LTFE Dynamic Leadership Programme

Day 1: Leading in Action

• Starting with the end in mind: Introduce the Support and Challenge model as a way of contracting in the room and working with your teams.
• It's all about me: Using disclosure to build trust within the team with an opportunity for storytelling.
• Action-Centred Leadership: Analyse John Adair's Action Centred leadership model, which focuses on the balance of leadership between Team, Task, and individual.
• Leadership V's Management: Introduce the concept of the Leader / Manager Continuum and the skills and behaviours required
• Think Change: An experiential session demonstrating behaviours in change and insights into how to better lead themselves and teams through change.
• Our Iceberg is melting: Understand how to lead and land change effectively using Dr John Kotter's 8-step process.

Day 2: Building High-Performing Teams

• Learning review and Check-in
• Functioning teams: Introduce Patrick Lencioni's model: "The five dysfunctions of a team", to help identify what it takes to make a high-performing team
• Communication: Understand different communication styles, identify own style and how to communicate effectively with impact to team and individual, including feedback
• Resilient Leadership: Understand your levels of resilience, and build a better understanding of how to support team resilience. To think and lead in a more positive and resilient way
• Managing Confidence Levels: Look at confidence, how it affects our ability to be resilient and how to manage and become a more confident leader
• My Plan: Build on the learning from the day, taking a deeper dive into resilience using the Wheel of Life

Day 3: Leading Others

• Learning Review and Check-in
• Flexible Leadership: Gain insight and awareness into preferred and habitual leadership styles and understand the implications for your teams, developing a more consciously flexible leadership style.
• The Power of Direction: Looking at the skill and lost art of direction.
• The Art of Coaching: Understand the power of coaching and when to use it. Introduce the London TFE coaching framework. Build on current coaching techniques and practice different coaching models.
• Support: Looking at current business issues and sharing a problem-solving tool
• The Art of Delegation: Know when and how to delegate and create room for growth.
• Motivating Teams: Identify what motivates self and others, start building individual bespoke motivational plans for your teams, and look at how personal values link to motivation.
• Putting it into practice: Consolidate the learnings from the day. Build an ongoing action plan for continuous improvement of self and others.

Day 4: Inspiring Authentic Leadership

• The Fine Art of Storytelling: A reflection of the Leadership Journey to date, how leadership has developed and practice the Art of Storytelling as a key leadership skill
• Being a Future Leader: Becoming forward thinking, using visioning to build Leadership capability
• Understanding my Leadership Values: Understand your Leadership values and how to use values to inspire.
• Creating a Vision and Strategy: Create a team Vision and Strategic direction. Experience writing own inspiring and compelling Visions and reviewing/building strategic direction
• The Importance of Trust as an Inspiring Leader: Experience being trusted and trusting to understand the trust equation and own trust quotient
• Being an Authentic Leader: Defining your Authentic Leadership to Inspire and Lead Teams

Day 5: Influencing

• Gain real insight into your influencing and negotiation skills, and increase your impact with masterly language – the words and tones that land well and create a win-win situation for you and your stakeholders. 
• "Who's got the POWER!”: To establish different sources of power that each leader can harness, which is their favourite, and how can they explore other power bases
• The Model: Introducing the London Training for Excellence framework for effective influencing
• Strategic influencing: Explore how to structure an influencing opportunity using strategic thinking
• Building and Influencing Strategy: Understand how to build a strategic influencing plan, including the science of persuasion and negotiation guru
• My stakeholders: Introduce varying stakeholder tools to identify and analyze stakeholders
• The language of influencing: Identify different Influencing styles, looking at why, when and how to use them
• Consolidate influencing strategy and learnings.