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Leadership Programmes

Our leadership programmes are designed to provide skills and approaches for developing strategic thinking, enhancing leadership skills, navigating change, and raising self-awareness to increase team and business effectiveness, drive growth, and foster the ability to adapt in dynamic environments.

Our programmes include:

Our programme overviews provide an insight into what we offer. To ensure our programmes meet your specific needs, we tailor the design and content to align with your learning outcomes and business objectives. We create bespoke case studies and scenarios that reflect your leadership context and form the foundation of training and role play exercises.

Elevation Learning - Leadership Programmes

Consulting Business Leadership

The Consulting Business Leadership programme is designed to provide the skills and knowledge to effectively manage and grow a consulting practice, including leadership strategies, business development, team management, client relationships, and operational excellence.

Programme aims

The programme equips participants with:

  • Leadership skills specific to consulting business environments
  • Strategies for business growth and sustainability
  • Capabilities in team, client relationship, and performance management

Programme content

The programme includes:

  • Leadership success – role and attributes of successful leaders, and consulting industry trends, challenges, and opportunities
  • Business strategy and planning – defining business strategy, strategic planning, and setting long-term goals
  • Business development – identifying market opportunities, developing a growth strategy, and diversifying service offerings
  • Branding and positioning – building a brand identity, differentiating services, and marketing and communication strategies
  • Financial management – financial planning and budgeting, pricing strategies, and managing cash flow and financial risks
  • Operational excellence – optimising processes, maximising quality, and leveraging technology
  • Performance – key performance indicators (KPIs), monitoring and evaluating business performance, and using data and analytics to drive decision-making
  • Client relationship management – building and maintaining client relationships, communicating, and negotiating
  • People development – cultivating high-performing teams, talent management, and employee development
  • Innovation and change – fostering innovation, and leading and managing change

Who is it for?

The programme is for consulting business leaders and leadership teams who wish to enhance their leadership capabilities and drive business success.

How is it delivered?

The programme is delivered in three formats:

  • A three-day in-person course
  • Six four-hour online modules
  • A blended approach combining in-person and online delivery

Business Strategy and Commercial Acumen

The Business Strategy and Commercial Acumen programme is designed to provide business performance insights that enhance personal and business results. The programme utilises a proprietary interactive software-based business model that takes the consultancy’s business results and projects them into the future. This model allows participants to explore the bottom-line impact of operating and management decisions, providing a comprehensive understanding of strategic decision-making.

Programme aims

The programme equips participants with:

  • Tools to analyse business and project performance
  • An approach to develop robust business cases that optimise business decisions
  • Skills to make optimal business decisions based on financial implications

Programme content

The programme includes:

  • Business success – what is success and business value vs growth
  • Financial principles – the business model, revenue recognition, charge out rates and utilisation, and financial vs management reporting
  • Project management – preparing cost quotes, monitoring cost to date and cost to complete, and monitoring projects
  • Budget process – budgeting principles and purposes, budget approaches and cycle, and monthly management reports
  • Business performance – KPI balanced scorecard and enhancing business performance
  • Portfolio management – prioritising product and service contribution
  • Business case – business case contents and evaluation, and selecting investments, divestments, and projects
  • Cash flow analysis – cash vs profit
  • Working capital management – optimising working capital

Who is it for?

The programme is for senior consultants who have responsibility for driving and delivering business results.

How is it delivered?

The programme is delivered in three formats:

  • A two-day in-person course
  • Four four-hour online modules
  • A blended approach combining in-person and online delivery

Leading Self, Teams and the Business

The Leading Self, Teams and the Business programme is designed to provide an enhanced understanding of how leadership behaviour impacts performance and the skills required to excel at the highest level. Before attending the programme, participants gather feedback using a 360° Leadership Feedback Survey, which can either be proprietary or custom-designed.

Programme aims

The programme equips participants with:

  • An understanding of their personal leadership style, leadership strengths, and areas for development
  • Skills to build high-performance teams
  • Skills to drive business success

Programme content

The programme includes:

  • Leadership success – what is leadership, leadership impacts, elements of effective leadership
  • Leading self – 360° Leadership Feedback Survey, identifying and leveraging strengths, identifying development areas, and understanding and adapting leadership styles
  • Leading teams – inspiring a shared vision, modelling behaviours, developing high-performance teams, enabling others to act, and building trust
  • Leading the business – building collaborative working relationships, influencing skills, styles, and strategies, innovative and agile thinking, communicating with impact, embracing change, delivering results, and stretching personal boundaries

Who is it for?

The programme is for senior consultants who have responsibility for leading teams and a business division.

How is it delivered?

The programme is delivered in three formats:

  • A two-day in-person course
  • Four four-hour online modules
  • A blended approach combining in-person and online delivery

Leading Agile Change

The Leading Agile Change programme is designed to provide an understanding of change methodology and skills to apply a framework for managing change in a dynamic work environment. The programme is tailored to align with the change methodologies utilised in your business.

Programme aims

The programme equips participants with:

  • An understanding of the consultancy’s change delivery management framework
  • Models and approaches to ensure successful implementation of a change initiative and transformation
  • Mechanisms to ensure the change is sustained

Programme content

The programme includes:

  • Change success – what is success and what impacts success
  • Change – defining change, benefits management, and creating a change momentum
  • Change models – understanding and utilising change models, and understanding each change models’ advantages and disadvantages
  • Implementing change – leadership vs management, communication strategies, handling resistance, influencing stakeholders, navigating complex environments and situations, hardwiring change, and contingency planning
  • Sustaining change – short steps and quick wins, reviewing progress, rewarding continued improvements, and utilising ‘burning platforms’

Who is it for?

The programme is for senior consultants who need to manage and implement complex change projects.

How is it delivered?

The programme is delivered in three formats:

  • A two-day in-person course
  • Four four-hour online modules
  • A blended approach combining in-person and online delivery

Developing Leadership Fundamentals

The Developing Leadership Fundamentals programme is designed to provide models, skills, and approaches to enhance leadership capabilities and performance management to drive personal and business success.

Programme aims

The programme equips participants with:

  • Skills required for effective leadership
  • An ability to adapt their leadership style to maximise engagement and performance
  • An approach for impactful performance coaching

Programme content

The programme includes:

  • Leadership – best boss vs worst boss and leadership in context
  • Management vs leadership – differences between management and leadership, leadership pipeline, and a leader’s role
  • Situational leadership – understanding leadership styles and utilising a range of leadership styles
  • Leadership in our organisation
  • Performance coaching – manager vs mentor vs coach, what is coaching, coaching skills, and performance coaching process
  • Performance coaching elements – building trust, building rapport, coach and coaches expectations, giving feedback, reflective listening, powerful questioning, and the GROW model
  • Action planning – setting SMART objectives, effective action planning, and tracking progress

Who is it for?

The programme is for consultants who are moving into a leadership role.

How is it delivered?

The programme is delivered in three formats:

  • A two-day in-person course
  • Four four-hour online modules
  • A blended approach combining in-person and online delivery

Empowered Team Leader

The Empowered Team Leader programme is designed to provide skills and approaches for team leaders to excel in their role, optimising team performance and productivity, while fostering a thriving, inclusive, and resilient team environment.

Programme aims

The programme equips participants with:

  • An approach for cultivating a productive and resilient team
  • Skills required for inclusive team leadership
  • An ability to adapt their leadership style to maximise performance and team wellbeing

Programme content

The programme includes:

  • Inclusive leadership – what is inclusive leadership and inclusive team leader skills
  • Effective communication – communication elements, styles, and skills
  • Emotional intelligence – key elements of emotional intelligence and connecting with team members
  • Performance management – performance management elements and skills, setting expectations, giving feedback, and the GROW model
  • Building resilience – recognising and coping with stress, and developing a positive attitude
  • Psychological safety – cultivating an environment of psychological safety
  • Intersectionality and diversity – recognising and embracing team member intersectionality and diversity, and leveraging unique perspectives and experiences
  • Mental health awareness – understanding mental health challenges and creating a supportive environment

Who is it for?

The programme is for consultants who lead project teams.

How is it delivered?

The programme is delivered in three formats:

  • A two-day in-person course
  • Four four-hour online modules
  • A blended approach combining in-person and online delivery