LEADERSHIP
"LEADERSHIP ISN'T A TITLE, IT'S A BEHAVIOUR."
- Robin Sharma
Leadership is not a theory or a role, it is a practice. At the heart of leadership are critical tensions that are universal and dynamic. These often appear as paradoxes such as today vs tomorrow, control vs empowerment, performance vs people, and flexibility vs stability. At the heart of these is the recognition that leadership is contextual. The skills, methods and mindsets leaders choose to apply in order to enable collective performance should be considered relevant to the specific context and strategy they face.
Whilst much has been invested in developing leadership as a critical enabler of organisational performance, results have not reflected the investment. A focus on the ‘select few’, the teaching of leadership theory rather than practice, and the inability to connect leadership to context are among the key reasons for this. As the rate of organisational change escalates, these barriers will become more costly and exposing to those who do not adapt and evolve their approach.
OUR LEADERSHIP SERVICE OFFERING
We support organisations to develop great leadership, not just of the top team, but as a scaled out organisational capability, that enables high performance and great places to work.
LEADERSHIP
ASSESSMENTS
Self awareness and insight are critical aspects of leadership development.
Our suite of performance-oriented leadership assessments (Self-assessment, 180, 360, personality, organisational profile) inform targeted and accountable development of critical leadership capabilities.
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
We help clients define leadership and develop strategies that ensure the benchstrength of your leadership is never left to chance.
We leverage evidence based frameworks and clear methodology to define leadership and identify capability investment strategies that are high impact, fit for purpose and sustainable.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS
We support organisations to develop the leadership capabilities needed to enable organisational performance.
Our approach reestablishes the connection between ‘leadership development’, and everyday work. We’re blended solution experts and measurement and accountability are features of all of our work. We custom design, but just as often tailor our award winning solutions across common leadership journeys for rapid deployment.
SOLUTIONS BASED ON YOUR
ORGANISTION'S NEEDS
We work with clients to design and deploy high impact, fit for purpose leadership solutions, we also understand that how you design and deploy your leadership program can depend on a range of variables - from budget, to time, scope and stakeholders.
Flexibility is core to our approach and enables our clients to leverage our commonly used "plug & play solutions", tailor a solution using existing program elements from your current program and our common solutions, or design and create completely new and bespoke solutions for your specific leadership development needs.
PLUG & PLAY SOLUTIONS
A suite of proven leadership development pathways based on research aimed at solving common leadership development challenges that can be deployed at speed and scale to your employees.
AUGMENTED SOLUTIONS
Programs that augment your ideas or existing leadership development components with our common solutions to create and deploy a more tailored leaderhsip program.
TAILORED SOLUTIONS
Design, develop and deploy completely bespoke leadership programs that align to your specific organisational challenges or situation, levergaing our extensive research and design methods and expertise.
A TIME FOR LEADERSHIP
EVOLVING LEADERSHIP IN ORGANISATIONS
Surviving and thriving starts with great leadership – the critical capability for shaping and sustaining high performance and healthy cultures. Organisations, large and small, require leaders who can steer both economic success and social health.
This white paper explores the current challenges and contexts of leadership, and defines an approach to assessing, designing and deploying leadership solutions at scale, and linked to performance.

DEFINING LEADERSHIP STRATEGY
Quality leadership assessment and diagnostics will highlight strengths and opportunities in your current leadership structures, and when measured against a proven leadership framework or strategy, will enable you to make informed decisions about priority areas of focus. A leadership strategy should be able to answer questions such as:

BUSINESS CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY
Over the last two years organisations have seen significant change in terms of the way they work and what that means for leadership within their organisation.
Challenges related to orgainsational change, specifically digital and customer experience transformation, hybrid and remote work, dealing with uncertainty and empowering teams have all changed the way organisations view what leadership is in their context.
Our PerformX Framework addresses these emerging critical leadership pathways, and more, to ensure that organisations of all sizes and all contexts can shape a leadership program that will enable their unique performance requirements.
Through our reserach and client work, and by overlaying these leadership contexts with our PerformX Leadership Framework we've been able to identify a number of common leadership development programs designed to position organisations to thrive through these significant changes.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION
Explore some of our leadership development work through our case studies below.
