Leadership Essentials Program

The Leadership Essentials Program from Developing Leaders. The perfect program for people looking to develop the core practical skills and behaviours of leadership while also juggling a busy work role. Eight leadership workshops delivered virtually (online via Zoom) every fortnight across 4 months, this program will help you build core leadership behaviours and practical skills to set you apart from the rest. 

Whether you’re a manager, supervisor, small business owner or just someone looking to develop their leadership skills, the Leadership Essentials Program will give you the tools and confidence to lead with purpose.

This program is perfect for businesses with leaders and managers in multiple States, and you need a leadership program delivered to a consistently high standard for everyone.

You’ll learn how to manage your own time and role, build positive relationships with colleagues and team members, create a positive team culture, make decisions with clarity and purpose, confidently deliver feedback, handle difficult conversations, and much more. 

The Leadership Essentials Program is designed to develop practical leadership skills across the five core leadership competencies. These competencies are: Purpose and Values, Task Management, Managing Self, Team Altitude and Adaptability. 

  • Purpose and Values underpin behaviour and provide the drive, grit, resilience and vision for the leader. Alignment Leadership traits focus on a leader’s purpose and values.
  • Task Management is essential for staying on track. Responsible, organised, task-focussed and reliable leaders achieve results for themselves and their team. Achievement Leadership traits focus on a leader’s task management abilities.
  • Managing Self is essential before leading others. Solid self-awareness coupled with self-belief, assertiveness and clarity provide the foundation to lead others. Awareness Leadership traits focus on managing oneself effectively.
  • Team Altitude is determined by team attitude. The ability to communicate effectively, provide timely feedback, actively listen and maintain accountability ensure the team reaches its optimal performance. Altitude Leadership traits focus on team behaviours that can ‘lift’ or ‘drag’ performance. 
  • Adaptability is key to business success as highly effective leaders know how to adapt their own leadership qualities to their team, their management style, purpose and business environment. Adaptability Leadership traits focus on a leader’s ability to anticipate changes in situations and adjust accordingly

Join The Next Public Program starting in June 2024

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Leadership Essentials Program

The easiest way to get started or to advance on your leadership coaching journey is to either:

  1. Book a FREE 15 Minute Q&A Session if you would like to know more about our Leadership Essentials Program, or
  2. Book a 30 Minute Introductory Session if you would like to discuss the leadership and management content included in the Leadership Essentials Program, practical applications that generate efficiency and effectiveness or tailoring to your current leadership needs. Also book this time if you want to discuss how this program can be applied for several team members or across different regions of your business.

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In your session we’ll answer any questions you have, explain the program content, timing and/or budget, and demonstrate why you would be making the right choice in attending a Developing Leaders Leadership Essentials Program.

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Developing Leaders delivers the
Leadership Essentials Program via the following learning pathways:

Leadership Profile

The Velocity Leadership CheckPoint provides leadership strengths and development areas across 25 leadership capabilities via a written report and a personal hour long 1-on-1 debrief. Group participant results impact the depth and focus of content of the Leadership Essentials Program, tailoring the content to specific group needs.

Online 'Live' Sessions

8 x 1.5 hour live sessions (not pre-recorded) facilitating the essential leadership requirements for new and established leaders, with a focus on specific group needs (as identified through the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint) and development areas.

Leadership Literature 101

4 x 1 hour Leadership Literature reviews – breaking down the best leadership works from around the world into bite-size practical applications.

Q&A Sessions

4 x 1 hour Question and Answer sessions focussed on providing real solutions to live problems across all areas of management and leadership.

What Will You Learn In The Leadership Essentials Program?

Leadership Foundations

Principles of leadership and responsibility, vision and purpose setting, goal alignment and decision making. Specific Developing Leaders content seamlessly partnered with the best practical leadership thoughts from around the world.

Self Awareness and EI

Deeper understanding of strengths and development areas through use of the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint and debrief

Communication and Influence

Practical strategies for communicating with clarity, empathy and authenticity, including your Team Expectations and behaviour likes / dislikes.

Task, Time and Meeting Management

Focus on habits and behaviours that manage personal and team time for efficiency and effectiveness, including the Elevator Model for Task Management & Efficiency.

Conflict Resolution & Difficult Conversations

Preparing for and staying in robust conversations longer through use of our IDRIFT model and developing structures and practise for difficult / important conversations.

Team Development

How to build high-performing teams, leverage diverse perspectives, foster a culture of trust and avoid the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team.

Empathy & Understanding Of Others

Greater understanding of self and impact of body language, communication and intent on team members and peers.

Strategic Thinking and Problem-Solving

Explain your purpose, personal values and link to business vision and strategy. Scenario analysis and experiential activity developing problem-solving skills.

Build Trust and Understanding

How to recover from mistakes (yours and others) to prevent team ’emotional debris’ and communication glitches.

Efficient Meeting Management

How to create efficient and effective team meetings through the 9 Stages of Meeting Convergence and the DeBono’s 6 Thinking Hats

Build Personal Confidence

How to overcome FEAR in your actions, how to stop being lenient (rather than holding to account) and having confidence in your leadership structures and behaviours.

Ongoing Leadership and Learning Community

Learn and grow with our experienced instructors and community of like-minded leadership learners, that extends well beyond the formal aspects of the program and beyond.

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Leadership Essentials Program from June-Sept 2024?

Looking to Book 2+ People Into The Leadership Essentials Program for June 2024?

When booking more than 2 people into the Leadership Essentials Program, we provide the following for their leaders / managers back in the workplace:

Video Executive Summaries

Prevent separation from your Leadership Essentials Program participants through reviewing the short Executive Summary videos sent to your Inbox after each workshop.

Core Content Templates and PDFs

Your participants get the specific detail and discussion you get the high level concepts and essential templates to further the knowledge back in the workplace.

Suggested Questions and Discussion Points

With each workshop summary comes the specific questions and talking points you can ask your Leadership Essentials Program participants to engage them further, apply the learning in your workplace and see how they are progressing in their leadership skills and behaviours.

Client Testimonials - Leadership Programs

Michael took the team to a new place during his workshop – the response and feedback from the whole group was amazing and they all took things away with them. Becoming Accountable is now a positive message – not a negative feeling! Can’t wait to take the team through more work with Michael and his team.

Jo Mear

- Summer Foundation & Housing Hub

Worked with Michael at Developing Leaders over the past 12 months and would recommend. Provided some fantastic and practical tools for managing team and developing my own skill set in leadership and personal development. Highly recommend thanks Michael

Mark Stephensen

- Pure Fishing

Michael was great to deal with throughout the duration of the Emerging Leader program we took part in. Was always available outside of sessions to offer assistance and paced the course well to allow those in the room to follow/absorb the content.

Kayden Dhyon

- Pure Fishing

Michael is someone who can make learning fun and yet very effective. He walks the talk. The training manual just a reference to me but my learning comes mostly from what he said and practiced in the session. His action and behaviours in the class reflect exactly what he preached in the programme. The activities done in the programme all relevant to the topic and it makes the topic easy to remember and apply back at the workplace. He is such a great facilitator and he inspired me a lot!

Suhaila Zainol

- CIMB

I have learnt so much, and have found the tools Michael provides me to implement it into my work is spot on. I can confidently say that I have grown significantly whilst working with Michael.

Alison Burgess

- Summer Foundation

The Emerging Leaders training has been full of practical strategies and ideas that I can implement immediately with my team and has made me a much more efficient and impactful leader. Michael facilitates in a way that demonstrates the content first hand and he encourages participants to be authentic leaders!

Carla Granozio

- Summer Foundation

Going through Michael’s Emerging Leaders program has been fantastic. I came out of the program with a new sense of what leadership meant and a new repertoire of tools and techniques to use with my team. Attending Michael’s fortnightly sessions was something to look forward to as he is an amazing presenter and educator – nothing was ever dry or boring! Michael also made himself available outside of scheduled sessions for 1 on 1 advice, which was helpful! Highly recommend!

Rebecca Evans

- Summer Foundation

Michael was brilliant in course planning, execution and communication. His sessions were well planned and executed brilliantly. Lots of knowledge and learning for me. Well Recommended !

Hitesh Sharma

- Summer Foundation

Michael took the team to a new place during his workshop – the response and feedback from the whole group was amazing and they all took things away with them. Becoming Accountable is now a positive message – not a negative feeling! Can’t wait to take the team through more work with Michael and his team.

Jo Mear

- Summer Foundation

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