Course Overview

Develop and enhance your leadership skills. This unit looks at the development of practical leadership skills, within the rapidly changing work environment. It provides you with a great opportunity to explore in-depth the attributes and skills of successful leaders. Using established principles and practical examples, you will be able to apply leadership theories and models to specific situations and to learn how leadership skills can be developed.

If you do not wish to take the whole unit, you can choose just one module.

Aims and Objectives

• Different leadership attributes and skills - Module 1. Do you know what kind of leader you are? Do you know what emotional intelligence is and how it can help you as a manager? The module examines various vital leadership topics and includes various exercises to develop your leadership skills.
• Current theories, models and principles of leadership - Module 2. Examine key ideas of leadership. This module will also provide you with tools for analysis and self-assessment. Various activities are included to balance theory with practical action.
• Development of Leadership Skills - Module 3. You will investigate the team leader’s role in supporting and maintaining a positive working environment and how your style of leadership can affect this. Learn relevant team consultation skills and how to encourage whole team participation in meetings. You will build up your skills as a leader, examining and evaluating a range of methods for leadership development, and reflecting on which methods would be most useful for you.

Target Audiences

• Experienced staff who are being given management responsibilities
• Team leaders
• Those with access to management work situations
• Recent graduates new to management

Prerequisites

The programme will suit those comfortable with flexible online learning. Please contact your Pitman Training Advisor for guidance.

Course Content

Different leadership attributes and skills (Module 1)
Includes:
• Styles of Leadership
• Leadership Attributes
• Emotional Intelligence

We suggest you put aside roughly 8 – 15 hours. Please note: this is guidance only as some people will take less time, others more.

Current theories, models and principles of leadership (Module 2)
Includes:
• Management theories
• Leadership theories
• Leadership in the organisational context

We suggest you put aside roughly 9 – 16 hours. Please note: this is guidance only as some people will take less time, others more.

Development of Leadership Skills (Module 3)
Includes:
• Leading and Supporting Teams
• Encouraging participation
• Developing your skills as a leader

We suggest you put aside roughly 9 – 16 hours. Please note: this is guidance only as some people will take less time, others more.