Connected Leadership

Pro-active Leadership

Why?

With proactive leadership attitude and skills, people don’t follow you because they have to. They follow you because they trust you and you are able to articulate a clear direction for them to work towards. The leader knows how to bring out the best in people and direct their energies towards achieving organisational goals. Proactive leadership starts with self leadership, knowing who you are, what you value, your ethics, what you can do and where you are going and develops into people leadership, the ability to manage your communication, emotions and behaviour on
the way to getting there.

What?

  • Defining a Pro –Active Leader
  • Exploring personal leadership
  • Understanding the impact of values
  • Being pro-active
  • Creating an inspiring vision
  • Understanding what is important
  • Managing self
  • What are my leadership strengths?
    Interpersonal leadership
  • Understanding the difference between Leadership & Management
  • Motivating and inspiring others
  • Using a coaching model for growth
  • Communicating for understanding
  • Creative cooperation
  • Finding balance
  • Action Planning for sustainabilityHow?
  • One or Two day course for maximum 12 participants

Engaging and Motivating Virtual Teams

Why?

When you are not physically present with your teams for long periods of time, you don’t have as many informal opportunities to answer questions and share information – and that can have consequences. It means you have to be more intentional about finding ways to get to know your people, what makes them tick, and how you can lead them through this challenging time. In my conversations with different leaders, some organizations are adapting to remote work for the first time, and their employees may be navigating the very real challenges that come with working from home for the first time, such as fewer opportunities for face-to-face interactions, feeling of isolated, experiencing video fatigue, and dealing with increased distractions at home. For these reasons, employee engagement & motivation is more important than ever. This virtual programme is designed to increase awareness of the challenges and to offer a tool kit of strategies to support team leaders to motivate and engage their virtual teams.

What?

• Understanding what your team members value
• Better understanding the challenges faced by virtual teams
• Understanding what individual team members value – what is motivating to them
• Increasing the Communication and Connection within the team
• Supporting team members to build self- esteem and confidence
• Setting boundaries for work/life balance
• Retaining perspective and a focus on flexibility
• How to cope with negative emotions
• Creating a sense of control and a vision for the future

How?
Virtual 2 hour session
Maximum 10 Participants

Leading Change with Emotional Intelligence

Why?

It’s a truism, the only constant in our lives is change and nowadays that is true more than ever before. When faced with change we all tend to go through an identified pattern of emotions before coming to acceptance and willingness for change. However we all have our own approach to change and how we manage change ourselves and how we manage others through significant change.

If you face the following challenges in the workspace

  • Are facing a period of uncertainly
  • Have team members who are reluctant to address change and continue to operate in exactly the same way
  • Are unsure about how to manage team members who could be emotional over change
  • Are looking for a proven structure to effect positive change

This two day programme is designed to impart self awareness and recognition of how you can manage your team, build confidence and competence to become an inspiring agent for change.

What?

  • Understanding how we and other react to change
  • Understanding the different emotional attitudes towards change and the progression of those attitudes
  • Greater skills at managing with EQ
  • Develop a motivational leadership style, becoming an agent for change
  • Specific planning for change

How?

  • One or Two day programme for maximum 20 Participants

Developing Executive Presence

Why?

Executive Presence is rooted in values and feelings. Its influence is born of the alchemy that Aristotle called the logos, the ethos, and the pathos; that is, to persuade others, you must use powerful and reasoned rhetoric, establish personal and moral credibility, and then rouse followers’ emotions and passions. If a leader can do those three things well, he or she can then tap into the hopes and ideals of followers, give them a sense of purpose, and inspire them to achieve great things.

If you want to be effective as manager it helps to have a little bit of that X-factor leadership quality, Executive Presence. This virtual programme Developing Executive Presence is designed to look at individual elements of presence to better understand what it is, together with practical tools to enable participants to practice these skill sets in the workplace to achieve success and influence other.

What?

• Better understanding of what executive presence is
• Increasing Self Awareness
• Building Self Esteem
• Increasing Emotional Connections
• Creating a Driving Force through Strong Values
• Articulating a Vision
• Practice in charismatic delivery in a virtual world

How?

Programme: An initial 1 hour introductory session followed by two 1.5 hour discussion sessions.
Maximum 10 Participants.

Unbeatable Teamwork

Why?

Sometimes we need to get together as a team to gain clarity on how we can better work together. This engaging simulation is not only great fun; it delivers a powerful and lasting message

What?

  • Understanding the current reality of the team
  • What do really dynamic teams do?
  • Using the Tall Ships exercise to understand how we work together in the following ways
  • Clarity – An understanding of the team’s purpose, expected outcomes, roles and responsibilities
  • Capability – Having the necessary skills and knowledge (or ensuring individuals acquire the necessary skills) to complete tasks efficiently and appropriately.
  • Collaboration – An understanding of how to work together and use resources effectively to achieve team goals.
  • Commitment – A high degree of commitment to the team’s mission and to each other.
  • Communication – An understanding of positive communication practices, including active listening and giving and receiving feedback.
  • Continuous Improvement – A commitment to continuously improve work processes and team effectiveness.
  • Creativity – Conditions that encourage diverse thinking, new ideas, and innovative solutions.
  • Action Planning for future sustainability

How?

  • One day course for maximum of 20 participants