My Pathway to Leadership - Elevate (intermediate Plan)
Prepare and future-proof yourself for transitioning into any management or leadership role – be it now, or in the future
Description
Programme description
This plan focusses on how to shape and elevate yourself to be more resilience, adaptable, and confident on and off the job.
You will discover how to use communication for better outcomes with others, solve problems creatively, deal with change and other challenging situations, and learn practical skill sets and tools to help you deal with day-to-day issues more effectively.
Outcomes
Topics and dates
- Mandate to Manage 15th August 2023 8.30am to 5.00pm
- Communication Strategies 12th September 2023 8.30am to 5.00pm
- Conflict Resolution 16th October 2023 8.30am to 5.00pm
- Strategies for Workplace Relationships 7th November 2023 8.30am to 5.00pm
- Change Management 28th November 2023 8.30am to 5.00pm
- Developing Your People 23rd January 2024 8.30am to 5.00pm
- Coaching a Leadership Skill 13th February 2024 8.30am to 5.00pm
What you will learn
Mandate to Manage
- Management awareness and the mandate to manage
- What it is to be a manager – Management V Leadership
- The role of a manager – (including reporting and responding)
- Good manager vs. poor manager -managerial strengths and weaknesses
- Managing from a position of knowledge
- Business documents, legislation and their place in management
- Employment Relations Act 2000 – (and other acts)
- Culture and it’s place in your organisation
Communication Strategies
- Strategies to improve your communication/awareness of common communication barriers
- How to listen/communicate and leave other feeling heard and acknowledged
- Techniques for getting your message across
- How to ask appropriate questions
- How to use body language/non-verbal communication to convey your message
- How to deal with situations assertively
Conflict Resolution
- What conflict is and how it can escalate
- Why self-awareness is an important component to conflict resolution
- The types and stages of conflict
- The most common conflict resolution styles and when to use them
- How to use verbal and non-verbal communication skills for conflict resolution
- Intervention strategies
Strategies for Workplace Relationships
- Distinguishing mangers and leaders
- Different sources or power in leadership
- Situational leadership styles
- Development of management and leadership attributes
- How emotional intelligence can improve leadership skills
- The Leadership Responsibility model
- Factors which influence workplace relationships
Change Management
- What is change?
- The Change Cycle
- The psychology behind change
- Reactions to change
- Dealing with resistance to change
- Communicating change
- Stakeholder management
- How to deal with stress management during change
- How to create a Change Management Plan
Developing Your People
- What a performance management system is
- The 5 key stages of the performance management process
- Writing SMART objectives to monitor team performance against business objectives
- Undertaking performance appraisal
- Developing and recognising your employees
- Managing employee underperformance
Coaching a Leadership Skill
- What coaching is
- How to develop your interpersonal skills
- How to communicate effectively
- How adults learn best
- How to manage challenging coaching situations
- How to run coaching sessions
- How to structure a series of coaching sessions
- Coaching tools to enhance your coaching session
Introducing your Wintec TePūkenga Training Facilitator and Assessor
Delia Beuker 
Delia joined the Wintec TePūkenga Professional Programmes team as an-inhouse facilitator over 4 years ago, to share the vital business skills that have helped shape her career path in training, development, and communications for many years.
The main area of focus for Delia most recently has been working with businesses and their teams delivering leadership programmes with outstanding results according to senior managers.
“Today’s business environment requires resilience, adaptability, creative thinking, problem solving strategies, and practical skill sets to help businesses grow through knowledgeable, confident people. Businesses looking to a brighter future, are investing in their most valuable resource – that is their people. They are also fostering positive workplace cultures, whereby leaders and their teams are aligned through common goals.”
“The Leadership Programmes help individuals to uncover their personal strengths through self-awareness, which in turn, improves self-confidence, the ability to think on their feet, and adapt to changing situations. It also assists in building stronger relationships and being more effective and resilient.”
Business topics delivered by Delia include communications, customer service, managing change and conflict, strategies for workplace relationships, presenting with confidence, developing and coaching teams and individuals.
“We are seeing a marked improvement in confidence and motivation from participants as well as a deeper understanding of what is required to lead themselves and others to achieve the best performance from their teams.”
Delia has over 28 years of experience in a range of trade industry and corporate environments, both locally and nationally and has a wide understanding of varied work practices in all parts of a business.
“Supporting leaders to transition upward, is key to future growth and development. We are seeing increased capabilities from participants, and an improved customer-focused collaboration within other areas of the business”.
Delia believes that for a business to perform at its best, its people needed to be at their best.
Sub-title
This is the perfect plan for early and mid-career professionals in readiness for growth and expansion. Build on your strengths and increase your ability to influence others. Increase your confidence, capabilities, and competency. Accelerate your role and responsibilities to the next level.
What will I be able to do with this training?
Regardless of whether you are in a position that just requires management of your own role, or alternatively, if you manage/lead a team of others -
this plan provides core competencies required for management and leadership roles.
Find out how to get the best from yourself and from those you work with.
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