Effective Team Leadership – 1 Day Course | Sydney, NSW

Overview
Develop leadership skills to motivate teams, align goals, overcome challenges, and coach individuals for stronger performance.
About This Event
Certificate: Course Completion Certificate
Duration: 1 Day
Course Delivery: Classroom / Virtual
Language: English
Credits: 8
Refreshments: Lunch, Snacks and beverages will be provided during the session
Course Overview
Leading an effective team requires more than assigning tasks and monitoring performance. This training helps professionals understand the role of a leader and create stronger team engagement.
Participants explore practical approaches to leadership, motivation, team goals, challenging behaviours, and workplace coaching.
The program is designed for professionals in Sydney, NSW who lead teams, are moving into leadership roles, or want to strengthen their existing leadership capabilities.
Through practical exercises and workplace-focused activities, participants develop approaches for getting the best from different individuals while maintaining clear direction and accountability.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the qualities and behaviours associated with effective leadership
• Benchmark their current leadership approach and identify development actions
• Distinguish between leading and managing in practical workplace situations
• Communicate business vision and translate it into meaningful team goals
• Understand different individual motivators and use them to support performance
• Respond constructively to difficult team members and challenging behaviours
• Challenge employees in a meaningful, respectful, and effective manner
• Apply a simple coaching process to support employee development

Target Audience
This training is suitable for:

• Team Leaders and Supervisors
• First-Time and Aspiring Managers
• Department and Functional Managers
• Project and Team Coordinators
• Professionals responsible for leading employees
• Managers looking to strengthen their leadership approach
• Professionals preparing to move into a leadership position
• Anyone interested in developing practical team leadership skills

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Agenda
Module 1: Qualities of an Effective Leader
• Identify the key characteristics and behaviours of effective leaders
• Assess personal leadership strengths against essential leadership qualities
• Recognise areas requiring further leadership development
• Establish practical actions to strengthen leadership capability
• Activity: Leadership self-assessment and development action plan
Module 2: Leader or Manager?
• Understand the key differences between leading and managing
• Explore the responsibilities associated with effective team leadership
• Compare personal behaviours against effective leadership qualities
• Identify situations requiring leadership, management, or both
• Activity: Leader versus Manager comparison exercise
Module 3: That Vision Thing
• Understand the importance of making business vision meaningful to employees
• Translate organisational direction into relevant team-level messages • Connect individual responsibilities with broader business objectives
• Use purposeful questions to help teams understand the vision • Activity: Sydney workplace vision-to-team alignment exercise
Module 4: Developing Your Team Goals
• Connect team goals with the wider business vision
• Develop clear and meaningful objectives for team members
• Establish practical actions to support achievement of team goals • Create greater clarity around expectations and desired outcomes • Activity: Team goal-setting and action-planning exercise
Module 5: Motivation & What Motivates?
• Understand the importance of motivation in effective team leadership
• Explore the reasons and drivers that influence individual performance
• Consider emotions and their role in a workplace environment
• Recognise that different team members may respond to different motivators
• Activity: Individual motivation mapping exercise
Module 6: Being Consistently Different & Difficult Team Members
• Recognise why different team members may require different leadership approaches
• Explore behavioural differences that can influence team interactions
• Understand potential reasons behind difficult team behaviours
• Develop practical strategies for responding to challenging team members
• Activity: Difficult team member scenario and response exercise
Module 7: Coaching
• Understand the value of coaching in developing individual performance • Apply a simple coaching process supported by practical action plans
• Explore the three key skills required for effective coaching
• Use instant-results coaching techniques in everyday workplace situations
• Activity: Can Do Coaching Practice – practical coaching role-play