OVERVIEW

How and Why the programme was born

Many factors account for the success of a business. However, few are more important than the way in which an organisation’s senior Leaders and Managers work together to achieve business results.

Do they have a common vision of the future and strategy to achieve that vision? How do they set goals and define priorities? How clear are the organisations values? Do they behaviour consistently in line with these values? Do they trust each other? Collaborate cross-functionally? How do they communicate? Are they able to talk about sensitive topics? How do they make decisions? Hold one another accountable?

The senior leadership team is the critical driver of an organisations ability to meet the demands of the business environment, execute their business strategy, build a culture of engaged employees, and succeed long-term.

In truth, it is impossible for leaders at the top of an organisation of any size to provide the leadership necessary for an organisation to become high performing if they have not defined how they will work together. Also no individual can be effective if they have not consciously appraised themselves and reflected upon the how they can be most effective within their role.

Key Outcomes of the Programme

• To develop Senior Leadership team/ Board members to be successful in their role and have maximum positive impact across the business.
• Το develop a sense of team and team identity and to create a Team Organisational Vision that all believe will serve the business into the future.
• To develop self and other-awareness amongst Board/ Senior Leadership Team members in order to become conscious and self- aware leaders
• To explore own specific roles and responsibilities within the business and analyse the ways in which Stakeholder Management and effective Communication approaches can be most effectively applied
• To develop self and team and the impact across the business at both levels. This programme focuses on developing Leadership skills and awareness of the need to lead self, as well as others, in order to maximise effectiveness within the individual specific roles, and to fulfill a team role so that maximum positive impact can be planned and monitored across the business.
• To ensure the Senior Leaders/ Board members are having maximum positive impact across the business
• To develop reflective & reflexive practitioners who have a sense of purpose and understanding of their role, are continually developing their sense and understanding of self and that of others
• To ensure that Board/ Senior Leadership Team members are highly skilled people managers and aware of people development needs for themselves, their stakeholders and the work they are involved in.
• To raise the awareness of the role of choice and responsibility in our actions to ensure success by developing skills, in particular:
  • Engaging Stakeholders and Colleagues
  • Effective and appropriate Communication approaches, both internally and externally to the organisation
  • Being aware of the human elements in business development and leadership
  • Become a reflective practitioner always seeking to continually improve and able to learn through honest analysis of self
• Through the use of self-assessment and coaching, develop and apply reflective and reflexive practice to continually improve skills, qualities and behaviours and to maximise effectiveness within own role.