Key details
Mode of delivery: Classroom-based
Course code: LCM19B
Duration: 10 days
Fee: £8,365.00 + VAT
CPD Hours: 90
Course Overview
This comprehensive Leadership Course covers essential skills for effective leadership and management. It begins with influential leadership techniques, including persuasion, stakeholder engagement, and building trust within teams. The course then addresses decision-making in complex, fast-paced environments, along with strategies for boosting productivity, motivating senior teams, and fostering innovation. Throughout, attendees will learn practical tools and frameworks to lead change, manage conflicts, and embed a culture of continuous improvement. The final session focuses on reviewing key concepts and planning the application of these skills in real-world scenarios.
Agenda
Day — 1 Influence and Persuasion for Leaders
- Key Foundations of behavioural influence in organisational settings
- Models for persuasive communication and stakeholder engagement
- Tools for framing ideas and gaining commitment
Day — 2 Stakeholder Engagement and Alignment
- Stakeholder identification and power-interest mapping techniques
- Strategies for engaging conflicting or cross-functional interests
- Communication planning for consistent stakeholder alignment
Day — 3 Building Trust and Psychological Safety
- Core components of psychological safety and their impact on team performance
- Leadership behaviours that build or erode trust over time
- Techniques for encouraging open dialogue, dissent, and idea-sharing
Day — 4 Negotiation and Conflict Navigation
- Principles of principled negotiation and preparation strategies
- Techniques for resolving conflict while preserving relationships
- Methods for creating win-win outcomes under pressure
Day — 5 Weekly Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Day — 6 Effective decision making
- Decision-making models for complex, time-sensitive environments
- Extracting meaningful insights for effective decision making
- Tools for identifying and correcting cognitive biases
Day — 7 Productivity and Operational Focus
- Techniques for prioritisation, time allocation, and managing competing demands
- Systems for reducing overload and increasing execution efficiency
- Structures for aligning team output to strategic objectives
Day — 8 Motivating for High Performance
- Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of sustained motivation in senior teams
- Strategies for energising and re-energising teams
- Leadership behaviours that promote ownership without micromanagement
Day — 9 Leading Innovation for Practical Impact
- Psychological, structural, and cultural enablers of innovation
- Tools for generating and testing ideas within operational constraints
- Leadership strategies to integrate innovation into business-as-usual
Day — 10 Course Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Post-Course
- Six (6) x hour-long Executive Coaching sessions at monthly intervals following Course Completion
Target Audience
This Leadership Course is suitable for:
- Senior Executives and C-level Leaders
- HR Directors and Organisational Development Managers
- Leadership Coaches and Mentors
- Change Management Specialists
- Managers and Department Heads
- Business Unit Leaders
- Talent Development and Leadership Development Professionals
- Employee Engagement and Culture Managers
- Strategic Planners and Decision Makers
- HR Business Partners
- Team Leaders and Supervisors involved in change initiatives
- Organisational Psychologists and Behavioral Experts
- Business Advisors
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this Leadership course, you will be able to implement a successful strategy that enables you to:
- Understand the key foundations of behavioural influence within organisational settings.
- Apply models for persuasive communication and stakeholder engagement effectively.
- Use tools for framing ideas convincingly and securing stakeholder commitment.
- Identify stakeholders and map their power-interest levels using appropriate techniques.
- Develop strategies for engaging conflicting or cross-functional interests.
- Design communication plans that ensure consistent stakeholder alignment.
- Recognise the core components of psychological safety and their impact on team performance.
- Identify leadership behaviours that either strengthen or erode trust over time.
- Employ techniques to encourage open dialogue, dissent, and the sharing of ideas.
- Apply principles of principled negotiation and develop effective preparation strategies.
- Use conflict resolution techniques that maintain relationships and foster understanding.
- Create win-win outcomes, even under pressure, through effective negotiation and problem-solving methods.
- Understand decision-making models suitable for complex, time-sensitive situations.
- Develop skills to extract and utilise meaningful insights for effective decision-making.
- Apply tools to identify and correct cognitive biases that impact judgment.
- Use prioritisation, time management, and demand management techniques to enhance productivity.
- Implement systems to reduce overload and improve efficiency in execution.
- Design structures that align team output with strategic objectives.
- Recognise intrinsic and extrinsic motivators that sustain leadership motivation.
- Develop strategies to energize and re-energize teams for sustained performance.
- Identify leadership behaviours that foster ownership and commitment without micromanagement.
- Understand the psychological, structural, and cultural factors that enable innovation.
- Utilise tools for generating, testing, and refining ideas within operational constraints.
- Apply leadership strategies to embed and sustain innovation as part of regular business operations.
Course dates
Mar 9, 2026 - Mar 20, 2026
Jul 20, 2026 - Jul 31, 2026
Nov 9, 2026 - Nov 20, 2026
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