This programme is designed for new and existing managers who really want a practical and ‘step-by-step’ approach to leading and managing. It can be offered in-college to groups of managers and would normally provide you with:

• An initial training day
• Follow-up sessions to work on particular skills
• On-line support where required

The aims of the course:

• To enable managers to establish themselves as assertive, confident and inspirational leaders
• To enable managers to develop a workable leadership strategy
• To get every manager and their teams organised with a practical, easy to follow, step by step process
• To allow managers to develop techniques to motivate the teams and individuals that they manage
• To provide managers with solutions to handling difficult team members and under-performers

Everyone will leave the programme with their own workbook setting out the practical, individual leadership actions they have chosen to maximise their teams’ performance.

The programme can be tailored to your own needs in the college, but may include sessions such as:

• What I stand for and what I want to be remembered for as a leader
• Recruiting, selecting and developing a team
• Shared leadership vision
• Working together and the ‘Team Charter’
• Agreeing team and individual objectives

The programme is being developed so that it will be mapped to NVQ 5 management units.