Public Leadership Development Courses

Help your managers succeed by giving them the essential skills to balance relationships with results.

Blanchard Management Essentials is a world-class, transformational leadership programme delivered by a local facilitator for NZ managers. It is ideal for upskilling new managers or consolidating the skills of experienced leaders.

This practical and effective one-day course, with content from The One Minute Manager^® introduces the Four Core Conversations model, and the Four Essential Skills, culminating in a highly effective framework for managing people and performance. It helps leaders answer their team members’ three fundamental questions:

• What do I have to do? (Goal Setting Conversation)
• Am I doing it right, and if not, what behaviours do I have to change to do a good job? (Praising and/or Redirecting Conversations)
• How did I get on with mastering that task/completing that project, and what did we learn? (Wrapping Up Conversations)

During this one-day training workshop, participants are taught about the manager mindset, then learn and practice the skillset with real world scenarios that each participant brings to the training.

When:  Thursday 12th June 2025, 9am to 4.30pm

Where: Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland

Trainer:  Andy Graves  Andy has been facilitating and coaching for many years in corporate organisations in the UK and New Zealand. Andy believes in achieving high performance and outstanding results through building increased capability and inspiring targets in engaging and interactive ways.

This workshop is registered with the Regional Business Partner Network. To explore if your business is eligible for support, contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor here.

Download the Programme Overview here

Help your managers succeed by giving them the essential skills to balance relationships with results.

Blanchard Management Essentials is a world-class, transformational leadership programme delivered by a local facilitator for NZ managers. It is ideal for upskilling new managers or consolidating the skills of experienced leaders.

This practical and effective one-day course, with content from The One Minute Manager^® introduces the Four Core Conversations model, and the Four Essential Skills, culminating in a highly effective framework for managing people and performance. It helps leaders answer their team members’ three fundamental questions:

• What do I have to do? (Goal Setting Conversation)
• Am I doing it right, and if not, what behaviours do I have to change to do a good job? (Praising and/or Redirecting Conversations)
• How did I get on with mastering that task/completing that project, and what did we learn? (Wrapping Up Conversations)

During this one-day training workshop, participants are taught about the manager mindset, then learn and practice the skillset with real world scenarios that each participant brings to the training.

When:  Thursday 11th September 2025, 9am to 4.30pm

Where: Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland

Trainer:  Andy Graves  Andy has been facilitating and coaching for many years in corporate organisations in the UK and New Zealand. Andy believes in achieving high performance and outstanding results through building increased capability and inspiring targets in engaging and interactive ways.

This workshop is registered with the Regional Business Partner Network. To explore if your business is eligible for support, contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor here.

Download the Programme Overview here

Help your managers succeed by giving them the essential skills to balance relationships with results.

Blanchard Management Essentials is a world-class, transformational leadership programme delivered by a local facilitator for NZ managers. It is ideal for upskilling new managers or consolidating the skills of experienced leaders.

This practical and effective one-day course, with content from The One Minute Manager^® introduces the Four Core Conversations model, and the Four Essential Skills, culminating in a highly effective framework for managing people and performance. It helps leaders answer their team members’ three fundamental questions:

• What do I have to do? (Goal Setting Conversation)
• Am I doing it right, and if not, what behaviours do I have to change to do a good job? (Praising and/or Redirecting Conversations)
• How did I get on with mastering that task/completing that project, and what did we learn? (Wrapping Up Conversations)

During this one-day training workshop, participants are taught about the manager mindset, then learn and practice the skillset with real world scenarios that each participant brings to the training.

When:  Thursday 13th November 2025, 9am to 4.30pm

Where: Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland

Trainer:  Andy Graves  Andy has been facilitating and coaching for many years in corporate organisations in the UK and New Zealand. Andy believes in achieving high performance and outstanding results through building increased capability and inspiring targets in engaging and interactive ways.

This workshop is registered with the Regional Business Partner Network. To explore if your business is eligible for support, contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor here.

Download the Programme Overview here

SLII® is a proven, time-tested leadership model that has been used to train over 5 million managers in the world’s most respected organisations. During this two-day in-person workshop you'll learn a new language of leadership that will help you increase the quality and quantity of conversations you have with your team, accelerate their development, increase their performance, and support autonomy.  

After completing this course, participants will be trained to

• Compare their perceptions of their leadership style with those of their boss, colleagues, and direct reports
• Learn how to develop competent and committed employees by diagnosing their development level, then managing with the appropriate leadership style
• Learn how to reach agreement with others about how much direction and support they need to reach their goals
• Use case studies, games and video situations to apply SLII to your own real-life situations
  

Delivery: Tuesday 18th & Wednesday 19th November 2025, 8.30am to 5.00pm daily

Where: Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland

Trainer:  Dave Cordery  Dave is a Consulting Partner and Master Trainer who is passionate about helping people achieve transformation in the leadership space optimising both their own and their organisation’s performance.

This workshop is registered with the Regional Business Partner Network. To explore if your business is eligible for support, contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor here.

Download the Programme Overview here

The SLII Experience™ uses game-changing techniques that immerse learners in SLII deeply, and effectively. It’s an award-winning and dynamic design, and you can learn how to facilitate it. The Training for Trainers (T4T) program thoroughly prepares prospective practitioners, so they feel confident, motivated, and prepared to roll out The SLII Experience in their organisations.

Prerequisite:  Trainers must complete The SLII Experience™ workshop before attending Training for Trainers.

When:  Thursday 20th & Friday 21st November 2025

Where:  Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland

Trainer:  Robert Bryce Robert is an SLII® Master Trainer, based in Auckland, who is passionate and enthusiastic about the work he does. His goal is to help people become self reliant, effective leaders. Robert enjoys working with teams to develop culture, purpose and values that lead to high performance.

Download the Programme Overview here