Global leadership
The TNO provides challenging learning and development activities to rapidly enhance the leadership & management capabilities of individuals undertaking complex roles at all levels in global organisations.
We believe that there are two broad strands of leadership opportunities available to individuals in organisations:
- Personal Leadership – a choice individuals make irrespective of their precise job role to stand up and positively influence, improve or change a situation
- Organisational Leadership – a defined role where an individual is explicitly required to demonstrate leadership on behalf of their enterprise
Encouraging, identifying and developing individuals who show an early demonstration of personal leadership capabilities provides a ready made “seed-bed” of talent to fill the organisational leadership roles of the future. The development challenge is then to equip these talented individuals with the right combination of knowledge, skills, experiences, environments and feedback to ensure that the enterprise has a ready supply of outstanding leaders to sustain and grow the performance of the organisation through periods of growth and change.
The TNO provides the following distinct approaches to leadership development - on every occasion we tailor activities to the specific needs and outcomes of the client:
Foundation leadership
We design and implements fast-track development programmes for individuals identified with the talent to assume early leadership and management roles. We combine a number of elements to provide a coherent development process that will readily equip individuals with the practical insights, experience and tools to make a success of early management and team leadership roles. These elements include:
- Personal Leadership Development Activities
- Action Learning Sets
- Project Groups
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Networking
- Structured Job Experience Steps
- Community Based/Social Projects
Producer leadership
Early team leadership roles are often the most challenging. Individuals may be required to manage both their own direct portfolio of tasks and work activity alongside their new management and leadership responsibilities. We run specially tailored Producer/Leader development programmes to help individuals balance these twin demands and ensure successful outcomes in all aspects of their roles.
International leadership
As successful managers & leaders develop their careers in global organisations, they increasingly need to embrace the outlook, behaviours and specific capabilities to operate across both organisational and cultural boundaries. In addition to a robust commercial acumen such leaders need to develop a range of cultural competencies that allow them to influence an increasingly wide and diverse range of different stakeholders. In this area of leadership development we identify and develop the precise cultural competencies that will make a difference in these international roles using practical experience, personal feedback and coaching to increase personal effectiveness.
Executive leadership
Peak leadership performance at an executive level requires a powerful strategic capability, an unrelenting focus on commercial outcomes and an energising, empowering and inclusive leadership style adaptable enough to meet both the short, medium and long term expectations of stakeholders. The rewards for success are high and the penalties for failure acute. Both in preparation for these roles and in their execution, individuals require stretching development experiences, access to high quality coaching support and regular feedback to sharpen personal performance. At this level the TNO designs highly tailored and applied personal development activities for individuals or small groups of executives.