Powering up your People Management – Managing Yourself

Overview

We will start with you, looking at your approach to managing others, exploring your preferred leadership style, identifying your strengths and drivers and anticipating personal challenges. In this session, we will also discover the foundations of emotional intelligence and enhance your self-awareness.

Understanding yourself will help you to understand others. The ability to manage your own emotions and behaviours are essential to your success as a people manager and the content covered will give you clues as to your impact on others

Course structure

This is a bite sized 90-minute virtual session to help improve your understanding of the importance of effective people management and you as a people manager.  It will be interactive to ensure you can focus on your individual needs.

It will cover:

Leadership styles

• You will use key leadership models to explore your own leadership style, it’s impact and appropriateness given your business and your current challenges.  We will discuss the pros and cons of a number of key styles.

Drivers and derailers

• Understanding what motivates and energises us is important, as is understanding what gets in our way and holds us back. This ability to understand and manage our effectiveness becomes essential as we take on management and leadership roles.

Emotional Intelligence, self-awareness and self-regulation

• A boards’ effectiveness is dependent on the structure of the board and the competency of its directors.  Understanding this relationship allows you to develop the skills you need to fit into this dynamic.