Self-Aware Leaders Programme
Get ahead of the problems that will impact the success of your rapidly growing business
With growth, comes complexity. Complexity which accelerates alongside the scale of your business. And complexity brings uncertainty, unexpected emergent contexts, and unintended consequences.
As recent high-profile cases demonstrate, failing to keep up with this complexity can spell disaster for the success of a business.
Improving the quality of our thinking helps us to do that. Thinking is at the root of everything we do. So when we improve the quality our thinking, the quality of everything else we do improves too. This includes leading a business.
Our Self-Awareness is a measure of our thinking quality or complexity. A self-aware leader has intention, awareness, and choice of response in any situation. And this enables them to deal with greater complexity in their businesses.
The one-day Self-Aware Leaders programme is the start of your self-awareness development journey which will help you to better predict of the problems that will impact the success of your rapidly growing business
Discover your key thinking habits, and how they impact you individually and as a leadership team through the Identity Compass™ profile
Develop an understanding of how these thinking habits translate to specific leadership risks for your business through the Leadership Risk Profile
Decide how we address these risks through expertly facilitated group discussion
Here's how it works
The one-day Self-Aware Leaders programme was developed based on Dr Darren Stevens' groundbreaking research on adult development combined with the latest research on factors affecting company success.
Dr Stevens' research demonstrates the correlation between self-awareness, adult development, and how an individual’s level of self-awareness directly impacts their capacity to perform in their role.
Effective leadership in dynamic and complex environments requires a capacity to operate from multiple, often competing perspectives (Bolden, Petrov, Gosling, and Bryman (2009)). Leaders in these environments require two things:
- the capacity to appreciate and process paradoxical data (cognitive complexity)
- the possession of a range of leadership behaviours that will allow them to lead in this environment (behavioural complexity).
By identifying and focussing on identifiable, measurable thinking habits (Cognitive Intentions) and linking those to specific areas of leadership which demonstrably impact company valuations and success more broadly, we can support you in defining steps which will:
- develop the quality of your thinking creating the internal conditions to achieve both of these outcomes.
- mitigate the identified leadership risks so you can better predict future problems impacting your business success
Thinking Insight
The Identity Compass™ provides insight into how you uniquely think, as an individual and as a leadership team. It highlights your thinking blind-spots, and provides you with both a Thinking Quotient score identifying your level of socio-emotional maturity, and an overall Awareness Quotient score identifying your level of Dynamic Intelligence. All of this helps you to better understand yourselves as leaders.
Leadership Insight
The Leadership Risk Profile provides further insight into nineteen key areas of leadership risk that have been demonstrated to lead to low valuations and even business failure. It links these areas to your individual and team Identity Compass™ profiles to provide you with a unique view of your level of risk across these areas.
Vertical Development
Because leadership quality correlates with thinking quality, the Self-Aware Leaders programme is focussed on your vertical development. It engenders your self-awareness, as individuals and as a leadership team. This positively impacts your cognitive and behavioural complexity enabling you to make better choices based on the information available to you and the needs of your business.
Skill Development
Leadership skills and thinking quality go hand-in-hand. Skills become easier to master as our thinking quality increases, and the next steps we define in this programme will facilitate your vertical development.
Community
We believe that our focus on vertical development using principles from Dr Stevens' Constructed Development Theory puts us at the forefront of Leadership Development which offers a unique development experience. As such, we encourage our course participants to join the community of leaders that have been through our programme so we can continue to support our mutuale development.
Introductory Rate
In this era of ever spiralling costs, we can all benefit from getting something at a reduced price. That’s why we’re introducing this new programme at a special introductory rate for all bookings made and paid for until the end of 2022. Get in touch to find out more.
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