The aim of the workshop is to build knowledge and understanding with the audience of leadership as required by a practicing or potential first-line manager, supervisor, or section head.

Learning Outcomes

Participants at the end of this workshop will be able to:

• Describe the factors that will influence the choice of leadership styles or behaviors in workplace situations
• Explain why these leadership styles or behaviors are likely to have a positive or negative effect on individual and group behavior
• Assess own leadership behaviors and potential in the context of a particular leadership model and own organization’s working practices and culture, using feedback from others
• Describe appropriate actions to enhance own leadership behavior in the context of the particular leadership model

• Evaluate the importance of performance and engagement with followers in an organization
• Review own leadership styles by using a diagnostic and evaluate the implications for self and own organization
• Assess the effectiveness of own leadership styles
• Evaluate the impact of changes in the situation on the effectiveness of the adopted style
• Evaluate the factors which impact leadership effectiveness
• Assess own leadership behavior in terms of these factors
• Produce an action plan for developing their own leadership style and effectiveness
• Explain the benefits of implementing the action plan
• Explain how you will monitor and evaluate the action plan

Program Contents

• Defining leadership
• Importance of performance and interaction (engagement) with followers in an organization

Understand a range of different models theories and explanations of leadership

• Development of leadership thought from Taylor to present day
• Emergent Leadership
• Constitutive Leadership
• Servant Leadership
• Followership

Understand the implications of own and other leadership behavior in different contexts

• Situational analysis
• Implications of own preferred leadership style for various situations
• Implications for different situations
• Understanding how these work in terms of motivation theory
• Compiling an action plan (current behaviors, goal setting, implementation practice, identification of what the difference in performance would be)
• Benefits of implementing an action plan
• The qualities of leadership
• The leader – roles and responsibilities
• Differences and similarities between leadership and management, and the need for each of them
• Range of at least three leadership models (such as trait, contingency, situational, distributive, servant oblique leader, transactional/transformational) and their significance for task performance, culture, and relationships
• Leadership behaviors and the sources of power
• Identification, development, and appropriate choice of personal leadership styles and behaviors
• The role of trust and respect in effective team leadership
• Supervised practice or simulation to develop the ability to apply knowledge and skills