Session 1 – Developing your Emotional Intelligence – Wednesday 11th March 2026

• Understanding the link between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and leadership styles and team climate
• Understand the benefits of increasing your EI
• Understanding the 5 dimensions of EI
• Being aware of the Emotional Competencies that contribute to your EI
• Understanding how to develop self-awareness and self-management
• Understanding how to develop empathy and social skills
• Understanding how to develop motivation
• Journalling the use of an emotional intelligence

Session 2 – Developing your thinking skills – Wednesday 18th March 2026

• Understanding multiple intelligences
• Using and improving intuitive thinking
• The attributes of a critical thinker
• 9 tools for problem solving
• Drawing your problem – drill downs, cause & effect diagrams and concept fans
• How to look out for biases and disconnects
• Developing a weighted decision matrix
• Getting started with systems diagrams

Session 3 – Developing Strategy – Wednesday 25th March 2026

• Understanding the 5 levels of strategy
• How to do a SWOT and TOWS analysis
• Understanding your personal strengths
• Understanding organisational strengths
• How to determine your core competencies
• Understanding the range of strategies available to you
• Understanding how to use the Ansoff and BCG Matrix
• How to do a competitor analysis
• How to do a strategic canvas (or map)

Session 4 – Innovation Tools – Wednesday 1st April 2026

• Understand how to do an attribute analysis
• Using SCAMPER to innovate a product or service
• Understanding orthodoxy analysis
• Using a SWOT analysis to innovate
• Finding opportunities in vacuums
• Market and economic issues in opportunities
• Finding opportunities in industry trends
• Finding opportunities in national and global trends
• Understand the elements to be considered in evaluating opportunities

Session 5 – Strategic Leadership – Wednesday 8th April 2026

• Strategic formulation vs implementation
• Considering organisational models and TOWS analysis for strategic objectives
• 4 essential arenas of strategic objectives
• Strategic intent statements
• Determining structure from strategy including spans of control
• Strategic, operational and tactical planning
• The role of policies
• Strategic evaluation and reviews
• Management for results processes including Agile, Lean and Six sigma

Session 6 – Change Management – Wednesday 15th April 2026

• Understand the difference between personal and organisational change
• Understanding and responding to the 4 different stages of personal change
• Lewin’s 3 step change model
• Kotter’s 8 step change model
• Creating a sense of urgency
• Understand how to do a force field analysis
• Understanding the 4 outcomes of change to consider
• Communicating change to 4 different types of audiences

Session 7 – Understanding Values and Culture – Wednesday 22nd April 2026

• Understanding vision, brand and culture
• Understanding your vision, brand and culture gaps
• Understanding the nature of organisational culture
• Understanding the need to understand your culture
• Understanding your cultural landscape
• Understanding the various dimensions of organisational culture
• Understanding the 3 levels of culture
• Recognising and addressing discordant assumptions

Session 8 – Transforming Culture – Wednesday 29th April 2026

• Understanding the 4 approaches to performance cultures
• Understanding what cultures lift performance
• Learn an organisational transformational model
• Understanding how to change culture at the key touch points
• Culture based recruitment
• Culture based interviewing
• Neurotic leaders and culture
• Understanding the role of leadership in cultural change
• Measuring culture

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