Communicating the essentials
Featured in the First-time Leadership training manual
By Clare Llewellyn West
Category: Leadership
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
However good their time-management skills may be, most team leaders are very busy people with many demands on their time. One of the most valuable skills a new team leader can learn is to concentrate on the things which really need saying – and say them briefly but effectively. This activity sets out the essentials of objective setting and feedback and shows them in action.
You discuss with the group the problem of trying to manage the team when you have your hands full getting the task done. Then you introduce them to the idea of the leadership arrows – three quick and highly-focused ideas which allow them to manage the team. Finally, you ask them to carry out a series of role-plays to demonstrate the three ideas and provide opportunities for practising feedback skills, both for participants and observers.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to present participants with a framework for essential communications, convincing them that by concentrating on these essentials they can manage a team as well as carrying out a hands-on role.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 21 |
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Purpose: This training activity, intended for use by trainers with their participants, will be useful as part of any sequence of leadership or management training. If used directly after ‘The gentle art of feedback’, it allows participants to get more practice in feedback skills and to see their importance. It links with the time-management work in ‘Managing yourself’ and ‘Managing time’ and also with communications activities.
Download the training activity, Communicating the essentials as featured in the Fenman training manual; First-time Leadership