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Some believe people are born as true leaders.
And, although it has been found that some leadership characteristics can be innate to some, like humility or presence, many key leadership qualities can be learned and improved over time.
Being a great leader is all about positively influencing those around you, driving your team towards success and responding effectively to challenges.
But, in order to meet ongoing challenges and organisational goals, it’s important to gain guidance on how to strengthen your capabilities to meet these goals or visions.
That’s where leadership training courses come in.
In this post, we'll cover the basics of leadership training courses and the top five leadership qualities you'll develop from attending. Plus, we'll also explore our most popular leadership training courses designed for public sector professionals.
Contents:
- What is a Leadership Training Course?
- What Training Do You Need to be a Leader?
- 5 Essential Leadership Qualities You'll Develop on a Leadership Training Course
- Top 5 Most Popular Leadership Training Courses for Public Sector Professionals
What is a Leadership Training Course?
A leadership training course is designed to help you develop or build upon your skills to excel in your role as a leader in your organisation.
Although there are various types of leadership training topics, from strategic thinking, developing team culture, communication strategies and more, they all stem from the same set of desirable leadership qualities.
Picking up these leadership qualities while developing your skills in a particular leadership topic will help you build a high-performing team, optimise your staff’s key skills and push for innovation.
What Training Do You Need to be a Leader?
Successful leaders will likely need training in both soft and hard skills. Soft skills are essential for everyday interactions and effective leadership, while hard skills provide the technical expertise and knowledge necessary for a specific role or department.
Soft skills, such as communication, empathy and emotional intelligence, are crucial for building strong relationships with team members and stakeholders. Effective communication allows leaders to clearly convey their expectations, provide feedback and inspire their team.
On the other hand, hard skills include the technical areas required to excel in a particular role - such as a Data Protection Officer. These skills may include project management, data analysis or industry-specific knowledge. Hard skills enable leaders to effectively analyse data, make informed decisions and drive strategic initiatives.
5 Most Desirable Leadership Qualities You’ll Gain from a Leadership Training Course
1. Self-awareness
Taking a leadership training course is one of the best ways to become more self-aware as a leader. Not only is self-awareness key to being a great leader, but it’s also a vital personal quality that allows you to understand how you behave, how you interact with others and what your strengths and weaknesses are.
Whether you work directly with service users, key stakeholders or just your colleagues, developing your self-awareness will directly impact your team, their performance and overall organisational culture, so make sure you take the time to reflect on yourself and your skills.
Learn more about the skills you need to become an effective leader in the public sector.
2. Accountability
Everyone makes mistakes – even leaders. But accountable leaders are ones that own up to the promises, words and commitments they have made.
Any actions or decisions made that didn’t pay off, good leaders will own up and be able to take constructive feedback from others when needed.
Your team will look up to you and the goals that you set. Be honest, accept responsibility if something goes wrong and understand how your decisions can impact the future of your team or organisation.
When leaders take responsibility for their decisions, other team members will be confident that everyone, even leaders, needs to produce quality work just like everyone else.
Discover the most in-demand training courses for public sector professionals.
3. Self-confidence
A self-confident leader believes that their skills, abilities and attitude can make a difference and help achieve goals.
By attending a leadership training course, you’ll learn to recognise your own skills and remove any doubt from your mind – no imposter syndrome here!
By improving your self-confidence, you’ll be able to make more immediate decisions, problem-solve with ease and take full responsibility without ignoring or procrastinating on any issues.
To get started, learn how to become a more confident public speaker to give your self-confidence a boost.
4. Supportive
If you want your workforce to be productive, happy and innovative, you need to reinforce their ideas with support and guidance.
Employees look to leaders for guidance, and if you’re not there to support them, it’s likely you won’t see the result you were expecting. To be a supportive leader you need to recognise the core fundamentals, including building strong relationships, promoting collaboration and commitment to the organisation.
Our experienced team and expert trainers have developed a course to help you understand how your employees are performing, and how to motivate them and encourage high standards with empathy and support. Read the full agenda for our Developing High-Performing Teams course.
5. Honesty and fairness
Honesty and fairness are the two most important qualities of any successful leader. If you can be honest with yourself and others, remain loyal to your words and are accountable, you’ll gain trust and respect from others very quickly.
In terms of fairness, everyone has their own personal biases. But it’s up to the leader to see that an unfair or biased attitude doesn’t achieve greatness and it’s not something you should promote in the workplace.
Being fair when it comes to your employees and the organisation’s processes will help make room for everyone’s voice to be heard, allowing everyone to thrive as one.
By taking leadership training, you’ll get to see how other leaders handle day-to-day activities, how their experiences have led to positive or negative reactions and how they can change that.
Emotional intelligence is another key leadership quality – have a read of our blog post to find out 5 ways emotional intelligence can help you become a more successful leader.
Top Five Most Popular Leadership Training Courses for Public Sector Professionals
1. Leadership Skills for Emerging Managers
Calling all new leaders! We understand how daunting it can be starting a new leadership role - there are new team members to get to know and a lot more responsibilities. With our interactive training course, you can learn how to navigate these new responsibilities, understand which leadership style is for you and build your confidence to lead your team to reach goals.
Read the full agenda for our Leadership Skills for Emerging Managers training course.
2. Developing High-Performing Teams
Learn how to enhance the performance of your staff, improve organisational processes and ensure your organisation is in the best position to achieve targets. On our Developing High-Performing Teams training course, you'll work with our expert trainer and award-winning psychologist, Dr Hayley Lewis, to create a toolkit full of techniques you can use to develop a high-performing team with clear goals.
Read the full agenda and secure your place on our Developing High-Performing Teams training course.
3. Women in Leadership
Whether you want to gain more confidence, maximise your impact or develop your leadership style, our Women in Leadership training course can help. Through expert advice and practice exercises, you'll learn how to overcome barriers, generate buy-in and identify strategies to help you lead with impact.
You'll be joined by other exceptional women from the public sector for a full day of high-impact peer-to-peer learning.
Check out the full agenda and find out what you can learn from our Women in Leadership course.
4. Masterclass: Positively Managing Conflict
This half-day masterclass is jam-packed with expert insights, knowledge and techniques to help you identify, manage and de-escalate conflict in the workplace. How you handle conflict is paramount and in this masterclass, you'll learn how to identify key warning signs and gain the confidence to resolve different types of conflict.
Learn more and see upcoming dates for our Masterclass: Positively Managing Conflict.
5. Supporting and Understanding Neurodiversity in the Workplace
It's estimated that 1-7 people in the UK are neurodivergent. Recognising and understanding how to support neurodivergence in the workplace enables greater inclusivity, teamwork and productivity. In this course, you'll learn how to build an inclusive culture, support those around you with empathy and develop neurodiverse policies.
Read the full agenda for our Supporting and Understanding Neurodiversity in the Workplace training course.
Not looking for individual training? We also offer full bespoke team training - we've even got an expert In-House team who can help. Get in touch via phone on 0800 542 9414 or email: InHouse@moderngov.com.
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