• Developing Your Organisation
• Developing Your Teams
• Developing Your People & You
  • Influencing Strategies and Skills
  • FOCUSed Performance Coaching
  • Executive Coaching
  • Leading Transformational Change
  • Mentoring
  • Executive Assessment

Developing Your People & You

Influencing Strategies and Skills

In a world of

• Formal and informal teams.
• Matrix structures.
• Fast change and short response times.
• Ever rising customer expectation and competitive pressures.
• Dispersed and 'virtual' teams.
• Lower bureaucracy and formal 'authority'.
• Rapid technological change.

The capacity to influence others to get things done has never been such a critically important leadership capability.

"Do it because I'm the boss" has less potency and more limitations than ever, when relied on to make things happen.

Of course, there are times when being very clear about your views or expectations is tremendously important and completely legitimate. There are other times when your ability to genuinely deepen your understanding of others, or to discover and actively use what you have in common with others is critical to building trust, commitment, energy and enthusiasm.

'One-trick ponies', who try to lead using one style, severely limit their leadership impact. The most influential leaders can judge what is needed and can adapt their styles to fit. This isn't easy.

The good news is that it's also not magic. It requires a good level of behavioural skills, and as skills they can be learned and practised until they become a natural part of how you behave.

We offer a very powerful Influencing Strategies and Skills for Leaders programme, the main features of which are:

• It builds your awareness of current strength and gaps in capability.
• It's highly practical and skills based.
• It uses real situations not role-play.
• It encourages risk taking.
• It bridges the link between skills practise and application to real situations.
• It's very challenging and supportive.
• It works! – with fantastic results at the highest level in many organisations.

The programme can be positioned in a context that fits the specific challenges and goals you face. Contact us to discuss how we will work with you to create truly influential leadership in your organisation.