Developing Yourself as a Team Leader - Leadership & Management Training - The Play & Early Years Training Unit

Course Title: Developing Yourself as a Team Leader

Course Aim: The course aims to examine why leadership is increasingly seen as an important area of development in the early years. As well as how contemporary research on leadership in the early years can help support the development of good practice.

Course Details: This course gives members of the early years workforce an opportunity to develop their understanding and skills of team leadership. It has been designed in response to specific recommendations that staff in the early years workforce be supported to extend their leadership potential. Taught over four evenings, the course is designed to ensure that team leaders in early years settings will find the course accessible as well as relevant.

Participants will be invited to explore their values and beliefs concerning leadership, including the tensions between leadership and management, and the opportunities of distributed leadership. A substantial part of the course will be given over to developing participants’ own leadership vision that can inspire and inform their practice. The qualities and keys skills of effective leaders are analyzed. The role and challenges of leadership when working in partnership with parents, carers and agencies will be examined.

Different strategies that support effective leadership will be shared, including time management, assertiveness, delegation, stress management, conflict resolution and decision making. The challenges of offering effective leadership while managing change are considered. Some time will be given over to reflecting on participants’ own issues and dilemmas as leaders, and it is hoped that the group can facilitate a shared understanding of how effective leadership can work in a variety of different contexts.

Course Outcome: See above.

Entry Requirements: Anyone with responsibility for managing or supervising people at work or anyone who aspires to a management position.

Course Date/s: 11th, 18th, 25th November and 2nd December 2008

Course Times: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Venue: CEED Media Centre, Ujima House, 97 - 107 Wilder Street, Bristol, BS1 8QU.

Cost: £50 (per person) for those working in Early Years, Childcare and/or Playwork within the Bristol Local Authority area.

Please contact us for details of fees if;

(a) you work in another part of the C&YP sector or

(b) you work in a Setting outside Bristol

For bookings and further information contact:

PEYTU on 0117 908 0601 or e-mail: admin@peytu.co.uk