Upcoming Sessions
Content Overview
Learning to Lead offers a highly practical and immersive experience to support your transition from an individual contributor to a successful leader. Participants internalise what it truly means to lead and understand how their leadership can positively influence team and organisational performance. Through hands-on exercises, peer discussions, and reflective practice, participants apply leadership concepts in real-world scenarios.
This transition requires more than managing tasks. It calls for a new leadership mindset and the development of critical skills such as setting clear direction, coaching and inspiring your team, managing team dynamics, and giving meaningful feedback; all of which contribute to stronger team outcomes and organisational effectiveness. Participants learn to lead with clarity, navigate real-world challenges, and reflect on the beliefs and behaviours that shape their impact as a leader.
Understanding yourself as a Team Leader
- Discover your leadership style: Explore your strengths, uncover blind spots, and build self-awareness to lead authentically.
- Adopt an enabling mindset: Overcome assumptions about yourself, your team, and peers to unlock opportunities for collaboration, cross-level development, and more effective leadership.
This pillar introduces the core leadership capabilities framework and mindset, giving participants a foundation rooted in theory as well as practical reflection.
Motivating Performance as a Team Leader
- Inspire and guide your team: Build a strong foundation in team leadership best practices, including diagnosing performance, setting clear goals, and resolving conflicts effectively
- Enhance collaboration and communication: Strengthen interpersonal dynamics, knowledge sharing, and team cohesion to sustain performance within your team.
This pillar emphasises practical strategies for motivating and engaging teams, helping participants build high-performing groups while embedding strong interpersonal skills.
Driving High Performance as a Team Leader
- Translate strategy into action: Learn to connect organisational goals to actionable plans for your team, ensuring clarity, accountability, and tangible results.
- Enable performance across teams: Go beyond your own team by learning how to open pathways for collaboration and coordination across departments, helping your team perform more effectively in the broader organisational landscape.
This pillar focuses on driving results for your team, while staying grounded in practical leadership for first-time managers.
Coaching as a Team Leader
- Develop practical coaching skills: Learn to assess individual capabilities and team contributions to encourage autonomy, accountability, and continuous development
- Foster trust and resilience: Harness your team’s diversity to strengthen collaboration, innovation, and overall motivation.
This pillar supports participants in building a coaching approach that ensuring lasting organisational impact beyond immediate performance.
Research shows that mastering interpersonal skills early in your career can have a lasting effect on your reputation and effectiveness as a leader. Through a dynamic mix of theoretical insights, simulations, group coaching, self-reflection, and practical feedback, the programme creates a safe, high-trust space for participants to practise and evolve their leadership skills.
