Leadership Essentials for Managers
Overview
Step into a new level of leadership with Leadership Essentials for Managers—a powerful one-day course designed to sharpen your leadership skills and elevate your impact. Whether you’re a seasoned manager or looking to refine your approach, this course provides the tools and strategies you need to navigate leadership challenges, inspire your team, and make confident, informed decisions that drive results.
You’ll dive into key leadership principles, from adapting your leadership style to fit team dynamics to mastering communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making. With practical, real-world insights, you’ll leave with a refreshed leadership toolkit and a clear action plan to apply immediately, ensuring you lead with greater confidence and effectiveness. This is your opportunity to take your leadership skills to the next level and make a lasting impact on your team and organisation.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to adapt your leadership style to suit different team dynamics and organisational needs.
- Master effective communication techniques to inspire, engage, and motivate your team.
- Develop strategies to resolve conflicts and foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
- Gain practical tools for confident decision-making and problem-solving in leadership roles.
- Learn how to build stronger relationships and trust with your team members.
- Create a personal action plan to implement your new leadership skills in real-world situations.
Agenda
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Speaker Welcome and Introductions
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Exploring Leadership Approaches
• Core leadership styles
• Leader or manager or both?
• What leadership really looks like to me -
Break
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Finding Your Voice as a Leader
• Who am I as leader?
• Dealing with imposter syndrome
• Being human in leadership
• Building self confidence in your leadership -
Lunch
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Communication For Leadership
• Essentials of clear communication
• Communication to connect
• Handling challenges with integrity
• Being purposeful and consistent -
Break
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Habits For Your Leadership Journey
• When, how and why to seek help
• Building connections and collaborations
• My leadership toolkit -
Trainer Summary and Close
*Programme Subject to Change
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- Public Sector Rate £550.00
- Private Sector Rate £620.00
- Voluntary Sector Rate £480.00
Need to book for 6 or more people?
We are now taking bookings for our wide range of training packages in-house; we also offer bespoke packages tailored for your organisation.
For more information or to discuss the available option please call 0203 926 5674 or email info@gov-pd.co.uk
Trainer
Professor Laura Serrant CBE is a global, multi-award-winning Leadership development and Inclusive practice specialist, professional speaker, and experienced coach. She is Director of her own Leadership Development and Executive Coaching business, Laura Serrant Limited.
Laura works with Professionals and organisations to help them meet their personal aspirations, improve their business impact, client experiences and deliver their best of themselves. Her specialist consultancy focusses on Leading diverse teams (Leadership for inclusion) and supporting diverse/minoritized leaders (Leadership through Inclusion). Her professional speaking spans a variety of related subjects including: Leadership, Inclusive cultures at work, Optimising Self-Agency and Navigating ‘silences’ to advance self and Career.
Author of over 100 articles, including edited books, she is one of the BBC Expert women and was named as the 8th most influential Black person in Britain by the Powerlist 2018 and has featured in the top 100 in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. In 2024 she was awarded an CBE for services to Nursing and Health Policy. In 2024 she was awarded Freedom of the city of London by the Lord Mayor.
Her seminal poem ‘You Called…And We Came’ commemorates the anniversary of the Empire Windrush landing and the NHS. The poem stands as the inscription on the National Windrush Monument in Waterloo Station, London.
She has a successful podcast series “Speaking for Ourselves” available across most social media platforms. Her family are from The Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies.
