Leadership Development Programme

Why take our Leadership Programme?

Managers should manage processes, not people. Learning how to become a leader will empower them to inspire, motivate, and guide their teams more effectively, going beyond basic task management. While management focuses on planning, organizing, and controlling, leadership fosters vision, innovation, and emotional intelligence, which are essential for driving long-term success. A leader’s ability to connect with employees, communicate a compelling vision, and build a positive culture increases team engagement and productivity. By developing leadership skills, managers can also adapt to change, resolve conflicts more creatively, and nurture the growth of their team and improve business performance.

Who is the course for?

Family Business Owners, their Directors and Management Team

Tailored to you

The programme is delivered over 3 individual sessions and run internally within your business. We can discuss your specific requirements beforehand to effectively tailor some of the course material to you and your team’s relevant scenarios. We can also organise an off-site venue if you would prefer to be away from the day-to-day activity of the business.

Overview of the course content

From the knowledge gained throughout each of the sessions you will be able to develop best practice back into your business and enhance your own personal development.

The programme content includes:

  • Designing the perfect leader
  • Focusing on people
  • Social style guide and personality types
  • Influencing people
  • Managing upwards
  • Being positive
  • Being professional
  • The art of difficult conversations
  • The importance of leadership skills
  • Project management
  • Change management
  • IQ, EQ & PQ
  • Vision creation
  • Effective communication

The benefits of our Leadership Development Programme

The Leadership Development Programme underscores the complexity of leadership, emphasising the need for a blend of contrasting traits such as being visionary yet detailed, motivational yet commanding, and ambitious yet humble. The objective is to foster effective leadership rather than perfection. The programme runs over 3 individual sessions.

Focusing on People:

  1. Decentring: Understanding yourself and the impact on others.
  2. Influencing People: Mastering persuasion techniques.
  3. Managing Upwards: Effective communication and influence with senior teams.

Influencing People: Techniques for selling ideas by highlighting features, benefits, and aligning with hopes and dreams.

Managing Upwards:

Emerging leaders should be adaptable, self-confident, proactive, reliable, and ambitious. Building a partnership with superiors involves clear communication about strengths, capacities, and progress.

Being Positive:

  • Emphasises a positive outlook and wellness.
  • Views conflict as constructive for setting priorities.

Being Professional:

  • Leadership is about enabling others to achieve, not just technical knowledge.
  • Encourages learning from role models and structured observations.

The Art of Difficult Conversations:

Defines difficult conversations as those involving conflict, high stakes, or strong emotions, such as performance issues, behavioural problems, delivering bad news, and handling disagreements.

Project Management: Addresses common pitfalls and emphasizes clear problem identification, right leadership, and effective processes.

Change Management: Involves setting up change for success by managing fear, aligning vision with expectations, and involving others.

Political Quotient (PQ): Combines IQ and EQ with political skills, focusing on control, network building, decisive action, and outcome orientation.

Professionalism: Stresses humility, continuous learning, and effective presentation and communication skills.

Vision Creation and Communication: Highlights the importance of a clear, simple vision for alignment and motivation, communicated consistently through repetition and appropriate methods.

Effective Communication: Focuses on clarity, discipline, engaging presentations, and essential listening, writing, reading, and meeting skills.