A true leader has followers that are motivated to give their best performance every day.  To get willing team members, who are focused on business outcomes and motivated to deliver on them, leaders must be concerned about ‘how’ they manage their people as well as ‘what’ they need to achieve.  Leadership has a primary focus on people, yet traditional leadership styles, with old fashioned attitudes of carrot and stick, are still very common in Australian workplaces. 

Our cutting edge corporate leadership training programs will inspire your managers to want to be more effective leaders who have a balanced focused on developing individuals, their team whilst delivering results that contribute to business sustainability.

Our leadership and management training programs include:-

• Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers
• Coaching for High Performance
• Inspirational Leadership
• Building High Performance Teams
• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Conflict Management
• Improving performance and behavioural issues
• Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
• Recruitment and Selection
• Leading and Managing Change
• Facilitating Groups
• Motivating your People

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership - 3 day customisable program

Emotional intelligence is the crucial differentiator between star performance and average performance in our leaders. Emotional intelligence is concerned with, understanding oneself and others, relating to people, and adapting to and coping with one’s surroundings.  Extensive research in the area of emotional intelligence, leaves no doubt that organisational effectiveness (that is how good we are at achieving our vision and goals) is significantly improved by recruiting and promoting emotionally intelligent leaders. The good news is that Emotional Intelligence can be learned.  

This is a transformational leadership program to help leaders build self awareness, master self management, build their social and relationship skills and develop their overall emotional competence.  The dividends from such a program, especially if a 360 degree feedback EQ tool is used, will foster teamwork, reduce staff attrition, improve customer relationships, inspire team members towards the company vision and execution of strategy and be a really great place to work.

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Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers – 2 day customisable program

One of the most common complaints about project managers is their single focus on deliverables at the expense of the development of individuals and teams; creating high turnover, poor results for the client and lack of motivation. Project managers are dependent on others for their success.  This is where emotional intelligence pays big dividends. 

Emotional intelligence is concerned with, understanding oneself and others, relating to people, and adapting to and coping with one’s surroundings.  Extensive research in the area of emotional intelligence, leaves no doubt that organisational effectiveness (that is how good we are at achieving our vision and goals) is significantly improved by recruiting and promoting emotionally intelligent leaders. The good news is that Emotional Intelligence can be learned.  

By the completion of this program project managers will develop their skills in the area of emotional intelligence to build a high performance team that are focused on building quality stakeholder relationships that ensure projects are delivered.

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Coaching for High Performance – 2 day customisable program

The purpose of  ‘Coaching for High Performance’, is to provide team leaders, managers, supervisors and human resources professionals with the skills needed to develop their people to use their own intellect and develop their own potential to solve problems, think creatively and look for opportunities to improve their performance and the organisation's overall effectiveness.

Developing team members, through coaching, allows more time to think and act strategically to ensure the organisation's continued sustainability. This is by far our most popular leadership program and is transformational in nature.  Coaching is the ultimate cure for time wasting micro management and by far the most effective way to retain, engage and focus people on team and organisational goals.

This program was featured in The Weekend Australian February 4-5.  Follow link http://www.theaustralian.com.au/careers/new-staff-get-off-to-a-flying-start/story-fn717l4s-1226260837499

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Inspirational Leadership – 4 day customisable program

How do we get the absolute best out of our people?  How do we engage them, motivate them?  How do we inspire people?  How do we increase profits whilst increasing the motivation of our people?

We lead our people, encourage and motivate them.  We care about their careers, well being and their uniqueness.  We use the collective intelligence and knowledge of our people to deliver more cost-effective and innovative solutions to our customers.  We train our leaders to develop our people so that they are less reliant on management to do their thinking for them.

Inspirational Leadership is a four day intensive leadership development program that will take you and your managers on an inspirational and meaningful journey to discover invaluable tools to achieve the organisation’s goals whether they be delighting your customers, being more innovative, achieveing growth plans, curtailing expenditure, entering new markets or just doing what you do better.

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Building High Performance Teams – 3 day customisable program

Your success as a manager can often depend on how well your team operates.  How are their problem-solving skills?  Are they enthusiastic and motivated to do their best?  Do they work well together?  There have been hundred of studies demonstrating that human beings function better and learn better in groups.  If you want to develop team leadership skills that will result in a more cohesive, accountable and results driven team then this program will deliver.

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Creativity and Innovation - 2 day customisable program

New ideas are essential for industry; they are the lifeblood of successful organisations. Creative and innovative thinking, the means by which ideas are born and nurtured, are not products of clearly defined steps; they can be encouraged in various ways. The key ingredient for innovation is imagination—our mental vision, or what we creatively see in our minds. Unleashing imagination, capturing the ideas in people’s heads and encouraging exploration leads to innovation.

This is a powerful two day creativity and innovation training program that encourages leaders, individuals and teams to use their imagination and draw out their natural creative selves to develop their ideas into innovations that will deliver value.

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Communication and Conflict – 2 day customisable program

When working with other people, it is important to ensure that everyone involved shares an understanding of our mutual goals, roles, and procedures. Ambiguity on any of these topics all too often results in conflict. We also tend to take conflict personally instead of keeping our focus on the issue at hand.

Our communication and conflict management training program offers leaders and their team members a simple and practical model for developing and maintaining relationships and teamwork with team members, co-workers and managers. We explore key communication skills such as listening, body language, asking questions, giving feedback and ensuring that we communicate a clear message. We then discuss the nature of conflict and how to create harmonious working relationships.

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Improving performance and behavioural issues – 1 or 2 day customisable program

Team members who are not performing are not only costly, they are disruptive to the rest of the team, dampening team spirit and resulting in a decrease in departmental performance. Studies have shown that poor performance is recognised by team members up to six months prior to the manager realising there is a problem.

This two day 'performance improvement' training course gives leaders the knowledge to develop a culture of high performance using the your own performance management system. As a manager you will be able to recognise performance issues promptly, improve performance and behavioural issues and proceed to disciplinary action when other options have been explored. We build our client’s own performance management system into the program to ensure relevancy.

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Six Thinking Hats – 1 or 2 day customisable training or workshop

Edward deBono’s Six Thinking Hats is a simple and practical way of using the collective intelligence of a group to increase the quality and quantity of outcomes in meetings whilst dramatically shortening meetings, (up to 75% time saving). This method is now rapidly being taken up by corporations such as Du Pont, IBM, NASA Prudential Texas Instruments, NTT, Statoil, Shell and JP Morgan.

Six thinking hats training results in improved performance.  The six thinking hats represent six modes of thinking and are directions to think rather than labels for thinking. The hats are used proactively rather than reactively and promote fuller input from all people attending meetings. In de Bono's words it (Six Hats) "separates ego from performance". The six hats system encourages performance rather than ego defence. People are encouraged to contribute positively to every idea even though they may initially support the opposite view. See Case Study “Client not delivering on time”

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Recruitment and Selection – 2 day customisable program

Recruiting the right person for the job can be a demanding task, even for experienced managers. The wrong recruitment decision can be a heavy financial, physical and emotional strain on you and your team. It is worth taking the time and the effort to recruit the right person the first time around.

This practical 'recruitment and selection' training program will equip managers and recruiters with the skills and tools to handle the recruitment process professionally and competently ensuring that the right person with the right skills and the right attitude is selected to improve team and organisational performance.

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 Leading and Managing Change – a customisable 1 or 2 day program

Successful change initiatives depend upon leaders taking an active role in introducing the change and then guiding people through the emotional journey that change encompasses. Without effective leadership from those to whom they look for guidance, direction, support and feedback, team members going through change are likely to be perplexed, confused, angry, frustrated and openly resistant to new ways of doing business.

Leading and Managing Change training program is a one or two day training program designed to help change leaders develop critical knowledge and skills concerning their responsibilities for leading change for their departments, teams and divisions.

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Facilitating Groups - a customisable 1 day program

It is impossible to be part of an organisation today and not attend meetings. Staff meetings, project meetings, planning and coordinating meetings—they all take time. Facilitation is an essential skill for people leading meetings with the expectation of achieving quality outcomes in the shortest possible time. To do this effectively facilitators must focus on asking rather than telling, listening to build consensus and leading everyone to commit to action.

This one day 'facilitating groups' training program will equip your leaders and managers with skills to encourage full participation from the group, promote mutual understanding, foster inclusive solutions, encourages diverse communication styles and help the group learn new thinking skills that will result in effective, outcome based meetings and workshops.

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Motivating your People – customisable 1 day program

The one question that consistently emerges in all of our leadership program is; "How do I motivate my people".  More frequently, the question is posed in particular reference to our emerging talent pool of Generation Y's.  Over the decades companies have tried many ways to motivate people; including setting clearer goals, developing expensive reward and recognition programs and more frequently Wii tournaments at lunch time. These methods have primarily failed because of our lack of understanding about intrinsic -v- extrinsic rewards. 

During this one day 'motivating your people' training program leaders and managers will learn about the three key intrinsic motivators and how to develop and nuture them from the inside out and not the other way around. 

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