Programme Benefits

The Leading from the Middle is a rigorous and holistic development experience incorporating a knowledge and skills component to positively impact participants’ leadership capabilities and their organisations. The programme raises the bar on what it takes to lead effectively from the middle to deliver high impact results - both from self-leadership and from influence on the wider organisation

Through conversations with and post-training evaluator of our faculty and our alumni, a number of core benefits have emerged:

Benefits to Participants

• Become a more confident, resilient and adaptable leader who can better meet any situation as it arises.
• Increase self-awareness and understanding of current middle leadership strengths and weaknesses and utilise these for best advantage
• More confident accepters of ideas and initiatives, increase ability to handle the ambiguity and chaos of leadership and more execution oriented
• Discover how to foster a collaborative high performance culture, effectively lead teams and motivate others to succeed.
• Have greater self-awareness, understand individual leadership strengths and weaknesses and utilise these for best advantage
• Acquire the essential toolkit that distinguishes a successful leader from a manager and the knowledge to prevent being derailed as a leader
• Gain valuable insights and enriched interactions with outstanding faculty and fellow middle leaders from a diverse organisations and industries

Benefit to Organisations

• Create a high performance culture that inspires and empowers everybody to consistently work together to achieve more.
• Build middle leaders with enterprise-wide perspective, broaden thinking, who can positively impact both organisational culture and the bottom line.
• Create focus and clarity within the organization, and  build a commitment to a shared vision that can move the organisation in desired directions
• Increased retention of employees through leadership capacity that develops and uses talent effectively.
• Enhanced organisation’s agility in responding  to rapid shifts in the environment through change leaders who can steer teams through complex situations
• Build bench strength of exceptional middle leaders in the middle management zone and  for future succession
• Benchmark against the best leadership practices of the successful companies