This is a programme for emerging leaders in your organisation. Help your Team Leaders and Managers to understand their default leadership style, to build on their own unique strengths as a leader and to overcome barriers to harmonious team working. This one-day workshop helps participants to connect with their purpose and bring renewed energy to their teams.

1. “Intention doesn’t matter,
their perception is your reality”
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Today’s Session
09:30 – 16:30
Break: 11:00
Lunch: 13:00 – 45 minutes

5. Engaging with Impact
Effective Stakeholder
Management
•Managing up
• Communicating up
•Engaging with Client
stakeholders
•Presenting to a business
audience
Effective Team Leadership
• Managing people in teams
• Motivating teams
• Avoiding making
assumptions
• Challenging negative
behaviours

6. “Words are the most powerful drug
used by mankind” – Rudyard Kipling

7. Just

8. How many African countries?

9. Your leadership challenge
Individually - first reflect
Then discuss in small groups:
1. What leadership challenges do you face
with yourself and in your current role?
2. What personal leadership challenges do
you need to tackle to help prepare you for a
future role?
3. What is the most important personal
leadership challenge for you to tackle right
now?
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10. Your Greatest Leader
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12. Toolbox Tip

13. FLeD Goals
• F - How do you want
your audience to feel?
• L - What do you want
them to learn?
• D - What do you want
them to do?
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14. Your Greatest Leader
Who did you choose?
Why did you choose them?
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15. A leadership style is a tool, not a personality
trait”
Daniel Goleman
“Leadership that Gets Results”
Harvard Business Review
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16. “Only three things happen naturally
in an organisation: friction,
confusion and underperformance.
Everything else requires
leadership”
Peter Drucker

17. Emotional Intelligence
Self – awareness Self-
management
Social
Awareness
Relationship
Management
Emotional Self
awareness
Emotional self
control
Empathy Coach & Mentor
Adaptability Influence
Achievement
orientation
Organisational
awareness
Conflict
management
Positive outlook Teamwork
Inspirational
leadership

18. 6 styles of leadership
Affiliative Visionary Pace-
Setting
Coaching
Commanding
Democratic
What’s your
default style?

19. Commanding
Leaders way of
working:
Demands immediate
compliance
Underlying EQ
aspects:
Achievement orientation
Initiative
Self-Control
When:
In a crisis
To start a new project
With problem employees
Impact on
Climate: Negative

20. Affiliative
Leaders way of
working:
Creates harmony, builds
bonds
Underlying EQ
aspects:
Empathy
Relationships
Communication
When:
To heal rifts in a team
To motivate in stressful times
Impact on
Climate: Positive

21. Visionary
Leaders way of
working:
Mobilises people towards a
vision
Underlying EQ
aspects:
Self confidence
Empathy
Change catalyst
When:
When change requires a new
vision
When a clear direction is
needed
Impact on
Climate: Most strongly positive

22. Pace-Setting
Leaders way of
working:
Sets high standards for
performance
Underlying EQ
aspects:
Conscientiousness
Achievement orientation
Initiative
When:
To get quick results from a
highly motivated and
competent team
Impact on
Climate: Negative

23. Democratic
Leaders way of
working:
Forges consensus through
participation
Underlying EQ
aspects:
Collaboration
Team Leadership
Communication
When:
To build buy in or consensus
To get input from valuable
employees
Impact on
Climate: Positive

24. Coaching
Leaders way of
working: Develops people for the future
Underlying EQ
aspects:
Developing others
Empathy
Self awareness
When:
To help improve performance
or develop long term
strengths
Impact on
Climate: Positive

25. What’s your default style?
- When is the best situation to use
this style?
- What are the drawbacks of
overusing this style?
- What other styles would you like
to strengthen/ develop more of?

26. Asserting Attracting
Persuading Bridging
PUSH PULL
LOWER ENERGY
Influencing: Push & Pull
HIGHER ENERGY

27. Push Pull Model of Influence: What conditions do you think are needed for each strategy to be successful?
PUSH PULL

29. Push Pull Model of Influence: How to make the most of each strategy
PUSH PULL

30. Choose a
scenario

31. How many African countries?

32. ABC of biases
Green Red Green Red Red Gree

33. Choose a difficult person
What unhelpful beliefs do I hold about this person?
Write down 3 positive qualities about them
What actions could I take to have a better relationship with
them?
What personal and professional benefits would there be to
having a better relationship with them?
How will I apply these actions the next time I see them?

34. Great Leaders…

35. Your research
What
How
Why

36. ‘Why’ stories
•Personal - Tell Who I Am
•Business - Tell Who We Are
•Universal - Motivate Change
•Specific - Change the Frame

37. Chart your life …
New
job
Failedproject
Seriesofgreatprojects

38. •Realised you were competent
•Realised why you work at what you do
•Realised you would achieve a milestone in your
career
•Solved an important business problem
Three lightbulb moments when you …

39. 3 experiences when….
• You took a risk
• Your perception of yourself changed
• Your view of the world changed
• You felt alive and passionate about what you were
doing
or challenges, difficult decisions, inspirational people
………….. it’s up to you
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40. Story sources
• Who’s in your family?
• Who are your friends?
• What’s important to you?
• What do you play or do for fun?
• Have you travelled to a different country?
• What have you read?
• What have you watched?
• Where do you live or have you lived?
• If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?

41. The key question:
Why should anyone be led by you?

42. Great Leaders…

43. Authentic Leaders demonstrate a passion for
their purpose, practice their values
consistently, and lead others with their
hearts as well as their heads. They establish
long-term meaningful relationships and have
the self-discipline to get results. They know
who they are”