Leadership & Management 1-Day Workshop

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This 1-Day course will help participants develop their core management skills in terms of leading their teams and growing their digital business.

Key outcomes

• To develop a better understanding of the key issues facing managers in a creative environment

• To recognise and develop the characteristics of high performing teams

• To develop a deeper understanding of Emotional Intelligence and the benefits of using it appropriately

• To learn more about your own personality and be better equipped to mange yourself and those around you

• To develop a flexible approach in dealing with others and generating positive outcomes

• Understand how to deliver consistent high performance

AGENDA

9.30 – 10.00 Introduction and personal goal setting

Understand motivations for becoming better managers and team leaders

10.00 – 10.30 Icebreaker

Participants choose and exchange QuikDiSC® cards to find words that best describe them

10.30 – 11.15 Introduction to Emotional Intelligence and the impact upon managing high performing teams

Presentation on Daniel Goleman’s theory and belief in self-awareness

11.15 – 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.00 Discover Four Styles of Behavior and Explore the General Preferences of Your Style

Interactive presentation combined with the distribution and discussion of participant individual DiSC® reports

12.00 – 13.00 Learning to adapt your management style

Review of situational, client and personal requirements in managing different project needs effectively. Introduce Simon Sinek’s golden circle theory

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Managing high performing teams

Reviewing characteristics and the roles of managers and team members in a creative environment

15.15 – 15.30 Coffee

15.50 – 16.00 Learn how to address goals and fears to gain commitment

Interactive presentation on how to understand and acknowledge the goals and fears of team members and aligning business, team and individual needs

16.00 – 16.30 Performance management and developing a coaching culture

Reviewing tools and techniques for performance management and learning how to use feedback as a management tool

16.30 – 16.45 Review of the day

Summarise and digest the day’s experience; Agree personal commitments moving forward

THE TRAINER - ANDREW THOMAS

Andrew’s marketing experience extends back over twenty years having joined BMP DDB in London in the late eighties, after completing five years as a captain in the British Army. He spent most of career working at the global advertising agency McCann-Erickson. On leaving Bounty at the end of 2008 Andrew established the green field, which has become a convenient wrapper for his portfolio of coaching, consulting and training activities. Since then, Andrew has incorporated being a Media Development Professional with Vision and Media; an Associate Coach with Winning Pitch on the Northwest Regional Development Agency’s High Growth Programme and certified trainer with Econsultancy. He is currently a non-executive director of the digital businesses Auburnise and Return on Digital. He recently completed eighteen months as an advisor and Non Executive Director at Chillingo, culminating in the sale of the business to Electronic Arts. Andrew has a Post Graduate Diploma in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring (PG Dip). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management (FinstLM) and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). He is also a qualified Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®), FIRO-B® and DiSC® practitioner.

By booking a ticket to this event, you agree to our event cancellation policy: https://www.manchesterdigital.com/event-cancellation-policy.

A full refund will be given for cancellations received any time up to 7 working days prior to the event (unless stated otherwise). If you cancel any places after this date you will be charged the full amount and a refund will not be given. However, you may choose to instead sent a replacement delegate. There is no charge for this service.