Leadership is something you do. Our development programmes support you to be the best you can be.
We configure and deliver our support tailored to your objectives and preferences, whether in-person or online, group or individual, self-paced or cohort-based.
- Most programmes are custom-built, just for you, matching your context, priorities, format and pace, whether online or in-person, whether 'live' or 'self-paced' or on-demand.
- However, you might prefer to join in an established programme, which has a fixed format (including both live-sessions and self-paced online) and a fixed selection of content.
1. Aspire: Leading Self
“In the fast-paced VUCA context the leader must be anchored on self-understanding; we are constantly buffeted from different directions as we lead into the unknown.”
“In the fast-paced VUCA context the leader must be anchored on self-understanding; we are constantly buffeted from different directions as we lead into the unknown.”
- You as the pilot of your future. Learning from your life so far, when are you in and out of the ‘flow’. Choose to take control.
- Where are you going? What is your personal Purpose, where do you find meaning? Alignment of personal and enterprise Purpose.
- Your values 'compass'. Know, own and hold yourself to account for living by the values most important to you.
- Your authentic voice. Develop deeply meaningful and inspiring narratives from your most formative experiences.
- Overcome self-limiting behaviours. Manage your inner voices. Know and enhance what is it like for others to be led by you.
2. Ally: Leading Others
“If leadership is lonely, you are doing it wrong. We exist in networks and communities, where everyone has their own reality and makes their own choices. It is my job as a leader to make connections and align energies. It's about relationships and relevance”
“If leadership is lonely, you are doing it wrong. We exist in networks and communities, where everyone has their own reality and makes their own choices. It is my job as a leader to make connections and align energies. It's about relationships and relevance”
- Connect. Expand reach and influence through connecting with others, particularly with people NOT like me.
- Collaborate. Align energies through shared experiences and objectives, within and across boundaries.
- Make teams the ‘engines of performance’. Make explicit the implicit - team design, launch, processes, learning and evolution.
- Beyond the ‘duty of care’. Human-centred leadership, policies and practices. Guidelines and guardrails for self-direction.
- Networks as communities. Expanding, maintaining and motivating. Resources, insights and influence. Beyond the 'employee lifecycle'.
3. Adapt: Enterprise Leadership
“You can’t analyse your way into the future, nor wait for it to happen. But, very few decisions can’t be revisited and adjusted as the future unfolds”
“You can’t analyse your way into the future, nor wait for it to happen. But, very few decisions can’t be revisited and adjusted as the future unfolds”
- Lean forward into uncertainty. The ability to sense & make-sense of the unfolding future. Enhance judgement & decision-making.
- Win with Strategy. Define competitive strategies. Embrace strategic agility. Achieve strategic alignment. Enhance strategic planning.
- Resolve Adaptive challenges. The real work of leadership. Know the practices to solve the ‘Houston. We have a problem’ moments.
- Master continuous evolution. Build the capabilities and mindset for change and transformation agility. Transient competitive advantage.
- Right-sizing for advantage. Achieve smooth scaling and internationalisation. Seize, Replicate, Reposition and Reconfigure.
4. Accountable: Own the choices
“If you want to know what type of leader you are….. look at those following you”
“If you want to know what type of leader you are….. look at those following you”
- Personal accountability. The choice of Victim or Responsible. Climb the ‘ladder’ from Powerless to Powerful.
- Resolve team dysfunctions. "There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM but there is in WINNING". Individual responsibility for collective performance.
- Shape culture. Know and manage the shadow you cast. Create a legacy of sustained performance and impact.
- The responsible leader. Your choice of which stakeholders and which interests. You can’t please everyone, all the time on everything.
- Leadership Presence. Manage your brand as a leader and influencer across media and in-person. Enhance credibility and influence.
5. Accelerate: Be the best version of you
“What stands in the way - becomes the way”
“What stands in the way - becomes the way”
- Take stock and look forward. ‘It’s your life and only happens once’. Nine domains of wellness. Does this REALLY matter to me?
- Personal development. Set-up for success with Positive Psychology. Personal discipline. Adopt an experimenter’s mindset. Stretch.
- Overcome derailers and self-sabotage. Manage triggers. Recognise and manage conflicting beliefs & priorities.
- What's next? Make change stick. See through the goal to what’s next
- Super-boss. The practices that engender followership whilst heightening individual and collective performance.
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