Leadership Development

Effective leadership training for your operational managers is the key to sustained change, happier teams and better business results.

Too few managers have had training that develops personal awareness and people skills to operate at the level our shifting work environments demand. And sending managers off to more traditional one-off management training courses often doesn’t work – the learning stops when the course ends and participants can quickly forget what they’ve learned.

We’re changing the way managers are trained, by:

  • keeping it simple

  • minimising learning time, maximising practice time

  • utilising built-in coaching and peer learning

  • maintaining accountability at all levels.

We develop managers into leaders in just two hours a month.

In 90 days your managers will become more:

  • efficient with their time

  • effective with their people

  • proactive in their role

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The Active Learning System - training that actually works

Our system makes learning stick because it involves practical content (only what matters), coaching from leaders, learning with peers and developing skills through daily practice.

No workshops. No theories. No assignments.

Just 96% learner satisfaction, 98% programme completion and infinite breakthroughs.

Managers:

  • Become more confident

  • Make better decisions

  • Solve problems faster

  • Take more ownership

  • Get more done

Plus get back five or more hours back per week.

Our Programmes

We partner with The Breakthrough Co, who specialise in helping you create more human workplaces through management training that sticks. We can customise their leadership development programmes to get the best results for you. Our programmes are rolled out in cohorts in your organisation, matching the programme and skill development to the level.

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Active Manager

Develops the core management skills of your managers.

As our most popular programme, Active Manager drives better results and creates sustained change because managers unlock the master skill - learning how to learn. Right from the outset participants are introduced to the most important concept: the difference between active and reactive management. As they develop greater awareness, they feel more confident and demonstrate improved skills.

Managers will:

  • think more clearly

  • relate more effectively with others

  • prioritise and use their time more productively

  • delegate effectively to multiply results

  • communicate in more positive and constructive ways

  • get the best from their people and themselves.

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Active Coach Playbook

Companion programme for leaders who are providing coaching to learners on Active Manager.

The Active Coach Playbook helps learners’ leaders get the best leverage and greatest return from the programme, making it easy for leaders to provide essential coaching.

Leaders get the following for each course:

  • a summary of the course and practices for coaching

  • suggestions for applying content to their context

  • opportunities to link learning to their organisation’s strategy or culture.

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Active Team Leader

Develop the core management skills of your team leaders, supervisors and frontline managers.

Active Team Leader applies the core concepts of Active Manager for supervisors, team leaders and frontline managers. It builds the practical management skills required every day to drive better business results and unlocks potential for greater performance.

Team leaders, supervisors and frontline managers will:

  • develop the soft skills of management - greater awareness, higher productivity and more effective collaboration

  • contribute at a higher level for better results

  • advance their career.

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Active Contributor

Develops the personal effectiveness of your emerging leaders.

Active Contributor enables your emerging talent to build the essential management skills required to contribute at a higher level. This programme’s focus is on personal effectiveness for people who show leadership potential although they may not yet have people reporting to them. Your people will achieve better results for the business and for themselves and advance in their careers.

Emerging leaders will:

  • manage themselves better so they can make a bigger contribution

  • develop the skills, mindset and confidence to take on greater challenges

  • make a greater impact in their current role

  • set them up for future roles, including management.

  • “It’s much more practical because you use examples from your own company”

    Shane Hartley, Tenders and Contracts Manager, RTL

  • “I learnt more in 12 months than in four and a half years”

    Dan Stewart, National Operations Manager, Franklins

  • “The program helped me realise that my job is to support and enable others”

    Iain Munroe, General Manager, Mike Greer Commercial

  • “I’m more confident running team meetings and delegating”

    Active Manager participants, PlaceMakers

  • “The Active Manager program had low impact on our time and high effect on our people”

    Hans Van Leeuwen, GM Operations, Aparta

  • “We are set up for success with strong leaders”

    Margot Thomas, Global GM for People and Capability, Rakon