MTa MAXI Leadership

These 9 activities Introduce and develop the elements of leadership that will enable people who already are effective team players become effective leaders.

To be successful the leader has to:

constantly monitor the needs of the team as a whole as well as the individual members
provide the vision and support to serve and meet changing needs, needs that vary with the make up of the team, its individual members, the tasks and the environments.

It is a challenging, and for some, a daunting role requiring effective use of team skills as well those additional skills and approaches that enable them to lead and motivate others to follow.

MTa Maxi Leadership (code: LEA-S)

The MTa MAXI Leadership contains:

one volume containing 5 shorter activities. Each provides opportunities for participants to experience different aspects of leadership and to consider how a leader's approach affects their followers.
4 longer activities (detailed below) that have been designed broaden the learning and take it to a deeper level.

5 short (15-30 minute) Activities

These 5 short activities introduce many of the competencies required for a new leader. Each provides opportunities for participants to experience different aspects of leadership and how to consider how a Leader's approach affects their followers.

Learning opportunities
basics of instruction
gaining and demonstrating commitment to others' ideas
challenging the way a group is approaching a task
remote working
setting targets for others
balancing personal Vs leadership workloads

Cable Car

Level: introductory/intermediate, Time 1 - 2 hours, 10 - 13 Participants

A manager has three isolated teams, each with a team leader. The manager's constantly changing role includes: providing the overview, managing resources, decision making, co-ordinating ideas, reviewing progress, technical support - there's always the job in hand to distract...

the role of the leader
basic leadership skills
understanding the needs of teams
managing several teams at the same time
co-ordinating people and teams

Maxi-Market

Level: intermediate, Time 1½ - 2½ hours, 5 - 14 Participants

"The most difficult problem with problem solving is defining the problem."

A project team has to prove to a customer that their company should be awarded a contract. Distractions like designing a product and calculating costs make it easy to miss this objective, lose focus and even forget the needs of their manager.

project management
establishing the core problem
understanding the criteria for success
team problem solving
utilising people's particular skills

Waste Away

Level: advanced, Time 2½ - 3½ hours, 8 - 14 Participants

A customer is coming for a demonstration that involves managing people doing an unfamiliar task. The manager cannot be there, so others need to be prepared. Later the goal posts appear to be moved by the customer, or are they?

applied leadership
balancing technical and people issues
understanding the bigger picture and working with the key issues
preparing people to lead others
applied team skills

Hoist

Level: introductory/intermediate, Time 1½ - 2½ hours, 8 - 14 Participants

The task is to win a competition but members of another team must build your product in your absence. Can you communicate your requirements effectively, provide them with appropriate instruction and motivate them to build your product?

applied team skills
instructing others effectively
communications
understanding priorities
keeping the overall objective in mind

Package Contents & Purchasing Options:

The MTa MAXI Leadership pack consists of :-

2 holdalls of over 160 robust polypropylene components. These are identical to the MTa MAXI Insights components so the activities are interchangeable and may be combined. See the downloadable order form on the home page for purchasing options.
Facilitator manual for each of the long activities which includes facilitator guide, encapsulated participants' brief and reusable review and learning transfer documentation.
Facilitator manual for the 5 short activities which also includes facilitator guide, encapsulated participants' brief and reusable review and learning transfer documentation.
All the consumables (learning review sheets etc.) can be supplied electronically free of charge for use by the purchasing organisation.

The durable components can be used both indoors and out: each of the 2 holdalls weighs 8 kg, so the total weight is 16 kg for components plus 1.5kg for each of the facilitator's manuals.

...read more testimonialsTestimonials:

Every group we used it with has got some benefits

Pauline Henry (Training Consultant) - HM Customs and Excise

I have found MTA materials to be the perfect solution to team development needs, combining a fun approach with well structured opportunities for discussion, feedback and action planning. I would recommend again and again...there is nothing else like this in the market(as far as I know) Also, the support personally from Martin has been superb, willing on one occasion to provide free advice on the best choice of activity for a particular event. 10/10.

Mike Linsell - Mellon