leadership in a Growing Business
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Our Leadership and Management Training Programs are grounded in the Scaling Up methodology and built to deliver real results. We help your management team turn strategy into execution by applying the Four Decisions® framework: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. This isn’t theory — it’s practical leadership development that moves teams out of survival mode and into sustained high performance. Whether you’re aligning your leaders, driving accountability, or scaling operations, our programs equip your team to lead with clarity, discipline, and focus — so your entire organisation performs at a higher level, consistently and predictably.
Leadership for Growing Businesses Suggested Modules
Our programs are highly customisable. We usually suggest that a 2 day leadership program contain 8 of the 12 modules detailed below. The knowing yourself and your people module is a double module that takes a 1/2 day.
1. Leadership Behaviours and Traits
- The traits of a successful leader
- Happy Brain / Sad brain
- Micromanagement, what is it and more importantly what isn’t it?
2. Communication for Leadership
- Effective Communication skills including active listening, verbal and non-verbal communication
- Introduction to EQ
- Understanding and managing our own emotions
- empathetic -v- Sympathetic communication
3. Knowing yourself and your people
- DISC Profiling for Leaders
- Managing personalities in the workplace
4. Legal responsibilities
- The legal responsibilities of leadership
- Liability
- DHB = act like a Decent Human Being
5. Motivation and Engagement
- Defining motivation
- First Break All the rules
- Leadership is an individual sport
6. Dealing with Difficult People
- What makes a difficult person
- How do we set clear behavioural expectations and then follow through
- Why consequences is NOT a dirty word!
7. Conflict Management and Negotiation
- What strategies can we employ to deal with conflict
- Why avoidance is not always the best policy
- Negotiation Skills for leadership including the drive for a Win-win outcome.
8. Time Management Skills
- Managing our time including prioritisation of the time we do have for greatest impact.
- Workload planningd: Avoiding burnout, setting boundaries, optimizing efficiency.
- Managing Meetings: Effective meeting planning, facilitation, and follow-up.
9. Decision Making and Problem Solving
- How do we make decisions and a useful model
- Problem Solving Strategies SWOT, Brainstorm, Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
10. Managing for High performance and Coaching
- One-on-one coaching principles
- The best performance management is to never get there in the 1st place
- Capability and Training versus Performance
- The principles of managing both good and bad performance
11. Diversity and Inclusion
- Unconscious bias in leadership and decision making
- Diverse leadership thinking
- Creating an Inclusive leadership culture
12. Developing and managing yourself
- Sharpening the saw – being a lifelong learner
- Managing your own wellbeing
- The curiosity curve
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