Days instead of decades, wisdom for a lifetime

• Are you a new a manager who wants to lead people to high performance and create value fast?
• Are you a stuck business owner, who wants to get out of operations and grow their team?
• Are you a frustrated leader, bogged down in people problems?
• Have you been on traditional management training but found it didn’t reflect real life?
• Are you waisting time and resource, stuck in groundhog day, repeating the same problems over and over?

What you will learn

• How to create a the conditions of high performance and a place where people love to work

• How to engage people so that they thrive and perform at their best

• How to empower others so decisions flow to the people best placed to make them

• How to lead through mutual learning and navigate challenging conversations

• How to promote continuous learning and developmental change

What’s special about this programme?

Most tradiional leadership trainings fail because they attempt to teach leadership without teaching you HOW TO LEARN leadership. The result is a theory, not grounded in practice or reality. The Leadership Accelerator is different.. 

• You will create decades worth of value and experience within 8 weeks through our unique "Learn How To Learn Leadership" acceleration approach
• 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
• Go beyond mundane “common sense” and hyped “guru” advice, to genuinly think differently about real professional situations

How do we achieve this?

The Leadership Accelerator brings together a small group of participants in a live, experiencial online space, once a week, for over 8 weeks, supported by group coaching, on-demand support, and a peer to peer learning community that continues after the formal learning, This creates a “wrapped 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 forever, supplementary material and workbook.

✅Live Group Leadership Coaching

✅Life Time Membership - "Leadership Think Tank" Community of Peer Practice

✅Imporvised session variations and “taskwork”, recommended reading and supplementary material that responds to the unique needs of the participants

✅Certification optional

• 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 Leadership Launch -2-hrs

Set your yourself up for success and learn HOW to LEARN leadership to begin your acceleration through the programme.

• Personalising your own leadership development
• Ditch the pseudo science and rethink what you know about leadership
• 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 outdating, industrial age thinking. This module brings leadership right up to date and provides a crystal clear basis for navigating the often confusing and frustrating work of real management, creating the conditions of success for yourself and others.

• Integrating Management and leadership
• Diagnosing leadership problems
• Learning & Leading through high performance activity
• Co-creating the work, Systemic Alignment and Delegating
• Fundementals of Mindful Self Management: Developing self- awareness and making better choices
• Developing Emotional Management -Motivating Self and Others

Module 3. Group Coaching 1 - 2hrs

Facilitated Group coaching with your peers

Module 4. Coaching For Leaders -1 Full Day

Coaching is often confused with Mentoring or merely giving advice. Coaching as a leader has similar features to Executive Coaching, Sports Coaching Life Coaching but is also very different, in important ways. This module carves out a clear space for coaching in moments of organsiational leadership to promote empowerment, continuous learning and grow your team.

• Get clear on Coaching for leaders; it’s different from other forms of coaching
• Advanced Skills for coaching as a leader
• Variations in coaching
• Coaching your team
• Coaching moments

Module 5. Group Coaching -2 hours

Facilitated Group coaching and developing peer coaching

Module 6. Leading Challenging Conversations - 1 Full Day

Most of the works 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
• Promoting mutual learning
• Resolving challenging conversations; what do about bad feelings and common upsets
• Systemic Feedback and Escalations

Module 7. Group Coaching 3  -2hours

Facilitated Group coaching and developing peer coaching

Module 8. Creating a Culture of Continous Developement  - 2hours

How to develop on going agility and life long learning for yourself and others beyond the programme

• Learning how to continuously learn
• Resolving thinking and learning traps
• Integrating leadership and learning beyond the programme
• Next steps in leadership development

Module 9. Group Coaching 4  - 2hours

Facilitated Group coaching and developing peer coaching

How does all this fit together to create a “wrapped around” learning  experience?

Common questions

Who is this Accelerator for?

This level of leadership accelerator covers everything a 1st tier or 1st level line manager should ideally know and do. We have found that more experienced managements/leaders still benefit from the fundamentals and its common for them to pick up understandable but common bad habits.. Fundamental doesn’t always mean easy, so we always welcome more experienced managers who want to review and benchmark their skills. This programme is definitely designed for new managers, experienced managers with little formal train or very experienced managers, who find traditional training didn’t work for them . More advance leadership programmes will be available soon and we would expect participants of those, to be very familiar with everything in this programme, because we get very advanced, very fast.

Are the sessions live?

Yes. The live interactive experience is the ideal, leaving lots of room for creativity, innovation and personalisation. All session are recorded and available for you to watch again forever.

What if I miss a session?

If you miss a session don’t worry we have you covered. You will have 3 complementary options: All sessions are recorded they will be yours forever. Review and re-watch them at your own pace for things you missed or want to return to. If you miss a session you can catch up live, in two additional ways. The first, is by attending the module you missed with the next available accelerator cohort. The second is by attending the next available stand alone master classe on the topic you missed. These options are complementary when you book on the Accelerator Programme. Remember whatever you choose to do, you will always have the recordings forever.

How does the Think Tank Community Of Practice Work?

Each progamme cohort will have its own community of practice for the duration of the programme. We show you how to get the most out of that community. Once you have graduated from the accelerator community, you will have an open invitation to join the lifetime membership completely free of charge. You can participate in that for as long as you want, for as much or as little as you like, completely free of charge.

How does Certification Work?

Certification is optional for people who want to record their achievement and meet the Think Distinct “Learning Leadership” standard. We do things a little differently at Think Distinct. For certification you will be asked to complete an assignment, for which you will create an artifact. That could be a write-up, video, blog, audio recording or powerpoint presentation. To meet certification standards you must completed the initial task, and get feedback from both the facilitator and one of you peers. And lastly you must write up a short summary of what you do with the feedback that demonstrates continuous learning. You can complete the certification process whenever you like and its always optional.

Are there discount for the programme?

Yes. We discount participants if they are self funded. And we discount for multiple bookings.

What time zone is the training in?

UK time. 

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