High Performance People Skills for Leaders

The Pathway to Leadership Excellence

Format availability:

In-Person

Duration:

5 Days

Introduction to the course

Are you ready to unlock the highest level of people skills as a current or future leader? The High Performance People Skills for Leaders training course provides a holistic and practical approach to enhancing the interpersonal and leadership skills necessary for creating highly motivated and collaborative teams. By mastering these skills, you can drive innovation, inspire adaptability, and deliver breakthrough results in an ever-changing organisational landscape.

In this training course, you will explore evidence-based practices and gain actionable insights into the core elements of leadership and team building. These principles will be contextualised across cultures and new generational dynamics, ensuring their relevance for today’s diverse and rapidly evolving workplace. You will learn how to foster engagement both within and beyond your teams, influence without formal authority, harness collective intelligence, and design compelling strategies for change.

Throughout the training course, you will engage in leadership assessments, interactive exercises, and case studies drawn from real-world examples. These tools will equip you with a pathway to leadership excellence underpinned by a high-performance mindset. This transformative journey will enable you to elevate your people and teams to new levels of success.

This KC Academy training course will highlight:

  • Creating high performance within your team
  • Developing a strong focus within multi-cultural teams
  • Maximising people skills to achieve high performance
  • Harnessing emotional intelligence for emerging leaders
  • Leadership for new generations

Course details

By the end of the High Performance People Skills for Leaders training course, you will be able to:

  • Cultivate innovative and inclusive team environments using advanced leadership practices.
  • Proactively identify and resolve potential areas of conflict within teams.
  • Leverage next-generation leadership skills to inspire and motivate diverse teams.
  • Apply interpersonal strategies to drive high-impact, measurable outcomes.
  • Develop and implement a personalised leadership growth plan.

This training course provides a dynamic and interactive learning experience, facilitated by an experienced leadership expert. The training course incorporates practical exercises, real-world case studies, and collaborative activities designed to engage and challenge participants.

You will have opportunities to actively apply concepts through group discussions, reflective exercises, and tailored simulations, all while receiving constructive feedback to support your development. 

Comprehensive training course materials with actionable tools and best-practice examples, will serve as a valuable resource during and beyond the programme. By the end of the training course, you will be equipped with the confidence and strategies needed to apply your learning directly in your leadership role.

Implementing insights from this High Performance People Skills for Leaders training course will benefit your organisation by:

  • Strengthening leadership capabilities to drive innovation and foster collaboration.
  • Empowering teams to achieve higher levels of engagement and productivity.
  • Building a workplace culture centred on adaptability and continuous improvement.
  • Enhancing organisational resilience in response to evolving business challenges.
  • Equipping leaders with tools to harness creativity as a strategic asset.
  • Developing leadership pipelines that align with the organisation’s strategic goals.

This High Performance People Skills for Leaders training course will empower you to:

  • Build enduring self-confidence as a leader in dynamic environments.
  • Identify and overcome personal and professional challenges to growth.
  • Strengthen your ability to influence and inspire others, even without formal authority.
  • Develop advanced interpersonal skills to navigate complex team dynamics.
  • Elevate your leadership impact by applying actionable strategies to real-world scenarios.
  • Gain clarity on your leadership style and purpose, setting the stage for lasting success.

This High-Performance People Skills for Leaders training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Professionals at all levels seeking to improve their people and team leadership skills
  • Professionals wishing to enhance their creativity and innovation techniques
  • Employees identified as ‘high potential’ or ‘fast track’ management candidates
  • Those interested in improving innovation for future success
  • Those responsible for developing and implementing innovation, initiating and managing change, improving operational performance, creating and leading high performance teams and demonstrating empowering leadership

Daily Agenda

DAY 1 :
Leading in a Brave New World
  • Being proactive and capitalising on opportunity
  • Emotional Intelligence actions and outcomes
  • Key principles for emerging leaders
  • Identify your strengths and areas for development
  • Giving feedback in action
  • Leading with Authenticity
DAY 2 :
Leading with Focus and Determination
  • Harnessing your hidden motivation
  • Leading from a powerful start
  • Modern leadership styles
  • Developing leadership excellence
  • Your personal leadership development plan
DAY 3:
Building a Team Culture of Creativity and Innovation
  • The role of leaders in driving innovation
  • Techniques for encouraging creative thinking and problem solving
  • Best practices for embedding innovation into team culture 
  • Valuing diversity: working with global, culturally diverse teams
  • Harnessing diversity for productive outcomes
 DAY 4 :
Developing Relationship Awareness
  • Adopting relationship awareness theory
  • Bringing your complete personality into business relationships
  • Managing through collaboration and empowerment
  • Interpreting hidden political conflict in organisations
  • Getting ready to negotiate
  • Generating productive outcomes
DAY 5:
Leadership Excellence – Achieving High Performance in Your Team
  • Grounded theory: Needs analysis evaluation of current performance
  • The formula for high performing teams
  • Developing team trust
  • Avoiding dysfunctional performance
  • Integrating people, purpose, productivity and profitability

Frequently Asked Questions

There are no prerequisites. Our courses are open to students of all backgrounds who are 18 years of age and older. All courses are conducted in English. Video lectures include English subtitles and the option to slow-down, pause, or replay lectures for better retention. Discussion boards are a critical component of each of our courses; therefore, we suggest students have a conversational knowledge of English when pursuing a Certificate of Completion. For any of the art writing courses, students need to be 100% proficient in written English.

You should have an up-to-date web browser such as: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. For more detailed information, please see the guides for supported browsers and basic computer specifications. Our Online Courses can be accessed on a mobile or tablet device, although we strongly encourage you to have access to a desktop or laptop computer and reliable internet connection for certain course components. Former students have told us it is easiest to read discussion threads and complete written assignments on a laptop or desktop computer.

Registration is available on our website. Just follow these simple steps: Click the “Apply Now” button in the top right corner of your screen. Select “Online Courses.” Choose your course(s). You will be asked for basic contact information and your credit card payment. We require full payment at the time of registration and all tuition is billed in US dollars. Be sure to check with your bank or credit card company, as your financial institution may charge a foreign transaction fee.

Our classes are kept small, at no more than 30 students, to better facilitate and encourage personalized interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Your classmates come from all over the globe and contribute their global perspectives and experience. Some are currently working within the arts while others are just beginning. All classmates share in their passion for the art world.

It is recommended that you begin your course promptly. If you do need to start the course a few days late, contact your instructor as soon as possible after the course has opened to discuss your options. Registration closes on the Friday after the course begins.

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Amsterdam
07-11 Jul 2025
Fee: $5,950
Dubai
22-26 Sep 2025
Fee: $5,950
Amsterdam
17-21 Nov 2025
Fee: $5,950
London
01-05 Dec 2025
Fee: $5,950
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