Become the leader you’ve always aspired to be

 

This Level 8 Diploma in High-Performance Leadership, designed and delivered by Career Decisions Ireland and accredited by Technological University Dublin (TUD), is a comprehensive results-driven programme designed to enable you to enhance your leadership capabilities. It will equip you with highly effective leadership and coaching skills to lead and motivate your team and maximise performance and results. The programme content is extremely practical and addresses the day-to-day challenges faced by managers.

 

Programme Overview:
This Leadership Programme provides you with insights into what makes a leader exceptional. You will explore important issues such as self-awareness and learn skills to communicate, coach your team and lead others to greatness. You will return to your organisation with the knowledge and skills to motivate and mobilise your team around a shared vision and clear goals. Programme participants will enhance their leadership skills, including personal and team leadership, coaching for high performance and leading strategic planning for transformational results.

 

Programme Structure:

A highly interactive, modularised programme with 8 days of group workshops plus three individual executive coaching sessions per person. This programme is delivered over one academic year.

The delivery of the programme will commence online and may remain online for the duration.  However, the training provider is flexible in changing the delivery method to a blended approach to meet the needs of the majority of learners, which can include face to face sessions.

 

During the Programme, you will learn to:

• Communicate authentically, create enthusiasm, and bring out the best in others.
• Develop the skills to coach the people around you for peak performance.
• Address behaviour and performance challenges effectively and with confidence.
• Practice giving and receiving feedback.
• Enhance your decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Develop and commit to an action plan for making positive change in your leadership behaviour.
• Build high-performance expectations into your everyday management practices.
• Translate your personal vision into tangible actions on the job.

 

Graduate Testimonials:

“The Diploma in High Performance Leadership transformed my confidence and competence as a leader. When I started the programme, I was a Production Manager and I learned so much about myself and my team. I learned important skills on how to communicate and coach my team to get the best from them. The programme has helped me to build a motivated and strong team who are much more successful now at achieving their KPI’s. I have just been offered the role of General Manager and I believe this would not have happened without the benefit of the Diploma in High Performance Leadership.” General Manager, Manufacturing.

“I have come to appreciate how much my performance as a leader has improved during the last 8-10 months, and consequently, how much my team’s performance has improved, along with the impact this training course has had on my department’s performance through application of learning from the course.” Senior Manager, MedTech

Key Modules for Sustainable & High-Performance Leadership:

Module 1: Leading Yourself – High-Performance Leadership
• Understand your leadership, communication and decision-making styles
• Identify your unique value and capabilities as a leader
• Identify barriers to success and strategies to overcome them
• Clarify and align personal and organisational goals

Outcome 1: Develop a Professional Development Plan to lead and motivate your team members and deliver outstanding business results.

 

Module 2: Leading Your Team – High Performance Team Leadership
• Understand the characteristics of high performing teams
• Clarify your teams’ goals
• Identify and capitalise on your teams’ strengths
• Profile your team and identify the areas you wish to develop and improve
• Develop skills to build and lead high-performing teams

Outcome 2: Prepare a ‘Team Development Action Plan’ to improve the performance of your team.

 

Module 3: Managing Change & Strategic Planning
• Where are you now (SWOT analysis)
• Where do you want to be (Mission, vision, goals, top priorities)
• How will you get there (Planning, resources, roles, execution)
• How are you doing – measure performance
• Learn best practice methodologies to lead and implement change initiatives
• Learn key steps involved in sustaining positive change

Outcome 3: Develop a Strategic Plan to achieve business goals and deliver outstanding business results.

 

Module 4: Coaching for Peak Performance
• Develop core coaching skills
• Improve your communication skills and confidence as a Leader
• Learn the skills to conduct effective coaching discussions
• Learn how to adapt your coaching style to suit different personalities and circumstances
• Understand how coaching can be used to solve problems and leverage opportunities

Outcome 4: Develop Core Coaching Skills to motivate and manage people for peak performance.

 

Individual Executive Coaching Sessions:
• Each person will benefit from 3 x Individual Coaching Sessions with a highly experienced Executive Coach
• Experience first–hand the benefit of coaching
• Coaching sessions will help you to address leadership challenges and opportunities.

 

Programme Schedule:

 

Facilitator/Coach	Day/ Date	Module	Programme Support
Tom Hackett	Wednesday 25th October 2023	Module 1 – Part 1	Leadership – Personal Leadership
Tom Hackett	Thursday 26th October 2023	Module 1 – Part 2	Leadership – Team Leadership
Tom Hackett	Tuesday 14th November, 2023	Module 2 – Part 1	Change & Strategic Planning
Joe MacAree	Tuesday 21st November, 2023		1st Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Wednesday 22nd November 2023		1st Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Thursday 23rd November 2023		1st Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Friday 24th November 2023		1st Executive Coaching Session
Tom Hackett	Tuesday 12th December 2023	Module 1 – Part 3	Leadership – Team Leadership
Joe MacAree	Tuesday 9th January, 2024		2nd Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Wednesday 10th January, 2024		2nd Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Thursday 11th January 2024		2nd Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Friday 12th January 2024		2nd Executive Coaching Session
Tom Hackett	Tuesday 16th January 2024	Module 3 – Part 1	Coaching for High Performance
Tom Hackett	Tuesday 13th February 2024	Module 2 – Part 2	Strategic Planning and Change
Tom Hackett	Tuesday 12th March 2024	Module 3 – Part 2	Coaching for High Performance
Joe MacAree	Tuesday 9th April, 2024		3rd Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Wednesday 10th April, 2024		3rd Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Thursday 11th April 2024		3rd Executive Coaching Session
Joe MacAree	Tuesday 16th April 2024		3rd Executive Coaching Session
Tom Hackett	Tuesday 23rd April 2024	Module 1 – Part 4	Leadership – Personal and Team Leadership

 

BENEFITS:

Personal Benefits:

You will be conferred with an internationally recognised qualification – Diploma in High Performance Leadership accredited (Level 8) by Technological University Dublin (TUD).

The Diploma in High Performance Leadership also provides you with the following powerful tools

• A Personalised Professional Development Plan to optimise your performance and achieve your goals.
• Team Profile and Team Development Plan to maximise your team’s performance.
• Strategic Plan to maximise the performance of your business unit and organisation.
• Competency in Core Coaching Skills to coach your team to achieve peak performance.
• Executive Coaching – Another Key Benefit: You will benefit from 3 x 1:1 coaching sessions with a senior Executive Coach to help you experience first–hand the benefit of coaching. These coaching sessions will help you to address leadership challenges and leverage opportunities.

Organisational benefits:

Enhances the leadership skills of your managers/leaders across the organisation.
• Develop and sustain a high-performance culture in your organisation.
• Develop the competency of your leaders and enable them to coach their teams to achieve peak performance.
• Create an atmosphere of trust, mutual support and open communication.
• Build high-performance expectations into everyday management practices.
• Achieve your organisational goals with more competent, motivated and committed leaders.
• Enable your leaders/managers to develop:
▲ Personalised Professional Development Plans.
▲ Team Profiles & Team Development Plans to maximise their team’s performance.
▲ Competency in Core Coaching Skills to coach their people to achieve peak performance.
▲ Strategic Plans to maximise the performance of your business units and organisation.
• Executive Coaching for your Leaders/ Managers: Each person will benefit from 3 x 1:1 coaching sessions with a senior Executive Coach to address leadership challenges and leverage opportunities.