Module Five: Managing Others
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of your participation in Module 5, you should be able to:
- Explore several contemporary leadership frameworks to inform positive impact as leaders and managers.
- Identify the importance of leveraging strengths in developing others.
- Understand the core elements of coaching as a leadership practice.
- Explore and apply the eFIRE coaching model.
- Describe and apply positive approaches for providing performance feedback in a supportive and impactful way.
Throughout this unit, we have navigated the challenges of understanding ourselves and others whilst building trust and confidence within our work teams. As we move into this fifth module, we will explore some very practical ways in which you can manage and lead others for maximum performance, whilst supporting them to personally flourish.
In this module, we will look at effective approaches to managing others, including some principles for handling the inevitable challenges that arise. It is important to consider this module in the context of the foregoing material we have covered: self-awareness and emotional intelligence, diversity and conflict in groups, communication and influence, and trust and ethics.
In this module, we look at managing others by:
- Identifying some key principles and practices for leading others
- Working with strengths
- Coaching
- Performance conversations
- Considering emerging approaches for managing and working in hybrid and virtual teams
As a starting point, we will review a couple of models from influential writers in this space.