Leadership development
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1:1 Leadership Coaching
Bright busy people generally have within them ideas to resolve complex issues - what they often lack is the headspace to realise this.
Confidential 1:1 coaching sessions for leaders in high stakes settings deliver clarity and actionable results that can make a difference that same day. Sessions are delivered in-person, virtually or in combination, and easily accommodated within leaders’ busy schedules.
Intent
A clear focus coupled with brain-friendly techniques are essential for those expanding their leadership responsibility, especially when broadening from a specialist professional role. 1:1 coaching enables you to become a confident leader of people, learning to apply the mental and behavioural toolkit needed to deliver success through others, whether or not you have line management responsibility for them.
Impact
Through coaching you can explore proven practices, tools and techniques founded in behavioural psychology and neuroscience. Each coaching session enables you to test these practices in your own role and analyse the impact of changing your approach to people dynamics, particularly when leading teams of highly capable peers.
Insight
You will be able to review your own behavioural data and adjust your leadership operating model as you progress. Coaching gives the opportunity to plan for successful interactions with teams and individuals, forearmed with key behavioural insights and strategies. You will feel and ‘be’ more in command of the changes you need to make happen.
Leadership Development Programmes
Tailormade leadership development programmes for cohorts of established and emerging leaders. Thinkfreer programmes blend 1:1 coaching, skills development workshops, psychometrics and action-based peer groups, and designed to suit specific business drivers and pace of change needed.
Intent
Success in leadership is about doing the right thing and ensuring others also do things right. Whether you are naturally directive or non-directve as a senior leader, you need to set the course, enable action through others and uphold your values. A Thinkfreer programme will stretch leaders’ strategic focus, when to stand firm, when to be nimble and when to adpat.
Impact
The interplay between leaders and other key players determines the likelihood of delivering successful results. Our leadership development programmes challenge leaders to upskill on the best behavioural dynamics and engagement strategies for teams and indivdiuals they need to influence.
Insight
Use of leadership psychometrics and feedback structures develop leadership self-awareness. Thinkfreer leadership programmes enable leaders to self analyse the gaps between intent and impact, seek feedback and then devise immediately actionable steps.
Workshop Facilitation
In-situ leaders can struggle to facilitate workshops with their own teams whilst maintaining a meta view. Thinkfreer is your trusted partner to plan, devise and facilitate workshops that bring everyone on board, overcome differences, enable innovation, and that also deliver clear outcomes.
Intent
Identifying the essential deliverables from a workshop is our starting point. What outcomes are needed and doable? What is working or not and needs to be addressed? We take this diagnosis into workshop design and produce workshop schemes that are pragmatic, interesting and engaging for bright minds. We invest in understanding your world, your context and your language so that we make very best use of peoples’ time and energy when they are together.
Impact
Our goal is to make the invested time worthwhile for all workshop particpants. We craft different ways of getting people to work together, in a businesslike, professional and respectful way, without seeming frivoulous. Being in an energising venue is invaluable, and we can craft virtual events that are equally engaging. We don’t do hybrid workshops. It’s one or the other so that everyone is on an equal footing. We ensure the team create outputs that make sense, are immediately usable and that advance actions across the wider organisation.
Insight
Learning to work together productively is a continuous quest. Leaders and their teams will come away from the workshop having significantly progressed collective objectives, and having deepened the team’s effectiveness in working well together.
When you’re ready to learn, the teacher appears.
Zen Proverb