Leadership Development

Leadership Development at Leadenhall develops leaders ‘horizontally’ and ‘vertically’.

Horizontal development is a focus on developing skills and capabilities and expertise as a manager and leader. Examples might include improved communication, better listening, giving and receiving feedback effectively and effective organisation skills.

Vertical development involves expanding the leader’s capacity for complexity, for greater flexibility, for a profound shift in how the leader sees self, others, relationships and systems. This deeper development is stimulated and supported by different types of conversation, by practices that themselves provoke new thinking.

Some managers and leaders have had very little formal development and training in management and leadership outside of practical experience and are looking to develop their knowledge and skills in a range of areas. We find that workshops supported by coaching are the most effective way of delivering progress in leaders’ skills and capabilities.

Often managers and leaders have been exposed to considerable skills development and leadership training and are looking to develop to the next level. The focus is no longer on pure skills development but on developing their own understanding of how they perceive the world and understand the context in which they work.

If you are not familiar with vertical development exploring Robert Kegan’s work on the socialised, self-authoring and self-transforming mind might be an interesting place to start.  We find that coaching, individual and group coaching (leadership circles) combined with specialised workshops can be most effective in supporting leaders as they explore their own beliefs, thinking and mindset.

Leadership Development Programmes

Leadenhall Leadership’s Development Programmes are driven by three principles: self-reflection as a leader, identifying how best to lead others  and understanding how your leadership fits in the wider organisation. The three core themes form the basis for the development of your programmes.

The detailed content is guided, via collaboration, by the level at which the programme is aimed, discussions with the stakeholder in respect to working culture and structure and finally the need for specialist topics. All our programmes are completely bespoke to the client and are designed after detailed collaboration. Programme delivery is also highly flexible with virtual, in house, 1-1 or group coaching and workshops all available as part of the programme.