Manager to Leader Workshop - UK

Two-day workshop content

TOPIC 1

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

• Gain a deeper understanding of your EQ and identify opportunities for growth  
• Explore the impact of your EQ on your team and the wider organisation
• Embrace the qualities of empathy and EQ to advance yourself as an effective leader  
• Leverage your EQ as a personal strength within the organisation

TOPIC 2

Making the right decisions effectively

• Understand the neuroscience of intuition and learn to trust your instincts
• Reflect on your own experience and knowledge and make effective decisions with confidence
• Develop strategies for complex and difficult situations whilst making the ‘correct’ decision
• Develop strategies to make sure your emotions/thoughts don’t weaken your decision-making process

TOPIC 3

Lead teams that are engaged and productive

• Capitalise on your technical skills to help develop your leadership strengths
• Use your authentic leadership style to motivate and engage your team effectively
• Build a culture of engagement and productive relationships who are working towards a shared vision
• Build your team through a consistent coaching and performance framework

TOPIC 4

How to master successful change and strategic management

• Lead in a world of constant change and uncertainty
• Understand problem identification processes and develop problem-solving strategies
• Develop effective strategies for driving transformation through people, not a process
• Engage, support and influence key stakeholders within the organisation through times of change

TOPIC 5

Developing resilience to succeed in times of change

• Identify and monitor changes that impact your work environment
• Develop strategies for supporting your team, organisation and stakeholders.
• Respond to constant uncertainty and ambiguity in the workplace
• Discover tools for managing stress and burn-out in high-pressure situations

TOPIC 6

Build effective stakeholder engagement and management tools

• Identify and meet stakeholder needs and expectations
• Discover tools for building effective and rewarding relationships with stakeholders
• Develop strategies for negotiating with integrity and confidence
• Manage stakeholder relationships to achieve key organisation goals

TOPIC 7

Excel in your career and develop as a leader

• Building your personal brand and leadership style
• Align your leadership strength with the expectations of your organisation
• Establish a leadership mindset that will accelerate career development
• Develop a personal development plan to unlock your pathway to progression

Who will attend?

• Current managers
• New managers
• Emerging leaders

Your Facilitator 

A little about, Julie Robinson!

A corporate leader veteran turned facilitator and coach, Julie brings over 25 years of corporate experience to her leadership development, team development and coaching.

Having worked at Director level at an airline, financial services company, online gaming business and as a non-executive at a logistics organisation, Julie has extensive experience of directing global teams in the development of world-class products and services, leading change, and turning strategy into operational results.

Consequently, she understands the thorny challenges of leadership and developing high-performing teams. Also having made a number of leadership transitions, she has experience of the skills and values required when transitioning through leadership levels.

Julie was keen to share her learnings with other leaders and thirteen years ago moved into her coaching and development role. Since then, she has facilitated learning interventions for different size groups of leaders at different levels in a wide variety of business segments.

Recent assignments:

• Lead facilitator of an eighteen-month leadership programme for senior leaders at a construction company.
• Group coaching of ten senior managers to develop their personal resilience.
• Team coaching for a General Manager and his team to set clear direction, accountability and improved stakeholder management.

Julie holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Coaching and Development, a European Mentoring and Coaching Council Senior Practitioner accreditation (EIA) and studied the Psychology of Leadership, Change and Coaching with the CIPD; Strategic Planning at Cranfield and the role of the Director with the Institute of Directors.

She is also an accredited Insights psychometric profiling practitioner and facilitator and an accredited Q-OPD 360 Practitioner.