Leadership Development
Our approach to leadership development focuses on practical skills and real-world applications, ensuring that our clients gain the confidence and competence needed to lead effectively.
What is Leadership?
Effective leaders take a personal interest in the long-term development of their employees, and they use tact and other social skills to encourage employees to achieve their best. It isn’t about being “nice” or “understanding” — it’s about tapping into individual motivations in the interest of furthering an organisation-wide goal.
The achievement of goals through the efforts of others…
The would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship or wisdom in long-range planning.
But none of these qualities reflect the essence of leadership. Leadership is the accomplishment of a goal through the direction of human assistants – a human and social achievement that stems from the leader’s understanding of his or her fellow workers and the relationship of their individual goals to the group’s aim.
To be successful, leaders must learn two basic lessons – people are complex, and people are different. Human beings respond not only to the traditional carrot and stick but also to ambition, patriotism, love of the good and the beautiful, boredom, self-doubt and many other desires and emotions.
One person may find satisfaction in solving intellectual problems but may never be given the opportunity to explore how that satisfaction can be applied to business. Another may need a friendly, admiring relationship and may be constantly frustrated by the failure of his or her manager to recognise and be understanding of that need.
‘For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.’
– Sir Walter Scott
The Leadership Academy
The Leadership Academy will be developed to meet the needs of your business, specifically addressing issues that you are currently experiencing and that you anticipate you will experience in the future. It will also address best practice leadership competencies. The curriculum can be developed around the following activities:
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If you're interested in the Leadership Academy for your business, why not get in touch and we can tell you more.
What’s the difference between leadership and management?
Management consists of controlling a group or a set of entities to accomplish a goal.
Leadership refers to an individual’s ability to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute towards organisational success.
Influence and inspiration separate leaders from managers, not power and control.
(Harvard Business Review)
Yes, it’s all about the individuals in your business, but it’s all about your leaders and managers as well.
All managers should be leaders, but individuals in non-management roles can be leaders also. In other words, you don’t need to be in a leadership role to display leadership qualities, such as being an excellent role model that people look up to.
Whilst it is all about your people and how well they are managed and led, it is incumbent upon each manager to display the following qualities:
