Our approach

Leadership gets better
through practice.

Knowing an approach is a starting point. Using it, seeing what happens and adjusting it is how you make it part of the way you lead.

A learning cycle you return to

Learn and plan

Explore a useful idea. Choose a situation at work where you can apply it and decide what you will try.
Put it into practice

Use it in a real conversation, decision or team situation. Notice what happens.
Reflect with the group

Bring back the experience. Facilitated coaching and peer perspectives help you examine what worked, what didn’t and why.
Adapt and try again

Decide what to change and put your next step into practice. Each attempt gives you more to learn from.

These are capabilities to keep practising as your responsibilities develop.

Self-awareness: Understand your values, habits and reactions, and how they affect the people you lead.
Direction: Make priorities clear so people understand what matters and where to put their effort.
Judgement: Weigh information, face trade-offs and make timely decisions you can explain.
Trust: Listen, keep commitments and make honest conversations possible.
Developing others: Delegate responsibility, give useful feedback and help people build their own judgement.
Delivery: Agree what needs to happen, follow through and learn from the results.

The programme gives you a shared curriculum and a group to learn with. Your working life gives you somewhere to put it into practice.