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Leadership Fundamentals

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Build confidence, identify your leadership style, and develop essential skills to navigate the challenges of your first leadership role.

22 May 2025
12 Nov 2025
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Delivery
In-Person
Location
Wellington
Duration
1 day
CPD/PLD Hours
7.5

Course overview

Stepping into a leadership role for the first time can be both exciting and challenging. Leadership Fundamentals is a highly interactive one-day workshop designed to help new and aspiring leaders build confidence, identify their leadership style, and develop essential leadership skills.

Through peer-to-peer interaction, group discussions, and practical scenarios, participants will explore what effective leadership looks like today, discover their strengths, and learn strategies to navigate common leadership challenges.

This course is ideal for professionals transitioning from team member to leader or those preparing for their first formal leadership role. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of their leadership identity, practical tools to lead with impact, and greater confidence in their ability to influence and inspire others.

Facilitated by

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Trish Lui

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Holona Lui

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What you'll learn

  • Explore what leadership looks like today and what is required to be an effective leader.
  • Identify your leadership strengths, values, and authentic leadership style.
  • Develop the confidence to step into your first leadership role with clarity and purpose.
  • Learn practical tools and strategies to navigate common leadership challenges.
  • Explore how to shift from being a team member to a leader with influence and impact.
  • Strengthen your ability to communicate effectively and build strong working relationships.
  • Recognise the importance of self-care as a leader to sustain energy, well-being and resilience.
  • Create a personal action plan to continue developing your leadership skills beyond the workshop.

Course modules

What Is Leadership?

  • Explore a range of leadership perspectives and attributes of successful leaders.
  • Understand the key differences between leadership and management.

Our Context – Leadership Today

  • Examine the evolving expectations of leaders in a changing work environment.
  • Identify the skills and mindset needed to lead effectively in modern organisations.
  • Leading diverse teams. 

Who Am I as a Leader?

  • Discover your personal leadership strengths, values, and motivations.
  • Importance of self-awareness and self-reflection for leaders.

What’s My Leadership Style?

  • Learn how to lead authentically by aligning your leadership approach with your values.

Communicating as a Leader and Leading Through Influence

  • Listening, questioning and setting clear expectations. 
  • Who and how you need to influence to get results and make an impact.

Looking After Myself as a Leader

  • Understand the importance of self-care and resilience in leadership.

Leadership Challenges

  • Apply insights, tools and strategies to common first-time leadership challenges.

Action Planning – What You Can Take Away and Do

  • Reflect on key learnings and define your personal leadership action plan.
  • Set clear next steps to continue growing and developing as a leader beyond the course.

Further Information

This course is registered with the Management Capability Development Fund.

Small businesses may qualify for funding to help pay for services such as training workshops, courses and coaching that build the management capabilities of their owners and key managers.

Management Capability Development funding is only available through the Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) Growth Advisors and can be used with service providers registered with the RBP Network.

Funding may be provided to a business where the Growth Advisors have identified a need for management training as part of an action plan to support the business owner to grow and innovate their business. Business owners are then able to select a service from a registered Service Provider.

For more information on the Management Capability Development Fund or to find your local Growth Advisor go to www.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz.

Here's what others are saying

“Great for those new to leading or aspire to be leaders. Very practical and relevant to the current environment.”

“Really valuable course with lots of practical tips and tricks. I recommend for someone stepping up into a leadership role”

“…I came away with so many things that I could use/implement straight away. I would highly recommended.”

Upcoming Courses & Delivery Options

22 May 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 1 day

$895

excl. GST

12 Nov 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 1 day

$895

excl. GST

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