3 - Sunday, 24th March
  • Session 4 - Sunday, 31st March
  • Session 5 - Sunday, 28th April
  • Session 6 - Sunday, 12th May
  • Session 7 - Sunday, 19th May
  • Session 8 - Sunday, 2nd June
  • Session 9 - Sunday, 16th June
  • Session 10 - Sunday, 30th June
  • Session 11 - Sunday, 14th July
  • Session 12 - Sunday, 28th July

Classroom -Happy Leadership Programme

  • Location:

  • Time:
  • Day:
  • Happy HQ, Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE
  • 10am - 4.30pm (UK time — GMT / BST)
  • 1. Tuesday, 10th December
  • 2. Wednesday, 15th January
  • 3. Wednesday, 12th February
  • 4. Wednesday, 12th March