A Highly Interactive Training Course On

The Essentials of Leadership & Management

Creating Impact, Inspiration and Innovation

The Essentials of Leadership & Management
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

08-19 Sep 2025
London
$11,900
01-12 Dec 2025
Dubai
$11,900
06-17 Apr 2026
London
$11,900
25 May-05 Jun 2026
Dubai
$11,900
07-18 Sep 2026
London
$11,900
30 Nov-11 Dec 2026
Dubai
$11,900
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

Enhance your success and that of your organization by unlocking the leadership potential within your team. This training course focuses on developing essential leadership skills, personal influence, and strategies for building a cohesive team. Delegates will learn to cultivate strong professionals who support each other, tackle challenges efficiently, and embrace accountability.

The Essentials of Leadership & Management course introduces critical skills for successful leadership and offers guidance on transitioning from a technical expert to a supervisory role. Ideal for new supervisors or managers, this Coventry Academy training provides a comprehensive toolkit of ideas and practices that will have an immediate impact on your management effectiveness.

Modules

This training course is split into two modules:

Module I - The Essentials of Leadership

Module II - The Management Essentials

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.

What are the goals?

By attending this Coventry Academy training course, you should achieve these goals:

  • Develop the Core Competencies Required for Exemplary Leadership
  • Maintain the Ethical Aspects of Leadership and Values Which Drive Lasting Results
  • Appraise and Select Supervision Tools that 'Fast Track' Performance
  • Comprehend and Utilise the Value of the Performance Management Process
  • Create and Monitor Personalized Action Plans for Self, Others and the Team

Who is this Training Course for?

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals who have responsibility for divisional or organizational success, as well as consultants and professionals who support them. For example:

  • Employees About to Undertake Supervisory or Management Positions
  • Current Supervisors Who Are Interested in Building Their Management Skills
  • Team Leaders, Site, Operations and Production Supervisors
  • First Time Managers With No Formal Management Training
  • Young Employees Identified as ‘High Potential’ Future Managers

The Course Content

Module 1: The Essentials of Leadership
Day One: Agility – the Norm
  • Leadership Principles, Perceptions and Praxis: essential themes
  • Changing Paradigms, New Demands and Enlightened Leadership
  • The New Normal; changing environments, expectations and challenges
  • Leadership by “design”, building agile, responsive and decisive leadership
  • The Leader Within; innate qualities personality performance, style and outputs
  • The External Environment; leading and navigating in turbulent times
Day Two: Leading Exceptional Performance
  • The Leadership Management Debate. Do I Lead or Manage?
  • What Leadership style does my organisation require?
  • 360 Leadership; competence assessment, review and peer coaching
  • Leading the focused agile team.: mission, vision values and SMARTER measures
  • Communicating Organisational and clarifying team purpose
  • Charismatic leaders and Storytelling: acknowledging success and lessons learned
Day Three: Leadership that Inspires
  • Trust- the essential ingredient in the new normal
  • Motivational leadership: the Emotionally Intelligent leaders
  • Engagement and well-being: Scope, Support, Connection, Voice
  • Diagnostic tools for organisational and team development
  • Whole brain thinking divergent and convergent thinking
  • Decision Making and the power of diverse thinking
  • Collective wisdom, constructive dissent and innovative outcomes
Day Four: Leading an Innovative Culture
  • Leading change and transition issues ingenuity and innovation
  • Solution focused methodology: Accentuating the positive and the possibilities
  • Utilising soft system methodology for innovative insights into change
  • Using Nature and multiple intelligences for creative outcomes
  • Assessing culture and organisational creativity for agile responsiveness
  • Entrepreneurial creativity. How creative am I?
Day Five: Leadership Priorities
  • Global chaos: impact, learnings and responses
  • Resilience, Well-being and Mindfulness:  key people deliverables
  • Planning for Crisis; beware the “black swans”
  • Ethical leadership for sustainable organisations
  • Reframing the Business Model Canvas to create value and sustainability
  • Action planning for future improvement
Module 2: The Management Essentials
Day Six: Fundamentals for Managerial Leadership
  • Making the transition into management: new skills, fears and expectations
  • Key accountabilities. Purpose, Responsibilities, Accountabilities
  • Understanding self to understand and lead others: psychometric profiling
  • Managerial Leadership: Changing Perceptions and New Demands
  • Applying theoretical models to the management process
  • Current global research to inform our practice
Day Seven: Managing Peak Performance in Self and Others
  • What style of management does my organisation require?
  • Psychometric assessment on personality and management style
  • Driving continuous change for improvement through creative agility
  • Clarifying Organisational and Team Purpose: “alignment through line if sight”
  • SMARTER objectives for the 21st century: balancing environment and technology
  • Assertive behaviour and conducting successful performance reviews
Day Eight: Creating a Dynamic Team in an Age of Technological Challenge
  • Creating the Highly Effective Team: “in house” and “virtual”
  • Characteristics of Dysfunctional teams
  • Generational issues, diversity, challenge and harnessing potential 
  • Team audit: evaluating current performance to initiate future progression
  • Managing collaboration and collective wisdom:  the challenge of AI and “digital transformation”
  • Managing Change, the “What if” Factor., Transition and Crisis
Day Nine: Motivational Coaching and Positive Outcomes
  • Motivation to Engage: Scope, Support, Connection, Voice
  • Communication to Connect, Clarify, Convince and Convey
  • Constructive feedback, conflict and handling difficult conversations
  • Coaching Models for individual and team success; practical sessions
  • How well do I motivate my people? What more might I do?
  • Reflection: Ten things the great boss does every day
Day Ten: Personal Prioritisation and Future Focus
  • My key deliverables and the competencies I need to demonstrate
  • “Problems, issues and concerns: constructive group feedback
  • The Golden Rule: achieving goals through the effort of others
  • Delegation for Development. How well do I delegate?
  • Presentation skills: Inform, Illustrate, Influence, Impact, Initiate
  • Action planning for post workshop improvement

Providers and Associations

Anderson
Anderson
Aztech Training
Aztech Training