People and leadership
Learn to lead and motivate people
Leadership can be learned
Great leadership is about knowing how to employ the right people and motivate them to perform at their very best. It’s also about fast, effective problem solving and managing performance issues. These leadership skills can be learned at our People and Leadership workshop. Held over two days, this workshop will help you to gain a thorough understanding of leadership and performance management, covering topics such as setting performance expectations, up-skilling staff, legal obligations and measuring success. On completion of this course, you’ll know how to put management structures in place that allow you to effectively lead and inspire your team.
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Course content
People and Leadership two-day workshop
Leadership and management
- Introduction to leadership
- Differences between leadership and management
- Setting personal and people management goals
- Leadership best practice
Enabling others to perform
- Clearly defining roles and responsibilities to help your staff
- Promoting accountability, ownership and responsibility
- Understanding legal requirements of employment
- Developing position descriptions
- Creating good people processes
- Developing staff skills
Empowering others by leading the way
- Understanding the dynamic of power in the workplace
- Making power work for you and your people
- Giving the right amount of power away
Employing the right people
- Understanding the employment process
- Steps before the interview and developing best interview practices
- Identifying great questions
- What to do after the interview
Energising performance and leading the way through performance problems
- Tracking performance and giving constructive feedback
- Negotiating good outcomes
- Understanding reasons for non-performance
- Responding to resistance and conflict
Excite people to contribute their best to your business
- Running good performance reviews
- Setting your own performance expectations
People and Leadership Masters
Energise and motivate people
- Complete a DISC (human behaviours) profile
- Get greater understanding of the leadership value of each style
- How to motivate and energise from each quadrant
- You'll receive your DISC feedback on the course, with an opportunity to talk one to one with facilitators about it
Envision and achieve your goals
- Envision a world where the team always works well together
- How to be totally engaged in the achievement of business goals
- Grab even more skills to achieve your goals
Enable yourself to let go
- An opportunity to focus on self management
- Learn to 'let go' of some of the management stuff
- How to concentrate on leadership
Experiment to find the right balance
- Map your progress to date
- Re-do the 360 degree questionnaire to see how you have progressed
- Review where you're at and create action plans
- Support for your continued development in these areas
Empower those around you to maximise business performance
- Managing the dynamic of power in any relationship
- A chance to explore the 'Power Game' concept further
- Look at opportunities to help everyone feel powerful
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Course costs
People and Leadership two-day workshop
People and Leadership Masters
Course costs
* Costs, dates and locations of a workshop are subject to change at any time at the discretion of Bank of New Zealand.