The Business Focused First Time Leader
This thought provoking programme is a helpful opportunity for you to learn, reflect and plan your approach to your role as a first time leader.
Are you a first time leader?
Has your department got challenges?
Are you feeling under some pressure as a leader to deliver?
Are you too struck in the treadmill to lead?
Is a clear way forward hard to formulate?
Are you ready to take action?
This programme is designed to:
'Fantastic Practical Learning Experience'
All our programmes are unique, multi faceted and fast moving. All are fully related back to you and your unique situation.
Our goal is to facilitate your thinking and to share lessons of experience along with helpful methods that are practical, straightforward and easy to recall when needed.
Our programmes weave together guided reflection, thought provocation and pragmatic ideas, models and frameworks creating a 'fantastic practical learning experience'.
Our situation is always unique. Nobody has previously done precisely what we are doing, with our experiences and personality, alongside our mix of colleagues and with our resources at this particular moment in time. We have to find a way that works for us in our context. Our inner work is important to help us in this. The more shape we are able to put to our thinking and the more we can leverage the experiences of others, the more likely we are to find the right solutions for us.
What They Are Saying About Our Work
- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager
- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer
- Mark Graham, CIO
- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director
The way we look at the world shapes our experiences of it. It shapes too the quality of our decision making. As our mindsets shift so too our ways of operating. Thought provoking experiences deliver a helpful platform for stimulating new perspectives.
What They Are Saying About Our Work
- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer
- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director
- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager
- Ian Edwards, Business Manager
- Mark Graham, CIO
- Gahn Lane, Vice President Global Channel Partners
We can’t implement development messages if we don’t remember them. That’s why these programmes are structured within overall frameworks and with handy situation specific models crafted based on experience and framed to be easily memorable for operational use.
What They Are Saying About Our Work
- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager
- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer
- Mark Graham, CIO
- Dirk Maiwald, Manager Corporate Technologies
- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director
The more we enjoy a process the more engaged in it we become. The more engaged we are the better our outcome.
What They Are Saying About Our Work
- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer
- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director
- Mark Graham, CIO
- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager
- Subhash Ramatour, Finance Director
- Gahn Lane, Vice President Global Channel Partners
Our development work has a purpose. The more equipped we are the more confident we feel. The better informed and conscious we are, the greater our capacity to deliver. Its not enough to reflect and accumulate knowledge, we have to use it productively. The more practical our development work the easier its implementation and the likelier our business outcomes are to improve.
What They Are Saying About Our Work
- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director
- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager
- Mark Graham, CIO
How holistically do you look at the execution of your role and the contribution you make to the several discrete teams of which you are a part?
This programme is dedicated to helping you enhance the commercial and operational value you deliver to the organisation and people you serve as a first time leader of a business unit, operations, a department or a team.
If you are a CEO operating with a significant degree of autonomy, a Chief Operating Officer, a Finance Professional, a Human Resources Leader, a Learning & Development Professional or a Technology Leader there are programmes focused on your specific roles and responsibilities therefore please follow the relevant links on this page.
Sharpen your skills, knowledge and clarity of thinking in key commercial areas.
The business ecosystem in which we operate, including not for profits
Key financial metrics
How organisations are configured
The impacts of industry dynamics
The nature of a customer base
Learn simple, memorable, practical frameworks and models that you can draw from to help you strategically and operationally day to day.
Learn PPMCLeadership™️, a straightforward framework we can use along with related tests to guide us as we evolve an inspiring environment in our department
Discover The Natural Cycle Of Team Success™️, a model for assessing the state of evolution of our team and for selecting our most relevant leadership mode
Discover an aide memoire for the criteria by which you are likely to be judged by others
Learn a methodology for developing the key elements of a mission, vision and strategy for your department
Put structure to how you assess where you allocate your attention
Discover The Three Levels Of Endeavour™️, a model for use when assessing the emotional commitment of team members to organisational objectives
Learn The CulturalVEST™️, a lens we can apply to help us as we seek a positive state for each member of our team
Discover a pragmatic methodology for positively influencing the culture in your department and a simple method for scoring it
Learn a simple methodology to help you plan your approach to projects
Take your communication to a new level by applying The Four E's Of Communication™️, four simple tests whenever you supply information
Stories, illustrations, anecdotes and questions carefully framed to be relatable and designed to share lessons of experience, provoke thought, impart new ideas, encourage reflection and provide impetus for growth.
Organise Our Thoughts
Reflect On Our Commercial Acumen And Contribution
Reflect On Our Ability To Add Value To Those Around Us
Reflect On The Needs Of Our Multiple Stakeholders
Reflect On The Impact Of Our Leadership
Consider Our Own Proximity To Key Areas
Analyse Our Department In A Structured Way
Inspire Others' Confidence In Us
Reflect On Our Communication
Reflect On Our Preparedness To Successfully Evolve As The Fourth Industrial Revolution Plays Out
This programme is not an academic exercise, it has been carefully crafted to be real world operational in nature. Your commitment to the programme and how you then use it is very important to us and you have 30 days to complete your work on this programme.
Programme developed and led by highly experienced business executive
Programme delivered online and accessible by mobile
Self paced, easy to consume in a series of blocks of time that suit your preference
Includes an invitation to an invitation-only online forum to provide an opportunity to raise questions with instructor and programme architect, Rob Evans
On top of the consumption of the video content we anticipate you may require an additional 2 to 3 hours of reflection time as you work through the material and your thoughts
Our First Time Leader Programme is designed to share lessons of experience, to get you thinking and to equip you with practical techniques that you can use to organise your thoughts as you assess situations and make strategic and operational decisions.
We consciously provoke thought in many areas.
We want you to dig deep and question every aspect of your leadership and we aim to steer you in ways that enhance the contribution you make to the various teams of which you are an important part.
Let's get started.
Welcome
Learning From What's Come Before
Our Work Together
FREE PREVIEWAbout This Exercise
FREE PREVIEWWhen Things Aren't So Clear
We Are That Author
Lenses Setting The Scene
Multiple Contributions
It’s Never A Fluke
FREE PREVIEWOur Focus Here
About Leadership
Cheering Us On And More
Our Imperatives
The Business Ecosystem
What About The Numbers?
How Much Did We Make?
Give Me A Financial Snapshot
FREE PREVIEWWhat Happened To The Cash?
What Returns Will It Generate?
Our Biggest Assets
Reflecting Back
So Who Delivers The Numbers?
FREE PREVIEWDo We Have A Complete Picture?
What Emotion Is Being Invested?
Our Collective Response
Our Context
Aligning For Value Add
Understanding The Big Picture
How Well Do We Know Us?
Our Wider Business
Thinking Organisational Flavours
Thinking Functions
Thinking Activity Types
So Where Do They Fit?
Powerful Curiosity
Multiple Activities
Activity Summary
Our Impact
When We Turn Up
What Kind Of Driver Are We?
What Does RADAR Tell Us?
How Would They Candidly Respond?
Our Growth
Choosing To Be All In
FREE PREVIEWConsciously Enhanced Contribution
Thinking Energy Allocation
FREE PREVIEWWide Exposure Deep Perspective
Tipping The Balance
Rounding Ourselves Out
Tuning In
What Does It All Come Down To?
Double Taking
Real World Operational Focus
Rob's content, insights and methodologies encapsulate the lessons of over three decades of international business experience and related research, observation and reflection.
In a rich and varied international business career Rob has been:
- Yvonne Chin Irving, Executive Director & Communication Consultant at CET
- Gary Lomas, Sales Director at Onnec Group
- Gahn Lane, Vice President Global Channel Partners And Alliances at Pindrop
- Extract From Corporate Stock Exchange Announcement
- Mark Graham, CIO at The Counselling Foundation
- Mevin Anenden, Senior Client Manager at Logicalis
- Chris Griffiths, Marketing Director at Travel A La Carte Ltd
- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer at Plugable Technologies
- Ian Edwards, Business Manager at The Westgrove Group
- Iqbal Singh Bedi, Founder Of Award Winning Intelligens Consulting
- Ernesto Schlesinger, Founder Partner at Jequitiba Investimentos
- Faizal Bahemia, Chief Commercial Officer at Innobox and Co-Founder of BGlam
- Subhash Ramatour, Finance Director at Macks Ltd
- Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer at Sapphire Systems
- Gary Swale, Chief Engagement Officer at Inspirze Context Technology
- Macedonian Human Resources Association (MHRA)
- Bob Morton, Past President at World Federation Of People Management Associations (WFPMA)
- Carlamaria Tiburtini, Senior HRBP at Avio Aero - a GE Aviation Business
- Illya Baranyuk, Intern at MHRA
- Theresa Carnall, Marketing Coach at TBC Marketing
You want your team and its contribution to the organisation to be the best that it can be.
You may or may not have received formal leadership training and you know you have the ability to further develop as a leader and move ahead in your career.
You also know that the more exposed you become to a range of experiences, the more of an asset you are to your employer.
You'll find our work guiding you to comprehensively examine your organisation, your specific operational context and your leadership through considered and candid reflection. We achieve this by sharing lessons of our experiences and reflections illustrated with personal stories, examples and other relevant commentaries. We help you relate this material to your situation through our use of carefully crafted questions. Our goals are to provoke thought, to help you analyse your situation, to help you find ways to enhance your commercial and operational contributions and to equip you with tools and methodologies you can apply day to day throughout your career.
You proceed at the pace that suits you best. Within the material many questions are posed for reflection relating to your organisation and your leadership. You take whatever time you wish to devote to reflection on each question. Your value comes from utilising the programme as best suits you.
We want you to succeed and success comes from action. All of the material is immediately available on purchase and remains accessible to you for 30 days. We encourage you to commit to moving ahead with your programme as soon as practicable after you've made the decision to participate. Your value from the programme will come from the steps that you take arising from the thoughts that emerge and decisions you make as you engage with the programme. The sooner you engage the sooner you will realise the benefits for you.
Yes. Every month we hold a live, invite only, one hour, online Q&A forum to provide you with the opportunity to raise any questions you have on the material. You will be invited to three monthly sessions scheduled following purchase. We will send you the invitations via the email address that you supply on purchasing your programme. We vary the times and days of the week on which forums are held to allow you the maximum opportunity to attend at least one of the three sessions to which you will be invited.
Yes. Our programme is business focused and every organisation is in business. Business principles apply whether you work for a 'for profit' organisation, a public sector body or a 'not for profit'. Each has investors, customers, employees, suppliers and other partners and stakeholders. Each organisation has to deliver some blend of experiences and solutions to its customers and in so doing it is seeking to deliver a return to its funding providers, a return that could be in a financial form or in the fulfilment of obligations.
We have developed the tools and methodologies we share based on the lessons of our own operational experiences. We have intentionally developed them to be straightforward and memorable for your day to day use. They are frameworks for leadership, organising thought and operational execution. The tools and frameworks we share include PPMCLeadership™️, The Three Levels Of Endeavour™️, The Four E's Of Communication™️, The Five Cornerstone Principles Of Planning™️, The CulturalVEST™️ and The Natural Cycle of Team Success™️.