Day one is all about you and your leadership style, it is about how to bring out the best in you and others, whilst being authentic. You will be excited about your role as a leader, have the space and opportunity to self-reflect in order to work successfully with your team.

• The core of an effective culture, why put people at the heart of what you do?
• Identify who you are as a leader and your leadership attitudes and skills
• Find a buddy to work with, to support, and to hold to account for actions through the programme
• Build trust and credibility within your team and your organisation through a ‘to be’ list
• Using your pre-programme preparation, understand your communication style, how to adapt it to work successfully with others
• Learn the skills to become a multiplier of your people’s talents
• Introduce the Happy Workplace planner and online portal to help you build positive habits

eLearning Between Days One and Two

Discover how to be more productive and less ‘busy’ by identifying and changing your reflection, prioritising, email and meeting habits.

Day two of the programme is all about learning and applying the tools you need to help your team feel resilient, empowered and valued. You will achieve this by focusing on understanding and nurturing resilience for yourself and others, understanding the benefits of successful 1 to 1’s, practical exercises based around active listening, and coaching your people to success.

• The three resilience energies — physical, mental and emotional and how we can harness these to support our wellbeing and the wellbeing of others
• Develop your own resilience and that of your team
• Listening to understand rather than be understood — how to do this mindfully with the aim of valuing the other person
• The core of great leadership — coaching your team to success by empowering them to discover their own solutions
• Your role as coach and understanding what works and what doesn’t
• Why, and how, to use TED invitations to develop your coaching skills
• Practice coaching and being coached
• Effective 1 to 1’s – what are they, why do them, who sets the agenda, what should you discuss

Online Questionnaire Between Days Two and Three

Discover your top five strengths through a robust on-line questionnaire developed by Gallup, the StrengthsFinder 2.0.

You will develop key coaching skills and develop strong communication to maximise the effectiveness of the team

Day three of the programme is all about understanding and applying a culture of autonomy and job ownership enabling and empowering your team to be the best they can be. A key part of this is learning about your strengths and how they enable you as a leader, as well as giving you a tool to discover the strengths of your people.

• Discover the three key elements that research shows are the real motivators for high performance.
• Learn the power of purpose and the potential for positive change when this is paired with people setting their own targets.
• Discover the 4 domains of leadership strength
• Review how well you know your team’s strengths and how much they are using them in their roles
• Re-imagine you team’s potential when you are all working to their strengths
• Enable trust and autonomy, within clear guidelines to create true job ownership
• Be open and transparent in the information you share – what is off limits to staff?
• Discover the difference between accountability and responsibility
• Review your delegation habits and understand the key steps to delegating successfully
• Identify what stops you delegating and challenge these behaviours
• Pre-approval – what is it, what are the benefits of it and how to implement it?
• Who makes the decisions currently and what might you change about this?
• The benefits and steps to providing positive feedback
• How to prepare, behave and present yourself assertively when giving feedback
• Discover the structure and practicalities of how to create truly great workplace
• Understand the feedback triangle and how to have courageous conversations

Online Questionnaires Between Days Three and Four

Prepare a 2-minute presentation on your Leadership purpose and who you are now as a leader based on what you have learnt

Complete a second online self-reflection questionnaire around your confidence to lead, and your leadership style now

The last day of the programme is all about preparing for the future. You will review the progress you have already made and create a vision for where you want your team to be in the future. It will enable you to recruit the right people for the culture you want and ensure that you build constructive working relationship with them. You will present back your leadership purpose and learning journey to the group and make plans for how you will bring your vision to life.

• A reflective journey — recap and summary of what has been covered, what you have applied and transformed, and what your challenges are
• Discover the key to recruiting the right team members and ensuring their induction is a motivating experience
• Working adult to adult – understanding transactional analysis, the effect it has on your relationships and within the workplace
• How to create a working environment that gets the best out of introverts and extroverts
• The cycle of conflict — understanding how to break this
• Identify what you might adapt so it works for you, your team and your organisation
• Understand and learn the process of building sustainable habits and changing behaviours long term, to embed the learning and create real action
• Present back your leadership purpose and vision for yourself and your team
• Draw up a personal, practical action plan beyond the programme

Every programme is designed to ensure complete individual involvement and participation, it will stimulate your thinking and challenge you. The key focus is on practical skills and real outcomes throughout. The content will involve an innovative and engaging blend of activities so that you can directly apply it to your current performance and your future success.

The four days are spread over four months to ensure it has a real impact and you get the chance to embed what you learn. It will include pre-course work, and action in-between the days. All training is by me Stephen Dargan.

• Discover and fulfil your potential
• Enable work cultures based on trust and freedom
• Learn best practice from the truly great workplaces
• Be involved, engaged and challenged
• Learn practical skills to apply straight away