Leadership

If you think about the sweeping upheaval of change in the last decades, it becomes clear why organizations have turned to "leadership" as a key factor for ensuring success. With all of the changes, a perceptible new amount of ambiguity or uncertainty has crept into organizational life. Employee loyalty has been impacted, the planning time cycle is dramatically shorter, access to new technology is booming, competition is keener and yet there needs to be someone to align and focus the workforce, as well as to encourage and develop them. This age of uncertainty and opportunity requires something more dynamic than routine management skills.

But what is leadership? Or better yet where does it come from? Do organizations develop leaders? In many cases not; organizations tend to create politically astute survivors and followers. If leadership can be developed, the most important thing to consider is what are the circumstances which foster it's development? The answer is then simple to find; leadership is borne out of experiences of risk, adversity, challenge, comradeship, making mistakes and owning up to them. Leadership is developed through a set of experiences and understandings which call out qualities in our personality which reach beyond authority, title or position. These qualities are defined in many ways but most people would say "I know it when I see it," (perhaps, because it is seen so infrequently).

Challenge Learning delivers high impact leadership development experiences: These experiences embody a process of challenge, reflection, insight, and personal application, generally combined with 360 degree feedback and other personal assessment tools. A good leadership course is short on theory, long on challenge and even longer on reflection and application.

What we do

• Commitment and Influence Workshop - focuses on intensifying and expanding the means of steering, providing feedback and influencing people. Behaviour feedback by means of a 360° tool constitutes our starting point.
• Coaching Skills Workshop - focuses on ongoing development of a coaching style based on clear methodology, understanding of people and internal insight.
• Problem Solving Training - focuses on observing, recognising and analysing problems, as well as implementing solutions and developing capacities.
• The Leadership Journey– People Management Training – a course focused on various aspects of leadership development: insight into individual topics, determining trajectories, group dynamics, change management, effective influencing, leadership dilemmas, performance and communication, problem solving and handling conflicts
• Personal Coaching – for team leaders, directors and managers who require an external partner for discussion. We help in discovering the genuineness and characteristics in which performance, pleasure and learning can operate side by side. We provide coaching in performance responsibility, competencies and personal effectiveness.