Leadership Development

In this highly volatile and increasingly challenging global age of business, with accelerated change and relentless competition the norm, leadership excellence is critical for a sustainable competitive edge. Transformational leadership aligns and focuses performance on value-adding contributions through engaged and energised teams, unified by a shared vision and set of organisational values, to create a high performance organisational culture.

Catalyst's service offering in this field includes:

• Leadership Assessments
• Leadership Development Programs
• Leadership Development Modules
• Leadership Development Plans
• Personal Empowerment Workshops

Leadership Develoment Framework

From numerous interviews and competency assessments with leaders across the globe, we have distilled 16 critical leadership competencies required to take organisations into the future toward sustainable high performance.


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Transformation Leadership Journey

Integrated leadership Development and Team Effectiveness Journey

Our proposed approach includes the following key elements to ensure accelerated and sustained development of current and future leaders and high performance teams

• Assessments and feedback
  • Leadership Assessments (OPQ, EQi, 360 degree leadership competency assessment): To build awareness of leadership competency and emotional intelligence strengths and areas for development
  
  
  • Team Assessments (MBTI, Belbin Team Roles and Team Effectiveness): To understand own and other’s preferred styles and roles in the team for enhanced team composition, more effective relationships and functioning and to assess the current level of team effectiveness
  
  
• Leadership Development Programmes
  • Workshops to gain exposure to latest thinking and practices regarding leadership and leadership development and to raise awareness of own strengths and areas of development, to practice new skills, receive feedback from colleagues and to develop a Personal Development Plan (see details below)
  
  
• Team Coaching – high performance teams
  • Workshops to gain insight into team effectiveness models and comparisons to current reality, to build relationships, to raise issues and actions to develop the team’s effectiveness, and to charter the team’s development toward a high performing team
  
  
• Executive Coaching
  • Individual sessions to focus on key development needs and to refine leadership style, explore approaches to current challenges and practice leadership and personal mastery techniques
  
  
• Stars Programs for key talent
  • This includes Breakthrough Learning using real life business projects combined with leadership development and coaching. Learning focuses on personal mastery, team mastery, change mastery and business mastery. Talented individuals are exposed to local and international leading practices and input and executive level sponsorship

Benefits of an Integrated Approach

The organisation will reap the following benefits from the integrated implementation of leadership development interventions:

• An aligned and focused leadership cadre (at all levels)
• Better quality leaders
• High performing teams
• Greater engagement of people
• Greater retention of key leaders and employees
• Achievement of business results and the successful implementation and sustainability of the new operating model

Example: Leadership Development Workshop - 4 days

The workshop is highly interactive and includes assessment feedback, experiential activities, group work, personal reflection, team and peer feedback, video feedback, theoretical input, video and action planning

This highly intensive workshop is designed to enable leaders to build, not command, excellence by providing knowledge, skills and process tools to build understanding and capability across all dimensions of leadership:

• Self-Leadership - the journey starts with the foundation of leadership effectiveness, self-leadership or personal mastery. To be an effective leader (of yourself, your family or in the workplace) you need to be effective as an individual.
• Team Leadership - the single biggest factor impacting a team's performance is its leader and the leader's ability to create a high performance, continuous learning and improvement culture.
• Change Leadership - arguably the most critical of all the leadership competencies in the 21st century owing to globalisation, competition and accelerated technological innovation.
• Transformational Leadership - inspiring commitment to the vision and strategic direction by creating meaning through alignment, engagement and empowered team members.

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Transformational Leadership Modules

Workshops are offered on core leadership topics to raise exposure and knowledge and to practice with colleagues and receive feedback. These are also mechanisms for encouraging continuous learning and application.

Modules can be customized according to group and need:

• Project Management
• Relationship Management
• Problem solving and decision making
• Creativity and Innovation
• Effective Communication and feedback
• Achieving Results
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Crucial conversations
• Conflict management
• Negotiation skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Managing meeting
• Diversity management
• Time and priority management
• Stress, wellness and work-life balance

Executive Coaching

• Executive coaching has proven very effective in accelerating and sustaining leadership development
  
  
• We have a number of experiences executive coaches for all levels of leadership
  
  
• Executive coaching typically follows a process as follows:
  • Matching and Contracting
  • Assessment and Feedback
  • Personal Development Planning
  • Coaching sessions on topics identified in PDP
  • Coaching progress and impact evaluation
  
  
• For best results we recommend a minimum of 6 coaching sessions of 1.5-2 hours each, held monthly and progress and further development needs to be reviewed after 6 months
  
  
• See our coaches under “our team”

Personal Empowerment

Catalyst partners with World Alive in offering a powerful personal empowerment experience

      "ALIVE" PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOP (2.5 days)

ALIVE is a 2.5 day experiential workshop designed to assist individuals understand their life's journey, and how to identify and release those beliefs and habits that hold them back from achieving the personal and professional results they strive for. The workshop presents a safe space in which to explore possibilities and work in new ways to create positive results in life. The workshop is experiential in nature and includes individual and group activities, discussions, self-reflection and discovery, feedback, information sharing and practice sessions for new skills.

The participants will be able to apply the learning to personal and work life to achieve improved awareness, work-life balance, stress management, relationships, resilience, energy, motivation, results and life satisfaction.

For more information please visit www.worldalive.co.za