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Learning Stream: Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping

Duration: Half Day Audience: All Levels

This course introduces the concept of mind mapping, a visual thinking tool that helps structure information, helping you to better analyse, comprehend, synthesise, recall, and generate new ideas. Participants will learn how to create mind maps to effectively brainstorm, organise thoughts, manage projects, and enhance memory and creativity.

Learning Stream: Design Thinking

Design Thinking

Duration: 2 Days Audience: All Levels

This course introduces the principles and process of Design Thinking, a user-centric approach that enables professionals to develop innovative solutions to complex challenges. Through immersive workshops and hands-on projects, participants will learn how to apply Design Thinking techniques to enhance creativity and drive innovation within their organisations.

Learning Stream: Management

First Time Managers

Duration: 2 Days Audience: New Managers

This course prepares new managers for their roles by covering the fundamental skills required to manage teams effectively. It focuses on essential management techniques, communication skills, team dynamics, and leadership principles to help first-time managers navigate their new responsibilities with confidence and competence.

Learning Stream: Team Leadership

High Performance Team Creation and Leadership

Duration: 2 Days Audience: All Levels

This course is designed to equip leaders with the strategic insights and practical skills necessary to create, lead, and sustain high-performance teams. Participants will explore the dynamics of team performance, effective communication strategies, and methods to cultivate a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Learning Stream: Woman Leadership

Diversity and Inclusivity

Duration: 2 Days Audience: All Levels

This course focuses on empowering woman leaders to become champions of diversity and inclusivity in their workplaces. It provides participants with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities inherent in fostering an inclusive environment, with a special focus on gender dynamics. Participants will learn practical strategies to drive change and create a culture of belonging and equity.

Learning Stream: Leadership

Situational Leadership

Duration: 2 Days Audience: Middle, Senior, and Executive Leaders

This course explores the Situational Leadership model, which emphasises the importance of adjusting leadership styles based on the developmental level of individuals and teams. Participants will learn how to diagnose situations, adapt their leadership approach, and effectively communicate with team members to enhance productivity and foster a positive work environment.

Learning Stream: Finance

Financial Management for Non-financial Managers

Duration: 4 Days Audience: Middle and Senior Management

This course aims to demystify the world of finance for non-financial managers. It focuses on equipping participants with the essential financial principles and tools needed to make informed and effective business decisions. Through practical examples and simplified concepts, managers will learn to interpret financial statements, manage budgets, and understand financial planning and analysis within their departments.

Learning Stream: Communication

Board Presentation Skills

Duration: 3 Days Audience: Senior and Executive Leaders

This course aims to sharpen the presentation skills of professionals who need to communicate effectively with a board of directors. Participants will learn how to prepare and deliver clear, persuasive presentations that resonate with board members, focusing on structure, content, delivery, and handling Q&A sessions professionally.

Learning Stream: Leadership

Transformational Leadership

Duration: 1 Days Audience: All Levels

This course focuses on empowering leaders with the skills and insights necessary to enact transformational change in their organisations. Participants will explore the theory and practice of transformational leadership, learning how to inspire and motivate teams, foster innovation, and lead effectively through change.

Learning Stream: People

Emotional Intelligence

Duration: 4 Days Audience: Middle and Senior Management

Unlock the power of emotional intelligence with our Emotional Intelligence course, designed to foster self-awareness, enhance interpersonal skills, and improve EQ management. This course is ideal for professionals across all levels who seek to strengthen their leadership abilities, build stronger teams, and create a more positive work environment.

Learning Stream: Sustainability

Revolutionised Strategy for Environmental Sustainability

Duration: 4 Days Audience: Senior and Executive Leaders

Navigate the complexities of environmental sustainability with our cutting-edge course, Revolutionised Strategy for Environmental Sustainability. This course is designed for leaders, strategists, and sustainability professionals who are committed to integrating sustainability deeply into business practices and strategies. The course focuses on the latest innovations, strategic frameworks, and practical tools necessary to lead sustainability initiatives effectively.

Learning Stream: Digitation

Leading Digital Transformation

Duration: 3 Days Audience: Senior and Executive Leaders

Embrace the future with our Leading Digital Transformation course, designed to equip leaders with the necessary skills and insights to guide their organisations through the complexities of digital change. This course focuses on the strategies, leadership qualities, and practical tools required to successfully implement digital technologies and foster a culture of innovation.

Learning Stream: Governance

Board Member Leadership and Corporate Governance

Duration: 3 Days Audience: Senior, Executive Leaders, and Board Members

Step into the boardroom with confidence through our Board Member Leadership and Corporate Governance course. Designed for both aspiring and current board members, this course focuses on the critical aspects of governance, leadership, and ethical oversight, that are essential for effective board participation and organisational success.

Learning Stream: Operations

Project Management – Essentials

Duration: 5 Days Audience: Middle and Senior Management

Dive deep into the world of project management with our meticulously designed course, tailored to arm you with the knowledge and tools necessary for mastering every phase of the project lifecycle. Whether you’re initiating, planning, executing, or closing projects, this course offers real-life case studies and examples that bring theoretical concepts to life.

Learning Stream: Operations

Project Management – Foundations

Duration: 3 Days Audience: Middle Management

Dive into the core principles of project management with our comprehensive Project Management: Basics and Foundations course. This introductory course is designed to provide newcomers and early-career professionals with the foundational skills and knowledge needed to manage projects successfully in any industry.

Learning Stream: Strategy

Strategic Foresight in a VUCA world

Duration: 2 Days Audience: Senior and Executive Leaders

Navigate the uncertainties of today’s business landscape with our Strategic Foresight in a VUCA World course. This cutting-edge course is designed to equip leaders and decision-makers with the tools and insights needed to foresee, and effectively respond to, rapid changes and emerging challenges in a VUCA environment.

Learning Stream: Strategy

Strategic Thinking Advanced

Duration: 2 Days Audience: Senior and Executive Leaders

Elevate your strategic capabilities with our Advanced Strategic Thinking course, designed for professionals who are ready to tackle complex strategic challenges and drive transformational change within their organisations. This intensive course builds on foundational strategic thinking concepts, pushing participants to explore advanced methodologies and innovative strategies in a dynamic business environment.

Learning Stream: Strategy

Strategic Thinking Foundation

Duration: 2 Days Audience: Middle Management

In today’s complex and rapidly changing business environment, strategic thinking is crucial for personal and organisational success. The Strategic Thinking Foundation course is designed to equip participants with the critical skills needed to understand the bigger picture, anticipate changes, and make decisions that align with long-term objectives. This course provides a deep dive into the fundamental concepts and practical applications of strategic thinking, blending theory with real-world scenarios.

Inspire for Greatness

Leadership and the Next Generation:
Handing over the Baton

Inspiring Eye opening

Each new Generation brings with it different and creative ways of doing things better. They tend to challenge the status-quo and ask questions of why things are done the way in which they are. This course aims to channel this Curios, Agile and Learning Mind Set of the next Generation into a Passion to create a better tomorrow. The course is aimed at preparing the C-suite leaders of tomorrow by focusing on synergies between AI, human leadership, technology, and cultural diversity.

Inspire for Greatness

Leadership and Sustainability:
Balancing People, Profit and Planet

Thought Provoking Impactful

This course deals with the complexity created by the challenge of balancing leading people, achieving profitability, and caring for the planet. Participants will be exposed to contemporary leadership challenges as they attempt to find the floating optimal equilibrium between people, profit, and planet.

Act to Achieve

Strategic Supply Chain Management
The Strategic Importance of the Value Chain

Practical Insightful

This course will assist participants in understanding the strategic importance of managing the value created through efficient supply chain management. It guides participants in how to align the operational part of an organisation with that of the strategic planning part, using a system thinking approach. Although technical aspects of supply chain management are touched on, the course focusses on a strategic view of supply chain and assist participants to better understand how to implement planning into supply chain activities and processes.

Act to Achieve

Strategic Operationalisation:
Leading Through Execution

Popular Practical

It was Peter Drucker who said, Any good Strategy that is not implemented is still a bad Strategy. Strategy Execution is a specific leadership skill that requires individuals to take what has been planned and execute it successfully throughout the organisational structure. This course aims to enhance the ability of organisational leaders to move seamlessly between the thinking, planning and executional part of the organisation. It merges leadership skills and qualities with managerial execution through which what needs to be implemented is evaluated, controlled, and optimised.

Learn to Excel

Systems Thinking:
The Power of Seeing The Whole Picture

Eye-Opening Simplistic

To succeed and thrive in today’s increasingly interconnected world, the ability to frame, manage, and solve complex problems has never been more essential. Breaking with conventional analytical thinking, this course equips participants to understand the framework and discipline of Systems Thinking and provides a complex, yet simple and easy to understand, thought paradigm, within which problems can be addressed in a more holistic manner. It helps participants to integrate systems thinking concepts, principles, and practices, to improve existing processes, operations, and thinking patterns, ultimately developing a more synergised and effective organisation.

Lead Through Connectedness

Connected Leadership Course
Think. Learn. Act. Inspire.

Flagship HBR Published Leadership Framework

This course will enable tomorrow’s leaders to progress through the five levels of leadership (self, team, organisation, society, and world) Participants will be introduced to leadership thought paradigms in which cultural diversity captures the wisdom necessary to synergise different thought paradigms, required to serve a better tomorrow.

Think to Change

Situational Leadership:
Discovering Your Leadership Strengths

Most Popular Eye-Opening

This course consists of a diagnostic through which participants’ unique style of preferred leadership is determined. The course assists participants to effectively select the appropriate leadership style that best addresses the performance challenges that need to be overcome in order to create higher levels of team and organisational performance.

Think to Change

Transformational Leadership:
Getting ready for the future

Popular Revolutionary

In this ever-changing business climate, traditional leadership is changing in the digital age, creating the need to prepare future leaders to start looking at leadership development differently. One change is the transition from the individualist nature of leadership to a more-collective focus and at the same time consider the fusion between People, Technology and The Environment. This course helps participants to equip themselves with the necessary skills necessary to guide their teams and organisation into the future through a method of change management.

Learn to Excel

Strategic Thinking:
Business Model Flexibility

Most Popular Next Level Thinking

As an executive, taking on greater leadership responsibilities, you need to learn how to think more strategically and develop an effective strategy for your unit or organisation. This course gives participants the tools to undertake a thorough strategic diagnosis. Participants analyse capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, and identify capability and resource gaps in their own business context that could impact strategy implementation. By developing the ability to judge risk and value-creating potential, participants are taught to think more clearly about future challenges, developing new ways of competing and staying ahead of the competition. The course can be offered on a foundational or advanced level.

TEAM COACHING

Cultivating Trust and Collaboration:
Team coaching fosters trust, improves communication, and enhances collaboration within teams, leading to increased productivity.

Identifying and Leveraging Individual Strengths:
Team coaching helps team members identify and utilise their unique strengths, maximising individual, and collective performance.

Resolving Conflicts and Improving Dynamics:
Team coaching addresses conflicts, improves team dynamics, and fosters a positive and supportive work environment.

LEADERSHIP COACHING

Evaluating and Strengthening Leadership Style:
Leadership coaching helps leaders recognise their strengths and areas for development, enabling them to refine their leadership style.

Building and Empowering High-Performing Teams:
A leadership coach supports leaders in fostering teamwork, enhancing collaboration, and nurturing a high-performance culture.

Navigating Change and Overcoming Obstacles:
Leadership coaching equips leaders with the tools and strategies needed to navigate change, overcome challenges, and lead with resilience.

EXECUTIVE COACHING

Enhancing Leadership Skills:
Executive coaching focuses on developing leadership skills, enhancing decision-making abilities, and improving overall performance in a corporate setting.

Strategic Planning and Goal Setting:
An executive coach assists in setting clear objectives, creating actionable plans, and navigating complex business environments.

Team Collaboration and Relationship Building:
Executive coaching fosters effective communication, team harmony, and relationship-building skills within corporate teams.

CAREER COACHING

Exploring and Clarifying Career Goals:
Career coaching helps individuals identify their passions, strengths, and aspirations, leading to more fulfilling and successful careers.

Interview Preparation and Job Search Strategies:
Career coaches provide guidance in resume building, interview techniques, and job search strategies to enhance career prospects.

Professional Development and Skill Enhancement:
Career coaching supports individuals in developing new skills, expanding their knowledge, and advancing in their chosen careers.

HUMAN FACTORS AND PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT MASTERCLASS

Based on the international publication – Human Factors and Process Safety Management, Elsevier, 2020, this workshop is about the effective management of human factors in process safety management. For many years practitioners have debated the effectiveness of process safety management systems as opposed to integrated health and safety or otherwise even the occupational health, safety, and environment systems. Clearly each type of system was developed to address a particular requirement or try to prevent a particular set of risks, or otherwise to enhance the risk management processes within an organisation.

EHS GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP AND MAKING HIGH RELIABILITY ORGANISATIONS

Based on two international publications, this workshop is about the effective leadership and governance of HSE matters within organisations and how top management can create high reliability organisations in industries which are generally high-risk industries. While they may not be involved in the day-to-day management of a company, board members influence the tone and safety culture of an organisation by the strategy and policies they approve, through the questions they ask and by holding management to account for effective implementation.

BUSINESS ACUMEN PROGRAMME FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY PROFESSIONALS

This programme has been developed based on a core text developed by the joint author to deliver over 4 days (or 30 contact hours) a business acumen skill to health and safety practitioners. This is an equivalent of a sort of mini-MBA for health and safety practitioners but incorporates developing the critical skills of experiential and reflective learning.

CULTURAL COMPETENCE INDEX (CCI)

The Intrinsic Strategic Differentiator First of its kind Eye Opening

In this programme, participants are taught the importance of Cultural Competence as an Intrinsic Strategic Differentiator, spreading like a drop of ink in a glass of water throughout the entire organisation. Participants are shown how to integrate Cultural Competence as an additional dimension into existing strategic planning processes through the adoption of a Growth Mindset. Participants are shown how to use the Cultural Competence Index Measurement Matrix (CCI) and will be empowered to institutionalise Cultural Competence in an organisation.

Lead for SHE©

Woman Leadership Focussed Groundbreaking

This programme is based on the Platform for Connected Leadership Traits of Think, Learn, Act, and Inspire. It will take women on the Leadership Progression journey from Reflecting on Leading Self (self-discovery and self-mastery) to Inspiring for Leading World. The course enables women to understand and leverage their core strengths; to become authentic leaders, and role models, who empower and inspire others around them.

Practical Strong Focus on Operations

LEAP focuses on technical and operational skills enhancement, fusing the leadership and managerial skills required with the level of operational excellence targeted by organisations. The programme is highly customised, comprising of a blend of knowledge transfer segments, individual assessments, group developmental discussions, group developmental activities, individual developmental activities, case studies and audio-visual supporting segments.

Knowledge Areas

Connected Leadership Course Think. Learn. Act. Inspire.

Situational Leadership: Discovering Your Leadership Strengths

Transformational Leadership: Getting ready for the future

Strategic Thinking: Business Model Flexibility

Systems Thinking: The Power of Seeing The Whole Picture

Strategic Operationalisation: Leading Through Execution

Strategic Supply Chain Management The Strategic Importance of the Value Chain

Leadership and Sustainability: Balancing People, Profit and Planet

Leadership and the Next Generation: Handing over the Baton

PROGRAMMES

Future Leaders Excellence Programme (FLEX©)

Leadership Development Action Programme (LEAP©)

Lead for SHE©

CULTURAL COMPETENCE INDEX (CCI)

Certifications

Smart Badge

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