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Our approach to enhancing leadership capability
Whilst our approach is grounded in good, solid theory, we know it is essential for the organisations we work with to be able to acquire real and practical learning and to be able to translate it into immediate and practical application in the working environment so that it delivers rapid, yet sustainable results.
Our approach is consequently equally grounded in the practical; the real problems, challenges and opportunities that your organisation's leaders and, indeed your next generation of leaders face on a day to day basis.
This is why we rarely offer 'off-the-shelf' leadership development solutions - what might be a solution for one organisation's specific needs is unlikely to meet the very different needs of another.
Our approach typically combines three methods: group sessions, one-to-one executive coaching, and the use of action teams established to solve real-time problems and address real-time challenges that otherwise might not be addressed. Each method combines each of the elements of self, others and organisation.
Group sessions cover a range of themes that are identified through 360 degree feedback and a leadership needs analysis. People learn from one another through the sharing of problems, challenges and ideas. Areas of focus often include decision-making with a bias for action, changing organisational culture and developing a coaching environment. Innovation frequently springs from group sessions.
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Executive coaching provides a powerful means of promoting self-awareness and raised levels of emotional intelligence required of high performing leaders. Coaching in this context helps leaders to maximise the benefits from group sessions, helps them to translate what they have learned quickly into practical application, and supports them in their action team efforts.
Action teams are established so that leaders and their organisations maximise their learning through the real-life delivery of immediate business benefits. Example challenges that action teams have addressed have typically included:
