Course Objectives

The Maritime Leadership course has been specially designed to suit the needs of those working in the maritime and marine sectors. It focuses on the skills and competencies required to manage and lead crew and others in the global shipping, maritime and ports industries. This exciting course provides a systemic grounding in the core skills and principles of managing people with an emphasis in the leadership and professional communication.

Who Should Attend?

All Deck Officers and Engineers, Shore based managers responsible to crewing issues, Human Resource personnel including HR Business Partners in the maritime sector Occupational Health & Safety Professionals in the maritime sector, Maritime Unions, Port Authorities, Associated Marine Industries, etc.


Course Overview

Leadership & Management in the Maritime Sector

Approaches to managing crews

Leadership & Management – what are the difference?

Transformational & Transactional leadership

How leadership differs in a maritime environment

Your personal style of leadership explored

Managing in a multi-cultural environment

National culture: how it affects the behaviour of crews

Understanding the future generation of crews (Generation’s X & Y)

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Communication Process Model

Barriers to people communication

Ship/Shore communication barriers and how to overcome them

SOLER Techniques to improve you attending skills

Techniques: listening, questioning, body language and proxemics

Understanding the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Developing your EI

Giving feedback to others with EI

Managing Behaviour and Performance

Motivation & Crews- what the science of work tells us

People and their personal life - the impact on work

Managing alcohol & other drug issues

Dealing with difficult crew members and ship/shore issues

Performance management suitable for the maritime sector

Performance Improvement Planning (PIP)

Managing Good performance

Retaining and motivating value people

Learning Goal

This course has been designed to enable participants to

List the major topics, concepts, and approaches to managing crews

Discuss the ways to minimise communication barriers

Describe the key principles of transformational leadership

Design a program to appropriately motivate people

Differentiate between the various cultural dimensions that crews demonstrate

Defend decisions made in relation to discipline and performance management

Dynamic presentations support each of the topics together with interactive sessions of discussion. Attendees will have the opportunity to practice these skills.

Benefits of attending the course

The global shipping and marine industries face many challenges and difficulties. However, the effective leadership and management of crew remains one of the largest challenges facing the industry. This specialist course will provide the delegates and their organisation with the skills and knowledge to get the most from their people and face the challenges of the next decade.

Course Materials

Case studies, DVDS, small group work, exercises and feedback will be used to facilitate learning.