Create an environment of empowerment and resourcefulness.
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
Rosalyn Carter
In-depth, practical and effective in-house development programmes for you and your leaders and managers, men and women. Designed to have maximum impact, all our programmes include the essential three key elements from our proprietary Leadership Framework:
WHO the leader is
How they show up and the impact they have.
WHAT to do
Taking out the guesswork and providing the exact methodology, steps and processes that work.
HOW to go about it
The essential skills to learn, practice and apply, focussing on quality of conversations.
Too many programmes address one or maybe two of these elements.
The truth is without all three you are wasting your investment.
Leadership – driving individual performance
Delivered in modules or as an integrated bespoke leadership programme:
Motivating & Engaging Your People
For team leaders – new and experienced at any level in the organisation who need their people to step up a gear and improve performance and results.
Recognise any of these challenges?
- Exhausted having to do all the work yourself
- Not able to play to your strengths or do what you need to
- Think you’re doing it right, but it’s making things worse not better
- Things aren’t progressing as you want, despite a huge amount of effort on your part
- People are underperforming and I don’t know what to do or say for fear of making it worse
- Deadlines and opportunities missed, people not doing what they should be and they could do it so much better or faster
Your leaders will be equipped to :
- Develop and grow their people
- Drive shifts in mindset, attitude and behaviours
- Improve performance in their teams
- Engage and collaborate across teams
- Raise and resolve difficult people issues
- Manage poor performers, resisters and square pegs in round holes with ease
I believe I have the knowledge and tools to be able to engage fully with my team to enable them to explore the possibilities and develop solutions, making them much less reliant on my input. I can now free up more of my time be more strategic and add value to the organisation… In just one conversation, I was able to avoid a key player leaving the organisation, saving the business £1000s!”
Anne Watson, HR Director, McAvoy Construction
Developing & Coaching Your People
Ideal for leaders that want to shift their culture towards personal responsibility and empowerment. For all those who are in leadership and management roles as well as those who require excellent interpersonal and influencing skills in their role.
Participants learn how to work with their colleagues to craft an inspiring vision, clarify goals, create partnerships, build personal enthusiasm and commitment, and take bold action. Participants acquire the core people skills around listening and empathy and learn how to shift their style to be more collaborative and inclusive.
Does any of this resonate?
- I shoulder most of the load and end up working way too hard. I can’t keep it up much longer.
- They won’t do things the way I want them to and I’m having to do it all myself.
- They come to me with all their problems, I have to come up with all the answers.
- They just wait around waiting to be told what to do next.
- They just don’t seem to care, they don’t complete things, keep their heads down and just keep doing things the same old way.
Participants acquire the core people skills around listening and empathy and learn how to shift their style to be more collaborative and inclusive.
Results you can expect:
- Create a clear, focused and inspiring vision (which inspires others).
- Build personal enthusiam and commitment.
- Become more purposeful and influential.
- Grow leadership capacity and qualities (theirs and others).
- Develop Emotional Intellligence.
- Develop powerful partnerships, lead and take responsibility.
- Inspire others to be creative, collaborative and committed leaders, whatever their position.
Please ask us if you are interested in receiving Accredited Coaching Hours for this training to go towards your coaching credentials.
“This was the best course I have ever been on; two challenging, fun filled days that will give you the model and skills to be coach-like at work.”
Hazel McKay, HR, AES Kilroot
“Discovered ‘another way’ of managing and leading the business that I didn’t know existed. It has given me a new mindset and enthusiasm to change. I expect improved teamwork, better feeling of togetherness, ultimately a happier, more efficient, more profitable business.
Warren Patterson, Patterson Protective Coatings Ltd
Handling Difficult People & Managing Conflict
For leaders and managers responsible for performance management or for anyone who wants to manage and resolve interpersonal conflict, or influence and negotiate on business related issues with colleagues, customers or suppliers.
Transform your experience of dealing with people and teams that are performing below par, coasting along or at logger heads.
Do you recognise any of these?
- People are underperforming and I don’t know what to do or say for fear of making it worse.
- I give constructive feedback but nothing changes, or if it does, it doesn’t last
- People get very defensive, you just can’t talk to them
- I’m afraid of hurting their feelings so I just don’t say anything
- Conversations go around in circles and nothing is ever resolved
- There’s blaming, backstabbing, bad mouthing and bickering within and across teams.
This simple framework will give confidence in delivering difficult messages and achieving good outcomes for your business whilst building and maintaining good relationships with the people concerned.
Results you can expect
- Address and solve real issues that matter to you and your business.
- Give Effective Feedback and receive in the moment feedback.
- Gain commitment to the way forward.
- Gain trust and build effective relationships.
- Effectively resolve conflict.
- Effectively influence and negotiate with colleagues, clients, business partners and suppliers.
My fear of having difficult conversations has been removed. The results have been amazing!”.
Heather Hamill, Director, Proparamedics
“I struggled with having difficult conversations with different people and now I handle those conversations with confidence and authority”
Karen Gallagher, Consultant
Your Leadership Impact
For new and experienced leaders at any stage of their career who want to take their leadership to the next level.
This is for you if you are:
- Stuck in the weeds and frustrated that you’re not able to get out of the detail and be more strategic
- Ready to work at the next level, don’t want to leave your team in the lurch and keep doing your old job
- Too busy to have the impact you really want
This is all about YOU – how you are showing up and the impact you have – when you are at your best and when you may be inadvertently tripping up both yourself and your team.
After completing this short programme you can expect to:
- Feel a renewed sense of clarity, purpose and confidence
- Feel more passionate, inspired and motivated
- Enjoy better relationsips with your team
- Better results are inevitable!
“I can honestly say that this has and continues to have a lasting, positive effect on both my personal and working life. It was unlike anything else I had been on – it was genuinely thought provoking, challenging, confidence building, motivating and inspiring. And all done in a very relaxed, genuine and personable way.”
Rosamond Bennett, CEO, Christian Aid Ireland
Leading Change
Do you know only 20% of your people are totally behind your initiatives?
For business leaders, change leaders, change agents and managers who want to bring people together and on board with the one agenda, organisational change or transformation programmes, even when you don’t directly manage the people involved.
This could be you if you are experiencing any of the following:
- People are paying lip service, keeping their heads down and keep doing things the same old way
- People are flat, withdrawn, complaining, demoralied and don’t want to be part of things
- Progress is slow at best, or worse still, looks like your change may not be implemented at all
- Think you are doing it right, but it’s making things worse not better
- Things aren’t progressing as you want, despite a huge amount of effort on your part
Then it’s time to find out the sure-fire and simple methodology to engage your people and get them on board with the change effort you are leading.
Results you can expect:
- Get 80% of your people behind your initiatives!
- Align people behind one agenda, including those you don’t directly manage
- Break down silos across the organisation
- Handle resistence and difficult people with confidence
- Achieve the results you intend
“I’ve already made some major changes. I had a session with the rest of the team, I did it differently and the effect was amazing. Everyone is all fired up!”
Partner, Law Firm
Leading Teams – working with group dynamics, driving team performance
Our signature programme – you won’t find anything else like this on the market.
We share all the secrets consultants and coaches usually keep to themselves! Go beyond standard leadership development which focuses on one to one interaction and learn how to bring a group or team together on a common purpose, resolving and working with group dynamics.
Ultimate Team Leadership Programme
A practical implementation programme for experienced executives, leaders and up and coming future talent who are driving change and higher team performance to deliver accelerated organisational results.
Do you feel like getting your teams focussed and delivering results is like pushing a boulder up hill and it keeps rolling back down again?
Do you want to:
- Get a team firing on all cylinders?
- Revive a flagging team?
- Turnaround a team that is underperforming?
- Get your team to step up to or align with a new challenge?
- Have your teams collaborate across the organisation?
- Stop all the bickering and fighting?
When dealing with the dynamics between two or more people it’s never easy to know where to start and you are never sure if what you will do will work.
Total Team solution: How to become a winning team catylst
This practical and insightful programme will transform your experience of dealing with teams that are not engaging in your change or transformation programme, performing below par, coasting along or at loggerheads.
It not only equips you and your leaders with knowledge and skills, it builds confidence and motivation so that you can put your new found skills into action back at the ranch.
Results you can expect:
- People stepping up and taking responsibilty for delivering outstanding results
- Motivated teams who work hard and work together across organisational boundaries to get things done
- Greater levels of employee engagement and trust
- Improved relationships, co-operation and collaboration
- A new way of thinking
- Higher levels of performance
“If only 30 years ago, I knew then what I know now, I’d have had a lot less stress and hassle! Now people are involved in addressing issues and because we all have a different ways of thinking we always come up with something better.
The results have been amazing. Our team is working so differently now, all our meetings are focused on the outcome. This takes time, but once you ‘get it’ it is way more efficient.
Heather Hamill, Director, Proparamedics
Download ‘How to Become a Winning Team Catalyst’