Leadership and management for growth with Blackpool Growth Business Academy

This ‘Scale Up’ Masterclass is designed for businesses who have at least one employee, and are ambitious to grow.

Some of the topics covered in this Masterclass include: What is Leadership? Defining what is meant by leadership

The differences between leadership and management leadership skills 

• What are the skills required to be an effective leader and manager? 
• Exploring why these skills are needed
• A simple approach to leadership
• Using a simple leadership model to understand how it’s done
• Looking at a range of leadership approaches
• Basic leadership skills
• Questioning and listening
• Motivating and inspiring the team
• Assertiveness
• Influential Communication
• Managing Performance
• Dealing with under-performance 
• Setting SMART goals and objectives
• Effective performance management discussions
• Performance and development planning
• Decision making and problem solving
• Pro-actively identifying problems
• Problem solving tools
• How to make effective decisions
• Skills practice
• An opportunity to practice the skills

There will also be an opportunity to chat confidentially with a small group of like-minded scale-up business owners about your experiences of managing employees and valuable networking opportunities over lunch. 

Strictly limited to 12 businesses maximum 

Lunch will be provided.