Our Excelling in Team Leadership programme is essential development for managers with experience of managing a team or project, or aspiring managers who want to develop into a management role.
Our Excelling in Team Leadership programme is a comprehensive management development initiative. This programme aligns to the Team Leader / Supervisor apprenticeship standard and will develop the skills, knowledge and behaviours required for this level of role.
Our Excelling in Team Leadership Programme is suitable for people who are working in roles such as Supervisor, Team Leader or Project Officer.
Their key responsibilities may include:
The first part of the ‘Excelling in Team Leadership’ journey kicks off with asking you to analyse and discover your biggest strengths and what you are good at. This leads to the creation of your own personal development plan and timeline of your goals. Time management techniques and tools will also be introduced, including the best approach to planning and how to prioritise activities.
The greatest leaders you will ever work with are those that have a high level of self-awareness. Here you will explore techniques to help you to reflect on your own strengths and performance/development needs as well as your individual learning styles. You will develop your understanding of unconscious bias and inclusivity and
how to effectively use emotional intelligence in your role.
Relationships are integral to all aspects of a successful organisation. Here you will explore customer & stakeholder management and your understanding of emotional intelligence for building trust and conflict management scenarios. You will also look at cross team working while considering when best to apply different forms of communication.
Effective managers need to understand their teams. Every team has a combination of behaviours, values and attitudes and here motivational techniques and a range of performance management techniques. This will help to develop your understanding of the HR systems and legal requirements to effectively support you when managing your teams.
Managers need to be able to lead their people. It is important to understand your own leadership styles and how those styles interact with one another. Here you will also evaluate the benefits of coaching to support your team and improve performance while considering how organisational culture, equality, diversity and inclusion all play a part in team development.
Part of a manager’s job is to solve problems and make tough decisions. As we begin to lead the business, you will explore a range of problem-solving and decision-making techniques and apply them to real-life complex workplace and project scenarios. This will also help you to understand the best types of information to use when making decisions, in particular how to analyse data to support your decisions.
Projects play a key part in the workplace, from small scale projects lasting just a few days, right up to multi-million-pound adventures that define careers. You will explore the project lifecycle and their role within it and understand how to manage and deliver a project. Here you will also understand how to identify relevant project management tools and how they apply to different projects.
In your penultimate topic you will develop a deeper understanding of how organisational strategy is developed, including being able to implement and evaluate operational team plans while knowing what
resources to use for support. This will also help you to
team and understand how data and technology can
support it.
Having an understanding of finance in business is
invaluable to managers in all organisations, not just
those in the financial sector. Here you will develop a
deeper understanding of organisational governance,
compliance, and strategies for how to deliver value for
money. You will also develop an understanding of how
to monitor budgets and ensure e ective budget
management.
The most successful leaders are always excellent communicators. Throughout your apprenticeship journey you will be building on your communication knowledge and skills. From exploring different forms of communication to developing the right skills for delivering constructive feedback conversations the programme will support you to become great speakers and listeners.
The most successful leaders sets an example, and is fair, consistent and impartial. Open and honest. Operates within organisational values. Flexible to the needs of the organisation. Is creative, innovative and enterprising when seeking solutions to business needs. Positive and adaptable, responds well to feedback and need for change. Open, approachable, authentic, and able to build trust with others. Seeks views of others. Drive to achieve in all aspects of work. Demonstrates resilience and accountability. Determination when managing difficult situations.
We stick to what we do best! We have been inspiring people with high quality, leadership & management learning and development for over 15 years. We focus on providing the best learner experience and tangible performance improvements for your business and your people.
Our programmes are contextualised to your business to ensure the content is always relevant, authentic and provides your people with a more meaningful experience that will keep them engaged. The time we spend to understand your organisation means we delivers exactly what your business requires of its leaders and managers. Our curriculum fully maps out the learner’s ‘off the job’ requirement aligning activities to their day-to-day activity, responsibilities and in-work projects, continually embedding the learning as they work through the programme.
We have created a wealth of bespoke and innovative learning resources – including webinars, podcasts, videos and curated learning content – producing a more holistic learning experience. We are unique in that we are able to leverage our access to the best thought leaders in leadership & management whose insights and experiences are harnessed within the development and delivery of our programmes.
We have partnered with Bud to provide our learners with an engaging, innovative learning platform to keep them motivated throughout their programme journey. Learners can access activities, resources, contact their coach and upload their work and evidence from their smartphone, tablet or computer. The easy-to-use interface clearly guides the learners through their programme and gives line managers access to live data, allowing less excuses for incomplete tasks!
All of our programmes are supported by our hugely popular interactive workshops, delivered by our experienced consultants. A lead consultant will deliver for the learners at the beginning, middle and end of the programme to provide a further layer of continuous support whilst the addition of further subject matter experts adds a different perspective and keeps learners engaged.
All of our programmes can be delivered entirely online, reducing the time out of the business for your valued leaders and managers. We can also offer face to face delivery where this is possible. Our innovative learning platform – Bud, gives learners instant access to their learning programme from their laptop, tablet or phone. We even have options of in-company cohorts or open programmes – we are flexible to suit you.
Every learner has a Leadership & Management Coach to support them through their programme journey. We recruit only the best coaches, highly qualified with industry experience so they can truly relate to the learner’s role. We allocate lower caseloads to allow time for regular 121s with all learners and additional support where required.
Our amazing team are there to guide you through the whole journey. From bespoke engagement support to attract the right people, regular support calls, thorough reports to provide you with all the information you need and ongoing 121s for learners to ensure they are fully engaged and well prepared for end point assessment.
We’re also able to support neurodiverse learners on their journey and will work with them and their line managers to ensure we put the relevant support, tools and resources in place for them to succeed. We recognise that every learner requires something different and we have a well trained team and neurodivergent lead to support them throughout their programme.
Our end point assessment pass rate of 96% speaks for itself! We work hard to support learners all the way up to their last assessment, embedding EPA preparation throughout their journey and continuously updating our EPA supporting resources.
We have heavily invested in creating all our own content for our programmes, providing our learners with hours of resources. From our own podcast radio station – RTB Radio – featuring some of our most popular speakers to Topic Tapas – bite-sized content delivered in a menu style, our innovative content ensures our learners are always engaged!
The programme maps to a Level 3 apprenticeship standard.
The average programme length is 12 months plus 3 months for End Point Assessment.
Average of 6 working hours per week. We have designed our programme in a way that ensures learners achieve these hours through the completion of the tasks set. These are often naturally occurring activities that will be undertaken in work.
The learner must work at least 50% of their time in England and must not have a qualification at the same level or above in this subject area.
There are no specific entry requirements unless specified by the employer.
Achievement is gained through completion of End Point Assessments which are carried out by an Independent End Point Assessment Organisation.
Certificate from the Institute of Apprenticeships, Certificate from the Institute of Leadership & Management, designations and digital credentials as an Associate of the Institute (AMInstLM)
(membership fee applies)
As we are a Government Registered Apprenticeships Training Provider, you can use your Levy to fund this programme. Not enough funds in your Levy account? Don’t worry, the government will co-fund 95% of the programme costs.
This programme has been extremely valuable for me personally. It taught me some great tools to combat some of my biggest challenges, such as time management. I have also learnt a great deal about myself and have been able to self-reflect on a lot of my behaviours.
Kerry Stavileci, Programme Learner
I’ve seen our apprentices grow phenomenally since being on the programme. They’ve grown in confidence, knowledge and their ability to pause and think about situations with others before responding. It’s now really prominent within the teams, you can see the difference in culture and performance. The difference in our apprentices and their teams has had a real positive effect.
Zoe Dyson, Tuition Operations Manager
Since being on the programme I’ve learnt how to delegate, being able to know what doesn’t need my attention, what benefits I’m offering with my service, how I’m supporting my team and how to encourage other people to learn as well.
Lewis Laity, Programme Learner
My learning and skills developed from this programme has inspired more of a change in culture within our team and we’re now a high performing team and people are always stepping up to new roles and taking on new responsibilities.
Lewis Laity, Programme Learner
Having an organisation so well structured and tailored towards coaching was extremely important. We are really happy with Raise the Bar – as an organisation we’re all about coaching and nurturing versus training, so that was one of the key reasons for choosing them. We will definitely use Raise the Bar again for our people development.
Zoe Dyson, Tuition Operations Manager
After completing the programme, I am more confident and I have changed a lot as a person and as a leader. I have a better understanding of the different team roles I have got in my team and how I can use this to have a high performing team. Not only I have benefited from the course, but also my entire team as they got a stronger leader and I was able to share some of the gained knowledge with them.
Svenja Hansen, Programme Learner
Since being on the programme I have definitely gained and developed new skills. I can now handle conflict very well and I am very self-aware and able to reflect on my behaviour and the behaviour of others. I have gained valuable skills in project management and I use the tools I have learned all the time for new projects. I am better in giving feedback to the team and how to develop them and how to adapt my communication styles and the different learning styles.
Svenja Hansen, Programme Learner
The main benefit from attending the programme so far is without a doubt the confidence I now have in my abilities. I’m not ‘faking it ‘til I make it’ anymore – most of the time I actually know what I’m talking about now, and that’s usually because I’ve attended a workshop, completed research and written an assignment on it!
Natasha Watkinson, Programme Learner
I’ve developed skills in coaching tools and project management, but I’ve also learned so much about myself both personally and professionally. I have a much better understanding of emotional intelligence. I also have a much better understanding of team dynamics – forming, storming, norming and performing! This has helped me to pre-empt situations in my team that would affect performance.
Claire Wessier, Programme Learner
Everything I have learned from the programme has been beneficial to my role, time management, decision making, leading/managing people and managing myself has had a huge impact on my attitude and the way I present myself to my team and lead them.
Jack Broome, Programme Learner
Our Excelling in Operational Management programme is essential development for those with experience of managing a team or project who aspire to take on a more senior-level role.
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