IHG® LEADING OTHERS

Great Teams

Kick off
Learning journal
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Kick off

Welcome to the
programme
The focus of the Kick off session is to welcome you to the Leading
Others – Great Teams programme.

Why is it important?

This programme will develop you in the essentials of getting

results through people, which will help you build engagement and
performance within your team.

This is your opportunity to get your management career off to a great

start, whilst driving our culture and values.

The programme will

• Develop you in the essentials of getting results with people

• Help you build engagement and performance within your team

• Deliver great results from your team

Plus

• It will get your management career off to a great start

• It will drive our culture and values

Objectives of the Kick off

By the end of the session, you will be able to:

• Explain the importance of becoming a manager of others and

what difference you make at your level

• Describe what your role is in getting results through others,

driving the brand and making an impact in your department or
function

• Understand how the programme works, how it can support your

ability to get results through people and how to make the most
of it

• Commit to fulfil your key responsibilities as a learner in the

programme

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What we’ll cover today

Welcome

What are you

responsible
for?

Who are you? Why

managing
people is
important

The
leadership
framework

The Bringing it all

shadow of together to
the leaders deliver great
results

Overview of the Next steps

full programme

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Who are you?

Activity: Art gallery
Having met everyone, answer the questions below:

• What are the common themes amongst the group?

• What can you learn from other colleagues in the group?

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Why managing people is important

Discuss and capture your learning:

• What difference does it make to a team or to individuals to have a good line manager?

• What difference does it make to results?

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Being a great leader supports

our ambition
Following your group discussion:

• How being a great leader supports our ambition

• How being a great leader will support out ambition of “Providing True Hospitality to
everyone”?

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What are you responsible for?

Discuss and capture your learning:

• As a manager of a team, which circle gets most of your attention?

• Which circle do you need to do more of?

• What practical examples have you come up with in the group?

Capture them below.

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Where to focus for success

Activity: The three circles
This activity is all about understanding how as a result of becoming a leader of others, you
will find yourself having to make decisions all the time. You will work on where you focus your
attention and time.

Having completed the activity, answer these questions:

• Looking at these questions, which circle or task needs your focus at the moment?

• Taking one situation, what options do you have to address it?

• How is this model going to help you when choosing what to focus on?

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From leading yourself to leading others

Discuss and make notes to capture your learning:

• What surprised you?

• What is the biggest change for you?

• What will be your biggest challenge?

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Activity: Leadership behaviours

This activity is all about understanding the leadership behaviours and how they contribute to
your success as a leader.

Having completed the activity, answer these questions:

• Which behaviours are clear to you?

• Which behaviours are a bit more challenging to understand?

• How can behaviours help you to understand what is expected of you?

• How do we make sure we keep the hotel brand in mind throughout the programme?

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The shadow of the leader

Activity: What does your shadow look like?
Everything you do as a leader is noticed and amplified by the people around you. You are always
on show, what you do will be noticed, giving permission for others to do the same.

Having completed the activity, answer these questions:

• Who do you know casts a very positive shadow? What do they do consistently?

• Which areas of your shadow need attention or need to be more consistent?

• What shadow do you want to cast during this programme?

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Activity: The inverted triangle

It can be easy to think that now, in your role, you have other people to do things for you.

Actually it’s the other way around. You now have people you need to do things for.

• How does this idea change how you think of your role?

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Overview of the full programme

Your Programme Manager explains the flow of the programme, overall content and logistics.

What are the key points discussed you want to capture?

The overall pathway

6 Months

Kick Think Champion Lead Develop Drive Work

Sign
off Ahead Change People People Results Collaboratively off

The learning cycle for each module

Explore it Share it Do it Live it

Programme materials
• Learning journal

• Programme Manager guide

• Line manager guide

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My Comments

Start

What am I going to start doing from

today?

Stop

What am I going to stop doing from

today?

Continue

What am I going to continue doing

moving forward?

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