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Leadership
A common question asked about management and leadership is: Where does one stop and the other start? The role of the leader requires both and balance must be achieved for functions relating to task, people, and strategy. Obtaining the right balance can be difficult as the needs of a team, the work flow, the organisational priorities, and the nature of a leadership job role all change over time. EMC can support your organisation in developing leaders and their requirements in terms of ...
The resilient and mindful leader
The importance and place of resilience in leadership Building resilient teams and people The power of being fully and engaged Dealing with failu...
Duration:
2 day
Leading in a complex environment
Developing a heightened awareness of personal predisposition for handling complexity and uncertainty Practise in deploying strengths to make progress in challenging situations Building a repertoire of techniques for analysing complex leadership ...
Duration:
2 day
Influencing skills in leadership
Influencing from a range of perspectives Making persuasive pitches or presentations to your manager Planning strategic approaches to influencing stakeholders Practising ...
Duration:
2 day
Managing and Leading for Supervisors
Effective leadership and management within an organisation are vital in achieving organisational goals and a functional work environment. This two day workshop examines some of the core competencies including: characteristics of the ideal supervisor, situational leadership, effective communication, time management and delegation, managing conflict, change management, negotiation techniques and creating a team environment.
Duration:
1 day
Leadership Training and Talent Development
There’s no doubt Leadership affects organisational performance. Leaders, through their influence upon people and resources, facilitate levels of motivation and performance to achieve their leadership potential. By developing and optimising individual leadership in an interconnected system, leaders inspire, motivate, and engage people to commit and offer discretionary effort. Thereby enhancing the collective leadership and business performance...
Coach Training –Leadership Conversations
Coaching is a core capability underpinning leadership effectiveness. Being an effective manager who possesses strong coaching skills is paramount to becoming an effective leader. An effective leader who is able to motivate their team members through purposeful coaching can facilitate higher employee engagement, greater discretionary effort, and higher performance. You’ll g...
Duration:
3 day
Victorian LGBTIQ Leadership Program
The Victorian LGBTIQ Leadership Program 2020 will comprise topics to explore issues, challenges and opportunities unique to LGBTIQ communities, and contemporary leadership theory and practice including: Leadership development: building skills and leadership capability Building a peer network to share leadership experience and support ongoing development and practice Learning from leaders from diverse backgrounds, industries and sectors Workshops to build practical skills needed to ...
Duration:
8 day
Williamson Leadership Program
Williamson is a unique, immersive year long program designed to transform the way you think about your leadership purpose. The program is built on the premise of experimentation. It will push you to continually challenge how and why you lead. It will expand the way you see the world and change the way you exercise leadership. You will engage unusual voices and learn to mobilise and empower others to do ...
Women’s Leadership Program
Gain the skills, confidence and network to lead others and be a change-maker in your organisation or community. Enhance your self-awareness, overcome self-limiting beliefs, build personal resilience, and learn to skillfully negotiate, influence and motivate others to lift performance and reach organisational goals. Explore the systematic barriers to women’s leadership and build confidence and strategies to lead change. Gain a supportive network of female peers and be inspired by ...
Duration:
3 day
LeaderEvolution Program
Leader Evolution provides a new approach to leading in an adaptive way to mobilise and empower others towards desired outcomes and overcome daunting workplace challenges. View challenges differently and shift patterns of thinking to tackle pressing issues. Learn how to take care of self when managing others and new strategies for sustaining workplace performance. As a result of this program you will: View challenges differently and approach problems innovatively Overcome your own and ...
Duration:
3 day
Developing Self, Leading Others
Gain deep insight into your current leadership style and the skills required to build trust and respect in a high performing team. Through a 360 degree feedback assessment, you will increase your self-awareness, overcome your barriers to change and learn to lead from a position of strength. Apply skills in coaching, having difficult conversations and leveraging the power of your team to increase effectiveness and achieve organisational outcomes. As a result of this program you will: Lead ...
Duration:
3 day
Igniting Leadership Program
Explore the essentials of leadership and gain the insights, skills and confidence to raise your own and your team’s performance and successfully deliver organisational goals. Increase your self-awareness, build your resilience and relationships and enhance your communication skills to effectively engage, mobilise and influence others. As a result of this program you will: Understand and leverage your leadership strengths Use the adaptive leadership approach to raise your own and your ...
Duration:
5 day
Leadership through Effective Conversations
Learn how to recognise disengagement and how this impacts on workplace performance and interactions. Learn a practical framework to maximise managers’ engagement with employees in a performance management context. Develop and enhance key interpersonal skills to promote effective communication. Build capacity and confidence for managers to defuse and manage challenging behaviours. Develop the skills to use a Reflective Practice Framework with staff to maintain positive performance and ...
Adapting Leadership
The Harvard Business Review described Adaptability Quotient (AQ) as the ‘new competitive advantage’. In 2020, your ability to adapt as a leader is the single most important aspect of your leadership toolkit. In this intensive, hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the mindset and habits of leaders with high AQ, diving deeper into the critical leadership skills you need to adapt and thrive in a world of constant ...
Duration:
1 day
Adaptability Quotient (AQ) for Leaders
This two-day program addresses the critical skills you need as a leader to adapt and thrive through change. Learn how to improve your adaptability quotient (AQ), which the Harvard Business Review describes as the ‘new competitive advantage’ including the skills needed to create high-performing teams that are able to adapt and grow during uncertain times. This highly interactive course will provide you with the necessary skills and tools to be able to effectively lead yourself and ...
Duration:
2 day
Developing You as an Exceptional Leader
This five-day program is held over five months to allow participants to return to work after each day and apply what they have learned in each session. The program price includes an Emotional Capital Report (ECR) and two one-on-one coaching sessions. These additional resources are provided to allow each participant to focus on developing specific leadership skills that will make them more effecti...
Duration:
5 day
Manager to Leader
Managers: are task focused. They administer, plan, co-ordinate, implement systems, focus on processes and structures, and delegate. Managers tend to ask how and when. Leaders: are people focused. They coach, provide training and support, inspire action, and invest time in their people to ensure that everyone is working towards the same goal. Instead of how and when, leaders tend to ask why. Whilst some leaders are born, others learn. In this two day Manager to Leader workshop you will ...
Duration:
2 day
Most important skills for leadership courses
As workplaces across all industries rapidly change, developing leadership skills has become crucial to individuals’ ongoing success. Regardless of whether you’re in a leadership role, leading a project or managing direct reports, developing both soft and hard leadership skills will equip you to successfully navigate and solve various workplace scenarios. And if you’re wondering what’s the difference is between learning soft and hard skills, soft skills can be described as how someone is shaped at work, how they perform or their traits, and hard skills relate to technical knowledge based on your role.
To break these down in the leadership industry, to upskill and advance your career as a leader we’d suggest exploring building skills in communication such as active listening, empathy, team building, coaching and mentoring, creativity, giving and receiving feedback, decision making and problem-solving, and flexibility. For more technical leadership skills explore innovation and strategy, finance and commercial acumen, marketing and sales, change management and personal leadership.
How leadership training courses work
Leadership development courses are designed in a variety of ways to assist individuals and teams. Leadership courses can be targeted to develop people based capabilities or more generalised skills can be achieved by attending business leadership training. Either way, leadership courses generally consist of a series of skills in a modualised approach targeting a specific skill level of a leader, where participants can learn the theory of the course, whether this be a set of principles or a robust framework, apply their learnings in a simulation process and end the workshop with a feedback or review session.
Benefits of leadership development training
Leadership development training is not only important, it significantly benefits both the individual and organisation. There is a famous saying in this space, CFO asks CEO: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave us?” CEO: “ What happens if we don’t, and they stay?”. Investing in training will reduce retention, promote a high performance culture and provide strong role clarity. Arming your leaders to be the most effective problem-solvers and decisive decision makers will make businesses more money.
Results you might see
Leadership development training provides a range of results. Most importantly, when you engage in leadership training programs that target high demand skills, your trained leadership skills will provide you with adding more value to an organisation, progressing your career quickly, gaining a higher income role, finding new business opportunities and unravelling complex organisation challenges and feeling confident to lead with innovation.