This two-day course provides intensive and holistic leadership training for current team leaders and managers, with the opportunity to update and refresh day to day leadership skills and techniques.
The course structure and material focus on producing immediately useable outcomes that respect a busy schedule. 

Through Manager Bootcamp, leaders enhance their own self and social awareness, improve their communication and influencing skills, build more effective team relationships, and learn robust frameworks for employee evaluation and development.
A significant investment in both personal and professional growth, the Manager's Bootcamp will motivate, reenergise and build confidence within your management team.

Social awareness, sometimes we only do what we know without asking why

Developing a peer network outside of the office

Talking points for starting a tough conversation

Establishing small and large goals that contribute to the greater good of the organisation. Assess the resources in your team, set realistic goals based on those resources and assign tasks to individuals so that everyone is working towards those goals.

It is essential to be able to write, listen, speak and present information in a clear and efficient way and to determine the best way of communicating for specific messages, e.g. email versus a virtual meeting.

By mastering how to be strong influencers and fair negotiators, leaders will return to their teams knowing that it is not about power but about the best influence on employees to drive results.

Being able to define accountabilities and rigorously holding direct reports to their commitments, a leader helps everyone know where they stand to produce the results they need.

This is the ability to assign tasks to others, including tasks a leader needs help with completing. When you delegate effectively you can choose the best team member for the task and support them with clear instructions.

The ability to make quick, educated and high-quality decisions, even under pressure. Decisive leaders understand the options and consequences of a decision. Decisiveness also involves having in-depth industry knowledge and experience, so this is a skill to be developed over time.

Being able to motivate others sets the platform for team members to complete tasks, reach goals and develop their own careers. Self-motivation is also important for finishing your own work, reaching your own objectives and leading by example.

The ability to mediate between parties who have disagreements about a topic or situation. You use conflict management to understand each side's argument, help to research all arguments, mediate a discussion between the parties and move towards a compromise.

Develop your leadership capabilities with People Performance, Personal Capability and Senior Leadership programmes, preferential rates for NZIM subscribers. Available in Christchurch and selected programmes in Auckland.

Leadership Academy

Manager's Bootcamp

Christchurch

Develop your ability to define the true causes of conflict and defuse it. Advance your ability to be courageous in your leadership style thereby building a more open and authentic working culture.

In this course you will gain the tools and confidence to plan, conduct and follow up courageous conversations in your unique workplace context. As a participant you will have the opportunity to explore the difference between engaging in a problem and resolving it effectively. You will learn scripts and conversations to support you to confront poor performance or difficult situations, or to prepare people for unavoidable change. You will learn how to apply a range of communication techniques, examine when to move the conversation from informal to formal and acquire the confidence to develop a healthy work environment.

Explore and define the true cause of conflict

Develop the necessary skills to deal with difficult situations

Enhance your ability to identify, assess and solve poor performance in the workplace with successful results

Build confidence to address conflict at its varying stages

Demonstrate leadership by modelling effective conflict resolution approaches.

Create a positive and resilient work environment.

Discovering if the course is right for you

Courageous Conversations is for leaders who desire to create two-way conversations that facilitates acceptance and agreement.

Leverage your own experience, learn from the experiences of others, focus on results and bring together the needs of your people and commercial improvement. The investment covers tuition and course materials.

Courageous Conversations is presented by our expert faculty who bring a unique combination of leadership experience and qualifications in adult learning.

Small class size and real tools to be able to work with - November 2021

Excellent course and excellent facilitator - November 2020

I was very happy with the content of the course. It was great that the booklet had plenty of room for all my notes! Roydon was very professional. - March 2020

This course is registered with the Management Capability Development Voucher Fund.


Find out more by visiting www.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz (http://www.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz/)

Courageous Conversations

Delegating effectively is a core skill for self and people leadership. The benefits of effective delegation become evident in improved organisational effectiveness, developing the skills of your team, reducing stress and ensuring that as a leader you are able to continue to add value to your work environment.

Understand the difference between assigning routine work and delegating tasks

Explore the benefits of delegation including overall increased productivity and supporting others to grow their capability

Develop the ability to give clear and concise instructions to support overall team effectiveness

Learn the key steps to effective delegation and how to apply them using working examples

Understand when it is appropriate to delegate tasks, the level of supervision required, and measure success.

Delegation is an essential skill for leaders, worked effectively and consistently it enhances organisational effectiveness; it develops the talent and skills of your people; ensures cross-functional understanding of the demands of your workplace and improves the capacity of individuals to take on more complex tasks.

Effective delegation reduces stress, enables others to add value to the workplace and builds and improves the leadership skills of those who are doing the delegation. Ineffective delegation puts people in a cycle of repeating work, mistakes and over burdens the leader with tasks that could be done by others. This course will support you to delegate effectively first time and build trust and ownership of tasks with the people in your team.

NZIM SkillBOX courses are a series of one-day courses that are exclusive to NZIM subscribers.
SkillBOX is designed to equip your team with core skills and techniques for effective communication, engagement and teamwork.

SkillBOX

Successful Delegation

The Essential Skills is available as an individual course or the first course of three within the Team Leader Series. As a new leader you will benefit instantly by taking the next step and expanding your skills to plan, lead, delegate and prioritise.

Engage in interactive learning and discover your strengths, grow as a leader through this practical and comprehensive course specifically designed to develop the leaders of the future. The course provides the framework and core skills to support you as a new leader in developing confidence in your ability to engage and lead others. As a participant you will be challenged and encouraged to develop your personal leadership style and demonstrate your understanding of positive leadership behaviours and as someone who can influence, engage, support and manage people in the workplace.

Understand the principles of employee engagement and extend your influence at work

Align work tasks to organisational goals and monitor for effective outcomes

Plan and lead meetings in a responsive manner, targeting desired outcomes

Prioritise work for increased efficiency and effectiveness
Apply personal time management tools

Develop your ability to delegate successfully

Utilise communication strategies to increase understanding.

Essential Skills is for newly appointed or current supervisors and team leaders with a desire to become effective, confident, positive leaders who can get the best from their team on a daily basis.

The three courses comprising the NZIM Team Leader Series build a robust foundation of fundamental leadership skills. Essential Skills is the first, followed by Building Effective Teams and Leading Lean. Complete all three courses to be presented your NZIM Team Leader Certification.

Our Essential Skills courses allow participants to leverage their own experience, learn from the experiences of others, focus on results and bring together the needs of their people and commercial improvement. The investment covers tuition and programme materials.

Essential Skills is presented by our expert faculty who bring a unique combination of practical leadership experience and qualifications in adult learning.

Team Leaders Series

Essential Skills

The effectiveness of your communication skills is fundamental to your success building professional and personal relationships. Having self-awareness, reading your audience and then responding in the appropriate manner is an essential capability of any interactive role at any level in an organisation.

Effective Communication is a highly interactive one-day course designed to sharpen up verbal and non verbal communication capability, empowering participants with immediately applicable skills, tips and techniques.

Learn how to monitor performance and respond to changing circumstances

Define behaviours that support or undermine your relationships

Develop the skill of mirroring and reflecting

Increase your self-awareness and perception of others

The ability to share their thoughts and views in a positive manner and understand the frameworks to evolve their level of communication across a diverse group of people.

Communication is a two-way process, improving communication provides a win-win when we are aware of how we send and receive messages. Team dynamics and culture will only benefit from increased understand and awareness of members.

Effective Communication

Understand the root causes and dynamics of conflict in the workplace. Learn the essential skills to effectively manage conflict by encouraging reflective practice and open thinking. Find useful approaches to managing interpersonal conflict in the workplace.

Explore the causes and challenges of conflict in the workplace

Recognise emotional triggers for conflict in the workplace

Apply a framework to communicate effectively in a conflict situation

Recognise escalation in conflict and gain tools to de-escalate the problem

Gain solutions focused communication skills

Conflict is present in workplaces, it is often interpersonal, the result of poor communication and may perpetuate if the situation is not managed well, which results in downtime and disruption. This workshop will provide useful approaches to managing interpersonal conflict in the workplace, support your managers and leaders to de-escalate situations, seek positive and constructive solutions. Practiced effectively this will result in more effective workplace relationships, a more supportive and productive work environment.

Managing interpersonal conflict in the workplace causes stress, takes up time that could be used more productively and people usually prefer to avoid it. This workshop will equip participants with the skills to recognise conflict or potential conflict in communication, the interpersonal skills to manage the situation and a framework to bring down tensions and seek a way forward. These are essential skills for leaders, managers and influencers in the workplace.

Managing Conflict

Wellington

The NZIM Emerging Leaders programme, supported by the NZIM Emerging Leaders Scholarship, is a professional development pathway for ambitious young professionals aged 35 or younger, driven to accelerate their career progression through personal and professional growth.

Delegation & Communication - 30 April & 1 May

Delegation & Communication - 30 & 31 July

View the Terms & Conditions for this programme

During this challenging programme an Emerging Leader will be provided with an opportunity to build and develop their core business acumen, leadership capability and expand their natural strengths. They will work with a cohort of peers, providing them with robust learning discussions and a platform of networks for the future.

Our unique Emerge Assessment system will support the Emerging Leader and their manager to make the right development choices, provide them with constructive feedback and ensure they are developing leadership capability in the key areas that will provide them with the greatest professional growth opportunities.

The Emerge Assessment system examines eight key results areas:

1. Vision 2. Empowerment of others 3. Environment 4. Contribution 5. Focus 6. Strategy 7. Commercial acumen 8. Self-awareness.

The series of personalised questions probe and deepen the understanding of individual development opportunities. Managers also receive an assessment to complete, adding to the robustness of the system.

Three two-day workshops delivered monthly over a three month period in Christchurch. These programmes are:

The foundation workshop of the Emerging Leaders programme focuses on understanding you as a leader. How do you behave, respond, relate, communicate, influence? What effect does your behaviour have on your team? How can awareness of 'self' lead to better leadership results?

Identify the traits you value in good leaders

Communicate clear expectations through your ability to influence others

Clearly distinguish between influence and persuasion

Understand styles of influence and how you can change your communication to meet the needs of others.

Workshop 2: Delegation & Communication (Others)

One of the most powerful tools of an effective leader is the ability to reallocate duties, tasks or responsibilities in a manner that allows their team to feel empowered and trusted and gives them opportunity to develop and grow. This workshop focuses on the complex dynamics of delegation and how, by supporting your team to shine, you are developing in your role as leader.

Distinguishing between assigning routine work and delegation opportunities

Understanding foundational leadership practices to enhance delegation opportunities

Activating the empowerment potential of delegation

Selecting and assigning tasks for delegation

Utilising delegation to benefit individuals, teams and the organisation

Developing employees capacity to manage complex tasks.

Strategy is a fundamental in every organisation. Understanding the principles of strategy will allow you to develop a robust business plan, taking full advantage of your organisation's strengths and capabilities. Build your understanding to ensure you can be part of the process, be it, creating, implementing or challenging strategy. This programme reviews a number of proven global strategic frameworks. Learn to build an internal response to an external environment, ensuring you are commercially aware and responsive.

Increase your awareness of the global influence in strategy

Build your confidence in the implementation of strategy

Understand the importance in the execution of strategy

Develop the knowledge to engage in strategic conversations

Increase your knowledge of commercial gains from strategy.

The sharing and implementation of programme out-takes are a vital aspect of the Emerging Leaders Programme. Following each workshop module Emerging Leaders have a one-to-one consultation with a NZIM Leadership Consultant to recap programme out-takes, reflect on wins and challenges and review professional (and personal) goals.

NZIM Emerging Leaders Programme Scholarship

Our commitment to the future of leadership in New Zealand

The New Zealand Institute of Management and Leadership are proud to offer the Emerging Leaders Scholarship to aspiring leaders of New Zealand. Our mission is to share $1,000,000 of professional development between 500 of our country's Emerging Leaders.

The NZIM Emerging Leaders Scholarship is valued at $5000 and NZIM offers its subscribing organisations the opportunity to nominate participants as part of their Emerging Leaders Programme application.

NZIM Emerging Leaders Scholarship Programme is proudly supported by the New Zealand Institute of Management and Leadership and is only available to NZIM subscribers. 

This is a unique partially funded scholarship opportunity designed for emerging leaders under 35 years of age in full or part time employment see full Terms and Conditions below.

Once you make the decision to become an Emerging Leader you will complete the following steps:

1. Complete the online application form 
2. We will send you and your manager our online Emerge Assessment 
3. We will arrange a time to review your assessment with you and your manager and together we will determine your development pathway 
4. Post each programme we will make an agreed time for a programme review call 
5. Upon completion of the Emerging Leaders Scholarship programme you will be invited to a graduation celebration.

For further information or assistance in regards to the Emerging Leaders Programme, phone Suzanne Jordan, Strategic Partner People & Education on 029 770 9669 or email suzanne@nzim.co.nz 

It is really hard to put into words how valuable I have found this Emerging Leaders course. I am already looking back on it and viewing it as a real turning point for my company, career and ultimately life. - September 2019

The Emerging Leaders programme was very valuable for me. The content was interesting and relevant and I'm excited to start putting my learnings into practice. - October 2020

My cohort was brilliant. I found it so useful to share and compare experiences with others and learnt a lot from them. - September 2020

An accelerated development pathway for ambitious young leaders in this 3-module, market-leading programme. 
Gain knowledge and share experience as you understand your own influence, effective leadership and strategic vision.

NZIM Emerging Leaders 

NZIM Emerging Leaders Programme

Leading from the Front is all about learning the skills that make others want to listen and respond. Having the capability to organise your thoughts, use appropriate language and effective communication tools to deliver a meaningful message, that others want to listen to.

In this inspiring one-day programme your capacity as a leader will rapidly be developed as you learn immediately applicable skills and techniques that empower your message and your presence.

Provide direction and tools to deliver a message

Learn how to work a room in a meeting or group setting

Discover how public speaking can increase your credibility

Increase your ability to influence others

Confidence in telling a story and selling a message whether to colleagues, clients or a meeting setting. Sharing their vision and ideas is a critical path in building their personal brand and developing the skills to lead a conversation will ensure everyone has the opportunity to contribute.

Delivery of organisation goals, projects or strategy will be greatly enhanced with a leader who is aware and able to effectively convey the organisation message. When you increase your ability to engage and influence others in a positive manner, the outcome will be a more effective contribution.

Leading from the Front

Building Effective Teams is available as an individual course or, is the second course of three in our Team Leader Series.

Increase cohesion in your team by leading in a humanistic and holistic manner, broaden your knowledge and core leadership skills.

Engage in two days of interactive learning to establish your own personal style as a leader and increase your responsiveness towards others. This practical and comprehensive programme is specifically designed to support positive and constructive leaders. You will learn how to observe group behaviours, gain tools and techniques to leverage your communication skills when dealing with conflict, providing effective feedback and supporting the management of different people.

Explore the differences between effective groups and teams
Identify key features in the development of a cohesive work team over time

Discuss best practices for the role of the team leader to ensure a well-functioning team

Practice quality communication skills for employee engagement in the task

Create alignment between team and work goals

Adapt your leadership behaviours to respond to and lead teams effectively.

Discovering if the programme is right for you

Building Effective Teams is for supervisors and team leaders, who wish to empower others, develop cohesive and constructive work teams and enable productive work environments.

The three programmes comprising the NZIM Team Leader Series build a robust foundation of fundamental leadership skills. Essential Skills is the first, followed by Building Effective Teams and Leading Lean. Complete all three programmes to be presented your NZIM Team Leader Certification.

Our Leadership Academy programmes allow participants to leverage their own experience, learn from the experiences of others, focus on results and bring together the needs of their people and commercial improvement. The investment covers tuition and programme materials.

Building Effective Teams is presented by our expert faculty who bring a unique combination of leadership and industry experience and qualifications in adult learning.

Facilitator was fantastic! Really enjoyed the course and got a lot out of it so thank you. November 2020

Carolyn is great in what she does. Kept me engaged and the whole experience really helped me in my progress. November 2020

The course material was taught in such a way that I could easily absorb it and relate it to my daily work. May 2021

This programme is registered with the Management Capability Development Voucher Fund

This programme is registered with the Management Capability Development Voucher Fund. Find out more by visiting 

Team Leaders Series 

Building Effective Teams

Invercargill

Engaging Others more effectively is a capability that's beneficial to most, if not all, in your organisation. Focusing on increasing the power of your engagement, this programme looks at 'self' - your style and strengths, in the context of your role, your organisation culture and the types of interaction you have and wish to have.

Heavily 'outcomes' focused this one-day course is relevant to those wanting better success working with clients, within a team or in a leadership role. The learnings are immediately applicable in both a professional and personal context benefiting both you and your organisation.

Develop your effectiveness in communicating with others

Communicate and engage with an understanding of emotional intelligence

Company culture is fundamental in achieving results. When a team talks the same language, everyone gains in confidence and productivity.

A greater understanding that people are your greatest asset and your ability to engage effectively will determine your success. Building effective and productive relationships will provide increased satisfaction and positivity in any role.

Engaging Others

Influence positive change in the behaviour of others and your organisation as you extend core leadership skills and grow as a leader.

The ability to influence and persuade is an important part of our professional repertoire; leadership skills that are built and practiced throughout our career, even when our career direction changes. Influence goes beyond just what we say but is critically aligned to what we do, and how we are seen by others.

In this course we will explore the different skills and styles of influence and persuasion, identify opportunities, techniques and strategies for long-term impact, and explore practical and effective ways to maximise your potential as an influencer in your field of work or community.

Distinguish between influencing and persuading, in order to use the right skill for the right circumstances

Identify your own influencing and persuasion style and maximise your effectiveness in a variety of situations

Go beyond words to influence - explore EQ, PQ, SQ and Tribal Thinking and apply these to 'cause' change rather than 'force' change

Build your credibility, personal brand and reputation

Explore what it really means to build networks, cross boundaries and build your 'tribe'

Learn from key influencers in your field of work; how do they operate, explore what works effectively

Briefly explore the role of social media and your profile to extend influence in your context

Develop and work a communication strategy to enhance your capacity to influence and lead

Learn be a leader who brings about effective change in your organisation without forcing others

Build on your professional capital with up-to-date ideas and frameworks

Become more strategic in the influence and impact that you have on others
Build a repertoire of influencing skills applicable throughout your career

Achieving better outcomes by having people who can better manage and more effectively influence both internal and external professional relationships. These skills are widely applicable and transferable across all organisational functions and levels.

Influence and Lead

Auckland

Having the ability to produce well-written and appropriate communication to inform, convince or provoke action of audience to achieve a desired outcome is an essential professional skill. Starting with identifying business objectives, this one-day, focused workshop will take you through a proven process that will result in targeted and highly effective written communication.

This practical course will support you to identify the audience, write to their needs, express yourself concisely, clearly, persuasively, remove barriers in written communication and gain confidence. You will workshop through a proven process for composing robust, relevant and, if need be, persuasive copy to meet a variety of business objectives. Direction, confidence and more effective written documents; writing at work has a purpose, that is to move people to action, whether it is a letter, report or board paper.

Identifying the different types of written communication and their appropriateness to different situations

Understanding your audience and writing to address their needs

Tools and techniques for writing persuasive copy to achieve the desired outcome

I really enjoyed this course and feel I got some good takeaways out of it. One of the most enjoyable I have done to date - October 2021

The course material was taught in such a way that I could easily absorb it and relate it to my daily work - May 2021

Business Writing

The ability to achieve goals, be focused yet remain agile, and utilise your time appropriately and effectively is critical for success in most, if not all, organisations.

Through this one-day course on Time Management you will become more aware of your current behaviours, learn readily applicable strategies on workload management and understand how you can achieve a more positive and satisfying working experience.

Learn how to improve your workflow while maintaining the agility to meet competing demands.

Organisations who encourage self-managing, productive, positive and resilient people by leveraging constructive use of time are more innovative and creative.

Develop a strategy to attain greater personal productivity with built in agility

Recognise the synergy and mutual connections between goals and tasks to maximise accomplishment

Establish, prioritise, plan and organise workload

Minimise interruptions, distractions and factors that absorb our use of time and distract from completion

Time Management

The quality of our actions, decision making and problem solving depends on the quality of thinking and our capacity to look at common issues and problems differently. 

Critical thinking expands our capacity to ask the right questions, align tasks and people to organisational goals and to be creative in our work. This workshop will equip you with the tools and techniques to examine, plan, question and develop workable solutions in the workplace.

Distinguish between critical thinking, problem posing, problem solving and decision making

Examine the difference between simple, complicated and complex issues in the workplace

Move from surface issue to root cause to ensure a clear foundation for working through issues

Explore a range of critical thinking tools and techniques in a practical way

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