Leadership Development

We work with small and medium-sized companies to make their managers and team leaders into highly productive and skilled leaders of people.

Why train leaders?

Most companies promote good, smart people, then expect new and different things from them as a leader.

Sometimes, the are offered training, but 90% is about learning content. They learn a lot, forget most, and implement almost none of it.

Leaders need specific tools to be good at the job.

Smaller, shorter trainings over a longer timeframe are more effective at embedding new skills and changing behaviors than larger one-off intensive training programs are (see the research summary here).

Small bites often, not one big chunk.

Our approach

We focus on teaching practical skills in small doses, then building upon those skills for high-leverage.

• Start with the simple things that buy more time and reduce wasted effort.

• Teach high-leverage skills that prevent today’s problems whilst creating tomorrow’s value.

• Work better with people. Prevent conflict and foster growth and up-skilling of people.

We help people get more done, smarter, fast.

Skills we teach

Most people benefit from practicing skills like:

• Delegation and coaching

• Feedback, Conflict communication, having difficult conversations

• Prioritization habits

• Workload management

• Working with people who are different than you

• Running effective meetings

• Knowing who you are and who you aren’t, then acting accordingly