Emerging Leaders Program

This 12 month program is designed to empower emerging leaders by leveraging the principles of positive psychology to foster growth, resilience and effective leadership skills.

This program is a combination of workshops, 1:1 coaching and practical, evidence-based tools to enable you and your team to turn your potential into performance.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Understanding your values provides you with a framework for making decisions to align your actions against goals, build trust and credibility with colleagues, peers and teams and assist in navigating conflicts.

Developmental Outcomes


Clarity and Alignment: Gaining clarity on your core values is essential for aligning personal, team and company goals. 


Enhanced Self-awareness: By understanding your values, you'll  develop greater self-awareness. This helps you recognise your strengths and areas for improvement, leading to more authentic leadership and the ability to leverage your unique qualities.


Improved Goal Setting: Understanding your values enables you to set more meaningful and purpose-driven goals. You'll learn to prioritize objectives that resonate with your core values, leading to increased motivation and fulfillment in your role.


Benefits


Increased Engagement and Motivation: Leaders who are clear about their values are more engaged and motivated, as their work is aligned with what they find deeply meaningful. This intrinsic motivation can also inspire and engage your teams.


Better Decision-making: Values act as a compass during challenging situations, guiding leaders to make decisions that reflect their principles. This leads to consistent and trustworthy leadership, which can earn the respect and trust of their peers and colleagues.


Resilience and Adaptability: Understanding and adhering to personal values give you a strong foundation to navigate change and adversity. You are more resilient as you can rely on your values to guide you through uncertainty, helping you to adapt and thrive in dynamic environments.

Working from a strengths perspective leads to enhanced engagement and motivation, improved performance, higher levels of wellbeing and improved team dynamics, creating a positive and empowering work environment.

Developmental Outcomes:


Enhanced Self-Awareness: You'll develop deeper self-awareness by identifying and understanding and using your strengths, providing insights on how you can perform at your best. 


Optimized Performance:  By focusing on what you do best, you can improve efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness in your role.


Improved Team Dynamics: Understanding your own strengths elevates your ability to recognize and appreciate the strengths of others. This knowledge fosters better collaboration and synergy within your team, leading to more cohesive and productive work environment.


Benefits:


Increased Engagement and Job Satisfaction: Leaders who work within their strengths are more likely to feel engaged and satisfied with their work. This positive engagement can diminish burnout and increase overall job fulfillment, setting a positive example for their team.


Stronger Leadership Presence: Leveraging strengths allows you to exhibit confidence and authenticity, which enhances your leadership presence. This  inspires trust and respect from team members, colleagues, and stakeholders.


Greater Resilience and Adaptability: Focusing on strengths equips you to handle stress and challenges more effectively. It enhances your resilience, allowing you to adapt to changes and bounce back from setbacks by relying on what they do best.

Incorporating wellbeing into leadership development not only benefits the leaders themselves but also has a ripple effect, promoting a healthier, more engaged, and productive team and company.

Developmental Outcomes:


Comprehensive Understanding of Wellbeing:You'lll gain a thorough understanding of the multidimensional aspects of wellbeing, including physical, mental, emotional, and social health. This knowledge will help you cultivate personal wellbeing and create an environment that supports the wellbeing of your team.


Development of Resilience Strategies: You will  learn specific strategies to build resilience in yourself and your team. By understanding the different types of stress and their impact on yourself and others, you'll develop skills to identify and and effectively manage stress. You'll  learn how to navigate challenges and maintain productivity under pressure.


Enhanced Emotional Intelligence: Focusing on wellbeing encourages the development of emotional intelligence skills, such as empathy and self-regulation. You will learn how to notice and manage your own emotions and understanding those of others, which is essential for effective communication and conflict resolution.


Benefits:


Improved Performance and Productivity:

Wellbeing is closely linked to performance. Leaders who prioritize wellbeing can maintain higher energy levels and focus, leading to improved performance and productivity, both individually and within their teams.


Positive Company Culture: By understanding and promoting wellbeing, leaders contribute to creating a positive company culture which leads to enhanced employee satisfaction and retention, reduce absenteeism, and attract talent seeking supportive work environments.


Sustainable Leadership Development: Incorporating wellbeing into your leadership development journey ensures you'll develop develop sustainably, preventing burnout and promoting long-term career satisfaction and success. Well-rounded leaders are more likely to thrive and contribute positively throughout their careers.

Emotional Intelligence coaching encourages leaders to tap into their internal motivations and align them with their leadership goals. This focus can increase personal drive and inspire others in your team and company.

Developmental Outcomes:


Enhanced Self-Regulation: You will learn techniques to manage your emotions, enabling you to respond thoughtfully instead of reacting impulsively. This self-regulation fosters a calm and composed approach during challenging situations.


Improved Interpersonal Skills: You will develop the skills necessary to communicate effectively and build strong relationships. Through understanding your own emotions and those of others, you will learn to practice empathy, active listening, and constructive feedback.


Conflict Resolution Proficiency: You will gain the ability to recognize and navigate conflicts with emotional awareness by learning strategies for addressing misunderstandings and fostering collaboration, resulting in more positive team dynamics.


Benefits:


Stronger Leadership Relationships: Leaders with high emotional intelligence tend to build better relationships with their team members. This fosters trust, loyalty, and open communication, creating a supportive work environment enhancing team dynamics.


Increased Team Performance: By modeling emotionally intelligent behaviors, leaders can inspire their teams to emulate these practices. This can lead to higher engagement, morale, and overall performance, as team members feel understood and valued.


Enhanced Adaptability and Resilience: Leaders who possess emotional intelligence are better equipped to handle change and adversity. Their ability to perceive emotions allows for more effective problem-solving and adaptability, helping teams navigate challenges with confidence.

By understanding stress you'll design specific coping strategies to develop and enhance your resilience & GRIT. This enables you to navigate challenges more effectively and recover from setbacks, fostering long-term success.

Developmental Outcomes:


Understanding Energy Dynamics: You will learn to identify your energy sources and drains, gaining insights into how different activities, people and environments affect your physical, emotional, and cognitive energy levels. This self-awareness is crucial for maintaining optimal performance.


Development of Personal Energy Management Techniques: You will acquire practical strategies for managing your energy throughout the day, such as time management, prioritizing tasks, and incorporating breaks or mindfulness practices. These techniques help you maintain focus and productivity.


Creation of a High-Energy Team Environment: You will learn to foster an environment that promotes energy and enthusiasm within your team. You will explore ways to motivate team members, recognise and address energy drains, and cultivate a motivated, engagaged, performing team culture.


Benefits:


Increased Productivity and Performance: Effective energy management leads to improved focus and efficiency, allowing you to accomplish more in less time while reducing the risk of burnout. This boosts your own and your teams performance.


Enhanced Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction: By managing your energy, you will experience lower stress levels and increased job satisfaction. A balanced approach promotes better physical and mental health, which can lead to increased resilience and higher retention rates among team members.


Improved Decision-Making and Creativity: Leaders who are energized are more likely to think clearly and creatively. By managing your energy, you can enhance your critical thinking skills and innovation, leading to better decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.

You will leverage Positive Psychology principles, theories and frameworks in Leadership to foster high performance in yourself and your team.

Developmental Outcomes:


Understanding of Positive Leadership Principles: You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the core principles of Positive Leadership (Cameron), including the importance of fostering a positive environment and work culture through collabortation. 


Development of Skills for Building Positive Relationships: You will learn how to foster positive relationships within your team by employing practices such as appreciation, recognition, and supportive communication. This skill set is essential for cultivating trust and collaboration in a diverse work environment.


Application of Positive Change Strategies: You will gain practical tools and strategies for driving positive change within your team and company. This includes learning how to create a shared vision, inspire others, and implement initiatives that enhance wellbeing and performance across the organization.


Benefits:


Enhanced Team Engagement and Morale: Through Positive Leadership (Cameron) practices team members feel valued and motivated, leading to higher job satisfaction, loyalty and performance.


Improved Company Performance: Positive Leadership (Cameon) has been linked to improved compnay performance, including increased productivity, creativity, and innovation. Leaders who embrace this framework are better equipped to create high-performing teams that deliver results.


Fostering a Culture of Resilience and Wellbeing:  Incorporating Positive Leadership (Cameron) promotes a culture of resilience and wellbeing within your team. You will learn to prioritize wellbeing of your  team members as well as their performance through results. This leads to a healthier work environment that supports sustainable performance over time.

Through incorporating an understanding of motivation and purpose in your leadership development journey you'll create an environment that attracts and retains talent, drive performance, and foster overall wellbeing.

Developmental Outcomes:


Understanding of Motivational Theories: You will learn about key motivational theories, such as intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and how these concepts influence behavior and performance. This knowledge will help you recognize what drives you and your team members and how to tap into those motivations effectively.


Development of Meaningful Goal-Setting Skills: You will acquire skills to set and communicate  purpose-driven goals that resonate with your values and the values of their team members. You will learn how to align personal goals with company objectives, fostering a sense of purpose.


Strategies for Cultivating a Purposeful Work Environment: You will explore strategies for creating a work environment that emphasizes meaning and purpose. This includes fostering connections, recognizing contributions, and creating opportunities for personal and professional growth within their teams.


Benefits:


Increased Employee Engagement: Understanding motivation and meaning allows you to create a work environment that fosters engagement. When people feel their work is meaningful, they are more likely to be committed, enthusiastic, and invested in their roles.


Enhanced Team Performance: When leaders skillfully motivate their teams and foster a sense of meaning, overall team performance improves. Teams that understand the 'why' behind their work are more likely to collaborate effectively and strive for excellence, driving better outcomes for the company.


Greater Resilience and Retention: A focus on motivation and meaning enhances  psychological resilience, enabling you and your team to better cope with challenges. This strong sense of purpose can also lead to higher retention rates, as people are more likely to stay with companies that align with their values and provide fulfilling work.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Why I put this Program together

This 12-month program grounded in evidence based positive psychology and coaching psychology offers a comprehensive approach to leadership development.


I put this program together to address a notable gap during my career in leadership competence due a lack of formal training on fundamental skills often overlooked on shorter courses.


Meaningful personal and professional development takes time, commitment, dedication, and a sense of curiosity on how you can perform to your potential. 

This program allows you to delve deep into evidence based positive psychology principles; practice, apply and integrate these new skills in the real world leading to sustained growth and performance.


The timeframe allows for regular feedback and reflection sessions to fully internalise and apply the new skills, tools, frameworks and techniques enabling the growth of a psychologically healthy leadership mindset.

Target Audience

Early Career Professionals: Individuals in the early stages of their careers who have demonstrated potential for leadership roles and are looking to develop foundational leadership skills and attributes.


New Managers & Leaders: Emerging Managers transitioning from individual contributor roles and need support in developing effective team management and leadership capabilities.


Struggling Managers & Leaders: This program can help  managers and leaders currently struglling in their roles with the insights and tools to renewtheir perspective and approach to leadership. 


Product Owners/Mangers: This program can help Product Owners/Managers improve interpersonal and communication skills to work more effectively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and customers, fostering a collaborative environment crucical for succesful product development.


Business Analysts/Project Managers: can develop key leadership qualities to enhance theor effectiveness in driving projects and intiatives forward, maintaining motivation, perfromance and engagement throughout the project lifecycle


Entrepreneurs: Startup founders and entrepreneurs who are leading growing teams and need to develop leadership skills to effectively guide their businesses and foster a positive company culture.


High-Potential Employees: Identified talent within companies who have shown strong potential for future leadership positions and who could benefit from structured development to accelerate their readiness for greater responsibilities.

Program Offering

‘Emerging Leaders Development Program’: A 12 month period to enable the new skills time to fully develop, by exploring these new skills in depth, practice them in real-life situations.

Emerging Leaders need time embed their new learnings and to reflect on their experiences and adapt their strategies accordingly which is crucial for meaningful growth and mastery.

This timeframe offers opportunities for true learning and development allowing participants to fully integrate the new concepts into their leadership style.


'Accelerator Learning and Application’: A 6-month program for existing managers/leaders who have foundational skills and experience allowing for accelerated learning, enabling participants to apply new concepts and strategies quicker in their current roles, enhancing their leadership effectiveness.


Individual workshops for Teams and Groups: A half day workshop focusing on specific topics such as strengths, resilience, emotional intelligence or team dynamics, participants can develop targeted skills to enhance their effectiveness within their current roles.


Program Price

The Emeging Leaders Development Program costs £4,995 + vat

Individual Workshops cost £995 + vat


FEATURES & STRUCTURE

Live Classes

Each topic will have a live 1 hour session allowing for in-depth exploration of the specific topics ensuring each session is tailored to cover key concepts, tools and applications related to the topic.


This format creates a structured learning pathway as participants progressively build their knowledge and skills, allowing time to reflect, practice and integrate their learnings between sessions, promoting deeper understanding and sustainable change.


Individual Coaching

We will have 2 x 1:1 60-minute coaching sessions a month.

The focus of these sessions will be on one of the program topics and we’ll explore how you can apply the learnings in the real world by setting specific, measurable goals.


Each quarter we will have a two-hour session to review and reflect on challenges, learnings and development.


In total that will be 32 hours of 1:1 coaching over the 12 months.


Developmental Workbooks

As part of the program, you will receive tailored content and resources to meet your unique needs, challenges and goals.

This ensures your learning is directly relevant, engaging, and applicable, enhancing your ability to implement new concepts to your leadership practice.


Evidence Based Tools

Using evidence-based tools helps ground the learning experience in scientifically validated methods and practices that have been shown to enhance leadership effectiveness and wellbeing.


These evidence-based tools are backed by research and psychological principles ensuring the strategies and practices taught on the program are scientifically validated, enable clear metrics and benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the program.


Integrating evidence-based tools into the program ensures participants have access to reliable, effective methods for enhancing their leadership skills enabling sustained personal and professional growth.