A development programme for a changing world.
This programme focuses on the skills needed to manage in disruptive, fast moving environments where opportunities and threats emerge unexpectedly, demanding confidence and adaptive management skills.
We will equip your leaders to achieve the best outcomes by:
The cost of hiring new talent is as much as 100% of current salary according to the SHRM1. Add to this the time taken to recruit and lost productivity while staff become proficient in role and the costs can be onerous.
Nurturing your best people saves money, motivates employees to invest their future careers in you and improves performance across the business.
Our practical approach asks attendees to evaluate solutions to case studies as well as real-life scenarios and develop effective plans that will work. They use deep personal insights and the best current business education to develop a considered approach to their management practice.
We offer different perspectives on how to solve management problems, avoiding the fallacy that there is one best solution.
Attendees will work collaboratively throughout the programme, using real challenges from your business.
By bringing their diverse experience and thinking they will develop a strong team-dynamic and improved solutions.
Leaders of teams and business units who have been identified as having potential for senior leadership.
Each programme is tailored for your specific needs, including the format that best suits your team.
For some organisations, a deep-dive programme is ideal, where the delegates step out of the business for an immersive experience. This is particularly useful where individuals are not co-located for the usual work.
For others, a monthly classroom session and structured action-learning activities can be highly effective – this is particularly impactful where the delegates work as a team and are looking to establish new working practices.
We examine the links between leadership, work culture and the performance of the workforce. Attendees will evaluate what management best practice means and gain personal insights into their style and how it affects the performance of those around them.
By the end of the session delegates will:
Good managers create clear plans and implement them effectively, great managers align them with the corporate goals and culture and create excitement through their vision. This session explores how managers affect culture positively to create the best outcomes.
By the end of the session delegates will:
Using insights into their own drivers and communication style, the attendees will learn a variety of approaches to management communication and how these can be used to achieve different outcomes.
By the end of the session delegates will:
High performing teams are problem solvers, initiators and innovators. This session looks at how managers can develop these self-managing teams through empowerment and goal setting on an individual and team level.
By the end of the session delegates will:
Strong leaders adapt their previous experience and judgement to respond effectively to new situations. This session introduces the idea of leadership as dependent on the context; some situations demand urgent control and others participation and buy-in.
By the end of the session delegates will:
Over the five sessions attendees will have carried out several evaluations of current working practices. The final session is a review by the attendees where they will present their analysis of a current situation and recommendations to improve it.
The topics and groups will be decided by the attendees, and senior managers will be invited to listen and offer feedback and guidance on how to implement these ideas.
Olivia and Melanie each run their own consultancies in different industries and have different management approaches. Together they draw on a vast and varied body of knowledge including the latest academic thinking and traditional models of management, all of which is evaluated against their own practical experience, working with some of the world’s most progressive companies.