Achieving High Performance Leadership

A uniquely powerful, no nonsense, practical approach to major performance improvement and sustainable change in your organisation

Course Overview

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This dynamic 2-day course will challenge everything you have ever learned about managing and leading and replace it with powerful tools, techniques and strategies that have been proven to deliver truly outstanding results. If you need to act to enhance your leadership and management skills and if you have the courage – we have the solution:

Do you know how to access the Hidden Advantage – tapping into the source of all enthusiasm, motivation, commitment, initiative, creativity, resilience and persistence in your staff and supervisors?
Do you know as a leader how to be the catalyst to challenge the status quo in your organisation?
Are you plagued by internal politics and don’t know how to stop it dead in its tracks?
Do you know how to create an “A” grade game that will attract, enrol, engage and inspire an “A” grade team in your organisation?
Could planning tools used by the SAS who court death on every mission help you breathe life into your work challenges?
Do you know how to communicate with people and “light the fire” to lift their game right across your organisation?
Do you understand how to respond to the fundamental global paradigms of change that present every 21st century leader and manager with radical new challenges?

This course is definitely different. It is only for leaders and managers who are feeling the pain of lack of results and thus definitely need significantly improved performance and real change in their organisation.

Are you personally faced with the need to enhance your leadership and management skills? Are you responsible for counseling someone who is?
Have you realised that more of the same won’t cut it and that bringing in high priced consultants is not the answer for your challenges?
Do you appreciate that the leadership buck stops with you and that you have to drive the changes?
Do you understand that business is a tough game and that you have two years before they will come gunning for you if you have not performed?
Do you want to give two days of your very precious time to a workshop that will rock your thinking on 21st century leadership and management?
Do you want to go back to work and immediately put practical new leadership and management tools to work for you?
Do you have the courage and are serious about the need to challenge your organisation’s status quo?

WHY THIS COURSE IS UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED BEFORE

You know that a lot of conventional training courses don’t cut it. Why? Because like most high priced consultants, they stay in the domain of the mind – ideas, concepts, theories, case studies – all the usual parade.

So why is this leadership programme so powerfully different? Because it cuts to the core of the 21st century leadership and management issues:

Do you understand why high calibre people are looking for a game and not a job?
Do you know how to create a dynamic culture of empowerment that will help make your staff reach new levels of performance?
Are you interested in learning the same powerful vision and planning tools that NASA used on the Apollo Space programme and that our Special Forces use to plan their missions?
Do you understand that what worked in the past is not enough to propel your business and people to where you ultimately want to be? This course will provide you with a road map that will detail exactly what you need to do in order to get there!

We guarantee that you will leave these two days equipped with answers to all the above issues and many more besides. Within a short period of time, things will be powerfully and sustainably different.

MEET YOUR EXPERT COURSE LEADER – DAVID POWELL

David Powell specialises in executive leadership facilitation and management development. His corporate career spanned 14 years in oil and gas with BP, Amoco and AGL and 10 years in information technology with ICL and Tandem where he held general management roles.

Since 1993, he has worked across five continents with more than 130 clients including Rothschild, QBE, AT&T, Intel, Towers Perrin, Thomas Cook, Fujitsu, Nortel, Frank Russell, Electrolux, Arab Bank, Cable and Wireless, GSK, Merck, Sharpe and Dome, World Vision, Ericsson, IBM, Placer Dome Gold, Jim Beam, Ernst & Young and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

David focuses on what he calls The Hidden Advantage, unleashing the power of the whole person - body, mind, emotions and spirit in business.

David’s approach is pragmatic. He provides his clients with a powerful range of practical tools and approaches to enable management to tap The Hidden Advantage latent in their staff and achieve optimum performance and results.

Booking Information

To have a customised version of this course delivered In-House please call Tom Gooderham on +44 (0)20 7017 7195.

This course will be held on the above listed dates in central London. For more information about venue please click here.

Programme Details

DAY ONE

DEFINING THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

The leadership craft
- apprentice
- journeyman
- mastery
What lessons can be learned from past great business leaders?
Playing hard or easy
what’s needed for success in the 21st century?
Leadership and accelerated – how to awaken the sleeping mind

THE HIDDEN ADVANTAGE – KEYS TO ACCESSING MOTIVATION AND ENTHUSIASM

Why you are definitely not getting your money’s worth from your salary and wages bill
Recognising, addressing and inspiring the whole person Accessing the hidden power of engaging body, mind, emotions and spirit
Why you don’t need more operating expenditure or headcount
16 cylinder performance - why settle for less?

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT – TWO OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE COIN

Clarifying the key differences – what really is the difference?
Coping with 21st century realities
Commanding vs demanding respect: what would your people say about your approach?
Positional power dinosaurs – the path to extinction
Personal power – why it is critical that you show them the way and enrol them in your game

FAMOUS LEADERS IN HISTORY – THE QUALITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS

Who were they?
What did they do?
What did they have?
Be – Do – Have – keys to leadership clarified
Famous non–leaders – what’s missing?

HIGH IMPACT LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION

The importance of purpose and vision
Purpose and mission statements – why they are usually a waste of time
Cognitive processing – faces and names. Which do you remember?
Harnessing the power of a graphical vision
The picture is worth a 1000 words – what this means in a performance context

THE LEADER AS A KEY GAME MAKER

Understanding the “true” source of all motivation and enthusiasm
What’s the game?
Unlocking the leadership secrets taught to us by children (and world cup football!)
Why no-one is looking for a job and everyone is looking for a game
There will always be a game – which is to be:
- Let’s work as a high performance team to achieve our success vision
- Let’s play politics
- Let’s get the boss

ADDRESSING THE CORE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE TEAM

That’s the spirit!!
Understanding your staff engagement tone scale
The two ends of the spectrum:
enthusiastic action or apathy and hopelessness
Or somewhere in the middle - which is it in your organisation?
Emotional intelligence – why it’s the wrong end of the stick
Spirit intelligence – unleashing the hidden resources of staff enthusiasm

THE POWER OF VISION EXPLORED

Why graphical vision is so powerful as a leadership and management tool
Vision gravity – how to harness hidden forces
Compression and tension forces – working for you or against you?
- You need to know because it makes it so much easier to be a good leader
Using iconic visions – it’s easy when you know how
Developing your graphical future success vision
Selling the vision – real leadership in action

YOUR LEADERSHIP ZONE OF EMPOWERMENT

Your staff and the Terminator
They are scanning you!
What are you projecting?
Exploring your external zone of leadership empowerment
As within – so without - exploring your internal zone of achievement
Spotting the “impostors”. How the staff know: you can’t fool them

THE THREE TRAPS OF PLANNING THAT CATCH MOST LEADERS

Why planning usually does not work
The three planning traps revealed
Assessing the true cost of planning traps
How to get around them successfully

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH THE POWER OF GRAPHICAL PLANNING

Don’t plan forward in time, plan backwards!
Understanding how to use the most effective planning techniques ever developed
- Techniques invented by the US Navy Polaris project
- Used by NASA to plan the Apollo Space program
- Used by our special forces (US, UK, Aus) to plan each mission
- If it’s good enough for the SAS who court death, could it inject life into your strategic plans?
The graphical planning language
Seven simple steps to developing graphical plans
100% sense engagement
Stop talking and use the power of graphics
Awesome proven improvements in staff strategy communication, comprehension and retention

WHAT ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS REALLY BUYING

Leading edge customer value tools – what are you currently relying on?
Internal and external customers – is there a difference?
Gold or lead medals – what do you want?
21st century reality - it’s your people – not the product
Does your planning reflect that?

PLANNING AND YOUR MIND – THE SECRET WEAPON OF OUTSTANDING LEADERS

How do you store time in your mind?
Checking your time spatial logic
How to check your staff
Amazing efficiency improvements for 10 minutes work
Why you can’t plan if your mind is wired incorrectly
Re-wiring your mind for maximum leadership power

DAY TWO

UNREASONABLE CHAMPIONS – THEIR CRITICAL ROLE IN GETTING THINGS DONE

Nothing happens without unreasonable champions
Finding them in your business
Harnessing their tenacity to get things done

ENGAGING YOUR STAFF IN THE GAME

The power of the contribution contracts
- Who are the customers they serve (internal and external)?
- What are their customers’ performance value criteria?
- What are the gold medal performance standards?
- What work needs to be done?
- Ensuring accountability and responsibility

HOW TO EMPOWER YOUR STAFF

Are they able to perform to gold medal standards?
- skills and abilities
Do they have the chance to perform?
- great support systems and empowering culture
Do they want to perform?
- a range of powerful motivation analysis keys explained

UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF SYSTEMS

Experiencing and understanding the power of systems for leaders and managers
Play the systems game – can you beat the world record?
Chasing effect
Sloppy / loose systems - the root cause of 97% of ‘mistakes’
You cannot enact your leadership strategies without being a systems fanatic
Duplication – the toughest management challenge
Calibrating your staff support systems
What to do first to fix the challenges

DEVELOPING AN EMPOWERING CULTURE

Trust and assertion – the keys to strong culture
The team trust account
Trust deposits
Stopping the trust withdrawals
A powerful assertion tool
Assertion not aggression

THE POWER OF INTENT

Critical leadership tools
Why scenario planning is so lethally dangerous to your success
The power of postulates in creating the required vision success reality
Handling cross-postulates – the undying commitment to mediocrity
Handling counter-postulates – opposition
The power of your intent – understand it / calibrate it / strengthen it

DEALING WITH THE ALIENS OF RESISTANCE

Identifying and strengthening your potential points of failure
It’s mostly in the systems
Flame thrower strategies to ensure you succeed
Aliens of resistance – no mercy, no prisoners
Choosing the alien of the month – not spray and pray!

LIGHTING THE FIRE OF ENTHUSIASM

Communicating your game plan to your stakeholders
Using the war room – wherever you go
You remember the face – you can’t remember the name
Stop talking – start using pictures
Communication success is the feedback you get
Radically improving your leadership communication skills

THE POWER OF THE MASTERMIND

What is a Mastermind
Your Mastermind group
Forming and using your Mastermind
You can’t be a leader on your own
The hidden power of a mastermind – incredible leadership advantages

LEADERSHIP – THE WORLD SHORTAGE

It’s easier to follow than it is to lead
If not you, then who and if not now, then when?
Leadership – a way of life

Course Leader

David Powell specialises in executive leadership facilitation and management development. His corporate career spanned 14 years in oil and gas with BP, Amoco and AGL and 10 years in information technology with ICL and Tandem where he held general management roles.

David focuses on what he calls The Hidden Advantage, unleashing the power of the whole person - body, mind, emotions and spirit in business.