Taking your first steps into leadership? This one-day course builds the essential skills and mindset needed to lead with confidence — covering emotional intelligence, communication, motivation, and decision-making, and leaving you with a clear personal action plan for your leadership journey ahead.
This dynamic one-day course is designed to support individuals transitioning into leadership roles or preparing for future management positions. Participants will explore the essential skills and mindsets required to lead with confidence, communicate effectively, and motivate others. Through interactive discussions, practical exercises, and self-assessment, this course builds the foundations for effective leadership and professional growth.
Course Outline
During this course, participants will develop key leadership skills including communication, emotional intelligence, and influencing others, leaving with practical techniques and a personal action plan.
Foundations of Leadership – Explore what it means to lead, how leadership differs from management, and how to build a confident and authentic leadership mindset.
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Awareness – Understand the core competencies of emotional intelligence and the crucial role of self-awareness in effective, empathetic leadership.
Communication and Influence – Develop clear, confident communication that inspires trust, motivates others, and enhances collaboration across all levels.
Feedback and Difficult Conversations – Learn to give and receive feedback constructively, fostering open communication, trust, and accountability—even in challenging situations.
Building Trust and Managing Relationships – Strengthen your ability to create trust-based relationships, manage team dynamics, and navigate workplace diversity with respect and inclusion.
Motivation, Performance, and Conflict Management – Discover how to engage and motivate others, set clear expectations, manage performance, and turn conflict into opportunities for growth.
Decision-Making and Leadership Style – Apply structured approaches to decision-making, adapt your leadership style to different situations, and use your influence to drive positive results.
Personal Development and Growth – Create a focused personal action plan to enhance your leadership capability, integrating new knowledge, skills, and attitudes for long-term success.
Who should attend
This course is ideal for individuals transitioning into leadership roles, aspiring managers, and anyone looking to build the skills and confidence needed to lead and influence others effectively.
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Understand the principles of effective leadership and the behaviours that drive individual and team success
Enhance self-awareness and emotional intelligence to strengthen leadership effectiveness and build stronger relationships
Communicate with confidence and clarity to engage, influence, and inspire others
Motivate, develop, and manage performance effectively through feedback, support, and empowerment
Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to address challenges and support ongoing leadership growth
Course Reviews
Mentor and coaching
Inspirational and engaging. Matt is a fantastic trainer who ensured we were all included and felt part of the course. He gave us some fantastic tools to use in our mentoring journey and hopefully we will see him again soon.
Giving and Receiving feedback
Informative and engaging. She was very engaging and enthusiastic. Lots of activities.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Very clear, engaging and well produced. Had a breadth of experience across a wide range of industries and applied this knowledge really well with lots of examples
Emotional intelligence
Very interactive and enjoyable. Sandra was an excellent guide through the subject matter, thankyou
Emotional intelligence
Really informative and provoked me to think and reflect. Amazing training from Mary - she was very informative
Emotional Intelligence
It was eye opening. There are so many things we do as individuals that affects other people and the course opened our eyes to them. The activities outside was great, getting us to move around and work in groups kept the course lively and interactive.
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We offer a wide range of bespoke corporate training solutions across key areas such as leadership, management development, digital skills, workplace communication, customer experience, sales performance, project delivery, team development and professional skills. Each programme can be tailored to your organisation’s objectives, your people and the practical challenges they face at work.
Do you offer public courses?
No. Elliott Training does not currently offer public scheduled courses for individual delegates. We specialise in private corporate training courses delivered exclusively for organisations, teams and groups who require tailored training aligned to their business needs.
Are your courses bespoke?
Yes. Our courses can be tailored to your organisation, team and objectives. We can adapt the course content, examples, exercises, case studies and delivery style to reflect your sector, systems, processes and workplace priorities.
Can you create a bespoke course from scratch?
Yes. If you require a course that is not listed on our website, we can design a bespoke training programme around your specific requirements. This is ideal for internal projects, new systems, company initiatives, role-specific development or specialist skills training.
How long are your training courses?
Course length depends on the subject, objectives and level of detail required. We can deliver bite-size sessions, half-day workshops, full-day courses, multi-day programmes or larger training projects across multiple cohorts.