Leadership Skills for Beginners

A practical training for new executives

Objective of this training

This training supports you in your first 100 days as team leader, no matter whether you are in that position for the first time or not. It will enable you to ask the right questions, to analyse your environment and to develop strategies for communicating expectations you have of your new team and department, and for implementing your own leadership style. It will help you to avoid typical mistakes made by new managers. You will focus on vital success factors for your first 100 days, e.g. the importance of your predecessor, group dynamics, rivalry with other departments etc. During the course of the training you will develop your own road map to success.


Methodology
The following methods are used in this training:
Theory input, individual and group exercises, plenum discussion, case studies, feedback

Contents

• Analysing and reflecting company environment and team structure
• Identifying your own leadership style
• Identifying strengths, potentials and challenges
• Developing strategies for handling difficult team members
• Setting up the team
• Working out strategies to manage expectations of connected departments and clients
• Determining obstacles
• Dealing with awkward colleagues
• Planning quick wins
• Planning your success story