Leadership Sprint: An Intensive for Time-Pressed Managers

Course Overview

Not every manager can leave the office for two weeks. The Leadership Sprint compresses the leadership essentials that move the needle — self-awareness, delegation, difficult conversations and decision-making — into three intensive, exercise-driven days. There is no theory for theory's sake: every session ends with a technique delegates use the following week. It is deliberately demanding, deliberately practical, and designed for people whose diaries never open up.

What You Will Achieve

• Identify your default leadership style and its blind spots under pressure
• Delegate work at the right level with follow-up that doesn't become micromanagement
• Open, steer and close a difficult conversation using a repeatable structure
• Make faster decisions by matching the decision method to the stakes
• Leave with a one-page personal leadership plan for the next 90 days

Who Should Attend

Managers and team leaders at any level who need a rigorous leadership refresher but cannot commit to a full-week programme — including operational managers, professionals newly promoted, and owner-managers.

Course Outline

1. 01The mirror first: rapid self-assessment and feedback exercise
2. 02What your team actually needs from you: clarity, consistency, cover
3. 03Delegation levels and the follow-up contract
4. 04The difficult conversation lab: practice with real scenarios
5. 05Decision-making under time pressure: methods and traps
6. 06Managing up and sideways in the time you don't have
7. 07Energy and attention management for leaders
8. 08The 90-day sprint plan: commitments and accountability partners