Lead Your Team New Design

To equip team leaders with approaches and concrete tools to lead their teams sustainably and inclusively for better impact.

1. Develop Self-Awareness and Resilience: tools for self-reflection, cognitive restructuring, and stress management to effectively manage their emotions and behaviours.
2. Foster Inclusive Leadership and Collaborative Team Dynamics: leverage diversity, confidently build healthy relationships and dynamics with enhanced communication practices.
3. Adapt to Changing Contexts with Influence and Flexibility: adapt to challenges and uncertainties, manage upwards, meet needs and manage expectations.
4. Improve Delivery: enhance task execution with delegation, running efficient and inclusive meetings, whilst growing as a team.

– A printed copy of the workbook below

– The results of your pre-course work

• • • Day 1: Understanding my role as a team leader and the different expectations on me. Calm Leadership and managing stress without passing it on. Inclusive leadership and developing healthy team dynamics. Communication Principles.
    • Day 2: Dealing with the unforeseen through wayfinding. Leadership style assessment. Adapting to the context through situational leadership. Enhancing team and individual performance through delegation and productive meetings. Own roadmap for development as a team leader.

Prework: Understanding your role as a team leader

As team leaders, our role is seen differently by different people. Part of the LYT training aims to help you gain deeper awareness of how your role is perceived by different stakeholders (e.g., team members, peers, your manager(s)) and explore where these expectations align or create tensions. By reflecting on these different perspectives, you as a leader can better understand the different demands on you, identify areas for your own growth, and develop strategies to navigate these conflicting expectations while staying true to your leadership style and purpose.

To prepare for this, please complete the following steps. Please note that these questions explore the perception others have of your role and what they need from you. Not feedback on how you are performing the role:

1. Ask five people the following 3 questions

o   “From your perspective what do you see as the main responsibilities of my role as a team leader?

o    In your view, what does effective leadership in this role look like?

o   What do you need from me?”

Of the five people, one should be your own manager, two should be peers (colleagues in similar roles) and two should be your current team members

2. Reflect on the same questions yourself:

o   “From your own perspective what are the main responsibilities of your role as a team leader?

o   In your own view, what does effective leadership look like?

o   How do you take care of your own needs?”

3. Compare the answers:

• Note similarities and differences in the responses.
• Be ready to discuss your observations in small groups on the first morning of the training.