Accelerate - October 2024

Learning & Benefits

Leading yourself well – understanding leadership and management, different styles and approaches and when and how these might be applied, working with emotional intelligence, understanding a growth mindset, effective communication and managing up and across well.

Leading Culture - understanding the power of vision, values and leaders on culture, the impact you as a leader have; both inadvertently and consciously on culture.
Digging into Values and how to embed and use these well. Reflecting on your own organisation and how well you articulate and use their values.

Effective Delegation - Unearthing potential in your people and teams, whole person leadership and psychological safety. Creating opportunities for others to lead and develop. Prioritising and planning to delegate well, creating effective ownership and a clarity and focus on desired outcomes

Coaching - Understanding coaching both as an approach to leading and a skill in its own right. The principles of coaching and effective active listening. Engaging from a position of curiosity and learning rather than judgement. How to use the GROW model for structed coaching.

Feedback – How to give great feedback which balances support and challenge, develops your team and enables them to take ownership and deliver effectively.
Engaging in challenging conversations well.

Trust and Influence - influencing effectively, internally, and externally, building trust, and developing talent. How can I positively influence the success of the business?
How do I manage up, down and across? How do I feed into our strategic development and execute my area of responsibility well.

Building High Performing Teams - Teams understanding what makes teams work, being intentional in building great teams. Understanding the stages of team development and interdependencies between teams, cross functional teams and what makes them effective.

Change - leading change, the leader’s role as a change agent and the impact of imposed change v engaged change. How to thrive with change and ambiguity.

Innovation and Programme Review - leading innovation and encouraging a culture of experimentation and learning. Embedding and taking forward key learnings.