Leadership Development
Great leadership starts from the top. Any leadership solution elr works on, starts with the end goal, the mission and vision of the organisation. This could be a relevant business mission or vision statement that outlines the strategic purpose of your organisation and what it wants to achieve.
Elr would work with your organisation to understand how aligned the teams are with that strategy and how it is made relevant to the employees and their roles within the business. Once we understand where the business is in terms of alignment, we can develop programmes that will help build leadership capability.
Any elr leadership development programme is designed to target ‘key people skills’ and provide the leadership & management capability that your organisation’s managers and leaders utilise, harness and portray daily. These programmes are customisable in terms of the subject areas, order, and number. Should there be anything specific that needs to be added/removed/changed this can be done with ease.
The Aspiring Leadership Programme
The Aspiring Leadership Programme has been designed to upskill individuals who are new to their leadership roles as well as those who are about to start their own journey of leadership. The programme focusses on shifting mind-sets to aid the transition from colleague to manager and further understand internal teams and the personalities within them as well as managing their performance.
Programme goals include:
Understand the fundamentals of leadership and management and recognise the difference.
Recognise and understand how to make the step up from colleague to manager.
Develop effective working relationships with team members and the organisation.
Manage performance effectively and efficiently.
Develop and grow the team to enhance performance.
Programme material is developed around best practices and would incorporate any existing working practices of your organisation. This programme can incorporate a final action learning set which is designed to tackle a business challenge or drive business improvement. This action learning set is designed to help drive business improvement by bringing together all the content, tools, and learning from the programme.
The Aspiring Leadership Programme is interactive and involves group exercises and discussions along with providing tools that can be taken back into the workplace. These programmes can be run virtually or face-to-face. Below are some example modules that our clients have taken advantage of:
Insights, Self-Awareness & Relationships
Motivational Leadership
Managing Team Performance
Developing Trusting Relationships
An Introduction to Coaching
Emotional Intelligence
The Inspiring Leadership Programme
The Inspiring Leadership Programme is designed to provide further development to experienced managers and leaders who already have great insight into roles carried out within their own functions. The programme will also support them to develop the performance and effectiveness of the teams that sit within their function and the execution of the overarching organisational strategy.
Programme goals include:
Understand the importance of leadership style and how great leaders create an inclusive environment for their teams.
Develop the emotional intelligence required to manage the pressures of leading teams.
Recognise the importance of relationships and how leaders build high-performing teams.
Develop and execute strategic business planning and ensure the team is aligned with the overarching organisational strategy.
Programme material is developed around best practices and would incorporate any existing working practices of your organisation. This programme can incorporate a final action learning set which is designed to tackle a business challenge or drive business improvement. This action learning set is designed to help drive business improvement by bringing together all the content, tools, and learning from the programme.
The Aspiring Leadership Programme is interactive and involves group exercises and discussions along with providing tools that can be taken back into the workplace. These programmes can be run virtually or face-to-face. Below are some example modules that our clients have taken advantage of:
Insights, Self-Awareness & Relationships
Inclusive Leadership
Strategic Business Planning
EDI Recruitment & Onboarding
Coaching & Mentoring
Psychometric Assessments
What do people want? - People’s core motives, values, and unconscious biases affect every aspect of their lives, from what they find rewarding to how they make decisions. Understanding employee values is key to creating an engaged and motivated workforce.
How will they get what they want? - Career success depends on personality as well as education, experience, and technical skill. Bright-side (or every day) personality characteristics predict success in careers, relationships, education, and life.
What will get in their way? - When people stop self-monitoring, strengths can become weaknesses. The ambitious salesperson turns into a cutthroat competitor. The meticulous accountant turns into a nit-picking micromanager. If these dark side personality characteristics go unrecognised, they can derail careers.
Critical Thinking
Whether its leadership development, enhancing team performance or helping make the right hiring decisions working with elr will help incorporate assessments and solutions into your people plans. Accredited practitioners for both Insights Discovery and Hogans Assessments are well positioned to help you understand more about each and how you can take advantage. Here is how:
Insights Discovery
At the very start of the self-awareness journey is Insights Discovery. A psychometric tool based on the psychology of Carl Jung. Insights Discovery is built to help people understand themselves, understand others, and make the most of the relationships that affect them in the workplace.
The Insights Discovery methodology uses a simple and memorable four colour model to help people understand their style, their strengths and the value they bring to the team. We call these the colour energies, and it's the unique mix of Fiery Red, Sunshine Yellow, Earth Green and Cool Blue energies, which determines how and why people behave the way they do.
Working with elr allows your organisation to take advantage of the range of ways that this psychometric can be applied. Individuals complete a simple 25-frame evaluator and receive a profile with a number of optional chapters that provide insight into:
Personal style, interacting with others & decision making.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Value to the team & communication
Blind spots and opposite types
Management
Effective Selling
Interviews
From this profile, elr can work with your organisation to create development activities such as workshops and coaching for individual contributors, teams and leaders. Whether embedded in a wider programme of learning or in isolation elr can help leverage Insights Discovery to help your organisation enhance their culture where its people understand themselves, understand others, and make the most of the relationships that affect them in the workplace.
Hogans
Simply put, Hogans know how and why people behave the way they do. Hogan Assessments help organisations understand if people will align with them if they will meet the job requirements, and how they will perform. Hogan’s comprehensive approach to personality assessment provides the depth and detail needed to hire the right employees, identify, and develop talented individuals, and build better leaders.
Working with elr, your organisation can incorporate Hogans into hiring processes for mid to senior-level roles as well as effective talent management and succession planning initiatives. Combined with a senior-level development programme and individual coaching, your organisation can get a better understanding of 3 key questions.
By embedding solutions incorporating Insights Discovery & Hogans Assessments, your organisation will develop individual contributions from teams as well as drive better performance, enhanced leadership capability and careful, well-thought-out hiring decisions.