Leading self - for aspiring leaders
This module focuses on self-analysis, exploring personal brand and social intelligence. It uses dynamic, enlightening and fun delivery. Our facilitators will help people identify their strengths and weaknesses while analysing how they react to events.
They’ll learn tools and techniques to help manage emotions and behaviours, including learning to learn and self-management through a growth mindset. As well as sharing some helpful ways of working for time management.
We also recommend including elements of our stand-up comedy presentation training in this module. It stretches people outside their comfort zones. They learn how to present, interact with an audience and develop an awareness of reactions in extreme situations – all of which are vital skills for leaders. Our stand-up presentation training brings these skills to life in an engaging, fun and often life-affirming way.
The module gives people the confidence to step up and have positive debates with each other and their senior teams. It gets down to the nitty-gritty of who you are and how you behave, leaving delegates with a deeper understanding of self and their own leadership qualities.
Leading people - for people leaders
This module is for managers and leaders who are responsible for teams and individuals. The programme focuses on conversations that support and develop through emotional and social intelligence.
It helps leaders to develop a greater understanding of how they make people feel. It shows leaders how to adapt, negotiate and influence the people around them, as well as promoting personal and professional growth.
Elements include feedback and feedforward, awareness of listening and language and creating the right environment for others. As part of the leadership development, the module explores customer excellence and stakeholder management
Models such as situational leadership will be reviewed and revisited using practical scenarios to bring ideas to life.
Improvisation can also be used as part of this module. Our improv training covers elements of:
- Trust
- Acceptance
- Attentive listening
- Spontaneity
- Collaborative storytelling
The module also focusses on creating the right environment for people to flourish. Delegates will also be taught to recognise the differences between uncooperative/discouraging and curious/collaborative behaviours and language using Laughology’s Four Ps model for having positive debates.
Leadership mindset - for people leaders
Leadership mindset should be flexible and adaptive. This second part of being a people leader shows how to achieve this. People will investigate the narratives they use to help them, and the people around them, move forward.
They’ll learn to recognise unhelpful narratives holding them back and gain techniques to allow them to focus strategically on realistic possibilities and opportunities. It shows leaders how to identify changes and challenges, and how to problem-solve and adapt positively while taking people with them.
The module will review mindset models such as growth vs fixed, scripted vs adaptive and fast vs slow thinking.
The module encourages debate about real work situations and uses scenarios and practical activities to bring theory to life.
Organisational leadership – for business leaders
This module shows people how to effectively align their personal development, and the development of their people, to the organisation’s goals and missions. People will gain insight into effectively communicating vision and strategy in a way that helps people connect.
This module should be project-based and use strategic objectives to help leaders put into practice the skills and techniques being taught in the module.
The module uses our G.R.E.A.T model for strategic thinking and looks at goal-setting, reality checking, engagement, actions and thoughts. We look at the differences between management and leadership and drill down into the strategy of delegate’s organisations and their role in it.
In this final module we will work closely with the organisation to choose two or three strategic objectives and activities that can be undertaken, helping leaders deliver vision through their learning and sustaining behaviour and change in the organisation.
Build your own leadership skills programme
In addition to these three core modules, organisations can also add other elements, workshops and courses, such as:
What measurements will we see?
We can use existing engagement scores as baselines and a range of tools and techniques to monitor and measure progress.
We can set up 360 focus groups and survey the people in your organisation who report directly to the leaders on the programme. This enables us to plot progress at points during and after training has been delivered.
How do we make this sustainable?
Longevity is vital as the processes and techniques delegates learn from the programme should embed and become part of their personal leadership styles
In order to sustain learning we can develop a train-the-trainer process for you and develop organisation-specific content. Alternatively, you can provide your own content that will deliver as part of the programme. As part of the programme, leaders will be encouraged to work in action learning groups. These groups should be sustained after the training to embed behaviours, continue learning, problem solve and support others.
