Managing Your Team
Aim
To outline the importance of good quality leadership within the workplace and equip the learner with the necessary tools and techniques to lead a team. The course will cover many different management activities and allow learners to develop their knowledge and practice to improve employee relations within their setting.
Learning Outcomes
1. Understand what makes a good leader and be able to develop own behaviour and practice to successfully lead a team
2. Consider how leadership impacts on others and effects the overall culture of an organisation
3. Be aware of how to maintain effective communication within a leadership role
4. Identify ways to become more efficient through better time management strategies
5. Identify techniques to promote effective teamwork and be able to manage conflict within your team
6. Be able to implement team roles and responsibilities including those required for children with additional needs
7. Have increased knowledge of all relevant employment law
8. Identify how to deal with Bullying and Discrimination in the workplace
9. Understand how to implement safe recruitment and selection practices
10. Know what to include in a Staff Induction
11. Be able to develop policies and procedures to promote positive relations and manage within the law including disciplinary, grievance, sickness/absence
12. Discover ways to motivate your staff
13. Understand the need for effective staff appraisal and the setting of SMART objectives which feed into the overall goal of the organisation
14. Understand how to use continuous professional development to improve own performance
15. Have increased knowledge of how to manage change within the workplace
16. Know how to deal with personal and employee stress
17. Be able to reflect on own practice and ways of working to identify an action plan to take back into the workplace
18. To meet other leaders within the local area to create a support network for the future