– A follow-on from The Essential Tools for Managers Programme
Course Overview
To help strengthen your management skills, our Additional Tools for Managers training course is designed for experienced managers and will invest further in your development. So, whether you are looking to create a deeper connection with your team, generally manage more effectively or are interested in exploring leadership and management in more detail, this training could be for you.
This training can be taken as a follow-on programme to Adapt’s ‘The Essential Tools for Managers’ course, or for those who have been working in a management role and wish to further extend their knowledge and skill set.
It is designed to help you to become a more effective, agile and authentic manager. The training will give you the skills to transition from a manager to a highly effective leader of your team(s).
How This Course is Delivered
We specialise in hands-on, instructor-led training and offer two flexible delivery methods depending on your requirements:
- Interactive Virtual Classroom: Delivered live online via Microsoft Teams. These are small-group, collaborative sessions where participants can interact directly with our expert facilitators, share screens, and get real-time assistance.
- Bespoke In-House Training: The content can be tailored to your business requirements and the course is delivered face-to-face at your company site or a location of your choice. In this scenario, it is possible to use your organisation’s real datasets.
What You Need for Our Virtual Classrooms
To ensure the best possible remove learning experience, participants joining our live online sessions will need:
- A computer with stable internet access and Microsoft Teams installed
- A webcam, microphone, and headset for clear communication
Course Pre-Requisites
Participants for ‘Open’ courses should have reviewed the outline of ‘Essential Tools for Managers’ training course and have working experience of the content covered in that course.
There are no pre-requisites for participants attending a ‘Closed’ company training programme.
Course Objectives
By attending this training course, you will be able to –
- Reflect further on your management and leadership style and how it really impacts on your team.
- Communicate plans and business objectives, and appropriately cascade them.
- Promote workplace integrity and encourage open communication within your team.
- Set an example for others to observe and present them with a set of actions they can adopt for the greater good.
- Keep your team engaged.
- Develop a psychologically secure culture where individuals are encouraged to innovate and feel safe to challenge in a constructive manner.
- Develop a workplace free of unconscious bias where individuals are encouraged to be themselves and ensure fairness and equal outcomes.
- Influence the opinions and behaviours of others to achieve positive outcomes.
- Learn ways to strategise to take advantage of opportunities.
- Understand the importance of Emotional Intelligence for Leaders – what it looks like, how you effectively develop it and how you can use it to support decision-making.
- Develop coaching skills to help encourage, focus, challenge and empower others.
Course Content
Working with Others
- Authentic Leadership
- Essential Leadership Competencies – Being the leader that people will want to follow
- Ethical Leadership – doing the right thing
- Transformational Leadership to empower and inspire teams
- What it means to be a Value-Based Leader
- Influencing styles and the principles of positive persuasion
- Supporting Wellbeing
- Why promoting Mental Wellbeing is so important
- Signs and symptoms of stress and anxiety, workplace factors and what to do about it
- Monitoring employees who work remotely
- Building resilience in your team
- What to do when someone is off sick with stress or a mental health condition
- Managing conversations using empathy, sympathy and non-judgemental questions
- Practical steps to help individuals support their own wellbeing
- Support structures for mental health
Self-Awareness, Accountability and Addressing Challenges
- What is Emotional Intelligence?
- Learning how to be more aware
- Building emotional intelligence
- Dealing with imposter syndrome
- Identifying personal values
- Creating psychological safety
- How to avoid unconscious bias
Coaching for Performance
- Coaching versus Mentoring
- Benefits of workplace coaching
- Attributes of a good workplace coach
- The Learning Steps
- Building rapport and trust
- Using the GROW Method and RADAR
- Helping people to trust their own judgement and solve their problems
- Coaching practice
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What you need to bring for these courses when delivered as a virtual classroom.
For virtual classroom courses, you will need:
- Computer with Internet Access
- Microphone and Headset
- Webcam
- Microsoft Teams
- A dual monitor setup is recommended for IT training