Leading and Managing Teams

Course Description

Having hard management and soft leadership skills is often stated by employers as being key to the success of a business but few people have sufficient quantities of both to make a significant impact on business operations and strategy. The aim of this unit, therefore, is to support a learner’s understanding of leadership as a role and management as a function so that they are able to develop the knowledge, skills and traits to make a meaningful contribution to a business’s success.

Course Objectives

Having hard management and soft leadership skills is often stated by employers as being key to the success of a business but few people have sufficient quantities of both to make a significant impact on business operations and strategy. The aim of this unit, therefore, is to support a learner’s understanding of leadership as a role and management as a function so that they are able to develop the knowledge, skills and traits to make a meaningful contribution to a business’s success.

Key Topics

1. LO1: Understand leadership and management.
2. LO2: Understand how teams are developed.
3. LO3: Understand how to improve individual and team performance.
4. LO4: Be able to determine own capacity to be an effective leader and manager.

Course Outline

Learning Outcomes

1. LO1 Understand leadership and management.
2. 1.1 Differentiate between leadership and management.
3. 1.2 Explain key leadership theories.
4. 1.3 Explain key management theories.
5. LO2 Understand how teams are developed.
6. 2.1 Explain what is meant by the term ‘team development.’
7. 2.2 Explain what is meant by the term ‘high performance team.’
8. 2.3 Compare different team development models.
9. LO3 Understand how to improve individual and team performance.
10. 3.1 Explain techniques used to improve individual and team performance.
11. 3.2 Explain the importance to an individual of improving own performance.
12. 3.3 Explain the importance to a business of effective individual and team performance.
13. 3.4 Discuss the role of motivation theories in improving individual and team performance.
14. 3.5 Explain the contemporary challenges of leading and managing staff.
15. LO4 Be able to determine own capacity to be an effective leader and manager.
16. 4.1 Apply techniques to determine own capacity to be an effective leader and manager.
17. 4.2 Assess own ability to improve knowledge and skills to be an effective leader and manager.