Create Leaders Worth Following

Most organisations promote their best technical experts into leadership and hope the people skills follow. They rarely do. We fix that, measurably.

Who are you looking to develop?

 

Professional Development

You’re technically strong, but somewhere along the way the people side of leadership didn’t get the same attention. We develop the specific behaviours that change how you’re experienced as a leader, built around your actual gaps, not a generic curriculum.

Organisational Development

Your technical experts are your future leaders, but promotion doesn’t automatically develop the people skills. We build those skills through sustained behavioural practice, not training courses. Independently validated over 12 months with a Federal Government department.

We’ve helped leaders from…

…become Leaders Worth Following

The model identifies the three dimensions that separate leaders worth following from technical experts who struggle to lead people. Click each to explore what that gap looks like in practice.

Discover detailed insights and hidden features by clicking on various parts of the Venn diagram below.

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The leader your technical expert could become

An Engaging Executive is what a technical expert becomes when they’ve actually been taught to lead. They combine subject mastery with the people skills that rarely come naturally to high performers: earning trust quickly, handling difficult conversations, and influencing stakeholders who don’t report to them.

They’ve mastered the art of connecting with internal and external stakeholders to make themselves part of the ‘in-group’ where decisions are made. They can easily understand the perspectives of others to handle conflict, motivate and capture people’s interest. They have become an asset to any organisation.

Behavioural Traction System ™

Most leadership training produces knowledge without behaviour change. The Behavioural Traction System™ is why our results are different: a three-part methodology that moves leaders from insight to action to sustained habit, with accountability built in at every stage.

It’s the reason behaviour actually changes, rather than returning to default two weeks after a workshop.

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“The difference is in me and how I engage.”

Most who start this program consider themselves to be in the ‘good’ category. But it becomes apparent that your own understanding of the depth of your emotional intelligence and engagement is put under the microscope in an enlightening way which provides a better informed perspective of exactly what work you have to do on your journey to ‘great’.

Senior Lawyer, Mid-Tier Law Firm

The Engaging Executive Program has turned around the way I think, act and see the world. My environment is the same, the matters I deal with are still complex and the needs of my clients remain important. The difference is in me and how I engage.

Human Resources Manager, Department of Social Services

I liken the Engaging Executive Program to somewhat of an interpersonal engagement ‘finishing school’. Regardless of your level of interpersonal maturity, I can guarantee that you’ll take something from it that will reap material benefits in your professional and personal life.

Network Engineer, Department of Defence

The best constructed learning design I have ever experienced. It beautifully balances theory with practicality in a supportive and fun environment with the challenge and pressure that I needed to go out of my comfort zone.

Senior Agile Coach, Commonwealth Bank

The Engaging Executive Program has made a difference to all aspects of my life-professionally and personally. I thought the book was great but the program beds it in and has given me a framework and tools that I use every day.

Chief Information Officer, National Library of Australia

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