Practical Leadership for High-Performance Team Management Course
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We are committed to delivering this course in multiple training formats to accommodate your needs. Our state-of-the-art learning facilities ensure a comfortable and engaging experience. With our flexible face-to-face training calendar, you can select any classroom course and have it delivered at a venue of your choice, offering you unparalleled convenience and exceptional value.
Course Overview
A hands-on leadership development program focused on building the habits, practices, and interpersonal skills that create and sustain high-performing teams. Beyond theories of leadership, this course focuses on what leaders do every day: how to motivate, communicate, delegate, manage performance, and lead through change in today’s environment of hybrid work, rapid change, and diversity.
Course Duration: 5 Days
Target Audience
- Team leaders, Supervisors, Forepersons, and first-line managers
- HR / Employee Relations / People Ops professionals
- Anyone stepping into leadership or preparing to lead teams
- Individuals seeking to improve team performance, trust, communication, and resilience
Personal Impact
- Develop consistent leadership practices and habits that build trust and performance
- Enhanced ability to motivate, delegate, and support your team’s growth
- Stronger communication skills and the capacity to give and receive feedback
- Adaptiveness in helping teams cope with change and uncertainty
Organizational Impact
- More cohesive, resilient teams with higher productivity
- Reduced performance gaps and better handling of under-performance
- Improved employee engagement, retention, and morale
- Effective team leadership that sustains through change, hybrid/remote arrangements, and diversity
Course Level: Foundation
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and apply motivation factors (intrinsic & extrinsic) in modern teams
- Build trust, psychological safety, and cohesion within teams
- Delegate well, run effective meetings, and empower people for better performance
- Diagnose performance issues and manage under-performance constructively
- Provide clear communication of purpose, objectives, feedback, and support
- Lead teams through change, build resilience, and foster diversity & inclusion
Course Outline
Module 1: Motivating Teams in Today’s Workplace
- What motivates individuals & teams today: meaning, flexibility, recognition, growth
- Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivators; generational/cultural diversity in what motivates
- Techniques to engage teams, build ownership, and commitment
- Habit building: how to keep motivation sustained over time
- Exercise: Participants interview current or former team members (or role-play) to map different motivators in their own teams; then co-design a motivation plan for their team.
Module 2: Practices of High-Performance Leadership
- Turning a group into a cohesive team: trust, clarity, shared purpose
- Delegation that empowers; clarifying roles & accountability
- Running efficient meetings that add value and reduce time waste
- Leadership behaviours that build consistency, reliability, and credibility
- Case Study: Analyze a high-performing (or struggling) team’s dynamics in a real organization (local or global) to extract what practices made the difference; present “lessons learned.”
Module 3: Managing Team Performance & Culture
- Setting goals, KPIs, standards, and tracking progress
- Recognizing and rewarding good performance; celebrating achievements
- Handling under-performance in a constructive, fair way
- Building a high-performance culture: expectations, norms, continuous feedback
- Group Project: Create a performance improvement plan for a hypothetical or participants’ real team that includes culture change, KPI setting, recognition, and corrective support.
Module 4: Communication, Feedback & Competences of the Team Leader
- Communicating purpose, objectives, and tasks clearly & with alignment
- Active listening, questioning, empathy, giving & receiving feedback
- Recruiting and retaining the right people; diversity, inclusion & psychological safety
- Ongoing development: coaching, mentoring, continuous learning
- Exercise: In small groups, role-play feedback conversations (both positive and corrective), with peer observation and coaching; also design a team member retention or development plan.
Module 5: Leading Change & Resilience in Teams
- Understanding emotional stages of change; how people respond in teams
- Supporting team resilience: coping with uncertainty, stress, remote or hybrid work challenges
- Valuing diversity and inclusion in change; leveraging different perspectives
- Building continuous action & improvement plan as a practical leader
- Capstone / Project: Develop a “Team Resilience & Change Roadmap” for the participant’s own team or organization. Include strategies for maintaining performance during change, building diversity & inclusion, and sustaining team well-being and motivation.
Course Administration Details:
METHODOLOGY
The instructor-led trainings are delivered using a blended learning approach and comprise presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professionals and trainers in these fields. All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.
ACCREDITATION
Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued a Skillstate Institute certificate.
TRAINING VENUE
The training will be held at a Skillstate Institute Training Centre. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, and lunch. All participants will additionally cater to their travel expenses, visa application, insurance, and other personal expenses.
ACCOMMODATION AND AIRPORT PICKUP
Accommodation and airport pickup are arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer.
Email: info@skillstateinstitute.org
Phone: +254100920301
TAILOR-MADE
This training can also be customized to suit the needs of your institution upon request. You can have it delivered in our Training Centre or at a convenient location. For further inquiries, please contact us on:
Email: info@skillstateinstitute.org
Phone: +254100920301
PAYMENT
Payment should be transferred to our Skillstate Institute account through a bank on or before the start of the course. Send proof of payment to info@skillstateinstitute.org