Foundation Management & Leadership

A foundation programme that can be developed for different experience levels is designed to develop what we believe are the fundamental skills for leaders and managers. To emphasise our custom design approach, the example topics below are not fixed - they represent what would typically be covered in such a programme.

The essence of our approach is to distinguish between the leadership and management dimensions and to establish that total effectiveness requires a balance of people and process skills.

• The leader -manager model

• Management process

- Define objectives

- Action planning

- Organising

- Implementing

- Controlling

- Evaluating

• Defining leadership

• The elements of leadership

- Communicating

- Influencing

- Coaching

- Motivating

- Developing teams

• Leadership and influencing styles using our influencing styles model

• Understanding motivation and how to apply this understanding