Basic Award

Designed to develop knowledge and understanding of leadership as required by a practising or potential first line manager.

The aim will be achieved by developing skills which:

• Understand leadership styles.
• Understand leadership qualities and review own leadership qualities and potential. 
• Understand how to develop and maintain effective working relationships
• Understand how to build a team
• Know how to identify development needs
• Know how to develop self and others to achieve organisational objectives

By the end of this course participants should be able to:

• Describe the factors that will influence the choice of leadership styles or behaviours in workplace situations.
• Explain why these leadership styles or behaviours are likely to have a positive or negative effect on individual and group behaviour
• Assess own leadership behaviours and potential in the context of a particular leadership model and own organisation’s working practices and culture, using feedback from others.
• Describe appropriate actions to enhance own leadership behaviour in the context of the particular leadership model.
• Explain the benefits of effective working relationships in developing and maintaining the team
• Describe behaviours which could develop and maintain trust at work
• Explain the role of communication in developing effective team working
• Explain the difference between a group and a team
• Describe the stages of an established model of group formation and explain how a manager could benefit from knowing team members preferred roles as defined in an established team model.
• Identify own learning style(s) and the learning style(s) of another member of the team.
• Use a simple technique for identifying own development needs and the development needs of another member of the team.
• Identify potential barriers to learning and explain how barriers to learning can be overcome.
• Briefly analyse learning/development options to meet need(s) of self and another member of the team
• Identify support mechanisms for the development of self and another member of the team.
• Prepare a development plan to achieve a learning objective for self or another team member.
• Describe a method that could be used to monitor the development of self and another member of the team

The below timetable details the general expected course schedule:

Induction: 1 hour
Teacher contact: 16 hours (lead by Tutor)
Workshop contact: four hours (lead by Mentor)
Self-directed: six hours

Qualification total time: 27 hours

The below table details the course modules.