Larkfield Industrial Estate
Greenock, PA16 0EQ
United Kingdom
Morning: Leadership
Is leadership just getting folks to do stuff they don’t want to? Not everyone’s born to leadership nor does everyone aspire to it. As a company owner however, your leadership is expected. How can you leverage your own personal qualities to become and be seen to become a leader? How do leaders set the tone and inspire change? What sort of leadership style will sit most comfortably on your shoulders and how can you use that to drive growth? This module aims to learn more about the concept of business leadership, to better understand various approaches to business leadership and to begin to develop your own leadership skills to help you put leadership in an SME context.
Content
• What’s the difference between management and leadership?
• Who do you recognise as being a great leader and why?
• Perspectives on leadership: Does the ‘born leader’ exist or can anyone do it?
• Transformational leadership
• What skills do/should leaders have? And what do we expect them to have?
• So what makes an effective leader?
Afternoon: People
One of the (many) definitions of leadership comes from management guru, Peter Drucker who said, “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.” You may well disagree however it’s hard to deny that once we start to talk about leadership in any context, the topic of people is largely inseparable. This session has a focus on people management and given that salaries often represent the largest source of costs, it makes sense to ensure we’re achieving value from our investment in our people - the growth drivers.
Content
• How does HR deliver value to the organisation and its people?
• Employee engagement
• Attracting new talent
• Key metrics development
• Attrition and absence management
• Training and Development
• Performance management
• Creating a virtuous circle
• Grievance and disciplinary process management
• Conducting fair and thorough investigations
• Employment tribunals
• Policy development
