Empowering Managers on their Leadership Voyage
Embark on a transformative Leadership Odyssey, a journey of growth, discovery, and triumph for new and existing managers.
Like the ancient Greek hero’s epic voyage, this program invites you to chart a course through uncharted territories, navigate challenges, and uncover the true depths of your leadership potential.
In this immersive experience, you will embark on a quest to develop essential skills and insights that will propel you forward on your managerial expedition. Guided by experienced mentors and equipped with a comprehensive toolkit, you’ll navigate the ever-changing landscape of leadership, honing your abilities to inspire, motivate, and empower your team.
As you progress through this transformative odyssey, you’ll gain self-awareness and discover what drives and motivates you as a leader. You’ll develop the capability to recruit and onboard the right talent, forge meaningful connections with your team members, and effectively communicate and influence others. With the tools and frameworks provided, you’ll deliver feedback, engage in coaching conversations, and skilfully navigate conflicts that may arise within your team.
Your Leadership Odyssey is not just a training program but a personal voyage of growth and self-discovery. As you journey through this immersive experience, you’ll unlock the potential within yourself and your team, transforming into a trailblazing leader who can navigate the challenges and seize the opportunities that lie ahead.
seeking courageous leaders
Who should embark on this journey?
This course is targeted towards existing managers and team leaders who are embarking on their leadership journey.
It is designed for individuals who have stepped into managerial roles or those who aspire to take on such positions in the near future.
The program is targeted at aspiring leaders who want to:
- Enhance self-awareness of their own workplace drivers and motivations, enabling them to align personal and team goals.
- Develop the capability to recruit and onboard the right individuals for each role, ensuring team success.
- Understand, connect with, and motivate team members to perform at their best.
- Cultivate effective communication and influencing techniques to foster a cohesive and engaged team.
- Equip themselves with the tools and frameworks to deliver constructive feedback for growth and development.
- Enhance their coaching skills to facilitate high-performance and meaningful development conversations.
- Manage and resolve conflicts within the team using appropriate techniques.
Takeaways on Your Leadership Odyssey
Upon completing this course, participants will walk away with a range of valuable skills and knowledge to excel in their managerial roles. They will have learned:
- Self-awareness: Participants will gain insights into their own drivers, motivations, and leadership style, allowing them to better understand themselves and their impact on the workplace.
- Recruitment and onboarding: They will develop the capability to identify the right candidates for specific roles, conduct effective interviews, and successfully onboard new team members, ensuring a smooth transition and optimal team composition.
- Team motivation and engagement: Participants will increase their ability to understand, connect with, and motivate team members towards achieving individual and collective success. They will learn strategies to foster a positive and engaged work environment.
- Communication and influencing techniques: Participants will learn effective communication strategies and influencing techniques to convey their ideas, goals, and expectations clearly and persuasively, gaining the support and commitment of their team members.
- Feedback delivery: They will be equipped with tools and frameworks to deliver feedback in a constructive and impactful manner, promoting growth, development, and performance improvement among team members.
- Coaching and development conversations: Participants will improve their capability to coach team members and engage in meaningful development conversations, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
- Conflict management: They will acquire skills to effectively manage and resolve conflicts that may arise within the team, promoting collaboration, understanding, and positive working relationships.
- By the end of the course, participants will have the practical knowledge, skills, and confidence to navigate their managerial responsibilities with greater proficiency, leading their teams towards success and achieving their organizational objectives.
Introducing the Manager’s Survival Guide:
Your Essential Toolkit for Navigating Your Team
Unlock the secrets to effectively manage and lead your team with our comprehensive Manager’s Survival Guide. This indispensable toolkit is designed to accompany you on your leadership journey, providing practical insights, techniques, and activities tailored to your specific team dynamics.
As you progress through our transformative program, you’ll engage in interactive exercises and thought-provoking activities that directly apply to your team. The Manager’s Survival Guide becomes your trusted companion, capturing vital information about each team member, their unique strengths, communication preferences, and motivational drivers.
Inside this comprehensive workbook, you’ll discover a wealth of resources, including:
- Individual Profiles: Build a deep understanding of each team member through Predictive Index, you will take note of each individuals preferred working styles. Leverage this knowledge to customise your communication, motivate, and engage them effectively. We go deeper on each individuals results so you can maximise this information to motivate, manage and inspire them.
- Communication Strategies: Uncover a range of proven techniques to adapt your communication approach to different team members, ensuring your messages are understood, heard, and acted upon.
- Reward and Recognition: Explore practical methods to acknowledge and celebrate your team’s achievements, fostering a culture of appreciation and motivation.
- Feedback Frameworks: Master the art of delivering constructive feedback that empowers growth and development, providing clear guidance for improvement while maintaining trust and rapport.
- Team Dynamics Techniques: Learn strategies to navigate and harmonize team dynamics, leveraging the strengths of each individual to create a high-performing and collaborative environment.
- Conflict Resolution Approaches: Gain valuable insights into managing and resolving conflicts within your team, fostering healthy dialogue, and finding win-win solutions.
The Manager’s Survival Guide is more than just a workbook; it’s a treasure trove of practical wisdom and tools to overcome challenges and elevate your team’s performance.
By the end of the program, your completed guide will serve as a personalized roadmap, empowering you to navigate the complexities of team management with confidence and finesse.
Embark on your managerial odyssey armed with the Manager’s Survival Guide, and unleash your true leadership potential. Join our program today and embark on a transformative journey towards becoming an exceptional manager and team leader
Note:
The Manager’s Survival Guide is exclusively available to participants of our program. Enrol now to gain access to this invaluable resource and take your leadership skills to new heights.
Explore our Interactive Online Learning Platform
Embark on an immersive virtual expedition with our cutting-edge online learning platform, Ruby. As you set sail on your leadership odyssey, our program delivers an interactive and engaging learning experience like no other.
Unleash the power of flexibility as you access our comprehensive course materials anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Ruby ensures that you can seamlessly dive into interactive modules, captivating videos, insightful readings, and thought-provoking quizzes that bring your learning to life.
Ruby, a micro-learning platform is your compass on this transformative journey, guiding you through each step with ease. Discover a wealth of resources carefully curated to enhance your understanding and application of managerial skills.
But the adventure doesn’t end there. Every four weeks, set anchor for a mentoring call via Zoom, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with seasoned guides and fellow explorers. Realign your course progress, share triumphs and challenges, and engage in vibrant discussions that deepen your understanding and provide practical solutions for real-world scenarios.
Step aboard the virtual expedition and chart your path to leadership greatness. With Ruby as your trusted companion, you have the freedom to embark on this transformative journey at your own pace and convenience, without sacrificing the richness of interaction and guidance.
our core framework
Attract
Defining and Creating a Job
- Identifying gaps in my team
- Aligning the job with the team strategy
- How to design a job using PI
- How to agree with stakeholders on a job
- What makes a good job ad?
Interview Skills and Techniques
- 7 rules to an interview
- What are the different types of interviews (functional, technical, culture fit)
- How to ask the right questions (technical, behavioural and values based)
- How to leverage the interview guide on PI
- How to participate in active listening
- How to mitigate bias in an interview
- What not to ask in an interview
Optimise Onboarding
- Preparing an onboarding plan
- Tailoring the onboarding process to meet the needs of different employees
- How to communicate and set clear expectations
- Providing ongoing support and feedback
inspire
Effective Feedback
- What is feedback?
- Types of feedback
- How to deliver feedback effectively
- Frameworks that can be used when giving feedback
- How to receive feedback
Managing Team Dynamics
- Understanding the drives and behaviours of each team member
- How to compare the behavioural drives of colleagues
- Understanding how team dynamics impacts performance
- How to predict your team dynamics will change
- How to make informed decisions based on team dynamics
Communication Strategies
- How to adapt your communication style based on PI
- Dealing with different communication styles
- Practical skills for communicating with team members
Delegating
- What is delegation?
- How to delegate effectively
- What is delegation of authority?
- How to leverage PI when delegating
Leading and Influencing Teams
- How to build strong relationships and rapport with team members
- Understanding group dynamics and how to build consensus
- How to build trust and credibility to lead diverse teams
Maximising Performance
- What is the difference between employee engagement and disengagement?
- Understanding the four forces of disengagement
- Leveraging PI to boost employee engagement
Employee Reward and Recognition
- What is employee reward and recognition?
- Leveraging PI to personalise employee recognition
- Measuring the impacts of rewards and recognition
Navigating Team Conflicts
- Frameworks and techniques that can be used when handling conflicts between colleagues
- How to address conflicts in a timely and proactive manner
- How to use an objective approach to conflicts
- How to be future-focused when addressing conflict
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Aligning the Team to Strategy
- How to identify the team’s strengths and blind spots to do with the strategy
- How to build a shared vision and goals with the team
- How to support team members flexing outside their comfort zone in order to achieve on the strategy
- Understanding how to encourage and get buy in from the team
Development Planning
- What is development planning?
- Understanding the purpose and importance of development planning
- How to assess the individual skills of a team member
- How to set goals and an action plan for development
- Encouraging continuous learning and growth
Coaching Conversations
- What is a coaching conversation?
- Why is a coaching conversation important?
- How to identify the coaching needs of your team member?
- How to facilitate a coaching conversation
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