Springboard Programme
The Minimum Viable Transformational Learning experience that can impactfully shift your leadership culture
Develop relational leadership for and between your leaders
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4 half-day virtual sessions or a residential 2 to 2.5 day workshop face to face (Custom format available by co-design)
Optional Add-on learning support:
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Action Learning
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Coaching
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Support for Leadership experiments, etc.
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Custom experiences co-designed with you
Create a programme that can:
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adapted to your organisational journey
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be the foundation for OD interventions such as Team coaching or Culture work, including post-merger integration work
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be delivered to different seniority levels with the same leadership culture at its heart
Session 1 - Connection
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Listen differently to connect differently
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Understand what builds trust
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Discover what triggers us and our basic social needs
Every conversation becomes an opportunity to forge better relationships
Session 2 - Problem-solving
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Understand the value and frustrations caused by different styles in your team
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Learn to use the power of the Learning Spiral to face difficulties, tackle tensions, move forward on issues
Understand yourself, your team and your organisation culture in a new light
Session 3 - Transformation
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Discover a palette of communication styles
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Understand what helps people and situations transform
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Practice coaching skills and develop the ability to create empowerment around you
Have powerful conversations that foster new insights and create new courage
Session 4 - Productive conflict
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Approach difficult conversations and conflicts differently
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Understand how conversations get stuck (and unstuck)
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Practice difficult conversations to have impact and build trust
Raise and confront difficult issues whilst retaining or even building trust
Leave...
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More self-aware, appreciating your strengths and aware of your learning edge
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More connected with your peers and your teammates
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More authentic, able to share your truth, be yourself
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More confident in your skills for listening, learning, coaching and conflicts
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More courageous to have difficult conversations to strengthen relationships and get better results
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Wiser to common human and organisational patterns that can otherwise derail or delay us
When to think Springboard?
Because relationships are at the heart of everything, Springboard is a useful step for tackling many types of organisational challenges
To support culture change towards increased trust, authenticity and accountability
To increase readiness for change or start anew post-change
To support your people with skills and mindset change as they move to self-management, Teal, Agile, etc.
As a first step in addressing stuck situations or conflict
As a team away-day or team coaching experience
To strengthen a coaching culture and embed learning mindset and quality improvement
Why Springboard?
A good place to start. Choose an easier starting point for tackling ambitious or challenging agendas. Invite your team or organisation to choose new ways of connecting and communicating. This shift in your leadership culture provides a springboard for all other more ambitious goals.
A pragmatic solution. Create momentum from a very reasonable investment in both time and budget.
Springboard delivers. Benefit from an approach that has been reliably appreciated by many types of leaders of all seniorities across the globe.
Springboard can be supported by consulting. Choose if and how to supplement Springboard once your people have started shifting: Consulting, Action Learning (Peer coaching groups), Executive coaching, Internal projects, internal change initiative, culture change, large group event, etc. We can design continued support based on your unique challenges if you need it. Because your people know us and trust us, it makes it easier to carry out impactful follow-up work.