Leading a Team – How to Grow People Without Micromanaging
Overview
Practical leadership skills for clarity, confidence and capability
Leading a team in professional services often means balancing high standards, tight timeframes, and growing expectations, while supporting people with varying levels of experience and confidence.
This practical session explores how to lead with greater clarity, empathy, and candour, without slipping into micromanagement. Drawing on coaching-based leadership principles, it highlights the role of self-awareness in effective leadership and shows how empathy and clear communication can strengthen trust, accountability, and performance. You’ll learn how to have more effective conversations, ask better questions, and create the conditions for people to think, learn, and take responsibility.
Designed for busy professionals, this session focuses on skills you can apply immediately to
- build trust and engagement
- grow capability,
- lead with empathy and confidence in complex, high-pressure environments
Learning Outcomes:
Attendees will learn to:
- Increase self-awareness of how their leadership style impacts others
- Regulate themselves under pressure to lead with greater steadiness and clarity
- Use empathy and interpersonal skills to build trust and effective working relationships
- Lead with greater presence and confidence in everyday interactions
- Give clear, candid feedback and manage difficult conversations without micromanaging
- Apply coaching-based skills to grow people, capability, and accountability
Suited to:
Professionals in professional services including partners, managers, and team leaders with responsibility for leading or developing others.
This On Demand recording Includes:
- Recording of the Live Webinar, which can be viewed multiple times, for as long as required
- Presenters contact details for follow up questions
- CPD Quiz
- CPD Certificate
- CPD Report – Logged automatically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – Leading a Team – How to Grow People Without MicromanagingVideo
- Feedback Survey QuestionsSurvey
- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Maya Nova, Director, Mindbalance.Mindbalance
Maya is a speaker, coach and mindful leadership expert with over a decade of experience working with people and organisations to help them develop their human potential and increase their leadership impact. By harnessing the power of self-awareness, we can get the most out of ourselves, our work and our people and thrive, even in times of great uncertainty. Maya is passionate about living our lives as if they mattered, mindfully, one day at a time. Her clients include TVNZ, ANZ, Fisher & Payke, PwC, IAG, CAANZ, Auckland Council, and the University of Auckland, among many others.