In my work with leaders at all levels, I’ve found that many of the challenges we face come back to the foundational skills – whether this is because they are not yet known, not fully understood, not effectively integrated, not front-of-mind for when you need them, or simply not practised.
Leadership Notebook can help you to develop and embed your knowledge and skills in these foundational areas – whether that’s through our short courses or our self-paced 3-part program “Early Career Leadership: Leading from the Inside Out“.
Short Courses
We surveyed emerging and early-career leaders and identified some of your primary concerns and struggles.
Coming soon!… short courses to increase your skills in:
- Having difficult conversations, effectively
- Influencing others
- Finding your career path or niche
- Delegation Pt 1: Manage your workload
- Delegation Pt 2: Develop your team
- Giving and receiving feedback
Early Career Leadership: Leading from the Inside Out
This 3-module self-paced course is comprehensive and workable!
We cover the core foundational aspects of leadership — self-leadership — so that you can confidently and successfully navigate your role and get the best from others.
What’s in the course?
- Clarity: Self-Awareness. The critical starting point. Use our tools and processes in these first three modules to establish the foundations for your leadership – by design, not default:
- Increase your self-awareness and your understanding of how others perceive you
- Clarify your Values and ethics
- Understand who you are as a leader (and how you want to be) and how you can enact this.
- Connection: Relationships. We achieve optimal outcomes when we engage effectively with others. Relationships are the foundation – building connections, good rapport, and trust. Learn to:
- Develop trust with others, quickly
- Easy to remember techniques to communicate with empathy, for impact and outcome
- Motivate and inspire (including yourself, when you need a nudge).
- Competence: Manage Workload. In these modules we look at the foundations of effectiveness at work, based on relatively recent neuroscience research, so that you can deliver your results with confidence.
- Learn when multi-tasking works best and when it doesn’t
- Effective time management that works with your brain (techniques that work, even if you don’t think you need help)
- Make effective decisions, quickly.
What you get
- An introductory module to explain how the program works and how to get the most out of it
- 3 modules (15 lessons) with bite-sized video lessons that you can fit into your busy schedule
- Corresponding workbooks that you can refer to when needed
- Activities and application exercises to easily embed your learning on a day-to-day basis
- Review/feedback on application exercises
- Additional resources, as applicable
- Coaching sessions to help generate insight, develop ‘good thinking’ about issues, explore concepts, and embed new habits
- 3 hours of individual (1:1) coaching over the course of the program with timings to suit you
- Group coaching (optional attendance), held at 2 set times each week, where you can ask questions and learn from others’ experiences
Your commitment
- Ideally, the program takes about 90 days to complete
- About 1-2 hours per week online to work through the video lessons and the corresponding workbook
- Undertake the activities and practise new skills as part of your daily work
- Reflection time at least once a week to help embed the learning
- Attend one or two of the group coaching sessions each week to ask questions and to maintain your momentum of learning and practice
- Approx. 1 hour of coaching per month (across the whole program you will undertake 3 x 1 hour, or 6 x 30 minute sessions of individual coaching)
This is an investment in you.
Your self-development, your self-leadership.
A foundation of core skills that you will refer to repeatedly over your career and life.
Benefits
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Individually focused
- Useful for those who may have particular matters to manage as a leader
- Useful for those who have specific developmental needs/ desires
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Can be completed in cohorts
- For example, leaders across teams within an organisation
- Cost effective options for larger organisations who may want to include a number of staff
- Group coaching to keep up the momentum
- Coaching cohorts enable connection, communication and collaboration, assisting the learning process
- Incorporates ‘social learning’, a known neuroscience strategy that increases learning and retention
Your Investment
Your Investment
Course plus 1:1 and group coaching