The Organisation Leader: Master Multi-Team Leadership

Mastering the Shift: From Team Leader to Department Head

Many do not realize that transitioning from leading a single team to overseeing multiple teams is a significant leap in leadership complexity and responsibility. This programme is designed to equip participants with the skills and insights needed to navigate this shift effectively. Moving into an organizational leadership role requires expanding one’s understanding of team management strategies to address the broader scope of leading an entire department.

Enhancing Communication, Leadership Visibility, and Team Development

A key challenge for Heads of Departments (HODs) is ensuring their communication reaches all levels, especially frontline employees responsible for executing strategies. This programme will help participants refine their communication channels to cut through bureaucracy, ensuring messages are clear, consistent, and impactful. Leaders will also explore strategies to enhance visibility and transparency, which are essential for building trust, engagement, and accountability within their teams.

Beyond communication, effective leadership hinges on developing strong team leaders who serve as advocates and extensions of the HOD. This programme focuses on equipping participants with the skills to nurture their team leaders, empowering them to make sound decisions and lead effectively. Additionally, participants will learn how to shape and reinforce a department-wide culture that aligns with organizational goals, fostering continuous improvement and long-term success.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Appreciate the shift in complexity going from leading one team (Team leadership), to leading multiple teams (Organisation leadership).
• Know that different approaches are needed to ensure that your communication as a Head of Department reaches to the frontline team members, where the work actually happens.
• Apply techniques that will increase the visibility of their leadership across the department, and understand why transparency in their leadership can boost employee engagement and motivation.
• Recognise that their Team leaders are their advocates, and thus a need to ensure they are developed with the required leadership competencies to make sound decisions at their level.
• Understand why they have to proactively shape the culture of their department, be clear on the steps needed to do so, while balancing strategic vision with operational implementation amidst managing and influencing stakeholders.

This course is perfect for:

• Team leaders transitioning from leading one team to leading multiple teams as the next step in their career.
• Newly appointed Heads of Departments who want to rapidly upgrade their leadership competencies to lead in their current realities.
• Department Heads, Middle leaders, or Director level leaders (who are already leading multiple teams) seeking to refresh their leadership knowledge to better lead other leaders. 

"I like the practical approach to explaining the transition from team leader to BU leader."

"Building the organisation culture and navigating through various types of cultures"

"He helped us with the key skills required at different levels, BU vs Team Lead and the practical ways it was demonstrated."

"Discuss the role of middle management because it will take us to think what we are now and what we should do more."

Daniel Lee – Leadership Coach, Speaker, and Author

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 strongly believes that it is possible to sustain high performance levels in the team when the leader and team are clear on needed direction, the appropriate learning and development is in place, and the leader works with the team on a daily basis. This means the leader themselves have to lead with vision.

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. 

Since 2022, Daniel has been interviewing Heads of Departments in his latest research, Leading from the Middle, to uncover what it takes to be an effective leader of leaders.

With an ever evolving understanding of team and organization leadership, along with its practical real world applications, Daniel takes the view that learners already subconsciously know how to achieve the desired outcomes. His role is to bring awareness to them, so they can become intentional professionals in their own fields. 

Daniel has received many positive client and participant testimonials and Google reviews from his work in the Leadership space.