First Time Leadership: Strategies for Building a Strong Team

In writing the First Time Leadership book and interviewing 220 leaders from 37 countries, Daniel Lee came upon one realisation, that many team leaders want to create a team culture that works for them and their team, but seemingly do not know how.

This 2-day workshop will give any team leader the conscious know-how to go doing just that, and draws upon day 1 and 2 of his 4-day signature programme based on the First Time Leadership 3C Framework. 

In Day 1, participants will cover 5 essential leadership competencies that they must know well, in order to gain a firm understanding of what it takes to be an effective leader of oneself, and subsequently an effective leader of others.  

These 5 essential competencies are knowing what leadership really is, how leading others is an extension of how they lead themselves, that a team is a dynamic ‘entity’ requiring constant care, how one leads in any situation is more than just dependent on the situation, and that Trust is the basis of leadership.

Once participants have grasped these 5 essential competencies, they are then ready to go about creating the team that they want with 5 more additional competencies.

These 5 additional competencies will include knowing what it means to be seen as a leader in ‘middle’ management, why emotional intelligence is a leader’s superpower, the way they deal with conflict win the team, the right way to be an assertive leader, and using trust to influence and persuade their team. 

By dedicating 2 days, participants will walk out of the workshop having undergone an accelerated learning journey on what it takes to be a team leader that engages their team with effectiveness and enthusiasm.

Upon completion of this 2-day workshop, participants will:

1. Know of what it means to be a self-leader, as well as a leader of others.
2. Finally get how Emotional intelligence and Empathy are rightly exercised in the leadership domain.
3. Embrace their role as a ‘middle’ leader, and why they have to be mindful of how they are perceived as a leader.
4. Gain clarity on why the various stages of a team’s development will bring about different types of conflicts, which necessitates different conflict management approaches.
5. Understand why high levels of Trust is essential for any leader who desires to influence and persuade others.

This course is perfect for:

• Emerging leaders who are experienced individual contributors, are already leading project teams, and are a step away from formally leading a team of their own.
• First Time Leaders who have been recently promoted to formally lead a team of their own, and need to get up to speed on what it means to lead and manage others. 
• Experienced managers, Supervisors, and Team leaders looking to refresh their understand of the topic with new insights and research will also benefit.
• Experienced managers, supervisors, and team leaders who consciously want to create the team they have always wanted to lead, and have the appropriate team culture to support it.

"The real life cases are really helpful for a new manager, and I could see that the examples relate very often to our situation at work."

"Sincere thanks to help us assess myself in certain areas, where I would be improving myself, especially the personality test and team discussion."

"Sharing of different leadership perspective and open discussions within the different team members are helpful."

With over 20 years of working in Australia and Singapore, Daniel Lee helps individual become successful leaders by working with, training and coaching participants from different cultures and work backgrounds in a range of skills and mindsets. 

Prior to 2017 before leaving the Corporate world, Daniel has had experiences in public service, manufacturing, professional services, facilities services, and banking and finance, with much of that time spent in Human Resources, and in Learning and Development.

Currently focused on leadership as a speaker, trainer, coach, consultant, and published author, he has run both in-house and public programmes for Accenture, American Express, PPG Industries, Bank of Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, BNP Paribas, DHL, Shiseido, Standard Chartered, Telkom Indonesia, Beam Suntory, Cornerstone, Bollore Logistics, UTAC, Daimler Trucks, Nexia Singapore, and many more.

He knows that it is possible for any team leader to have the team that they want, because to do that requires a leader to know what is involved in creating the right team culture that works for them and for the team.

Daniel takes the view that learners already subconsciously know how to achieve the desired outcomes in the topics that he covers. His role is to bring awareness to the learners, so they can become intentional professionals in their own fields.