Business Skills for Leaders

The Sloan key skills portfolio* is designed to maximise your personal and professional effectiveness across a range of capabilities necessary for successful leadership.

We provide you with a choice of seminars and workshops, allowing you to focus a programme around your own needs. Your choice of sessions will be fed by competency-based assessments and one-to-one discussions with trained coaches. Topics include:

Personal Impact
Whether it is in the boardroom or on a one-to-one basis, your effectiveness as a leader relies on how you present yourself. Understand the impact you make and develop your ability to make the impact you want while enhancing your capacity to work with and influence others.

Performance Management
Effective performance management of each individual member of the team is critical to enable delegates to achieve their business objectives. Improve your company's performance by motivating staff to improve their own performance through constructive feedback.

Advanced Presentation Skills
Use the powerful vehicle of public speaking to achieve the business objectives you define for yourself, to influence, inform, engage, motivate or persuade.

Influencing and Persuading
Learn to navigate negotiations with confidence, clarity and ease. Develop vital insights into your personal style and how you can adapt it to difficult situations.

Coaching for Leaders
Coaching others is a key capability of successful managers and leaders. Develop a core coaching toolkit, including the well-respected GROW approach.

Boardroom Experience
Visiting guest speakers and London Business School faculty offer insights into what is required to operate successfully at board level.

*Please note that the courses offered may be subject to change.

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