Course Overview
We are able to design a bespoke conscious leadership programme to develop your leaders’ ability to lead wisely, compassionately and intuitively.
This could range from a one-day introduction to the concepts and experiential practices through to an advanced programme including pre-assessment and coaching. Participants will be able to operate with improved consciousness, self-awareness, creativity, and effectiveness.
Conscious leadership background
Where many leadership development programmes focus on horizontal development – technical skills and subject matter expertise, here we focus on vertical development – highly developed soft skills that are required to operate in complex environments.
Horizontal development is about what you think and vertical development is about how you think – the ability to think and act in more sophisticated ways.
Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous work environments
Leaders need a blend of vertical and horizontal development, however, in an increasingly VUCA* world, vertical development is becoming critical to improved and sustainable business performance.
Vertically developed leaders are able to respond to problems that cannot be solved with existing knowledge (adaptive challenges), think both systematically and from multiple perspectives, interpret situations and collaborate with others. They use their increased understanding and self-awareness to lead in a grounded, skillful and wise way.
Components of our conscious leadership training programme
Depending on your requirements a programme may include the following:
- An assessment of leader’s current stage of Adult Development using ‘The Leadership Circle’ 360 feedback profile**
- Approaches to create the three primary conditions for vertical development including pre-course reflections, classroom exercises, mindfulness and reflection, coaching, peer support and challenge and organisational perspective building
- Models and methodologies for example: Beyond Competency, Working with vision and purpose, Creative Tension, the Scarf model and Immunity to change
- Participants will explore their individual development journey.
Following a typical course participants will:
- Be more resilient and have a greater sense of personal well-being
- Maintain focus on what is really important and avoid distraction
- Have better listening skills and communicate with others more effectively
- Work more constructively with conflict
- Be more comfortable having courageous conversations
- Foster high performance in their team
- Motivate and inspire others so as to bring out the best in them
- Have improved delegating skills.
Our clients say
“It has been great to learn as we go together and to partner with a team who really listens, is flexible and responsive to our needs.”
Verity Stroud, Learning and Development Manager, Miller Insurance
Facilitator
Our facilitator Ivor Twydell has been coaching leaders for over 10 years and is a passionate advocate of conscious leadership. He is a certified mindfulness teacher and accredited Professional Certified Coach with expertise in helping individuals and teams constructively manage and resolve destructive tensions and conflicts.
* This 360-degree competency assessment simultaneously provides focused competency feedback while revealing the underlying assumptions that are causing a leader’s pattern of strengths and limitations. It helps leaders understand the relationship between how they habitually think, how they behave, and, more importantly, how all this impacts their current level of leadership effectiveness. Once this awareness is established, leadership development can proceed. Without it, change rarely happens.
