Executive Leadership Series

Stirling

This session helps emerging and established leaders to rethink their approach to their own development. Often used at the start of leadership programmes, it helps to focus attention, prioritise development work and to track progress over time.

Roger has acted as programme designer and facilitator and tutor for High Performance Leadership, and the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programmes. He has worked with clients including BAE Systems, Pinsent Masons, Deloitte, ETF, and overseas government departments.

2x 3hour sessions

This practical workshop in 2 parts guides you in creating a map of your leadership reality. By the end of the sessions you will have a new clarity on the context in which your leadership is most needed, insight into where you are in relation to this need, and which wisdom and vital relationships you need in order to protect and grow.

The process for these sessions draws on the Three Horizons framework as a way of working with the future to guide systems transition over time. The framework enables a conversation that embraces the present system, vision and aspirations for the future, and the pathways and that will help make the transition within a wider systemic context.

One full day

Stirling

This workshop will help raise awareness of your default communication behaviours, helping you make sense of those behaviours. It offers a framework within which you can reflect on the likely impact of your default behaviours – helping you ‘read the room’ and recognise stuck patterns of conversation. The workshop also offers an insight into ‘high stakes’ behaviours and their impact.

Two full days – residential

Stirling

A two-day residential programme including one-to-one intake and follow up session. This programme includes practical exercises, demonstrations, and application of systems tools, alongside feedback to support develop your systems leadership toolkit. It will include a digital toolkit.

Joan O’Donnell,  Associate Lecturer Open University, UK,  MSc in Systems Thinking
Doctoral Researcher, Maynooth University, Ireland  and

Barbara Schmidt-Abbey, Experienced Monitoring & Evaluation professional, systems thinker and practitioner, facilitator; PhD Researcher.

3.5 hours

Leaders who listen well build trust and get results. This workshop will explore the power and impact of generative listening. Recognising our listening ‘bad habits’ as well as the cost of bad listening is the starting point for this work. We will then learn and practise different levels of listening awareness to generate the best performance in others

One full day

Stirling

Host Leadership is about building relationships to engage others. This engagement is the key ingredient that leads to increased performance and results. The art of hosting can provide a rich and inspiring framework for many practical leadership skills. It also provides flexible, agile leadership paradigm for those who want to lead better and seek better engagement and responsiveness.

Tulliallan Police College

Participants will experience an immersive and participatory real-world crisis management scenario.  Working together in small groups to respond to a real-time drip-feed of unfolding information, they must draw upon their knowledge and skills to make critical decisions under pressure and maintain effective communication.  During the workshop, participants and the facilitators come together to reflect on the experience. In a summative plenary session, experts from Police Scotland dissect a real-world case study and discuss how the crisis was managed; what went well and what was learned.

Tulliallan Police College

During this session participants will learn body language awareness, the ability to manage messages and narrative confidently and media engagement; including working with cameras and microphones.