This program offers personalized support and guidance to help you manage the develop of your managers
*red ticks indicate that these topics are in the standard ASPIRE programme
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Leadership in the 21st Century
Use leadership and management practice to improve outcomes
Use different leadership styles or behaviours in the appropriate situations to improve team performance
Create trust and respect with peers, team members and others
Reflect on own leadership behaviour and potential, using feedback from others
Produce a personal development plan with actions to enhance leadership behaviour and practice
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Personal Skills
Identify a workplace project/initiative and outline the scope and impact
Create an effective Project initiation Document
Use a simple tool for determining the financial viability of the project
Produce a project plan using appropriate project planning techniques
Set objectives and targets/milestones to monitor performance and review plans within the project
Use a project evaluation technique to evaluate the project
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Leading Teams Effectively
Provide the team with a common sense of purpose that supports the overall vision and strategy of the organisation
Decide whether they have a team or a group and lead them appropriately
Establish and promote the team or group culture
Assess the effectiveness of their own leadership skills in communicating and take action to improve
Demonstrate that they are supporting and developing the team and its members
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Performance Management
State the role of performance management in leadership
Use a simple ABC model to evaluate performance
Create a personal management strategy for team members
Manage high and low performers more effectively
Use the disciplinary and capability procedures effectively
Work with HR to create a high performing team
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Motivation and Coaching
Identify and describe a number of motivational theories
Determine the level of motivation within the team
Identify ways to improve the motivation of the team Use a range of techniques to improve motivation within the team
Develop a coaching approach within the team
Use a recognised coaching model in day to day management
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Making Change Happen
Understand different change modes
Use traditional change management techniques
Understand the change behaviours and how to manage them
Recognise self sabotage behaviours and overcome them
Managing stakeholders
Introduction to viral change management
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Creating Engagement
Identify and describe a number of motivational theories
Determine the level of motivation within the team
Identify ways to improve the motivation of the team Use a range of techniques to improve motivation within the team
Define employee engagement
Identify ways to increase engagement within the workplace
Use a range of techniques to improve engagement within the team
Increase employee engagement within the team
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Managing Projects
Identify a workplace project/initiative and outline the scope and impact
Create an effective Project initiation Document
Use a simple tool for determining the financial viability of the project
Produce a project plan using appropriate project planning techniques
Set objectives and targets/milestones to monitor performance and review plans within the project
Use a project evaluation technique to evaluate the project
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Communicating for Results
Understand the importance of effective communication to their teams and others
Use the stages of the communication cycle to improve communication
Identify and overcome possible barriers to communication in the workplace
Use different forms of communication to effectively communicate to others
Use non-verbal communication to influence and support the effectiveness of oral communication
Use feedback to ensure communication is effective
Assess own performance in a frequently used method of communication
Identify actions to improve own performance
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Managing Meetings
Identify meeting needs and who to invite
Using the agenda to manage the meeting
The role of meeting participants
Managing meeting participants
Remote v Face to Face Meetings
The role of AOB
Creating action in the meeting
Closing the meeting down
Interim action from the meeting
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Mentoring in the Workplace
Use a mentoring model effectively in the workplace
Identify the mentoring needs for team members
Use learning styles to ensure mentoring is effective
Ensure mentoring records are maintained correctly
Produce a development plan for members of the team
Evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring
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Coaching in the Workplace
Use a coaching model effectively in the workplace
Identify the coaching needs for team members
Use learning styles to ensure coaching is effective
Ensure coaching records are maintained correctly
Produce a development plan for members of the team
Evaluate the effectiveness of coaching
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Effective Team Briefings
Plan the content of a briefing
Prepare appropriate information for the briefing
Gain attention from attendees
Use effective briefing techniques and aids
Gather feedback from the audience on both personal performance and technical content
Use feedback to improve future briefings
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Developing Others
Make a case for the development of team members
Carry out a simple training needs analysis for each member of the team
Produce and support the personal development plan for team members
Support team’s current and future development plans
Use support mechanisms within the organisation to support the achievement of personal development plans
Carry out regular appraisals and reviews with the team
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Agile Performance Management
Effectively deal with performance management issues within their remit
Use formal and informal performance assessment to make decisions about performance
Set SMART objectives and performance standards for team members
Measure performance against agreed standards fairly and objectively
Provide regular feedback to improve performance
Use a range of feedback techniques, dependent upon the situation
Deal with performance issues in an appropriate way
Take a variety of actions to support underperformers return to performance
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Problem Solving and Decision Making
Identify a problem, its nature, scope and impact
Gather evidence, information and data to scope the problem described
Create a summary of the options providing facts and evidence
Use a range of decision-making techniques to evaluate options to arrive at the best solution
Create a plan to implement the solution and communicate it to those concerned
Monitor and review the plan and outcomes to improve practice and evaluate the quality of the decision made
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Remote Leadership
Adopt an appropriate leadership style to enable the team to perform effectively
Communicate using an effective communication strategy with the team
Use technology to enhance the team performance and well being
Adjust meetings to take account of the remote setting
Manage their own and other’s well being
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Successful Delegation
Identify the differences between allocation, abdication and delegation
Identify a task to delegate
Prepare a delegation plan for the identified task
Carry out a delegation briefing
Monitor and support the person carrying out the delegated task
Carry out a debrief evaluating the task and the person using an effective feedback technique
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Negotiation Skills
Produce a negotiation plan before entering into the negotiation
Use ‘walk away’ option, ZOPA and BATNA in negotiation practice
Reflect and use tools to evaluate their negotiation performance
Use skills to create win-win resolutions, when appropriate
Manage first offers to own advantage
Carry out a negotiation that results in a win-win situation
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Customer Service Excellence
Use Customer Service Standards and / or Service Level Agreements, as appropriate
Abide by the main legal rights of the customers (internal and external)
Action your organisation’s commitments to your customers Manage the performance of your team in relation to Customer Service Standards / Service Level Agreements
Obtain, record and action feedback from your customers
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Amazing Presentations
Plan the content of a presentation
Prepare appropriate information for the presentation
Use appropriate presentation techniques and aids in a presentation
Gather feedback from the audience on both personal performance and technical content
Use feedback to improve future presentations
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Conflict Management
Understand the role of conflict
Using conflict positively
Recognising different conflict management strategies
Understanding the psychology and physiology of conflict
Why compromise doesn't work
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Priority Management
Carry out a simple time analysis study
Identify the core purpose of the role
Use Priority Matrix to manage activities
Use techniques such as time boxing and the Pomodoro technique to ensure priorities are delivered
Share best practice to the team to enhance team productivity
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Agile Performance Management
Adopt an agile mindset
Plan an agile performance review
State the key aims and objectives of the business (and the department), and the team’s role in delivering them
Create objectives for each team member that provide value add
Negotiate and confirm objectives during the review
Identify, plan and record any learning needed to achieve the agreed objectives
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Understanding Culture
Define Culture
Understand the four cultural types
Carry out a present and future culture audit
Understand the key steps in changing culture
manage the cultural shift at an appropriate level
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Strategic Awareness
Understand the term of strategy
State the role of strategy in business
Identify the key strategic positions for organisations
Recognise their organisation's strategic positioning
Use a range of tools to identify strategic positioning and opportunities or needs for change
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Behavioural Performance Management
Defining the link between performance and behaviour
Why poor behaviour should be managed
Having a performance based conversation
Writing a behavioural objective
Selecting the correct language to tackle poor behaviour
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Stress Reduction & Self Care
Understand the difference between pressure and stress