Leadership Fundamentals
Build confidence, identify your leadership style, and develop essential skills to navigate the challenges of your first leadership role.
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.
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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
Format
This course is delivered as a full-day in-person workshop at our Wellington venue. It includes a mix of facilitator-led sessions, small-group exercises, and whole-group discussion. Group size is limited to 16 participants to ensure meaningful interaction and personal feedback. Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea are provided to support networking and collaboration.
What You'll Receive
You will receive a digital certificate of attendance and a Wellington Uni-Professional digital badge. These include the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours completed, making them suitable for recognition by professional organisations and employers.
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.”
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