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Leadership Capability

Leadership is an art, not a science and there is no single way to lead. Things change. All the time. Leaders of organisations need to respond to the situation in the most effective way.

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Goldcrest Partners works with your current and future leaders to develop the skills, behaviours and mindsets that improve immediate performance and with your future leaders to prepare for succession.

Great organisations need great leaders with the skills to get the best out of their people. At Goldcrest Partners, we believe that leadership is a capability that can be developed but often takes a back seat to technical skills and getting stuff done. A well-crafted leadership programme can equip your leaders to realise their potential and drive results.

Your organisation relies on the qualities of your leaders to ensure it functions effectively

Is a good leader born or made? As with most nature/nurture questions the answer is – a bit of both. While there are certain immutable traits and characteristics that naturally good leaders demonstrate, there is a lot that can be done to nurture leadership skills that seldom get developed on the job.

We offer open leadership programmes to clients who do not have the internal participant numbers for an in-house programme and still want to benefit from the powerful group learning that these courses bring.

We also offer bespoke in-house programmes that can cover a similar leadership curriculum to our open programmes adapted to your leadership framework and can incorporate other streams of learning e.g. technical training, client skills and team elements.

In-person modules

The real benefit of programmes is the network effect, and while the virtual environment can be useful for sharing knowledge it is not good for developing strong bonds between individuals. In person development allows for effective debate.

Personal leadership philosophy

All our programmes aim to support the participants in building their own philosophy around leadership, which they can adapt and change as they experience more on the leadership journey.

Active involvement

Our programmes are always hands on and not just knowledge transfer. People learn by doing and discussing, so our programmes always involve both trying things out and talking about our experiences. We work hard to eliminate unnecessary PowerPoint. The experience is in the room, not on the screen.

Robust debate

Leadership is a topic, which is wide open for debate, and we want our participants to engage in it. It is only through really debating an issue, and often debating against yourself, that we can truly understand our own position.

Peer support

We always create peer support relationships which run through the programme and hopefully sustain beyond. We believe being supported by and held accountable by peers is of huge value to the learning experience and puts in place good habits to take back into the business.

Business benefit projects

An opportunity to get a cross functional group of high potential talent to work on real business problems by applying the lessons learnt on the programme. These can, if appropriate, have a tangible RoI attached to them.

Masterclasses

We always have a thread of small form Masterclasses on leadership skills which run through our programmes and can be accessed virtually. These complement the content worked through on in- person modules and maintain the learning momentum.

Leadership Capability Case Studies

Engaging senior managers through empowerment and autonomy

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Transforming the leadership of an asset manager

The client was a FTSE 250 asset manager with a developing global footprint.

Building bench strength in wealth management

The client was a FTSE AIM 100 investment and wealth management firm with offices across…

Empowerability – the secret to maximising employee potential

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The value of big picture thinking

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Challenge and support in the workplace

Constantly challenging our teams can demotivate them, but being too supportive can limit achievement. How…

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