Whatever your industry, size or market share, all great businesses thrive on good leadership.
Whether you are looking for something to stretch your board of directors, inspire your new managers or engage and unite the whole staff team, all content is underpinned by the latest research in evidence-based leadership approaches.
With a breadth of training packages to suit your business needs – from recruitment & retention to performance management & developing talent, from improving output & profitability to creating a culture where staff want to stay & hone their talent – all training is designed to meet the bespoke requirements of your organisation.
What kind of training is on offer?
All training is adapted to maximise the impact for each organisation, but an outline of the sessions could include:
- Strategic Planning
- Improving Productivity
- Managing for Growth
- Line Management Best-Practice
- Coaching with Accountability
- Crafting Your Culture
- Attracting Top Talent
- Utilising Conflict
- Strengths-Based Team Coaching
- Growing Your Own Leaders
- Rowing in the Same Direction
- Measuring the Right Things
- Increasing Profitability
- Developing Self-Reflection
- Maximising Trustee Impact
- Managing Change Well
- The Neurophysiology of Challenge
- Refining Governance Systems
What's the process?
Following our initial call to outline the training required, we will arrange for a brief conversation with someone from each level of your target audience – this will often be 2, 3 or even 4 people – to ascertain their current understanding, practice and situational context.
We will then have a follow up call to discuss the priorities, outcomes, possible content and activities to optimise the time available.
Prior to delivery, you will receive a draft of the content for any final adaptations that may be needed.
To what end?
Extremely relevant with useful applications to my current position.
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Huddersfield
It was great to have plenty of 'doing'!"
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Leadership Training 1-day training to lift the leadership lid
A number of bespoke topics covered, tailored to meet your exacting requirements. Can include some of the themes above or all custom designed.
All training is underpinned by the latest evidence-based research in tested methodology and rooted in neuroscientific understanding. This means your team will acquire a balanced understanding of the important theoretical knowledge, as well as a toolkit of approaches they can use to see impact from day 1.
What do people say?
“…simply brilliant. I’ve never seen anything like this in all my years in business.” from the ‘Neurophysiology of Growth through Challenge’ feedback.
Facilitation 1-to-2-day journey to build understanding & alignment
Whether it’s 3-year strategic planning or a 1-off discrete project, these sessions focus on ‘where are we going, where are we now and what next’?
What does it involve?
Increased buy-in and motivation from activities designed to share insight – even from your most introverted analyticals – identifying key priorities, opportunities & blockages to discern an operationally practical strategic plan.
You will complete the process with a transformation map, key workstreams & gap analysis identified and greater unity on how these plans will be achieved.
What do clients say?
“So much of what we needed was already in the room, but your ability to pull together key themes and help us ask questions about priorities and ROI was key to helping us achieve a plan that we can all get behind”.
2-to-5-day workshops for those determined to see breakthrough and improved outcomes
These packages are designed to identify and unblock sub-optimal ways of working, then move into planning for growth. Are there areas of work that could best be categorised as stuck or limiting? If so, this may be for you.
What does it involve?
Typically, guided conversations (where receiving and giving of feedback is modelled) to unpack the much-needed learning that has remained buried due to a fear of conflict. Appraising current practice against a number of evaluation tools and identifying areas that will bring about the greatest improvements in ways of working. The 4 & 5-day options can incorporate facilitation, as above.
What do clients say?
“Thank you so much for leading us through this tough stuff. We trusted you to help us with issues, some of which were long-standing problems. I can’t thank you enough for all your help, I feel so much lighter and hopeful for our future plans”.
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Full Training Package
For those looking for a comprehensive training package for their leadership teams, this program is underpinned by the latest evidence-based methodologies and rooted in neuroscientific understanding. This means teams will acquire a balance of important theoretical knowledge, as well as a toolkit of approaches they can use to see impact from day 1. The training blocks are designed to flow and build upon knowledge from previous sessions. The blocks can be delivered as 1-2 days each or chunked for shorter delivery over longer timeframes.
1. Neurophysiology of growth through challenge: from control & dictate to equip & empower
Know thyself – the physiology of trust vs fear
Short and long-term strategies for optimising thinking
Stress as an enabler: recognising your unique strengths & barriers and how to prepare for success
Leading others as you want to be led
2. Communication
The power of narrative for vision casting and buy-in
Managing change well
Utilising conflict: the necessity of difference – united not uniform
Feedback: why most feedback fails in the real world and how not to
3. Problem solving
Improving ideation, innovation, fidelity and productivity
The full picture decision making: completely factual AND factually complete
The power of ‘I don’t know yet’: producing better thinkers and problem solvers
4. Managing for Growth
Crafting your culture of ‘here on purpose’
Attracting top talent: how to and why you must
Measuring the right things: Lead, lag and survivor bias avoidance
Increasing efficiencies, value and profitability
5. Strategic Planning
1-5-year planning: systems, tips and clarity
Projects: methodologies and planning through to execution
Double diamond methodology
6. Line Management Best-Practice
Systems, rhythms and culture: coaching with accountability
Harnessing motivation and personality difference
Target setting for alignment
7. Growing Your Own
Building trust: why you must and how to do it
Strengths-based team coaching
Developing self-reflection & leadership tests to avoid Peter Principle
8. Governance
How quality assurance can and should be supportive & transformative
Trustees/Governing Bodies: maximising impact and defining rhythms
Advisory board and/or consultancy input: ensuring timely influence
Refining governance systems: leader and team member roles
All training, facilitation and coaching is person-centred, meeting people at their point of need and capacity. Every team member is encouraged to use the content and practice materials from a place grounded in reality, which means that when they are back into the normal rhythms of the working week, the approaches they have learned can be practically applied.
Useful tools to analyse current practice
Many organisations have a thorough appreciation of making decisions based upon actual data – being ‘completely factual’. However, few have all of the information that they would like at any one time, meaning they lack the some of the information upon which they would like to make decisions with greater confidence – they aren’t able to be ‘factually complete’.
Below is one example of the tools which can be used to appraise current practice, in the spirit of ‘facts are your friends’:
