Leadership


"The test of leadership in not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." - John Buchan


Communicating Strategy
Developing winning strategy is just the first step. Getting the strategy implemented is the next challenge. A strategy briefing should be succinct clear and inspiring. We train you how to deliver an inspiring and coherent strategy briefing that get’s people right behind the plan. Everyone’ll know the plan and how to contribute to ensure seamless execution. [read more...]
As a result of completing the Communicating Strategy Module participants will be able to:

- Use a What, Why & How structure for strategy briefings
- Deliver succinct, well structured strategy briefings
- Link high level strategy to team or individual goals
- Use creativity, metaphor and storytelling to make strategy briefings inspiring

Coaching for Performance
'Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly they come to see it for themselves.' - Stephen Covey

Coaching is a central skill of a great leader. The MindSpring coaching approach elicits greatness from people by making the coach coachee relationship a central function of leadership. [read more...]
As a result of completing the Coaching for Performance module participants will be able to:

- Establish a coaching agreement with all coachees
- Use a 3 step model (Demonstrate, Develop, Delegate) to support the development of the coachee
- Listen actively to help the coachee think, solve problems and develop confidence
- Use the GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Wrap up) model to support the development of the coachee
- Give constructive, structured and balanced feedback
- Apply theories of motivation to day to day coaching
- Reflect ‘Adult’ mode (Transactional Analysis) in all coaching interactions

Managing Team Dynamics
When people come together dynamics between people start immediately. The dynamics of the team can be positive without any planning and input from the leader but it’s not common. A great leader creates an environment where positive team dynamic can flourish. [read more...]
As a result of completing the Managing Team Dynamics module participants will be able to:

- Recognise and help people transition through the following stages of team development – Forming, Focusing, Performing, Levelling.
- Communicate shared purpose, individual contribution, shared values, foster membership and accountability
- Induct new members into the team with focus on both task and team culture
- Recognise and manage both helpful and disruptive informal roles (e.g Devil’s Advocate, Group Clown)

Facilitating Meetings
Meetings at work can be fantastic. A team can come together generate ideas, build on each other's suggestions, collaborate and maintain connections with other people at meetings. On the other hand meetings can be a waste of time, a playground for personal agendas and grandstanding or just downright boring. We help you make your meetings dynamic, engaging and above all useful! [read more...]
As a result of completing the Facilitating Meetings module participants will be able to:

- Distinguish between organizational, structural and behavioural factors that make for successful meetings
- Establish good meeting structure (e.g. purpose, membership, roles, timing, agenda etc)
- Conduct a meta meeting (a meeting to sort out your meetings)
- Establish behavioural ground rules
- Establish a facilitation contract (agreement that you’ll facilitate meetings)
- Intervene to manage behaviours in meetings

Win Win Negotiation
We teach a win win style of negotiation based on the approach developed by William Fisher and Roger Ury in their highly successful book ‘Getting to Yes’ (Publisher Bruce Patton 1994). [read more...]
As a result of completing the Win Win Negotiation module participants will be able to:

- Use a structured approach to negotiation
- Prepare effectively for negotiation
- Distinguish between an aggressive and assertive approach to negotiation
- Distinguish between and manage both the relationship and the substance of the negotiation
- Recognise their default negotiating style
- Listen actively
- Use criteria make joint decision
- Generate a range of options
- Achieve win win outcomes

Personal Effectiveness
We call our personal effectiveness training Workwise because it’s all about working wiser not harder. Most of us spend our days in front of the computer so Workwise is designed to help you be effective through smart use of Microsoft Outlook. Using the principles of workwise can free up significant amounts of wasted time in your day. [read more...]
As a result of completing the Workwise module participants will be able to:

- 5 D’s: Do it, Diarise it, Delete it, Dump it, Delegate it. Outlook etc