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Equip yourself with the essential core leadership skills to thrive not just survive as a leader in 2025 and beyond. You will increase self-awareness, develop confidence and skills in leading teams, improve your communication and EQ and understand how to promote a culture of wellbeing. You will also explore ways to learn from the lessons of COVID-19, in managing teams and their wellbeing, resilience and performance against challenging situations.

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Private: Authentic Leadership Skills for Managers (online)

Build your skills in authentic leadership to gain a unique foundation for you to build self-awareness and understand modern leadership theory and skills. Authentic leaders demonstrate a passion for their purpose, practice their values consistently, lead with their hearts as well as their heads and invest in their personal and professional growth. The course presents the latest in emotional intelligence research and tools for you to build your EQ.

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Private: Managing Wellbeing (Online)

Managing the wellbeing of your team is an essential part of leadership. Gain an understanding of mental health and mental illness, as well as how to have conversations with staff about associated workplace behaviours. Through this course you will become familiar with your “mental health”, obligations as a manager and leader, and refine your practical skills in how to discuss mental health in a work context from a performance point of view. You will also explore the concepts of stress and resilience at the individual, team and organisational levels and formulate a practical plan to address these.

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This course is designed to give you an introduction to your new world of supervision and management and also to provide you with foundational models and approaches to supervision and management.

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Leadership Communication Skills (online)

Learn the facets of excellent communication skills and techniques (verbal and non-verbal) required by good leaders, including presentation skills, running effective meetings, the barriers to communication (individually, within teams and organisationally), gender differences in communication, assertiveness skills, and self-knowledge tools to understand the impact of personality on communication style.

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Private: Managing Different Personalities (online)

Learn the techniques for managing different personality traits and behaviours as well as individual emotional reactions to challenging behaviours. You will be given the skills to deal with challenging employee behaviours that meet legal, ethical and professional obligations. You will also explore best-practice performance management and the Dark Triad of personality tendencies (psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism).

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This course is part of the 21st Century Manager series (Online). Register for the full series and save up to 10%.

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The 21st Century Manager series is comprised of 6 half-day units that address core management competencies:

Authentic Leadership Skills for Managers
Managing Wellbeing
Ethics in Action – Leadership Practices for the Public Sector
Managing Different Personalities
Leadership Communication Skills
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“Since the course I have introduced a team building exercise in my Unit meetings to create a positive culture and have improved my communication skills with the team and also it helps me to deal with different personalities in the team and how to handle the difficult situations when arises.”

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This course is part of the 21st Century Manager series (Online). Register for the full series and save up to 10%.

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Authentic Leadership Skills for Managers
Managing Wellbeing
Ethics in Action – Leadership Practices for the Public Sector
Managing Different Personalities
Leadership Communication Skills
Positive Psychology for Managers (PERMA+)

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