Step up to Leadership

How to move from managing to leading.
Full day

Overview

Leadership requires so much of us in ordinary times. In these incredibly challenging times, getting leadership right is more important than ever.

This course is for people who are new to or aspiring to their first true leadership role.

Just because you’ve got the job title, it doesn’t mean you’ll have the confidence to lead, or the self-awareness to be truly objective about your strengths. You might feel like you’re stuck and not making progress. Or that others have some innate knowledge about what to do and how to do it, and you’ve not been let in on the secret.

Sometimes the knowledge and approaches that have got us where we are aren’t quite enough to take us to the next level.

This course will give you practical tools you can use to evaluate your current leadership abilities and to understand what you need to do to fill in any gaps. If there’s something you’re not aware of that’s holding you back, this course will help you find and deal with it.

It will bring you clarity about your personal strengths and how you can build on them to lead with purpose and authenticity.

What you'll learn

What you’ll learn:

  • The difference between being a manager and being a leader
  • What are the essential building blocks of leadership
    • authenticity
    • self-awareness
    • articulating your vision, values and purpose
  • Mapping your own leadership timeline and reflecting on what these events have taught you
  • How to build trust and why this is essential; inviting and acting on feedback from peers, colleagues and people you manage
  • Developing and communicating your vision while making it real and authentic to you
  • Understanding that you are always a work in progress and how to make time for your development
  • Translating your new insights into practical actions that will make you a more effective leader

Who is it for?

Anyone in or aspiring to a leadership role who would like:

  • more self-awareness and confidence
  • to feel more authentic as a leader
  • see what skills, attitudes and actions make up successful leadership and how to develop them

Your facilitator

Emma Walker-Cotton
Emma Walker-Cotton

Emma is an award winning trainer specialising in leadership development. She has over 20 years' experience of training design and delivery in both the public and private sector, including working as a director for a large housing association and for Amnesty International.

Emma is passionate about individuals having the opportunity to fulfil their potential and creates a positive, fun and stimulating learning environment. She always ensures that participants leave the day with practical skills they can use in their organisation. Emma has an MSc in Organisational Psychology and is qualified in running Psychometrics through the British Psychological Society.

Feedback

I recently added the Step up to Leadership lead by Emma Walker-Cotton and it was really fantastic. I loved the blend of presentation from Emma, self reflection, group discussion and breakout rooms (all impressively seamlessly facilitated over zoom) and the range of industries and sectors my fellow attendees came from. The course was relevant to all, pacey and had great additional resources to read/watch etc. I left the course feeling inspired and have already encouraged colleagues to attend!
Fantastic!
I found the course really insightful. would definitely recommend this course to anyone who has taken the step up to be a manager, or even if you are an existing manager, there are some great tips in the course!
Really insightful course
I thought the content and pace was excellent and the trainer really made it a fully inclusive session, allowing us all to relate the content to our specialised and diverse roles. Would definitely recommend this course to anyone looking to progress or new to Senior Management.
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Online
08/01/25 9:30 - 16:00
£599.00 (ex VAT)
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