Team leadership: Unlocking styles and approaches
People new to team leadership often focus on tasks and end-goals – but how do they develop into leaders that motivate and inspire their team to deliver those end-goals? This course provides people with space to look at the team leader role, examining leadership styles and the characteristics that are needed to lead teams to success.
Description
Influential leadership theorist John Adair demonstrated that leadership is a learnt, transferable skill, rather than an exclusively inborn talent. Course participants will develop their leadership capabilities by exploring the connections between leadership styles and the critical actions they must take to lead their teams effectively.
Through discussion and case studies, participants will consider different leadership approaches which they can choose depending on the situation, as well as recognising the elements of Adair’s Action-Centred Leadership model that keep three key areas – tasks, team, and individuals – in balance at work.
Learning outcomes
This course is designed to help you:
- Identify differences and overlap between leadership and management functions
- Describe the benefits and challenges of using six leadership styles
- Recognise leadership actions that help you lead a team effectively across three core areas
- Apply a combination of leadership styles and actions within different situations.
Intended audience
This course is designed for engineering professionals who aspire to, or who have been recently appointed to, a team leader position, as well as engineering professionals who wish to refresh their team leadership capabilities. The course will focus on practical leadership skills from a general engineering perspective. It is relevant for all engineering professionals who have people and task management responsibilities at a supervisory level.
Format
Team leadership: Unlocking styles and approaches is a three-hour course, facilitated online. Concepts and theories will be introduced and explained, then applied against authentic engineering contexts through case studies and discussion. Real-time interactions such as polls and Q&As will allow you to connect and ask questions throughout the course.
Presenter information
A Senior Learning Partner at Engineering New Zealand, Drew Barnett helps engineering professionals build their capabilities to effect positive impacts on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Drew has 15 years’ experience helping people develop in leadership roles across a variety of contexts. As someone with hands-on experience in leading teams, Drew knows what it means to deal with competing demands from tasks and people, and he is a firm believer that leadership is learnable. View on LinkedIn