LEADERSHIP

If the practice of leadership is considered as more than just applying a set of principles, then its development demands a more experiential dimension. Likewise, if we consider leadership as a collective process rather than an individual property then we need to challenge the traditional approach of sending only senior managers on leadership development programmes, and encouraging others in the organisation to ‘follow the leader’.
Participants at this short training program will undertake courses to understand the purpose of leadership and the practice of leadership development. These include:
– Changing concepts of leadership and leadership development.
– Contemporary context of leadership development.
– Leadership in comparison to management development
– Different perspectives to leadership development.
– Specialist workshops.
– Coaching, Counselling and Mentoring.
– Reflective writing, Personal journals and Leadership development.
– Role play and simulations.
– Leadership exchange.
– Use and abuse of Psychometrics in leadership development.
– 360 degrees appraisal.
– Leadership consultancy
– E learning for leadership development.

Coaching is a one-to-one or perhaps group service for leaders or executives designed to bring about more effective, healthier organisations. Hence, when leaders improve their performance, such benefits spread throughout the organisation. In a sense, exposing senior leaders to the coaching experience has a flow-on effect of precipitating a coaching culture within the organisation itself.
As people responsive to coaching apply their new found skills and techniques to other people in the organisation, improved interaction cascades down the organisation. Hence, coaching can also be viewed as a passing on of a set of skills used by leaders in the organisation on a day-to-day basis that enhances the performance of their people.

Coaching has become a viable option for businesses and organisations looking to operate at peak performance. Where training and workshops are usually general in nature when everyone learns the same set of material, coaching is individualised and specifically tailored to the person.
In most leadership coaching situations, the real objective is to help successful people become even more effective. Effective coaches go to great lengths to emphasise the unique talents and abilities of their clients as well as emphasise their client’s potential. It’s about challenging their clients and helping them change their behaviour. It’s about encouraging clients to be open to change, to step-up, and to be more responsible corporate citizens. Not surprisingly, leadership coaching improves the bottom line.

Participants at this short training program will
• develop a more effective leadership style or manner
• engage in succession planning & management
• improve interpersonal or communication skills
• speed up personal development
• develop “superstar” workers
• find that elusive work / life balance
• expedite priority setting and time management
• enhance presentation and networking skills
• engage in career development & planning
• deal with conflict and learn conflict-management skills
• learn how to manage upwards
• recognise and implement effective staff development
• strengthen self-confidence, assertiveness and well-being

Are you looking to advance your career as a woman leader?

If you are a woman seeking to advance, this short training program will equip you with the mind set and skills to lead with confidence. Research shows that women bring unique characteristics and capabilities to the leadership challenges they face. To be successful, organizations need to leverage this diversity of leadership: to improve the quality of decision-making, provide inspiration and role modelling, and tap into diverse points of view. In addition, having both women and men in leadership roles helps organizations reflect the customers they serve, giving the perspective needed to increase sales and fuel growth.

The Women in Leadership program focuses on helping women leaders:
• Understand their unique strengths as well as barriers to success.
• Create action plans to overcome systemic barriers and grow their leadership skills.
• Learn negotiation skills critical to their career success.
• Build a network with other women leaders.

This research-based training program focuses on the specific needs and capabilities of women, and provides the knowledge and support they need to succeed and contribute added value in their roles as corporate leaders.
Participants in Women in Leadership gain:
• An increased understanding of personal strengths and barriers for being a successful and authentic leader.
• A self-created action plan to leverage their strengths and address existing barriers.
• A vision of their authentic leadership.
• A better understanding of systemic barriers to women’s achievement, and powerful strategies for change.
• Increased ability to negotiate their own success and create value for the organization.
• Ways to manage gender bias challenges.
• Increased skill in having constructive conversation where actions are consistent with their values and aspirations, especially in high stakes situations.
• A self-crafted plan to build a network, to be known and be sponsored for opportunities.
• Interactions with women role models to experience the varied ways woman practice leadership.
• A lasting network of women leaders.