Leadership

Leaders need to be better than ever before. Skilled, wise, morally strong, nimble of mind and intellectually gifted. In addition they will need to demonstrate outstanding character and ability in a wide range of talents.

To do this they must above all build on their natural strengths aligned to their values and beliefs. To aid this process PCA have developed our own Leadership Development Model which is outlined below.

Overview

Leadership in your organisation

The introductory segment provides an assessment of leadership in the context of “where we are now” and “where we want to be” for your particular business and industry.

Knowing me knowing you

This section is designed to provide each manager with an in depth understanding of their own strengths and styles of behaviour and how to use this knowledge to get the best out of people and provide people focused leadership.

There are a number of assessment tools which we can use in this process and the most appropriate will be selected after consultation.

Leadership essentials

In this section we focus on selected core competencies from a menu that includes change, creating a vision, performance management, time management, communication and developing the culture you want.

Creating powerful teams

All leaders have to work with and through teams – this part of our journey shows leaders how to overcome the 5 dysfunctions of typical teams and create ones that “make better decisions faster”

Leader as coach

This section is designed to take the learning “into” the organisation and helps establish a core competency of all great leaders – Leader as Coach!

Using techniques based on our own training from the Adler School of Coaching we will provide some initial tools and techniques that will help the delegate use coaching techniques to improve their performance as managers.

For more detail have a look at the PCA Leadership Development Model

A point of view

Leaders in business

Being a business leader can be a lonely place. The buck stops with you and often there is no one you can consider as your peer to help you reach decisions. Inevitably there will be hard decisions to be made. Many of these will stretch you to the extremes of your abilities and require you to explore unchartered territory.

So how do you get to be good at leadership? Some say you are born to it, others will argue that only experience can give you the tools to lead and yet others will say that the opportunity itself can make a leader. The truth is probably somewhere inbetween.

The evidence of good leadership is measured in dreams, words, actions and accomplishments. These are actually very self and goal centered activities.

Climbing the ladder

Shareholders and stakeholders demand the very best in the leaders of their businesses. You must strive to be at the top of your game in order to survive let alone succeed or excell.

Top sports men and women believe that to achieve their full potential they need the best coach that money can buy. Why should we expect we can achieve more in the complex world of business where the rules, conditions and players change from moment to moment.

Consultants, business advisors and mentors all have a role to play but it is coaches who are now recognised as being able to play the most significant role in changing behaviours, enhancing long term performance and delivering greatest value for money and return on investment.

Competitive Advantage

To enable you to see the benefits of coaching, PCA will provide a free initial consultation if you or your organisation find yourself in one of the following three situations.

New role

As everyone knows the first 90 or 100 days in a new role can be the most challenging.

It is a critical time when the success of the appointment concerns not just the individual, those who appointed them, the head hunter or recruiter, those who will be working directly with (or for) the new executive but the whole organisation.

Culture change

Internal or external forces can bring about a gradual or sudden change in an organisations culture.

Whether the catalyst is a single influential new appointee or a major acquisition the consequences can reverberate throughout the organisation and have an impact up and down the value chain.

Economic and social pressures linked to climate change tariffs and corporate social responsibility are examples that are right now bringing about culture change.

New top team

The performance of all teams in an organisation is important. When we look at the executive team it becomes vital.

It is here that issues of personal agenda, ego, differences of opinion, personality clashes and lack of team identity and bonding can be most divisive.

If you would like to understand how PCA would be able to help you please contact us for a free initial consultation.

Delivering Clarity and Competitive Advantage