Leadership Development and Culture Change

We recognise the importance of a strong organisational culture and a cohesive aligned leadership team. We understand that maximum business results will not be achieved through having a great business strategy, well defined processes or the latest technology unless the people are aligned, developed and equipped to harness the power of all these components.

The need to raise leadership capability or implement a culture change usually occurs as a result of either a need to improve current business results or as part of a major business change initiative.

All design and structure of our leadership development and culture change programmes are tailored specifically to client’s needs, typically using the following key design principles:

Design Principles

• The programme should focus on the key skills and techniques as they apply in the Client organisation to ensure maximum value for the participants, absolute relevance and easy transfer of learnings to the workplace.
• Whilst some theory around the key topics covered will be provided, the programme will be of a very practical orientation, with the approach using methods which connect with the primary learning styles.
• The programme should integrate with other changes initiatives within the Client organisation in order to leverage greater value for the participants and the Client overall
• The programme should be underpinned with a drive to improve the team performance overall so the potential performance improvement is greater than just individuals applying their individual learning
• Every workshop will conclude with detailed action planning to focus on the application of the learnings back in the workplace – both individually and collectively, and will look at the risks and barriers to implementation
• Where a series of workshops are designed and delivered as part of an overall programme, the workshops will build upon one another with continuous re-enforcement.

Our programmes are often a combination of integrated workshops, training and coaching (one to one or team), and whilst each programme is tailored, some of the key topics often included are:

Fundamentals of Leadership

Participants will be able to:

• Describe a clear and common understanding of what leadership is, its importance and the difference between leadership and management
• Understand and demonstrate the different leadership styles and refine their own leadership style

Achieving Organisational Culture change

Participants will be able to:

• Understand what organisational culture is, it’s importance and the effects on business performance
• Define the desired culture for the organisation
• Describe how to effectively manage change, including the creation of the new culture

High Performing Teams

Participants will be able to:

• Explain the characteristics of high performing teams
• Learn the importance of needing a balance of personality types and their respective roles within the team
• Improve the team working within their team, back in the workplace

Coaching Your Team

Participants will be able to:

• Develop the key coaching skills for Leaders
• Use the Coaching continuum to achieve the best results from coaching
• Explain the core NLP skills and their application
• Demonstrate effective use of key questioning skills
• Deliver effective feedback

We will design a specific training and development solution to meet your business change requirements and the modules, content, method of delivery and follow-up plan will be aligned so that the team gain real personal value and business benefits are achieved. One-to-one Executive coaching support is also available, which provides a highly focussed personal development for senior leaders.

For an initial discussion on your Leadership Development and Culture Change needs, please click here.