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A highly interactive training course on

Developing the Skills of a Supply Chain Leader

Creating Leaders for Organisational Success
Coventry Academy - Developing the Skills of a Supply Chain Leader
5
Days

Course Schedules

Training course overview

The "Developing the Skills of a Supply Chain Leader" course is designed to enhance awareness and skills in leadership within the supply chain context. This engaging online training explores strategies for cultivating a strong, collaborative team that efficiently addresses challenges and embraces accountability.

Focusing on tactful leadership practices applicable across various business settings, this course introduces delegates to essential skills for success while providing a comprehensive overview of effective management practices. Participants will learn the distinctions between leadership and management, with an emphasis on the qualities that define a successful supply chain leader. Key to this is the ability to influence others—motivated teams deliver superior results compared to isolated individuals.

Leadership is a skill that requires understanding core concepts and effectively applying them in practice. The course will teach how to master people management and team leadership within supply chains, making a tangible impact on managers, their teams, and the organization.

Course Features:

  • Understanding the benefits of clear communication and building rapport, as well as conflict recognition and management
  • Key factors and steps in team building and motivation within the supply chain environment
  • Defining the key aspects and potential of your leadership role
  • Strategies for enhancing effectiveness, increasing personal impact, optimizing time management, and appropriate delegation
  • Mastering people management and team leadership through dynamic coaching, mentoring, and development

What are the goals?

This Coventry Academy online training course will introduce the fundamental principles of how to effectively manage people and lead teams and show participants how to share this knowledge through in the demanding area of the Supply Chain.

By the end of this online training course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand your role as a leader in the Supply Chain
  • Build an effective team and exceed expectations
  • Manage your workload using effective prioritisation and delegation techniques
  • Establish clear objectives, setting standards and measuring performance for your teams
  • Maximise your influencing skills through skilled communication

Who is this training course for?

This Coventry Academy online training course will greatly benefit all individuals who wish to improve their knowledge of leadership in the Supply Chain and develop their personal power and effectiveness: 

This online training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Supply Chain Managers
  • Supply Chain Supervisors
  • Those in the organization wanting to learn more about the Supply Chain leadership
  • Professionals in the organisation who want to understand the principles of leadership

How will this training course be presented?

This online training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes being presented in a highly interactive manner, with an effective discussion and computer presentation style.

Together with fellow participants, you will bring a wide variety of experience and resources to the training course. The training course facilitator’s role is to help you learn for yourself and to assist you as you make sense of new ideas and techniques that you can use at work. We learn things as we try them out, stepping out of the zones that we find comfortable. Joining in role-plays is often the best way to find out how we are doing with our learning. The training course facilitator will give you some input and then help you to make sense of the models through some discussion and then practice. You’ll then be able to apply the learning to your workplace.

Course Outline

Day One: Understanding Supply Chain Leadership Principles
  • Principles of effective leadership
  • Appreciate own leadership strengths and limitations
  • Types of leadership styles: controlling & empowering styles
  • Balancing conflicting stakeholder demands
  • What does your organisation want from you?
  • Leadership behaviour flexibility
Day Two: Personal Effectiveness, Motivating and Setting Objectives
  • Understanding yourself and the Supply Chain environment
  • Motivating colleagues
  • Setting personal and team objectives
  • Managing performance
  • Finding and using time effectively
  • Building morale to achieve goals
Day Three: Communication, Influence and Conflict Management
  • Communication channels
  • The importance of effective listening skills in the Supply Chain
  • Techniques to manage your emotions
  • Persuasion and negotiation: the keys to personal influence
  • How to manage conflict assertively
Day Four: Building High Performance Teams
  • How high-performing teams work
  • Identifying Team Roles
  • Teams in Practice: Team Building Exercise
  • How to achieve team cohesiveness
  • Identifying members’ developmental needs
  • Building and Sharing a Supply Chain Vision
Day Five: Empowering Others to Succeed
  • What does an empowering leader do?
  • Tips for empowering employees
  • How to delegate successfully
  • Strategies to become an empowering leader
  • Empowerment in conflict management
  • Developing an action plan

The certificate

  • Coventry Academy e-Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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