Here’s a question for you:
What percentage of the leaders you work with are making permanent and significant shifts in their effectiveness?
Most organisations recognise the importance of leadership skills and invest a significant amount in trying to develop them with leadership programmes and coaching.
The problem is that too often this support doesn’t lead to a sustained shift in behaviour.
Many leadership programmes focus too heavily on knowledge and concepts. Participants leave with a clear intent of how they want to lead differently, but not with the skills to do so.
At Management Futures, we’ve been paying a lot of attention to how to increase the long-term impact of our work with leaders. We’re not content with just, say 30% of leaders on a programme making a significant and sustained leap forward in their effectiveness. Our ambition at MF is to dial this up to 90%. We’re certainly not there yet, but we are making a lot of progress, we’ve learned a lot and we’d like to share what we’re up to.
In this Learning Lab:
We bring together people with a passion to significantly advance the impact of their work with leaders. Whether through coaching or leadership programmes.
We explore:
- What the most important ingredients are for leaders to make a sustained shift in their effectiveness. A key output from the session will be a collective set of design principles to guide leadership development activity.
- What the most common traps are. You’ll get an opportunity to share your learning and experience with others, and together we’ll do some deep thinking about the effectiveness of current approaches.
We then put the design principles we’re exploring into practice. We’ll test what is possible in terms of rapid skill development in a feedback-rich environment.
To get the best out of this session and ensure the group gets the most from your experience, we ask you to bring along your reflections to two questions:
- What changes in approach have you seen have the largest impact?
- What do you still struggle with?
- This session was designed by Simon Eastwood
Inspired by this Learning Lab content?
If you would you like to run a Learning Lab like this in your organisation please email info@managementfutures.co.uk and we can talk through the next steps.
