Do some of your managers find the ‘people’ aspects of their roles most challenging? Are their interpersonal leadership skills sometimes lacking? Do they ever avoid ‘people problems’ so that they build up into bigger, messy situations?

Our workshops are tried and tested with managers at all levels, including executive leadership teams. They can stand alone or be combined to align with your needs.

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Handling conflict and tricky conversations

• Tools and approaches to tackle real life interpersonal situations
  
• Formal processes and how and when to use them
  
• The importance of early intervention

Leading change and building resilience

• Change processes in human systems and the implications for leadership
  
• How to identify individual reactions to change and to adopt appropriate management responses
  
• Developing individual and organisational resilience

Understanding yourself and others

• Increase your self-awareness
  
• Understand your own preferences and styles
  
• Understand others’ preferences and styles, and the implications for leadership and management

Spotting and growing talent

• Current best practice in recruitment and talent management, and the manager’s role
  
• How to make good selection decisions, and how to partner effectively with HR.

Leading and managing: what’s the difference?

• A clearer view of the differences, why you need both, and what’s effective
  
• The relationship between leadership behaviour and organisation culture
  
• Increasing your range of styles
  
• Gaining clarity on your own leadership philosophy and values

The manager as coach

• How to recognise and practice active listening
  
• Giving and receiving feedback positively
  
• When it is appropriate to adopt a coaching approach - and when it isn’t
  
• How to use basic coaching skills

Engaging people for high performance

• The drivers of employee engagement
  
• How to set goals that stretch, inspire and encourage
  
• Motivating development conversations and effective delegation
  
• Gaining greater confidence in tackling under performance