Key details
Mode of delivery: Classroom-based
Course code: LCM15C
Duration: 5 days
Fee: £4,625.00 + VAT
CPD Hours: 30
Course Overview
This five-day course is designed to enhance leadership capabilities in decision-making, productivity, motivation, and innovation. Participants will learn to apply decision-making models suited for complex and urgent situations, develop skills to prioritise tasks, manage workload, and align team efforts with strategic goals. The programme also explores ways to sustain motivation within senior teams, create an environment conducive to innovation, and embed new ideas into daily operations.
Agenda
Day — 1 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 — 2 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 — 3 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 — 4 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 — 5 Course Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Post-Course
- Three (3) x hour-long Executive Coaching sessions at monthly intervals following Course Completion
Target Audience
- Senior Managers, Heads of Department, Business Unit Heads, and Organisational Leaders
- Senior Project, Programme, Regional, and Country Managers
- Operations and HR Leaders, Strategy and Transformation Managers
- Change Management and Performance Leaders, and Leadership Development Leads
- Senior Public Sector Managers and Senior NGO Leaders
- Senior Consultants and Executive Managers
- Future Directors and Senior Professionals preparing for enterprise leadership
Learning Outcomes
- 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.
