"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already"

1930, St Andrews University

Leadership Will Make (or break) Your Team

Clients hire us to help make bad leaders good, good leaders better and and turn prisoners into willing follower because, no matter how capable your people – leadership will make (or break) your team. 

Under the banner of "Inspiring Leadership" and "Hi!-Performance Leaders", we help clients to:

  • Double the effectiveness of their leaders (the method is counter-intuitive but true)
  • Identify their weaknesses and build on their strengths
  • Discover their 'best-selves'
  • Apply breakthroughs in neuroscience to get the edge in leadership
  • Develop their own natural style of leadership Lead their teams through change and reduce resistance
  • Better engage and motivate their staff

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born"

Warren Bennis

The Cost of Bad Leaders

Up to 70% of the performance of a team depends on leadership style - some people lead others to greatness, others sap energy, lead teams into the wilderness and ruin good organisations.  In Australia:

  • 38% of staff say their manager does not help them perform at their best
  • Just 9% rated communication between leadership as 'effective'
  • Only 48% are working at full capacity!

Imagine the cost to your organisation.

It’s not always the fault of the leader – many of them haven’t been given adequate training or the opportunity to develop themselves.  It can result in problems such as:

  • An unproductive culture (presenteeism – the body is there but the spirit isn’t)
  • Poor team spirit (low morale)
  • Resistance to change (the way we do things around here)
  • Fear of mistakes and poor innovation (don’t fix what’s not broken – even when it doesn’t work)
  • A lack of accountability and refusal to take responsibility (not my fault/not my problem)
  • Poor direction and decision-making (work done poorly, wrong work being done)
  • Unmotivated and negative staff (sarcasm, cynicism)
  • Low performance and engagement (prisoners – not followers)

Do you recognise any of these?  Even in small doses they have a dramatic effect onperformance

Develop Leadership to Improve Followership

Our work with you to improve leadership will have big benefits:

  • Build strengths and address weaknesses
  • Apply the latest findings from neuroscience to improve leadership and performance
  • Get the best bang for your buck - understand what can change and what can’t – and make best use of your effort
  • Apply the latest trends in leadership – particularly around social leadership and distributed leadership
  • Improve productivity
  • Increase innovation
  • Better agility to change
  • Increased staff engagement

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”

John Maxwell

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Engage Us

Take a positive approach to developing the leadership of your whole organisation:

  • Improve the function of intact (or dysfunctional) teams
  • Individual and group coaching
  • Discovery In Action © program
  • Keynotes and seminars
  • Life Styles Inventory (LSI) and Group Styles Inventory (GSI) diagnostic kit
  • Facilitate planning and strategy workshops
  • In-depth leadership programs, for senior executives, leaders and line managers
  • Communication, delegation and other skills workshops
  • Assistance to plan, manage and deliver your leadership development program

“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts”

Erskine Bowles

Testimonials

“Some of our Management team had attended the Happiness Seminar that Cris held in Melbourne, and recommended him as an ideal speaker for our conferences. Cris facilitated a session in our Managers Meeting about Leadership, and the importance of happy staff, which was very well received. He was very engaging, and had done his homework about what we wanted to achieve in the session.

The second seminar, Cris coached and entertained a room full of 140 staff members after a week of conferencing – not an easy thing to do! He had everyone’s attention with his quick wit, and interesting facts, then to finish on a laughter session that had everyone up moving and shaking with uncontrollable laughter – the perfect way to wrap up a conference!"

Heidi Halson
General Manager
Entertainment Publications

"It was a pleasure having you present at our meeting this week. Even though the audience ranged from Sales representatives to state sales managers to national sales managers and business unit directors - you managed to engage them all through the hour session. Your presentation was well tailored to the audience and having them on their feet practicing what you said was great. The feedback post the session has been very positive and no doubt many of them will start to put into practice what they learnt. Thanks again".

Suha Patel
National Sales Manager – Oncology
Roche