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breakthrough Leadership
Being a leader that creates real breakthroughs
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A team leader or manager seeking to develop your own leadership skills
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A senior executive looking to develop your organisation's leadership capacity throughout your leadership pipeline.
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An HR professional seeking the best means for leadership development of your people
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the key leadership questions remain the same.
"How do we develop and exploit our true leadership potential in order to achieve ongoing positive breakthroughs at a personal level, and for our teams and organisation?"
For us, breakthrough leadership
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is not a position, or a process you follow, nor do we see it as an extension of "good management".
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is being, thinking, and behaving with a leadership mindset.
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is an influence relationship
creating and maintaining effective relationships with others such that we can influence them positively - relationships where they allow us to lead them.
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Is having an impact making, a positive difference.
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is a choice
choosing to make a difference and have an impact, both throughout all aspects of your life, and every moment of it.
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is learnt, rather than being taught
learnt through reflecting on and learning from life's experiences (ours and others),
a lifelong journey of personal learning, discovery, challenge, and growth
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The breakthrough is that people have been forced to reflect on where they are and why, and where they want to go and why, resulting in them taking opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have taken. The people who remain 2 years post this learning programme will remain because the job is a key part of their lives. Mark
General Manager
We use our Leadership Diamond as a simple yet profound framework for guiding this leadership journey, and for developing our breakthrough leadership mindset.
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Vision
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creating a clear and compelling shared focus, seeing the big picture, being strategic, creative, and leading change
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Reality
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facing the true reality, results focused, and being grounded.
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Courage
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sustained risk taking, confronting the tough areas, "going there", and having high expectations.
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Service
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daring to care about others, building a positive supportive climate, nurturing and developing.
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Inner Greatness
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having substance, being true to our ethics and values, showing integrity, building trust.
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Each of these areas has a defined set of competencies that vary according to the leadership roles or positions held.
We have an on-line 360° Leadership Practices Survey which provides comprehensive and confidential feedback on all these competencies.
We invariably find that to grow genuine breakthrough leadership requires corresponding growth in a leaders emotional intelligence
this is the difference between good and great leaders.
We find valuing and building emotional intelligence the biggest challenge for leaders as they enter and move through the management ranks. As a professional we are valued for being logical, rational and objective. As a leader we influence others through building our emotional connections, our empathy, our emotional depth.
We have an on-line 360° Emotional Intelligence Survey which provides comprehensive and confidential feedback on the 16 competencies associated with emotional intelligence.
Their ability to develop rapport and credibility with all professionals, and to influence managers, has led to real breakthrough and step-change in leadership - much more positive and constructive, a very marked difference. Julia
OD Manager
Breakthroughs Leadership Development
Programmes
We offer a range of approaches for leadership development, to suit the differing leadership development needs of people at different stages of the organisation's leadership pipeline - ie the leadership challenges for a front line team leader are different from, for example, senior executives, and the breakthrough leadership learning experiences need to reflect this.
In all cases, during the learning process we encourage you to take a very selfish approach to your leadership development.
Forget your organisation.
This is about you.
Exploring, discovering, challenging, and growing yourself.
Becoming the you, you seek to be.
Identifying and releasing your true potential.
Seeking your own personal breakthroughs.
It's only from this that your organisation will in turn achieve its breakthroughs.
"It's not an exaggeration to say the programme is life changing - actually taking time out from the madness of my working life to develop me as a person. I have a better understanding of myself, more confidence in my own abilities, more willing to take the initiative able to grow myself, and all this is helping in leadership at work and elsewhere, and making me a better and happier person." Irene
Scientist and Senior Policy Advisor
Programmes include
Breakthroughs Leadership Programme
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A programme designed to provide competence and confidence in the 20 competency areas for leadership.
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Workshops spread over 4 - 12 months, with follow up to ensure the desired behaviour changes are sustained.
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Involves one-on-one mentoring throughout the programme between workshops, and 360° on-line surveys.
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Ensures the desired behaviour changes are taken into the workplace, and sustained
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Breakthroughs Advanced Leadership Programme
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Designed for people who are managers of managers, or senior functional managers.
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Breakthroughs Executive Leadership Programme
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Designed for senior executives and managers, heads of major business units, or enterprise managers.
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Emotional Intelligence
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Designed to grow the competence and confidence of leaders in the 16 competency areas of emotional intelligence, in order to build more effective relationships of influence with others.
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Learning Formats
Key focus is to create learning experiences which lead to genuine personal breakthroughs and sustained behaviour changes as a result.
All our Breakthroughs Leadership Programmes make maximum use of our Multi-Learning System approach, including use of our on-line 360° Leadership Practices Survey and Emotional Intelligence Survey.
They involve learning experiences and interactions over an extended time period - we have seen very little sustained breakthrough from one-off workshops (even when we used to run them for 2 weeks back in the 1980's!)
They involve maximum interactive learning, reflection, challenge, self discovery, pushing of comfort zones, and sustained practice at being the leader you aspire to be.
At the same time, they are highly motivational and reinforcing, stretching and demanding yet encouraging and confirming
"a high cross-bar with thick landing pads".
I appreciate the level of informal coaching Maurice and Jon gave me. I got a lot of added value from the programme as a consequence of that. They live this value particularly strongly. They enjoy what they do and it shows. The guys honestly believe they can make a difference and they want to. Mark
General Manager IT
Click here to contact us for more information about particular programmes, or for us to design a programme for your specific needs or for a free consultation on what your needs may be.
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