Management Training: Essential Skills of Leadership

Essential Skills of Leadership is a 4-hour course that teaches participants the skills they need to be effective leaders. The course covers topics such as focusing on behavior, maintaining or enhancing self-esteem, encouraging team member participation, and leading effective meetings. The course includes exercises, videos, and a “What Would You Do?” scenario to help participants apply their learned skills.

Here is an overview of what is covered during the Essential Skills of Leadership management training course:

• The Leadership Achievement Path: This section introduces the concept of the Essential Skills of Leadership and the Essential Skills of Communicating as the foundational skills needed for all team member interactions.
• Focus on Behavior: This section teaches participants how to focus on the behavior of their team members rather than their attitudes.
• Maintain or Enhance Self-Esteem: This section teaches participants how to build and maintain the self-esteem of their team members.
• Encourage Team Member Participation: This section teaches participants how to encourage their team members to participate in meetings and other activities.
• Lead Effective Meetings: This section teaches participants how to plan and lead effective meetings.
• Mastering the Essential Skills of Leadership: This section provides participants with an opportunity to practice the skills they have learned throughout the course.

This course includes activities and excesses that are designed to reinforce the course content so participants retain more of what is taught. Essential Skills of Leadership is published by Vital Learning. This course is just one of 12 modules included in the Leadership Essentials Series. This course can be taught or used on it’s own or with other modules within the series.

Who Should Take the Essential Skills of Leadership Course?

This course is ideal for managers and supervisors who want to improve how they manage and lead their teams. This course can be used within a new management development program or as a continuing education course.

What is the length of this course?

The live class is designed to be delivered in under 4 hours. The Hybrid and Online version length will vary depending on how long it takes the learner to complete their self-paced work.

How Is This Management Training Delivered?

This course is available in the following formats:

Requirements for teaching this training program:

The live class version (face-to-face /in-person/hybrid formats) has a few requirements:

• • The facilitator must purchase and use the Essential Skills of Leadership facilitator guide.
  • Classes must have a minimum of 9 managers and a maximum of 21 participants.