Five day contextualised leadership program - Micro-credentials available

About the course

Build the Skills to Lead with Confidence

This practical five-day Leadership Development Program builds the capability, confidence and self-awareness leaders need to effectively manage people, performance and change.

Delivered through interactive workshops, workplace case studies, leadership diagnostics and DISC profiling with one-on-one coaching, the program helps leaders develop the skills required to lead themselves and others more effectively.

Unlike generic leadership programs, the Forsythes Training approach ensures the program is customised to the organisation’s workplace environment, leadership expectations and operational challenges.

Participants work on real leadership scenarios from their workplace, ensuring the learning translates directly into improved leadership behaviours and team performance.

Program Design – Tailored to Your Workplace

To ensure the program is relevant, practical and aligned to organisational priorities, Forsythes Training works with the client prior to delivery to customise the program.

Workplace Customisation

The program can incorporate:

• Organisational values, behaviours and leadership frameworks
• Real workplace examples and case studiesfrom your teams
• Current organisational challenges or change initiatives
• Leadership capability gaps identified by management
• Internal policies, performance frameworks and expectations

Guest Speakers & Leadership Insights

Where appropriate, organisations may include guest speakers or internal senior leaders to share practical insights on:

• Leadership expectations within the organisation
• Lessons from managing complex teams or operational change
• Real examples of leadership challenges and decision-making

This strengthens the connection between leadership learning and organisational culture.

Leadership Skill Gap Focus

The program is designed to help participants identify and address personal leadership capability gaps, including:

• Communication and influence
• Managing difficult conversations
• Accountability and performance management
• Leading teams through change and uncertainty
• Decision-making under pressure

Participants leave with a personal leadership development plan focused on strengthening their leadership impact.

What Participants Will Gain

Participants will develop practical leadership skills to:

• Communicate clearly and confidently with teams and stakeholders
• Build trust, accountability and positive team culture
• Manage performance, feedback and difficult conversations
• Adapt leadership style to different personalities and situations
• Lead effectively through change, pressure and uncertainty
• Strengthen decision-making and problem-solving capability

All learning focuses on practical leadership behaviours that can be applied immediately in the workplace.

Why Choose This Program?

Forsythes Training leadership programs are designed to be highly practical and immediately relevant to the workplace.

Key features include:

• Interactive learning using real workplace scenarios
• DISC Leadership Profilingto develop self-awareness
• Individual coaching sessionlinked to the participant’s leadership role
• Experienced facilitators with real industry and leadership expertise
• Leadership tools, frameworks and templates that can be applied immediately

The program focuses on practical leadership behaviours rather than theoretical models, ensuring participants gain skills that translate into measurable improvements in team leadership.

Who should attend?

This program is ideal for:

• Emerging and aspiring leaders
• Team leaders and supervisors
• Frontline managers
• High-potential employees preparing for leadership roles

The program supports leaders at different stages of their development by strengthening both self-leadership and people leadership capability.

DISC Leadership Profiling & One‑On‑One Coaching

Each participant completes a DISC Leadership Profile, followed by a private one-on-one coaching session with the facilitator.

This process helps participants to:

• Understand their leadership strengths and blind spots
• Improve communication and influence across different personality types
• Adapt leadership style to suit team members and situations
• Build confidence managing conflict and decision-making

Coaching ensures the learning is personalised, practical and directly relevant to each participant’s leadership responsibilities

Learning Outcomes

Participants leave the program with practical leadership resources including:

• Leadership self-assessment tools
• DISC leadership insights
• Communication and feedback framework
• Difficult conversation planning tools
• Personal leadership development plan

Participants leave the program with practical leadership resources including:

• Leadership self-assessment tools
• DISC leadership insights
• Communication and feedback frameworks
• Difficult conversation planning tools
• Personal leadership development plan

Outcomes for the Organisation

Organisations benefit through:

• Stronger leadership confidence and accountability
• Improved communication and reduced workplace conflict
• More effective performance management
• Higher employee engagement and retention
• Leaders better equipped to manage change and operational challenges