Do you:

• wish that some of your staff showed more commitment?
• need people to work together more effectively to achieve demanding targets and results
• want to create an environment where people want to be and perform to the best of their ability?

Engaging staff is increasingly being recognised as crucial to business success especially as pressures increase and ways of working become more complex. Engaging Leadership will help you make a powerful positive impact on the performance and attitudes of your people and your team(s).

Through this programme you will learn how to:

• engage and inspire your people to raise their performance and achieve exceptional results
• build commitment and enable people to take pride in their work
• encourage each person to be and give their best
• embed the values that are important to you
• quickly resolve tensions and conflict that undermine success
• build a sense of 'team spirit' that exceeds teamwork.

Programme

Day one

• How to create a High Performance Environment
• Engaging People: understanding the myths and knowing the practicalities
• Engaging Leadership: the key attributes required for success
• Your leadership style and how you impact on people
• Practical task to experience Employee Engagement
• Developing the core skills for effectively Engaging People
• Reflecting on and planning changes in your Leadership Style

Day two

• Engaging in shared learning
• Building commitment: how to motivate people to go the extra mile
• Common problems experienced with people who are disengaged and how to overcome them
• Techniques for handling tensions and conflict between staff
• How to engage temporary and virtual teams to optimise their performance
• Engaging people to drive continuous improvements
• Finalising your Leadership Plan to improve performance

Note: this course is an updated version of Leading an Effective Team.

Your tutor

John Marrin specialises in how directors and managers effectively engage with each other and their staff to drive improvements in individual, team and organisational performance. He has almost twenty years' experience in developing managers and transforming most types of organisation throughout the UK. John is a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development and a member of the Association of Management Development. He is continuing his research on 'Engaging People' via a DPhil. John also teaches Time Management.

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.

Send details of this course to a colleague.

Dates: 2-3 October 2008

Price: £689+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

Make a provisional booking on Engaging Leadership