2 day residential Programme outline This programme explores what being a leader is all about, helping you to become more aware of aspects of your personal style as a leader. By providing you with more insights into your own personality and preferences, we hope to make it easier for you to establish links between your own goals and those of your organisation.

Participants will:

• Explore and identify the characteristics and components of leadership
• Extend their understanding of their using Myers Briggs®
• Review their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) quotient
• Learn to make sense of this information and apply it in their personal leadership development

Who should attend?

Anyone who is a leader.

Learning method

The two days are designed to be stimulating, challenging and supportive, using a range of interventions from one-to-one coaching to group challenges and psychometric questionnaires. We recommend a residential programme for this. On Day 2, a second consultant joins the group for the one-to-one coaching.

Programme content

• What is leadership?
• A brief review of the key leadership models up to 21st century
• Action-centred leadership
• Situational leadership
• Transformational and transactional leadership
• Being a leader today
• Your beliefs as a leader
• How beliefs affect our leadership behaviours
• From beliefs to effective results
• From leadership to followership - the issue of ethics and trust for leaders
• What leader does your organisation need you to be?
• An exploration of your organisation needs of you as a leader.
• Building and presenting your personal vision
• Leading the organisation vision
• Leadership of self: personality
• Awareness of self as a leader - personality traits, interactions with others; valuing differences
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator - individual completion and profiling
• A combination of one-to-one coaching, group activities and plenary discussions will be used to fully explore the MBTI profile and its meaning to leadership
• Leadership of self: Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
• The foundations of EQ and their relevance to leadership
• Developing self-awareness, self-regulation and awareness of others
• EQ questionnaire - individual completion and findings
• A combination of one-to-one coaching, group activities and plenary discussions will be used to fully explore the EQ findings
• Formal opportunity for individuals to explore a personal leadership issue and identify personal action steps they can take to improve effectivenes