Learning

Practical Leaders workshops boost the effectiveness of your entire team, from individual contributors to senior leaders.

Our techniques are based on extensive experience in leadership roles. We have spent over 20 years helping leaders and teams develop skills that lead to excellent outcomes at every level.

Approach

Simple and memorable. Visual models make new ideas easy to understand and apply.

Accessible and approachable. New tools and techniques are introduced by linking to familiar ideas.

Engaging learning experience. Intensive and immersive content is delivered at the right pace to drive deep learning. Interest and focus are sustained through a variety of topics and activities.

Skills

We help your team develop essential skills including:

Workshops

We offer bespoke workshops tailored to your needs as well as ready-to-go packages.

You may choose to bring learners together from across your teams or to run team-based sessions focused around their specific context and challenges.

A distinctive benefit included in many of these is the half-day referesher workshop. This is most beneficial 6-8 weeks after the initial workshops, to refresh and reinforce learning, and help put ideas into practice.

Self-leadership and working with colleagues

Individual Contributors, Technical Leads, and Engineering Managers

2.5 days (2 x 1 day workshops + refresher)

TOPICS

Technical communication, problem solving, and decision making

Engineers, Technical Leads, and Principal Engineers

1 day

TOPICS

Leading others to boost productivity and strengthen engagement

Technical Leads and Engineering Managers

2.5 days (2 x 1 day workshops + refresher)

TOPICS

Advanced

Coming soon

Leading at scale, optimising organisational design and flow of value

Engineering Managers, Department/Function Heads. Consider for Technical Leads

2.5 days (2 x 1 day workshops + refresher)

TOPICS

  • Team Topologies and Conway's Law

  • Leading change

  • Culture and organisational typologies

  • Accelerating development using career frameworks

  • Setting and tracking goals and objectives

Helping others grow and navigate their careers

People Leaders and Managers

1.5 days (1 day workshop + refresher)

TOPICS