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Leadership Development

Our Leadership Course is suitable for anyone taking on a leadership role. This is a fast paced, challenging, experiential and practical course. You will be involved in looking at case studies, business simulations and exercises to understand and hone your personal leadership style to create more positive outcomes.

Outcomes

Introduce the concept of leadership behaviours

Identify individual leadership qualities and strengths

Clarify the way communication works

Exploring employee engagement

Introducing and building commitment to change

Growing your emotional intelligence

Creative decision making for success

Coaching for success

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Company and Cultural Events

We start by assessing your current organisational culture and analysing how your people feel and experience it. We explore and assess where you are now and where you want to be in the future and what makes your company unique and appealing.

Then, we help you visualise and develop the culture you need in order to deliver your business objectives, goals and future vision. This includes developing the values, behaviours and cultural frameworks that you need. We’ll help you get your stakeholders and staff on board throughout to help everyone embed and live the change. We explore how to embed behaviours in all that we do, holding ourselves and each other accountable for living and breathing them. Embedding is continuous, behaviours need to be established and constantly reinforced. We can help develop senior leaders and people managers to encourage behavioural change.

We explore how to embed behaviours in all that we do, holding ourselves and each other accountable for living and breathing them. Embedding is continuous, behaviours need to be established and constantly reinforced. We can help develop senior leaders and people managers to encourage behavioural change.

We explore how to embed behaviours in all that we do, holding ourselves and each other accountable for living and breathing them. Embedding is continuous, behaviours need to be established and constantly reinforced. We can help develop senior leaders and people managers to encourage behavioural change.

We can design and run events to help encourage all levels of employees to work better together for maximum return to themselves AND the Company and to and make their jobs and the places of work more interesting and rewarding, making them feel more valued.

When working in this area with a broad range of participants we ensure these events are highly interactive and practical with learning and discovery that is easily transferable back to the work place.

Typical Programme Objectives

Working as a team to understand and align to the Company vision and values and what they mean to individuals, teams and customers

Understanding what ‘good’ look like

Building better relationships and more trust across departments

Increasing awareness of self and others through the use of various Psychometric Tools

Defining how to work together to build a High Performing Team

Creating a culture of accountability and empowerment

Fostering collaborative communication and creativity to achieve success

Experiencing effective team working

Identifying bold steps towards the future

So what? Now what? Transferring the learning back to work

Having a fun and memorable experience

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Coaching

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching enables an individual to improve their leadership and management performance, whilst building on their inherent knowledge and wisdom to find their own solutions. It focuses on their background, experience and knowledge to move forward.

It takes place in a supportive yet challenging working partnership that benefits the organisation and the individual. It is about performance improvement through raising confidence, providing focus and developing skills.

We understand that it is important to define coaching objectives early, these need to encompass both short term goals and longer term aspirations. The client is often involved at the outset to incorporate an organisational dimension. Part of this process is an understanding of how the individual is working currently, as well as reflecting on their key strengths and challenges.

New Hat Thinking have a broad industry knowledge and experience which significantly enhances the coaching experience. They describe their executive coaching as “highly focused, pragmatic and commercial,” which in turn creates robust, strong and confidence-building working partnerships which are underpinned by sound coaching principles and well validated techniques.

Executive Coaching aspires to support the individual so that they can think creatively and develop their thinking so that they can produce effective strategies for their organisations and their selves. The focus will be on the execution of intentions whilst retaining emphasis on success and capturing learning.

The format of Executive Coaching is flexible and built around the individual’s needs, timeframe and agenda supporting each individual as they pursue the achievement of their goals.

Outplacement Coaching

We provide practical and specialist career coaching support to enable middle and senior leaders to move onto new opportunities as soon as possible. Working with individual clients our coaches can help to navigate the competitive job market enabling organisations to support leavers well and focus on the morale of retained employees. Our service is driven by the individual’s needs, skills and experience, providing a personal, confidential and unique service for every client. We work with client organisations to design packages of transition support that are tailored to the individual and to the organisation that will typically include the following:

Career review and analysis

competencies, experience, aptitudes, attitudes, aspirations and values. We offer psychometric profiling to support this as well as the skills of an experienced career coach during 1:1 sessions.

Exploring options

and /or alternative ways of working, establishing fields of opportunity.

Marketing your skills to employers

CV preparation, online presence and job/career search strategies. Interview and presentation coaching.

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Harnessing the power of team

Team-building programmes provide realistic shared experiences that empower individuals to contribute to common goals. The main goals of team-building are to improve productivity and motivation. Taking employees out of the office helps groups to break down political and personal barriers, eliminate distractions, and have fun while yielding serious result. Our team building programmes allow you to release and harness the power of the team and transfer tangible benefits back to the workplace.

We will invest time with you to identify your specific needs and tailor the programme to focus and work towards your goal.

Workshop Outcomes:

Building relationships and trust across different work areas

Experiencing effective team working to achieve a common goal

Developing collaborative working

Enhancing effective communication

Thinking creatively to solve problems and overcome challenges

Valuing diversity and identifying strengths within the team

Enhancing team morale and self confidence

Transferring the learning back to the workplace

Have a fun and memorable experience

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Management skills development

A team’s performance is strongly influenced by the competency of their direct line manager or supervisor so a well-trained and skilled management team is essential for business success.

Interestingly, we may spend years and years learning and perfecting ‘our trade’, we then get so good at it that we are promoted to manage people, but how much training have we generally had to help us in our new role? Usually very little, if any!

New Hat Thinking provides a full range of in-house management and leadership training options that will hone your skills to enhance confidence and competence. These can be broken down into specific skill elements courses as shown below or delivered as a complete Management Development programme covering many different areas:

  • Performance Management
  • Appraisal Training
  • Time Management
  • Decision making and change management
  • Communicating with Clarity
  • Interviewing Skills
  • Coaching for Success

Principles of Effective Management 3 days

Increasing self-awareness

Understanding the role of a manager

Enhancing personal organisation and efficiency

Building and developing your team

Communicating with clarity

Growing Employee Engagement

Effective performance management

Transferring the learning back to the work place

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influence and persuasion

Throughout life your level of success and achievement is largely dependent on your ability to influence and persuade others. Fortunately this skill can be learnt and honed! This 2 day course provides you with the knowledge and techniques required to attain your desired results by exploring and experiencing different influencing skills and strategies.

Workshop Outcomes:

Identify the benefits of positive influence

Discuss the difference between push and pull techniques

Understand your social style preference and how to recognise others

Explore the six scientific principles of persuasion

Adapt influencing style to different situations

Increase awareness of different practical tools and techniques

Use influencing strategies to inspire and persuade others

Transfer the learning back to the work place

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Presenting with impact

This 2 day programme gives you the tools to control your nerves, channel your energy in the right direction and deliver a memorable, well-structured presentation.
Being able to present is critical to career success in business today. Imagine being able to stand up and put your message across in a clear, confident and compelling way whether to an internal or external audience.

Workshop outcomes:

Preparation – the tips and techniques to save you time

Structure – how to structure your message effectively for clarity

Overcoming nerves – harnessing your energy and channelling it in the right direction

Personal skills – engaging your audience with clear, confident delivery

Tips and techniques – simple tools you can use over and over again

Visual aids – using appropriately to enhance your message

Opening – creating the desired impact from the start

Closing – finishing on a high and leaving them wanting more

Who is it for?

This programme is for anyone who is new to presenting or who wants to increase their knowledge and confidence when delivering presentations. 

Enhancing business performance

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enhancing business performance

Breaking Down the Silos

It is more important than ever for teams and departments to be in on the same page. Teams that work against one another to achieve narrowly defined goals at the expense of other groups in the organization create an unproductive, inefficient and de-motivated workforce.

In this bespoke programme participants discover how to build a healthy, productive work environment and realise the power of collaborative team work. From the very start of the first day everyone will be interactive in participating in fun yet hard hitting activities. You will walk away with an agreed, strategically aligned plan of implementation

Workshop Outcomes:

Agree and implement a positive and cohesive working environment

Build trust and respect between team members

Practice giving and receiving effective and productive feedback

Improve communication and understanding between individuals and teams

Establish rules of engagement for resolving conflicts

Identify and value the diversity of skills and abilities within the group

Demonstrate the power of the team through creative synergy

Focus on the core issues facing the group and plan collaboratively and creatively to overcome

Achieve strategic alignment throughout the organisation

Transfer the learning back to the work place

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Personal Resilience

As change in the workplace has become the norm, we are constantly facing new and bigger challenges whilst trying to maintain quality workflow. Developing your personal resilience can give you the psychological edge that enables you to cope better with the many demands that are placed on you and to consistently maintain a high level of performance when under pressure to perform. It also enhances your ability to bounce back to a previous state of normal functioning, after experiencing pressure without negative effect.

Outcomes

Understand personal resilience to drive peak performance

Explore the benefits being personally resilient

Identify key factors that challenge your personal resilience

Discuss personal control strategies

Understand the impact that positive thinking has on business performance.

Nurturing a positive mind-set in yourself and others.

Thinking systems for success – planning the positive future.

Develop a personal action plan to transfer the learning back to work

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Performance management

Effective Performance Management and Appraisals

Managing and developing staff can be one of the most rewarding and yet one of the most challenging parts of your role as you progress through management and leadership. This programme focuses on giving you practical tools and techniques to help your staff develop and thrive.

Outcomes

Giving effective feedback

Setting achievable goals and expectations

Supporting other people's development

Using acknowledgement and praise

Making difficult conversations easy

Preparing for appraisals

Structuring and delivering excellent appraisals

Tools for day-to-day Performance Management

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