Leading Organisations

Unlock experienced leaders’ growth potential

Experienced leaders need support to get their teams to the next level, while also staying on track for their next promotion. This requires learning the skills to inspire others and help them to improve and advance in their careers.

Become an effective coach - Learning effective coaching skills helps your team members reach their individual and collective goals.

Build your influence - Developing strategies for meaningfully influencing decision-makers and organisational processes increases your effectiveness as a manager.

Learn as you lead - Continuing your learning journey and developing your management skills helps reinforce a culture of continuous learning in your team and the larger organisation.

Experienced managers set the pace— give them a road map for success

Your experienced leaders manage day-to-day goal execution and empower and engage your frontline employees. Effective leadership training at this level focuses on the ability to manage up as well as down and the ability to have difficult conversations. Blanchard understands the importance of preparing these managers for success in managing teams, while managing executive leadership expectations. Experienced leaders must learn how to:

Guide and empower direct reports on career development
Provide line of sight to annual strategic organisational goals and priorities
Create an inclusive environment that motivates, develops, and retains a diverse talent base
Lead decisively and set clear expectations, making tough but necessary decisions when required
Drive a focus on results, setting the pace and standards
Foster a team culture of innovation and idea generation
Create a collaborative culture for team members and partners
Inspire others through visible leadership and presence
Embrace change, anticipating and adapting in response to business needs

Prepare your next generation of executive leaders

In leading critical business functions, your senior leaders are the bridge between the executive team’s vision and the managers of the company’s day-to-day execution. Senior leaders are charged with translating broad goals into departmental and operating unit tasks.

Connect to the company’s vision

Sharing their leadership point of view and personal stories, these leaders show employees the connection between their work and the company’s long-term vision.

Motivate teams

Great senior leaders inspire and engage their teams through effective communication, creating a culture of high performance and accountability, and fostering an inclusive work environment.

Create a customer-centric organisation

As advocates for exceptional internal and external customer service, senior leaders set the example for accountability, innovation and soliciting feedback to anticipate customer needs.

Senior leaders operationalise the organisation’s vision and values

Senior leaders transform the company’s vision into departmental and division goals, fostering cross-organisational collaboration, leading change initiatives, and inspiring innovation. These leaders are the key to creating an inclusive, high-performance workplace culture that reflects the company’s values. Blanchard believes senior leaders benefit from evidence-based leadership training frameworks and opportunities to discuss challenges and share best practices with their senior management peers. In their roles, senior leaders must be able to:

Identify and implement appropriate work structures and processes to accomplish goals
Bring cross-disciplinary knowledge to bear on issues and opportunities
Manage and develop effective working relationships with people from other functions to achieve common objectives
Create a nimble environment based on a culture of adjustments and realignment
Advance diversity and inclusion, engaging diverse teams to solve business challenges
Investigate and adopt best practices from within and outside the organisation

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Inspired executives empower long-term success

Today’s executive must blend business acumen that allows agile adaption to change, with inclusive leadership and proven management skills that inspire everyone to do their best work. They align the company’s purpose, culture, and strategic imperatives to deliver business results.

Apply strategic thinking

Analyse and evaluate the company's opportunities and challenges, and develop a plan to build organisational resilience and achieve long-term success.

Lead authentically

Cultivate self-awareness and lead with integrity, being open and honest in their communication, and building trust with their team.

Develop future leaders

Identify and nurture the next generation of leaders and help them develop the competencies and skills that will be required for future leaders to succeed.

Inspired executives unlock untapped potential

Blanchard believes the most effective executives take a servant leadership approach, prioritise the well-being of their employees, and create a culture of empowerment and collaboration. They lead by example, serve as mentors, and work to develop their people’s untapped potential. Building upon achieved success and focused on refinement, these leaders identify unique ways they can contribute to the organisation’s growth. Executives benefit from an intentional executive development journey focused on honing the skills needed to:

Inspire a culture of self-leadership
Develop and mobilise a long-term talent pipeline
Drive innovation and transformation to position the company for success
Ensure initiatives and priorities are integrated with one another and aligned with strategic business priorities
Promote alignment of key stakeholders across functions
Establish, communicate, and reinforce shared values and norms to get things done
Nurture a culture of idea generation
Enable organisational experimentation and implementation of new ideas

SLII Leading Hybrid Teams Leadership Point of View Conversational Capacity Servant Leadership Essentials Courageous Inclusion Coaching Essentials Team Leadership Leading People Through Change