Fast Track Leadership for New Managers
9:00 am - 5:30 pm daily (excluding 1 hr. of assessment )
25-26 November 2024
UPCOMING CLASS
25-26 November 2024 [CLASSROOM]
OVERVIEW
There’s never been a more crucial time to examine the science and art of leadership. The past few years have upended everything we’ve known about business and how to drive it to profitable growth. Pandemic lockdowns have disrupted supply chains and forced us to rethink the role of the office, collaborate remotely, and build culture away from the watercooler. The Great Resignation has impacted employee engagement and loyalty, shortened organizational horizons, and birthed a myriad of start-ups. The upshot of all this, is that we’re seeing many more new managers, at precisely a time when organizations are cutting back on training and professional development budgets.
What does it mean to lead in a post-pandemic world? How can you be an effective manager if you haven’t been given the training to succeed in this ambiguous new world? Why must you first lead yourself before you can hope to inspire others to become their best selves?
Fast-Track Leadership for New Managers has been designed to equip you with these crucial skills. Understand why leadership is not just a commission but a calling, and discover how to find yours. Uncover different personality profiles, and recognise your own. Get a grip on the phenomenon of employee culture, and how to leverage it to finetune your performance management. Learn how to manage upwards, across and yourself. Master situational leadership and the interpersonal and negotiation skills you’ll need to lead your team in a brave new world.
There’s simply no course like this in the marketplace today.
TARGET LEARNERS
This course is primarily targeted at first-time managers and those who are in the early stages of their leadership journey, though it is also useful for:
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Start-up leaders and entrepreneurs lacking corporate leadership experience
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Individuals aspiring to leadership roles
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Current managers seeking to enhance their effectiveness in a post-pandemic world
PRE-REQUISITES
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21 years and above
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Possess minimally a Diploma Level and/or listen, speak, read, and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to Employability Skills System Workplace Literacy (WPL) Level 5
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Use numeracy skills equivalent to the Employability Skills System Workplace Numeracy (WPN) Level 5
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Possess immediate computer literacy
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Minimum 1 year of working experience
Learning Outcomes
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Organizational structure, communication and decision-making
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The role of leaders in big and small companies & start-ups
HOW ORGANIZATIONS WORK
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The impact of pandemic lockdowns
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Legal and ethical considerations
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The fracture of communication protocols
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Business in a post-pandemic world: What has changed, what has not. Why leadership is needed, now more than ever
HOW COVID-19 CHANGED EVERYTHING
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Leadership is not just a commission – it is a calling
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What great leaders do
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Getting your motivation right. Is this really what you want to do?
SO YOU WANNA BE A LEADER?
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Relationship between the top and middle management and employees
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Essential insight for companies seeking the most from their managers, and for managers seeking the most from their companies
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Unpacking manager culture and live out deepest personal values at work
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Getting employees to commit to the organization’s interests, plans and activities
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Strategic execution depends on employee culture
UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
WHAT GREAT LEADERS DO
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A tour of some of the most inspirational examples of leadership from contemporary business today
PERSONALITY PROFILE
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Identify personality profile using the DISC, StrengthsFinder or other profiling tool
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Relate personality profile with leadership styles
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Identify strengths and weaknesses of different personality profile and anticipate behaviour given a particular circumstance
DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP
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Unpacking the four main different leadership styles
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Understanding how dynamic leadership requires one to adopt the style that suits the situation
​PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
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Exploring all the tools available to a leader to inspire, guide and sustain peak performance in his/her team
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Techniques on appropriate communication and seeking feedback
MENTORING
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Why mentoring works
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How to find the right match
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What the best mentors do – and never do
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Reverse mentoring
EMPOWERING YOUR TEAM LEADERS
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How to select, empower and guide team leaders. Why they constitute your succession plan?
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Succession planning
LEADING IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
Two years of COVID lockdowns have introduced WFH as a default; many hybrid working environments.
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How does one lead across divides [impact, communication, and barriers]: remote working, cross-cultural teams, LGBTQ+, diversity, etc?
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New skill sets to conduct and lead teams in a brave new world
THE LEADERSHIP ECOSYSTEM
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Establishing the goalposts ("What's my most important objective as a leader?"
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Managing upwards ("Do I really understand my boss?)
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Managing across (How can I achieve my objectives by working through others?)"
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Managing self ("How can I become a good/better leader?")
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Succession planning ("Who's going to carry on my good work?")
Refresher Class
Get a complimentary refresher class (valid for 1-year, read the terms and conditions here.)
Refresher Class
Get a complimentary refresher class (valid for 1-year, read the terms and conditions here.)
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Course Fee
S$995 per participant (excl. GST)
Self-Sponsored
Course Fee
$995 (Excl. GST)
50% funding by
SkillsFuture Singapore (Baseline)
$497.50
GST
$89.55
Amount Payable
$587.05
Eligible for SkillsFuture Credits
Up to 100% of Course Fee* Subject to SkillsFuture Credit Availability
*Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can offset the course fee using their SkillsFuture Credit
*NTUC members enjoy 50% unfunded course fee support for up to $500 each year for courses supported under UTAP.
Company-Sponsored
Course Fee
$995 (Excl. GST)
70% funding by
SkillsFuture Singapore
(Enhanced Training Support for SMEs)
$696.50
GST
$89.55
Amount Payable
$388.05
Additional Support via Absentee Payroll
$4.50/hr, capped at $100,000/enterprise / year
**SME Eligibility Criteria
- Registered or incorporate in singapore
- At least 30% local shareholding by singapore citizens or PRs
- Employment size of not more than 200 (at group level) or with annual sales
turnover (at group level) of not more than $100 million
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Eligible companies can also claim 90% out-of-pocket expense with SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)
Additional Notes:
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Lessons will be conducted in English. Participants are expected to be able to read and write in basic English.
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Participants are required to bring their own laptop that can connect to the internet for access to the online class and course materials.
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In line with our environmentally friendly practices, we will not be providing printed course materials to reduce paper waste.
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Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will receive a certificate issued by ClickAcademy Asia Pte Ltd.
Click here to read our Withdrawal & Refund Policy.
Disclaimer: ClickAcademy Asia reserves the right to change the course instructor without prior notice. The course instructor will be finalised and informed to the registered participants at least 1 working day before the course commencement date.
About The Instructor
David Shaw is the founder and principal consultant of CourageousBrands. For close to four decades, he has been positioning brands, developing marketing strategy, and aligning organizations for success, in his various lives as an advertising creative director, client marketer / communications leader, and currently, as a brand consultant, teacher and trainer.
David spent 16 years as an advertising copywriter and creative director, working with international agencies Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT and BBDO in Singapore and Canada, before jumping the fence to become a client marker and communications leader with IT giants HP and Lenovo. After 11 years leading Asia-Pacific teams, he parlayed his agency and client experience into a consulting career, working with local and international brand and marketing consultancies Activiste, EffectiveBrands and Lux Eterna, before launching CourageousBrands in 2014 as a consulting practice dedicated to helping brands find courage, and marketers and their organizations become their best selves. Through insightful brand strategy and marketing/communications consultancy and training, he inspires clients to be brave, bold and visible in the jungle out there.
A graduate in business administration from the National University of Singapore, David has spoken extensively at brand and marketing conferences in 7 countries across Asia; and designed and conducted workshops in 11 countries across Asia and the Middle East. He is the ghostwriter of the business best-seller “The Global Brand CEO: Building The Ultimate Marketing Machine”, and more recently, a co-author of “Five Stones and a Sling: How a Singapore Hotel Company Built its Brand and Business Against All Odds”.
David holds a WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) and is a trainer with ClickAcademy Asia. He invests his remaining spare time as an adjunct lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic, and a start-up mentor at German Accelerator.
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David Shaw
Senior Trainer
ABOUT CLICKACADEMY ASIA
ClickAcademy Asia is a premier training academy focusing on executive education for professionals in the fields of digital marketing, sales & marketing, and communications.
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ClickAcademy Asia training covers Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Thailand, Australia and Hong Kong. The academy has conducted digital marketing workshops for participants from over 30 countries worldwide. To date, ClickAcademy Asia has trained over 13,000 PMEBs (professional, managers, executives and businessmen) and 6,000+ local and global companies (including NGOs and Government agencies).
ClickAcademy Asia was established in the year 2011. The academy is the leading practitioners’ digital marketing academy and is also the official Google Partner Academy in Singapore and Malaysia.
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The academy provides training and certification on Google Ads, Google Analytics, Mobile Advertising and YouTube Video Advertising. ClickAcademy Asia is also the training provider for the Go Global programme led by Google (2015-2018), 2017 Google Ignite (Malaysia) , Google Elevator (Singapore and Malaysia) program and 2019 Mahir Digital Bersama Google (Malaysia).