Act, think, react, rethink

Reflective leadership for top management

In business, executives often focus on models of rational analysis paying far too little attention to the quirks and irrational processes that make up individual human behaviour. At the heart of success however, lies a true understanding of the emotional side of decision making.

The Challenge of Leadership (COL) aims to improve senior executives’ understanding of how human behaviour (their own and that of others) affects the functioning of their organisation. By focusing on conscious and unconscious behaviour, as well as rational and irrational action, it helps executives manage both irrational and dysfunctional processes in their companies. It accompanies them in an exploration of their personal leadership style and addresses ways of dealing with processes that fall outside recommended models.

By understanding their own actions, behaviour, feelings, emotions and drives, participants will better understand these processes in others. Thus, they will develop a leadership style that improves the performance of their organisation and, most importantly, leads to a better balanced life.

The four modules in this programme are spaced sufficiently apart to give you time to internalise and test intangible classroom concepts where they most count - at work and at home.

• Reveals the forces behind authority and power increasing your confidence at the most senior levels

• Develops a leadership style to improve the health and effectiveness of the organisation

• Builds capabilities to diagnose toxic organisational cultures and dysfunctional processes in companies, enabling enhanced group dynamics and the creation of high performance teams

• Creates a better work-life balance

• AVIRA: Awareness, Vision, Imagination, Responsibility, Action
• Consulting and Coaching for Change
• Advanced Management Programme