INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
In today’s fast-paced and increasingly complex global business environment, traditional leadership models are no longer sufficient. Organizations must now navigate rapid technological change, multigenerational workforces, and evolving employee expectations, demanding a new kind of leader: one who is agile, emotionally intelligent, and equipped to inspire across all levels.
The Next Generation Leadership training course is designed to cultivate these critical capabilities. This training course empowers leaders to go beyond outdated approaches, leveraging situational leadership techniques, generational insight, and emotional intelligence to drive engagement, performance, and innovation. Built around the needs of modern teams—including Millennials (Gen Y) and Gen Z, this training course delivers practical strategies for leading self and others with adaptability, empathy, and vision.
Participants will explore cutting-edge leadership development tools and learn how to shape a high-performing, resilient, and continuously learning team culture.
This Next Generation Leadership training course will highlight:
- Master the key leadership styles required in dynamic, modern organizations
- Understand your personal leadership profile and its impact on team dynamics
- Improve communication and motivation across multigenerational teams
- Build trust, collaboration, and engagement through emotional intelligence
- Learn to coach, empower, and inspire for long-term individual and team growth
- Harness feedback, reflection, and technology for continuous leadership development
COURSE DETAILS
Objectives
By the end of this Next Generation Leadership training course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize when and how to step into leadership roles, even without formal authority
- Understand and adapt to different personality types and workplace behaviors
- Apply emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills to build trust and influence
- Enhance collaboration, creativity, and performance within diverse teams
- Manage their own emotions to remain composed and effective under pressure
- Embrace feedback and foster a culture of ongoing personal and team development
Training Methodology
This Next Generation Leadership training course will use a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies, targeted videos, role plays and syndicate discussions. Graphical materials and stimulating explanations will be used to introduce underlying models.
A key part of the learning process is sharing the different experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques. A personality questionnaire will be used to generate a personality profile that will contribute to understanding preferences, personal style, different personas they display and their unique contribution to the team.
Organisational Impact
By developing a new generation of agile, emotionally intelligent leaders, organizations will benefit from:
- A distributed leadership culture that empowers employees at all levels
- Improved team cohesion, communication, and morale
- Greater employee engagement, retention, and discretionary effort
- Enhanced innovation and adaptability in times of change
- Better conflict resolution and collaboration across departments
- Long-term leadership pipeline development and organizational resilience
Personal Impact
Participants will gain:
- Greater self-awareness and clarity around their leadership strengths and blind spots
- Practical techniques to elevate communication, motivation, and influence
- Improved decision-making and resilience in high-pressure environments
- Tools for conflict management, performance coaching, and team development
- Confidence to lead multigenerational teams with empathy and effectiveness
- A significant boost in leadership readiness and career advancement potential
Who should Attend?
This KC Academy Next Generation Leadership training course will benefit professionals from any specialisation in the organisation but will greatly benefit:
- Managers
- Team Leaders
- Supervisors together with their teams
- Junior / Middle Managers new to their role
DAILY AGENDA
DAY 1: Understanding Yourself and Others
- The Psychological Contract and Expectations of Gen Y and Gen Z
- Better Understanding Your Own and Other's Behaviour and Thinking
- Considering Different Models of Personality
- Understanding the Four Colour Profiles and Their Contributing Qualities
- Recognizing Your Personas, Strengths and Development Areas
- Appreciating and Utilizing Diversity in the Workplace
DAY 2: Enhancing your Leadership Effectiveness
- Acting with Intentionality and Purpose
- Appreciating and Displaying your Optimum Leadership Style
- Matching Your Manager's Needs with your Outcomes
- Enhancing your Self-confidence and Personal Power
- Using Personal Insights to Influence Others Better
- Displaying Emotional Intelligence (EI) Skills
DAY 3: Understanding Team Development and Functioning
- Understanding the Development of Teams
- Team dynamics and impact on behaviour
- Considering the Types of Teams Found in Today’s Organisations
- Appreciating the Key Team Roles and Your Unique Contribution
- Understanding the Team Leadership Style
- Increasing Team Performance through collaboration and decision making
DAY 4: Enhancing Team Effectiveness
- Optimizing Communication within the Team
- Adopting a Highly Effective Meeting Framework
- Role-modelling, Inspiring and Motivating your Staff
- Stimulating Employee Performance and Challenging their Negative Beliefs and Assumptions
- Coaching your Staff and Acknowledging and Celebrating their Successes
- Developing Agile Team Effectiveness
DAY 5: Enabling Continuous Individual and Team Learning
- Monitoring your Team's Performance and Morale
- Providing Non-threatening and Up-building Feedback to your Staff
- Using 360° Feedback to Support Personal and Group L&D
- Facilitating the Design of Personal Development Plans
- Using Technology to Encourage Collaboration and Commitment
- Scheduling Regular and Inspiring Audit Meetings
Certificate
- On successful completion of this training course, KC Academy Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.