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CMI Level 5 - Future Leaders Programme

Date
Aug 28, 2018 - Aug 30, 2018

Location
London

Current availability
4 places remaining

Category
Project Management

Starting from
£2,125 + VAT

Additional Date
Oct 15, 2018 - Oct 17, 2018
Manchester, 7 places available.


DEVELOP YOUR EDGE AS A FUTURE LEADER

Leadership as an action rather than a role designation. It is the development of leadership practices and behaviours through individual and group reflection with the goal of creating new behaviours and mindsets.

Teams often work in environments where they have little power over their fellow team members and holding team members accountable for their actions can be difficult. Individual members must develop and use skills of negotiation, influence, and persuasion to get work done. Individuals, no matter their title or level within an organisation, have opportunities within their teams to exercise leadership and consciously reflect on their actions in real-time. It is the constant consciousness and intent of personal and team learning that leads to perspective change and refines and enhances leadership practices and behaviours (David Schmittlein, MIT Sloan).

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes of the Programme will include:

  • The ability to think and act strategically;
  • The ability to make informed, evidence based, decisions;
  • An understanding of how to motivate staff, who create and maintain a high-performance culture;
  • Greater self-awareness and responsibility for self-development
  • An understanding of inter-organisational strategic direction and planning.

- To ensure rich discussion there is a suggested maximum of 20 attendees per session
- The programme will be interactive and participant lead – facilitators will adapt to meet participant need.
- Each session will explore topics pertinent to leadership and management as well as provide practical skills development to equip participants with tools to apply in their everyday practice.

Overview

BACKGROUND

The Future Leadership Programme reflects current practice in Leadership and allows delegates to develop and expand their high-level understanding and their application of leadership skills in the workplace. Delegates will engage in a range of group and individual workshop activities where role play, scenario setting, thought leadership activity and didactic learning will take place.

At this level, the sessions will focus on individual self-awareness and the emotional response to a range of work-based scenarios and the effect this has on the decision-making process. A range of theories will be used to expand and challenge pre-conceptions of current leadership practices.

Structure:

  • The programme comprises 6 sessions delivered over 3 days. The taught sessions will be underpinned by practical activities, opportunity for discussion and reflection on their performance. The delegates will also receive additional resources, links and reading that will support them in an accredited pathway;
  • Knowledge and skills from all the sessions will apply throughout the leadership pathway and will and inspire participants to have the confidence to lead in their areas. A focus throughout the sessions is leading by example and forming a culture aligned to achieving the priorities of their own organisation;
  • To ensure rich discussion, there is a suggested maximum of 20 attendees per session;
  • The programme will be interactive and participant lead – facilitators will adapt to meet participant need.

The key objectives for the programme are:

  • Participants develop the key behaviours, attributes and skills of successful leaders and build their own levels confidence in these areas
  • Participants have the opportunity to reflect on their levels of impact, and develop strategies to work with people including influencing, dealing with difficult people and fostering a culture of positive performance in their areas of responsibility*
  • Participants apply the knowledge and skills they develop on the programme by implementing a fully costed and project-planned improvement project.

*A key message across the programme is to empower the delegates to increase their personal levels of influence and to develop a leadership mind-set that will support them to meet their current and future career aspirations.

Agenda

Each session will explore topics pertinent to leadership and management as well as provide practical skills development to equip participants with tools to apply in their everyday practice

The agenda below includes an overview of suggested content for the sessions. Content may be subject to change following feedback and session planning. Throughout each session, facilitators will discuss the application of topics discussed to the workplace, everyday conversations and applying policies.

Measureable objectives for each session will be devised when the content is confirmed.

Day 1: Self as Leader

Introduction

The introduction is designed to set participants expectations for the programme, discuss the learning outcomes and what they need to do to achieve the qualification, if appropriate. The delegates will establish how they will work as a learning community

Understanding the management role

This session will introduce the delegates to the role of the manager and allow them to reflect on their own management style. They will examine the key management actions required for the role, (including managing people, systems and resources) and will be able to assess their own performance in these areas. The session will include theory on different approaches to management (ranging from classical to emergent), giving them clarity of their own approach and the space to reflect on how this fits with the predominant style in their organisation.

Building Leadership Behaviours

Positive leadership behaviours compliment management practice and the best manager demonstrate these. The delegates will consider what these behaviours are, the impact of them and the benefits that leadership being within organisations. Delegates will be introduced to key leadership theories and models which will support them to develop their own leadership vision. A key part of the session is giving the delegates the chance to recognise the leadership expectations on them and to develop a plan to meet these.

Self-awareness and emotional intelligence

Personal insight is a key area for leaders at any level and the delegates will be introduced to tools and techniques to help them to consider their own impact and how they work with others. Forming a basis to day 2, the session will support them to get feedback from others, develop themselves as reflective practitioners and practise key inter and intra personal skills.

Day 2: Working with Others

Leading people

Our people are the most important part of any organisation and are the key factor in organisation success. Building on team-based approaches to working and using factors that support high performance in teams, the delegates will consider how they can get the best out of their colleagues, understand the role of their team in the wider organisational context and how they can develop a culture of delivering results. The delegates will analyse their own team's performance against key success factors and will be able to reflect on the management actions they can implement that support individual and team development.

Understanding the management role

In order to effectively lead positive performance there is a need to understand people. If we understand the basic principles of how people behave in the workplace we have a starting point for understanding and learning from performance issues. Taking lessons from human factor thinking the session is designed to give an insight into why humans behave in certain ways in certain situations. We will look at how we make decisions; the impact of assumptions; the importance of role modelling; positive mind-sets and positive intent as well as learning from situations when they go wrong. The session will focus on practical skills such as the power of listening and use of questioning to compliment discussion and to develop approaches to influence people. A key element in the success of relationships is the ability to manage conflict and work with 'difficult people'. The session gives practical techniques in this area together with the opportunity to reflect on their own confidence to manage difficult situations.

Leading Courageous Conversations

Leading Courageous Conversations extends to situations where participants may need additional support to lead more challenging performance conversations. The session will look at models of how to construct feedback on a day-to-day basis, help participants recognise the need to have a more structured performance orientated conversation as well as the 'mind-set' (i.e. non-judgemental, no assumptions), 'skillset' (practical skills for preparing and conducting the challenging conversation) and 'strategy' (how does this conversation sit in the performance pathway?) needed for more challenging conversations. At this point we discuss the need to be mindful of their personal resilience and look at how they can boost their personal resilience.

Influencing Positive Performance

The final session will focus on shaping future performance. This may follow an everyday developmental conversation, a particularly challenging conversation or in an appraisal conversation. Discussion will include practical sessions around motivation, goal setting, as well as the trust and authenticity needed to lead performance. Following conversations, we aim to instil the message that participants influence performance does not stop. Therefore, the final session will include practical skills on influencing positive performance. Participants will understand their preferred influencing style and how to adapt styles to be effective in different situations.

Day 3: Improving Services

Analysing drivers for change

The final day will focus on developing and improving services. In order for services to develop, there needs to be insight into the current and future drivers facing organisations. This session will support the delegates to analyse the internal and external factors facing their organisation. Using practical tools and techniques to analyse will support them to deliver successful change projects which underpin the programme. Delegates will apply recognised diagnostic tools to their workplace and reflect on how their leadership role.

Developing a business case

Using their own organisations paperwork, the delegates will be supported to produce a fully planned and costed business case linked to an improvement project they have identified. The delegates will have the opportunity to critique different styles to produce a business case that influences and sells the benefits of their project.

Planning and controlling projects

The fundamental tools and techniques to plan and manage work based projects form the basis of this session. Delegates will consider the key area of project success and failure, having the space to plan their own projects. This session will cover the end to end process of project management and the delegates will be able to apply each stage to their own improvement projects. They will also apply the learning from the previous days to analyse and influence stakeholders and use techniques such as RACI to support them though the process.

Leading and managing change

Using our leadership behaviours can only go so far when delivering change. This session will give the delegates the chance to analyse different models and approaches to change management. This will allow them to select an approach that best suits them in the implementation for their project. Having awareness of any preferred methodology from their organisation, they will reflect on how well it is used and how they can use it to deliver their projects.

Tutor(s)

Rob Booth - Development Consultant

Learn Grow Succeed

Rob has a passion for working with leaders to reflect and build on their levels of influence and to develop a mindset of empowerment and improvement from top to bottom of organisations.

His 20 years’ experience includes leading on a wide range of development programmes for leaders at all levels of organisations, with a particular focus on delivering work that is meaningful to the participant and adds real value to their organisation. Rob also managed the North West Mentoring Scheme and works as an Executive Coach and Mentor across the UK. Qualified in MBTI, FIRO B and motivational interviews to complement his approach that helps people thrive in their roles and achieve their full potential.

Rob lectures on different academic programmes including the MBA, Masters and PG Certificate and also works in consultative roles with private, public and third sectors organisations

Benefits

On completion of this Programme, delegates will:

  • Understand the importance of thought leadership and its benefits to personal development
  • Be able to use enquiry to develop leadership and management capability
  • Understand how to develop, implement and evaluate high-level, strategic, business cases
  • Be able to practically embed leadership and management development in the workplace.
  • Have the skills to act as a silent leader – leveraging and influencing others to act

Who Should Attend?

The Future Leaders Programme is aimed towards professionals who would like to up-skill, future and current leaders and functional heads who are seeking to enhance their leadership knowledge. This programme offers the unique opportunity for participants to develop the skills needed to take their careers to the next level and build a network of peers to support one another along the way. The Future Leaders Programme has been designed for executives, managers, and senior stakeholders from across the public, private and not for profit sectors.

Accreditation

The sessions are designed to support the delegates to achieve a recognised leadership qualification (accredited by CMI) should they wish to and will incorporate the assessment criteria to meet Level 5.

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