Inspiring Leaders Leadership Development Open Programme - Competitive Edge Training and Consultancy

Inspiring Leaders
Leadership Development Open Programme

A Scenario
Imagine this scenario, it’s a particularly common occurrence. A
manager, a leader of people in your business isn’t cutting it. The
person is struggling to have effective, and sometimes difficult
conversations, which is impacting the engagement, motivation, and
productivity of employees. The leader isn’t thinking strategically,
and is failing to communicate the vision, goals, and objectives of the
organisation. The leader isn’t thinking commercially, directly impacting
people, performance, and profits. The outcomes of scenarios like
these, are inevitable, the manager leaves, is demoted, or fired.
The ramifications are damaging and costly, for the individual, the
organisation, and its customers.
The leader isn’t thinking commercially, directly
impacting people, performance, and profits.

The Stark Reality
This is not a made-up story; this is real-life, and typical of what
happens in organisations today, at all levels of management. But why?
There are many reasons, but one involves the evident expectation
within a business that a high performer can somehow make a
seamless transition into management, or that existing managers and
leaders have a full grasp of their roles and responsibilities. But how
well prepared are they, and what are the implications to a business,
if critical competencies and behaviours aren’t fully developed and
applied?
To answer these questions, business leaders must consider what they
are doing to prepare themselves, their management teams, and their
emerging leaders for the challenges ahead. In a world of relentless
change, what are you doing to support and motivate your top talent,
to meet the demands of brutal market conditions, the demands of
your business, your employees, and your customers? To what extent
is your talent management and succession strategy working?
What are the implications to a business, if
critical competencies and behaviours aren’t fully
developed and applied?

Inspiring Leader
Our Inspiring Leaders Open Programme is expertly designed to
literally “Inspire” those in management positions to overcome the
multitude of challenges they face. Delegates are inspired to create
new behaviours, which result from gaining a deep understanding of
best-in-class leadership models and frameworks, applied practically
through challenging experiential learning activities. This becomes a
journey of self-discovery and development, providing the motivation
to nurture new habits, derived from a deeper understanding of
self, of others, and the impacts of their leadership and management
behaviours.
This becomes a journey of self-discovery and
development, providing the motivation to nurture
new habits

The difference that Competitive Edge makes in
its development programmes is tangible, and the
feedback from our people, who’ve experienced
the learning has been amazing. This is no ordinary
training programme, the approach is different, and
it really works.
Kevin McGuinness, HR Director, GB & Ireland
Kärcher UK

The Development
        Pathway

Programme onboarding
Delegates join their team mates online for a virtual onboarding experience. Delegates begin
the process of getting to know each other, engaging in conversations around the programme
framework, the modular development pathway and programme objectives.

Pre-module preparation
Delegates are invited to engage in self-reflection, and conversation with their programme
sponsor or manager to establish personal aims and objectives.
Delegates complete leadership assessment tools online for subsequent utilisation across
the entire development pathway. These include emotional intelligence and behavioural
profile reports.

Module 1: Inspiring the Self-aware Leader
Module one immerses delegates into a challenging voyage of self-discovery, understanding self
is the principal theme. Leading, managing, and understanding others, starts with understanding
the concept of behaviour. Individual behavioural profiles are explored, in addition to reflection
around the drivers and motivations behind behavioural routines and habits. The notion of
emotional intelligence is discussed, in addition to the impacts of high, or low E.I, on business
performance, career development, team relationships and self-development. Leadership and
management theories and models are explored, and opportunities are provided for
peer-to-peer feedback and reflection. This is an engaging, challenging, and highly experiential
module, which gets people out of their chairs, and delivers rich learning, collaborative
working, and fun!

Module 2: Inspiring, Leading, and Managing Others
The second module considers the delegates’ learning from module one, and how their
understanding of self, relates to their leadership of others. The requisite behaviours and
approaches to effectively leading, motivating and managing others is the principal theme.
Delegates explore effective conversation frameworks, and the challenges involved in skilfully
holding difficult conversations. The fundamental pillars of coaching are practiced, including the
provision of effective feedback. The theory and science of motivation is a key theme, including
an exploration of what it is, why it matters, and its impacts on human behaviour, relationships,
and business performance. In a similar vein to module one, this is a highly experiential module,
delivering immense insight, learning, and practical tools to enhance leadership effectiveness.

Module 3: Inspiring Commercial Agility
The impact, and the implications of a manager’s commercial behaviour is the principal
theme in module three. The approach is an outstanding blend of developing business
awareness, together with the practical application of commercial agility. Delegates engage
in an exploration of commercial understanding, considering the modern-day business
environment, and the leader’s commercial responsibility. Delegates’ commercial thinking
is challenged, as this relates to organisations, markets, customers, and financial constructs.
Experientially, delegates are invited to formulate a business strategy, in order to realise
an evident market opportunity, and lead a business towards a profitable outcome. The
delegate’s commercial thinking, and the decisions they make, will determine whether or
not they succeed.

Module 4: Inspiring Best-In-Class Leadership
Module four consolidates the delegate’s learning, derived from their development
pathway. The primary objective here, is enabling traction, and accelerating their
leadership effectiveness in the real-world environment. We provide delegates with
tools to build, lead and manage high-performing teams, that deliver exceptional results.
Specific frameworks are explored to achieve this, speaking into matters such as strategy
development, performance management, team theory, and accountability, as examples.
Delegates reflect on how they’ve practically applied their learning in the workplace,
preparing them for the final stages of their work-based project; additional experiential
activities highlight their progress and learning. Time for reflection and feedback is
provided to ensure delegates leave the programme with clear output goals and
objectives.

Support Visits & Coaching
An integral element of our Leadership Development Open Programme are the support
visits that occur between each of the four residential modules. Professional, accredited
coaches work with the delegates on a 1:1 basis, to support learning transfer, behaviour
change and the work-placed challenges that they will inevitably face. These support visits
have proven invaluable, in making the learning stick, nurturing sustainable performance
improvement, and delivering a return on investment from the development programme.

What our customers say

Competitive Edge have delivered a best-in-class programme here. Engaging, challenging,
entertaining – and really insightful. Seeing them skilfully tease out answers and witnessing the
awakening of ambition and commitment was something else, and I am left enthused for the
future. I had thought Competitive Edge were good ahead of the first day, now I know they’re
fantastic! Thoroughly impressed and would highly recommend.

Kevin Rogers, Chairman
Wilson Browne Solicitors

The team at Competitive Edge has made a tremendous contribution to my learning and
mind-set change. Their experience of working in multiple industry segments is evident in
their work, which is delivered skilfully and with extraordinary expertise. Make no mistake,
their leadership programmes are challenging, but this results in rich learning, heightened
self-awareness and ultimately, behaviour change. I would have absolutely no hesitation in
recommending Competitive Edge to any company looking to enhance and accelerate their
business performance.

Karl Stewart, UK & Ireland Country Manager
Industrial Scientific Corporation

Whatever your line of work, whatever your job role, whatever stage in your career, if you get
a chance to embark on this life-changing journey with Competitive Edge, take it! I only wish
someone had given me this opportunity years ago, it’s that powerful.

Jon Burman, Head of Special Businesses
Kärcher UK

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Key Programme Benefits:                                    Your Investment:
•   Increased employee engagement                          Start date: Please refer to our website
•   Improved business performance                          Duration: Four Modules of 3 days + support visits
•   Increased commercial thinking (savvy)
•   Improved communication                                 Time commitment: 12 days over 12 months
•   Increased productivity                                 Location: Northamptonshire
•   Increased talent retention                             Cost: £6,900 per delegate plus accommodation
•   Improved operational management
•   Improved business collaboration                        Cost includes: Programme on-boarding, 12 days of
•   Access to an industry recognised, world-class L&D 		   live face-to-face training, 4 virtual follow-up coaching
    provider for your business                             conversations, experiential activities, emotional
•   Higher business profitability                          intelligence, and behavioural profile reports.

Please contact us for more information:
Competitive Edge Training & Consultancy
Office 40
Burlington House
369 Wellingborough Road
Northampton
NN1 4EU
enquiries@yourcompetitiveedge.co.uk
01536 671063
www.yourcompetitiveedge.co.uk

Competitive Edge is privileged to work with some amazing companies,
committed to developing their people. These include,