Essential Skills for Team Leaders
New to a managerial position? Discover practical skills to help you succeed as a team leader with ILM.
Duration
Approx 8 weeks3 hrs per week
Essential Skills for Team Leaders
Develop certified leadership and management skills as a new team leader.
Developed by ILM, the UK’s top leadership and management institute, this ExpertTrack will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to succeed in your role as a team leader.
Developed by ILM, the UK’s leading provider of leadership qualifications, this ExpertTrack will help you learn the key practical skills and knowledge that employers consider essential in a team leader.
If you are new to a supervisory role, this course will help you build the confidence to successfully manage your team and navigate the many relationships you’ll encounter in a leadership position.
Upon successful completion of the ExpertTrack, you’ll receive a digital credential from ILM.
Improve your people management skills for effective leadership
Being a successful team leader requires strong communication and organisation skills so that you can manage your team and the relationships you have with customers, partners and stakeholders effectively.
This course will give you practical skills you can apply in your workplace to help you deliver clear messages and build a collaborative working environment.
Develop your decision-making skills and deliver results
You’ll learn essential decision-making and problem-solving skills to ensure you and your team can deliver on the goals and targets you have set.
You’ll learn how to manage change and implement operational plans. You will also explore the human resources practices and legal requirements you need to follow in your role.
Learn coaching techniques to increase team performance
The course will take you through different leadership and coaching styles that you can apply to help motivate your team towards their goals.
You’ll discover how to monitor the performance of your team, provide evidence-based feedback objectively and also how manage challenging conversations.
On the course, you’ll have the chance to engage with a peer group using social learning. This means that you can take part in discussions to share experiences and to provide and receive feedback from your fellow learners to support your progress.
Key skills you will learn
- Self Awareness
- Emotional intelligence
- Leadership
- Communication
- Team Leader
- Budgeting
- Collaboration
- Team Working
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Coaching
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
- Identify how to build effective working relationships with both internal and external customers
- Develop an understanding of emotional intelligence and the importance of self-awareness
- Lead a team through uncertainty and change
- Improve budget planning and monitoring
- Explore ways in which you can improve team wellbeing, avoid unconscious bias, and develop inclusive working practices
- Apply essential HR practices and legal requirements needed as a team leader
- Identify different leadership styles that may be used in different situations
- Evaluate different coaching models and consider which approaches will best develop team performance
- Develop techniques for approaching difficult conversations
- Apply strategies for improving team performance, including conducting effective appraisals
Experience required
This ExpertTrack is designed for anyone in a supervisory l position who wants to develop their skills and confidence as a team leader.
You don’t need any prior experience to join.
Getting started
This course series will suit you if you are stepping into a management position for the first time and you want to learn practical skills you can implement immediately in your workplace.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Becoming a Team Leader
5.0 (5 reviews)Learn the core attributes of a successful team leader and develop practical skills you can immediately apply in your workplace.
3 tests
3 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Communicating in the workplace
- Welcome to the course
- Welcome to Week 1
- Developing emotional intelligence
- Different forms of communication
- Application of different communication styles
- Weekly wrap-up
Week 2
Managing your workload
- Welcome to Week 2
- Time management
- Select time-management tools
- Weekly wrap-up
Week 3
Building relationships
- Welcome to Week 3
- Build effective working relationships
- Approaches to build customer relationships
- What happens when different teams collaborate?
- Valuing different opinions
- Weekly wrap-up
Course 2
How to Deliver Results as a Team Leader
Develop essential team leader skills to help you make decisions, solve problems to manage change and implement operational plans.
3 tests
3 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Solving problems and making decisions
- Welcome to Week 1
- Problems at work
- Problem-solving techniques
- Escalate issues
Week 2
Applying human resources (HR) good practice
- Welcome to Week 2
- HR legal requirements
- Team wellbeing
- Implement inclusive working practices
- Avoid unconscious bias
Week 3
Delivering operational value
- Welcome to Week 3
- Deliver value for money
- Plan and monitor a budget
- Implement operational plans
- Manage change
Course 3
Leading a Team: Coaching Techniques and Team Performance Management
5.0 (6 reviews)Understand how to lead a team using coaching to drive performance and to measure results.
2 tests
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Leadership styles and coaching
- Welcome to Week 1
- How can I adapt my leadership style?
- What can I do to make my team meetings effective?
- What coaching models and techniques can I use?
- Coaching to develop my team’s performance
Week 2
Developing performance, using feedback and challenging conversations
- Welcome to Week 2
- Develop team performance
- Provide evidence-based feedback
- Approach a challenging conversation
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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Pay a monthly subscription fee of $39 for as long as it takes you to complete the ExpertTrack. You can learn at your own pace and cancel at any time.
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