Leadership Essentials

In response to the changing demands of leadership, DEVELOR’s ‘Leadership Essentials’ course has been carefully redesigned for 2024. We’ve aligned it with modern trends and the key challenges leaders face in the 21st century. This renewed course provides leaders with advanced strategies to develop, inspire, and motivate employees, helping them succeed in line with the organisation’s goals and current performance.

Why is this essential?

Effective leadership starts with self-reflection. Leaders must regularly take time to evaluate their leadership approach and make intentional decisions about how to best guide their teams. This process includes assessing the competence and motivation levels of team members and adjusting leadership styles to maximize individual performance. Without this mindful effort, team members may not reach their full potential.

How does the training work?

Grounded in the science of experiential learning, this course takes a story-based approach. Participants are immersed in a unique fine-dining restaurant setting, where they can experiment with new leadership skills outside the limitations of their daily routines. This interactive experience provides the ideal opportunity to test and refine their approach, followed by reflection on how to apply these skills to real-world leadership situations—creating an engaging and memorable learning journey.

What will participants learn?

The course follows a logical structure, beginning with a focus on individual performance before moving on to task definition and leadership style development. Leaders will learn how to assign tasks, give motivating feedback, and manage performance declines effectively. By the end, participants will have the tools and confidence to lead with purpose, optimize performance, and inspire lasting results in their teams.

By the end of the session participants:

• will be able to map their team members’ individual performance
• apply different leadership styles consciously
• provide appropriate feedback
• handle motivation decline

Topics:

• Impact of the leader on individual performance
• Leadership tasks in the light of efficiency
• Principles and conscious choice of leadership styles
• Assigning tasks in 4 leadership styles
• The impact, principles, and structure of feedback
• Providing micro feedback and structured feedback
• Handling declining performance
• Using coaching and supporting leadership style to improve performance
• Logically built-up case study based practice sessions