Leadership Skills Training Course in Switzerland

Our Leadership Skills course aims to provide you with a range of practical tools and ideas to lead your team effectively.

The course is useful if you are new to leadership or an existing leader looking for a refresh of your current skills.

By attending this Leadership Skills training course, you will:

• Know the difference between leadership and management and when to apply each function
• Understand the wide range of skills you will need to possess to be an effective leader and manager
• Know a range of leadership approaches and the situations each should be used in
• Be able to get the team to a high performing standard in as short a period as possible
• Have built a clear development plan to develop the skills learnt in the workshop further.

• Defining what is meant by leadership
• The differences between leadership and management
• Understanding when to lead and when to manage
• The impact of in-balance between the two

• What are the skills required to be an effective leader and manager?
• Exploring why these skills are needed
• Stepping up into a leadership role
• What to do in the first days, weeks and months and how to apply this retrospectively

• Using a simple leadership model to understand how it’s done
• Looking at a range of leadership approaches
• Linking a basic understanding of personality to communication, leadership and management

• Questioning and listening and coaching conversations
• Motivating and inspiring the team
• Communicating vision and setting clear direction and expectations
• Influence and engagement – being a role model for your team and creating willingness and want to succeed
• Delegation – what it is and how to delegate tasks that lead to successful outcomes

• Dealing with under-performance
• Setting SMART goals and objectives and using OKR as an alternative
• Effective performance management discussions
• Performance and development planning
• Tricky conversations – what you should say and what what you should so – and the opposite (what to avoid)

• Using the skills we’ve described and linking these to teams rather than individuals
• The team lifecycle model and how to build a high-performing team

• An opportunity to practice the skills

Download the Course Brochure

Download a copy of our Leadership Skills training course brochure below.