Leadership Skills

A short opening activity. Participants line up according to how long they have been leaders, from those just starting out to the most experienced. It gets people on their feet, surfaces the range of experience in the room, and sets a collaborative tone for the day.

Before a team can have an honest conversation about how they lead together, each person needs clarity on how they lead individually. This session creates that clarity through a structured self-assessment and a personal leadership statement, making assumptions visible and building the foundation for everything that follows in the day.

A practical session on what makes teams perform at their best and what leaders can specifically do to create those conditions. Based on the research behind Google's Project Aristotle, it moves quickly from understanding to honest self-assessment.

A session on what genuinely motivates people at work, grounded in the research on intrinsic motivation. It explores what leaders typically get wrong, what the three core drivers actually are, and what specific changes make the most difference.

A focused session on what it means to communicate priorities clearly as a leader, why the gap between what leaders think they have communicated and what people actually understand is so common, and what to do about it.

A substantial session on what it takes to lead people through periods of change and uncertainty. It covers what people genuinely need from those around them during change, how to communicate honestly when you do not have all the answers, and how to sustain trust as conditions keep shifting.

The closing session of the Leadership Skills workshop. Each participant synthesises the day's work into a personal leadership picture: a set of honest, specific statements about how they lead, what they are committing to strengthen, and what kind of leader they intend to be from here.