The Leadership Accelerator
Programme Details
What if you could create 10 years' worth of leadership experience in a matter of weeks?
Are you a new manager? Thrown in at the deep end? Do you want to build confidence and clarity, and create value fast?
Are you a stuck business owner, who wants to get out of operations and grow your team?
Are you a People Leader, who needs to develop seriously credible leadership capability at scale, while balancing the investment and delivering business impact?
Have you been on traditional management training but found it didn’t reflect real life?
Andy was instrumental in supporting me to develop and apply distinctly defined solutions.
The outcome delivered success and skillsets that drove performance.
We utilised his analysis to develop our succession planning, career pathways and people outcomes when we changed our organisation's objectives and structure.
Andy’s facilitation tested, evaluated and supported our organisation's change strategy and delivery".
Why does traditional leadership training fail?
The Experience Myth:
If they get traditional training, they usually experience the following disappointments and frustrations:
Vague and hard to apply:
Guru Ideology:
Out of date:
Clunky Bits:
Flawed Training Method
How do I know?
Because I've stress-tested traditional leadership training for over 20 years.
Hi! I'm Andy Currie,
Founder & Chief Curiosity Officer at Think Distinct
Along the way, I've bent and broken conventional wisdom, de-bunked the bunkum, and modelled what really works. The result is a new standard in functional leadership skills development.
I'm excited that you get to be the leader people deserve, not because "you were born that way", but because effective leadership is genuinely learnable when you use the right approach.
I'm prioritising this special programme because the world desperately needs grounded, ethical, skilled leaders who can critically think through the significant challenges we face.
Leadership is how, together, we scale wisdom and mutual learning.
I can't wait to show YOU, what you and your team are really capable of.
Introducing
The Think Distinct Leadership Accelerator
The Leadership Accelerator is a unique, non-traditional, non-theoretical, experiential, Leadership Development programme.
It's designed to accelerate what managers should learn in their first 10 years. It provides reality-tested leadership skills, and the key insights you need so that you can create the conditions of high performance, faster and more comprehensively, through precision learning, functional psychology, and behavioural skills.
Learn how to:
- Create the conditions of high performance and a place where people love to work
- Manage yourself through tricky professional situations with confidence
- Engage people so that they thrive and perform at their best
- Empower others so that decisions flow to the people best placed to make them
- Lead through mutual learning and navigate challenging conversations
- Promote a culture of continuous learning and wellbeing
"Leadership is how you scale wisdom and create collective value"
What’s special about this programme?
This programme is unique in the way that we emphasise learning HOW TO LEARN leadership. The result is that you will feel much more confident and capable because you've tested the application in your personal experience.
- You will create decades worth of value and experience through our unique, holistically integrated, Learn How To Learn Leadership acceleration approach. This helps you develop critical thinking, autonomy, and practical agility.
- Learn a comprehensive Functional Description of leadership. This gives you deeper thinking and awareness and allows you to know precisely what, how, and why to do things, in real situations.
- Develop Future Fit leadership principles, ditch clunky industrial-age thinking
- Practice state-of-the-art material, stress-tested over 20 years, for reality and relevance, in top-tier organisations. This makes it universally applicable, regardless of industry or sector.
- Our Super-natural format teaches you high-performing leadership skills that feel natural and real in your personal style, rather than a prescribed mechanical technique or vague "one size fits all” leadership theory.
- Baked in applications, so that you can bring to life leadership in your unique career path.
- Go beyond mundane “common sense” and hyped “guru” advice, to genuinely think differently about real professional scenarios
How do we achieve this?
The Leadership Accelerator brings together a small, focused group of participants in a live, experiential online space, once a week, for 8 -weeks, supported by group coaching, on-demand support, and a peer-to-peer learning community, that continues after the formal learning with a 4th Month Alumni Review, This creates a wrap around learning experience designed to accelerate your learning and give you grounded confidence.
- Live, immersive experiential web-workshops. NOT a chalk-and-talk, slide-based webinar
- On-demand Digital Resource Hub - Recordings of all live events, supplementary material, and workbook.
- Live Group Leadership Coaching
- Community Membership - Leadership Think Tank Community of Peer Practice
- BONUS 4th Month Alumni Post Review workshop
- Improvised session variations and taskwork, recommended reading and supplementary material, that responds with agility, to the unique needs of your group
- Certification optional
- Limited group size to optimise focus and learning and we only consider working with the right kinds of people
- 100% money back guaranteed! If you're not completely satisfied that this programme significantly accelerates your leadership skills, we will return your payments in full.
What’s in the live programme?
Module 1
Your Learning + Leadership Launch. 2 hrs
Set yourself up for success! Learn HOW to LEARN leadership to begin your acceleration through the programme.
- Personalising your own learning and leadership development
- Ditch the pseudo-science and rethink what you know about leadership and learning
- Learn how to learn and practice leadership, to make it real, functional, and practical
- Getting the most out of the Leadership Accelerator
Module 2
Mindful Self Management and Leadership. Full Day
Most traditional leadership programmes fail because they’re based on outdated, industrial-age thinking. This module brings leadership right up to date and provides a crystal approach for navigating the often confusing and frustrating work of real management. Create the conditions of success and confidence for yourself and others.
- Integrate Management and Leadership. Create alignment and avoid typical management traps
- Lead high performance. Transform reactive to proactive systems
- Co-creating the work: Negotiating, Delegating, and Allocating
- Creating the Conditions of Motivation: Productivity, Engagement and Wellbeing
- Mindful Self Management: Developing Self-awareness, learning from whatever happens and making better choices
Module 3
Group Coaching. 2hrs
Facilitated Group coaching with your peers.
Review your application of the first two modules. Make sure you can apply it in real life.
Applications of leadership in groups, high-performing teams, and learning-teams.
Supportive materials, unique to the group.
Q&A
Module 4
Coaching For Leaders. Full Day
Coaching is often confused with Teaching, Mentoring or merely giving Advice. Coaching as a leader has similar skills to Executive Coaching, Sports Coaching, Life Coaching but is also very different, with unique challenges. This module carves out a clear space for coaching in moments of organisational leadership to promote empowerment, continuous learning and grow your team.
- What, How and Why Coaching for Leaders
- Advanced Skills for coaching as a leader
- Common traps, variations, and applications in coaching
- Coaching your team
- Experiencing Coaching moments
Module 5
Group Coaching. 2 hrs
Facilitated group coaching and peer coaching.
More applications tailored to your individual needs. We'll do this by working with your real examples and learning from the examples your peers bring as well as deepening your understanding with Q&A
The aim is to develop your approach to leadership.
Module 6
Leading Challenging Conversations. Full Day
Most of the work we do as managers is through talk. This module helps you reframe influence and communication to one of mutual learning and helps you navigate the most challenging conversations.
- The ethics of communication and influence
- Creating "psychological safety" while leading productivity and change
- Promoting mutual learning and resolving challenging conversations
- What do about bad feelings, politics, and common interpersonal conflict
- Systemic Feedback, Escalations and Consequences
Module 7
Group Coaching. 2 hrs
Facilitated Group coaching and peer coaching
This module makes sure you have a complete understanding of all of the previously covered material and that you are able to apply it.
This module takes your learning to a whole new level. With mutual learning in place, you will be able to support each other's learning as peers. This gives you the skills you need to create mutual learning in your workplace, scale wisdom, and co-create value.
Module 8
Creating a Culture of Continous Developement, Engagement and Wellbeing. 3 hrs
How to develop ongoing agility and lifelong learning for yourself and others beyond the programme
- Learning how to continuously learn beyond the programme
- Integrating meta-skills, leadership, and learning into your day-to-day
- Promoting a Culture of Productivity, Engagement and Wellbeing
- Next steps as an Accelerator Alumni
2 x Bonus Modules
Group Coaching. 2 hours
Bonus Module 1, 2 hrs:
This is an extra Facilitated Group coaching session to set you up for developing your peer coaching beyond the taught programme.
This module makes sure you have a complete understanding of all of the previously covered material and that you are able to apply it and sets you up for the beginning of your next step as an Alumni. We explore how to take that next step mindfully so that you can continue your development with care, precision and optimum performance.
Bonus Module 2, 2hrs: The Alumni Review
This session takes place 4 months after the taught programme. You will have lived experience and peer support in-between times. We bring everyone back together to review progress, share learnings and experiences. You will have a chance to learn from each other as well as fresh input from Andy. Some participants may also use this session as part of their Certification if they take that option.
How does all this fit together to create a “wrap around” learning experience?
