CLOE: Strategy to Reality

Leadership Assessment, Development and MSc

Click here for case studies and client testimonials. We generally use the model below in our approach to assessing or giving feedback on leadership ability and in subsequent developmental work.

Leadership Assessment Centres and Leadership Effectiveness
Awareness Raising

A Leadership Assessment Centre or Awareness Raising Programme may be used to:

Create a burning desire to learn - the pre-requisite for real change and effective development programmes
Identify leadership potential and assist recruitment, selection and succession planning.
Audit organizational leadership capacity - 'leadership due diligence'
Develop observers - executives, senior managers and programme 'alumni' trained as observers reflect on their own behaviour and give more effective feedback at work.

Typically participants will be involved in a day of simulations of the major challenges of their leadership role – actors add realism and ‘stress’ to 1:1 communication based simulations. Trained observers record detailed ‘behavioural evidence’ and give specific and meaningful feedback. Thus self-awareness is raised, a pre-requisite for lasting development.

Simulations may be generic or organization-specific activities such as:

Leaderless and leader appointed team tasks
Individual written problem solving
Group problem solving
Group discussion
One to one coaching, feedback and development planning sessions
Customer and/or business partner relationship management simulations
Presentations

Leadership Development Programmes

Execution speed and quality depends upon aligned, committed teams. This in turn requires organizational leadership capacity to be developed in both depth and breadth throughout the organization – with the 'leadership hierarchy' fully integrated across locations, levels and divisions. Core leadership subject areas are outlined below. These may be delivered ‘off the shelf’ or tailored in content and delivery methodology designed to suit your specific organizational needs. In all cases we maintain a practical focus and build confidence in new ideas through the provision of opportunities for practise and supported/coached application at work. Programmes may include the following subject areas.

Understanding Leadership: The leader's role and functions and styles of leadership
Integrating levels of leadership through structure and process
Understanding people, personality and behaviour and developing emotional intelligence
Building and maintaining high performing teams and cross-boundary partnerships
Developing strategy and campaign planning
Clear thinking: problem solving and aligned decision-making
Detailed planning and briefing
Project Management
Coaching, behavioural observation, feedback and performance management
Designing organizational structure and aligning accountability with authority
Recruitment and interviewing
Relationships and 1:1 communication
Ethics, integrity, morale, trust and power

Details of typical content and learning methodology will be sent on request.

The Leadership Effectiveness Assessment and Development Programme (LEAD)

The LEAD programme is our tried and tested flagship programme which produces demonstrable results and return on investment. Over four days*, it combines a leadership assessment centre on Day 1 – which creates a burning desire to learn - with immediate organizational leadership capacity development and detailed personal development planning over Days 2 - 4. A series of one-to-one ‘application coaching sessions’on Day 5 and at intervals thereafter ensures immediate transfer of learning to work and starts the creation of ‘application case studies’which will show ROI. When completed by a management team and built around a specific business challenge, the results are both impressive and measurable with impact felt years after delivery. (*The format may vary as rquired, e.g. 3 + 2 day blocks.)

We will work with you to devise a full 'Kirkpatrick' evaluation covering participant reaction, learning, 'new methods' application and adoption, and business impact.

Participants will gain access to a range of online resources and materials and we can foster alumni networks and ongoing development in client organizations are required.

Please send us an email to receive a brochure which describes the LEAD experience.

LEAD Aim and Purpose

To develop collective leadership capacity by embedding common leadership processes; in order to provide a platform for sustainable productivity increase and behavioural change.

LEAD Key Objectives

Self-awareness of personal impact and creation of a deep desire to learn
Creation of a thorough and practical personal development plan
A common understanding of leader's role and responsibilities
Assimilation of common leadership processes for aligned decision-making, planning and briefing
The leadership cascade of plans and decisions
Understanding of the drivers of human behaviour
Development of leadership style and emotional intelligence
Development of coaching and feedback skills
The confidence to apply LEAD learning
Creation of initial wins through 1:1 coaching in application.

The MSc in Organizational Leadership

The MSc is unique in these respects:

Academically rigorous but relevant to practioners through its experiential learning methodology
The emphasis on building organizational leadership capacity while concurrently developing individuals
A unique connection between leadership theory and practice, hard skills and soft skills
Assessment largely based on application of learning and creation of return on investment for the employer
A progression which ‘trains the trainer’
The postgraduate certificate face to face 3 day blocks may stand alone as CPD units with M|-level credits, with an option to complete the certificate curriculum at a later date.

The MSc exists in two formats, an open programme and single-employer variant. In the latter case, we are able to build learning around a live business issue or real time project to deliver relevant learing with immediate application. The single client variant has been designed to include a ‘train the trainer’ element and transfer expertise from CLOE to the client organization.

Overarching Aim and Purpose

Open Programme: To develop leadership and to focus individual activity; in order to improve both operational performance and the ability to innovate and change on a sustainable basis.

Single Client Programme: To develop leadership and to develop capability and align activity in depth and breadth within organizations; in order to improve both operational performance and the ability to innovate and change on a sustainable basis.

Cohort of peers with delivery tailored around common business issue (single client)
Case studies from assessment fed into training cycle
Certificate Alumni may co-facilitate future Certificate Students as part of Diploma module
E-Learning delivery
Structured assessments for academic accreditation

Postgraduate Certificate – 60 Credits

Aim & Purpose: To increase individual leadership effectiveness by assimilating core leadership processes and skills, and by and developing the behaviour with which those skills are applied; in order to create the platform for embedding organizational leadership capacity.

Module LC1: Leadership in Action (role and responsibilities of leaders, creating the conditions for success, levels of leadership, functions of leaders, styles of leadership, integrating leadership across levels, locations and departments, leadership and management, building teams, power, delegation, integrity, morale, trust)

Module LC2: Decision Making & Project Management (Execution excellence: aligned decision-making, planning and briefing, the cascade of decisions and plans, empowerment, initiative, project leadership, effective meetings)

Modules LC1 & 2 are delivered in two interweaved practical 3 day blocks

Module LC3: Developing Self & Others (drivers of human behaviour, emotional intelligence, coaching, feedback & performance management, conflict resolution)

Postgraduate Diploma – 60 Credits

Aim & Purpose: To further develop the understanding of leadership in a strategic context; in order to critically analyse the exercise of leadership.

Single Client Aim & Purpose if LDX4 is chosen: To develop the ability to teach the core components of the certificate curriculum and to develop consulting skills; in order to embed organizational leadership capacity and to lead or enable organization change

Select 2 from LDX4,5 & 6
Module LDX4: Organization Design & Developing Capability (Organization structure, principles of organization, stratified systems, advanced coaching & facilitation skills, internal consulting skills, train the trainer)
Module LDX5: Understanding Organization and Environment (behaviour in organizations and society; motivation, learning & work values, internal / external power and politics, communication and networks; impact of technology and globalization, the forces for change and its impact, organization culture & change
Module LDX6: Contemporary Issues in Leadership (traditional and emergent leadership theory; cultural and structural influences; relational processes; leadership within theoretical and empirical frameworks; sustainability, ethics and social responsibility; global capitalism)
Mandatory for the Masters Degree, Module LMX1: Research Methodology and Methods for Leadership Research (literature review; qualitative and quantitative analysis. paradigms of inquiry, methodologies, scientific method, reflexivity, data collection and methods)

Masters Degree – 60 Credits

For the final 60 Credits, the dissertation may be based upon:

Application of learning to lead a major change;
Generalist management;
Institutional governance;
Learning or continual professional development;
Human resource management;
Organizational behaviour, organizational development and organizational theory;
Critical theory;
Employee relations;
Business process effectiveness;
Enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurship; or
Public sector leadership

Please send us an email to receive a brochure which describes details of the MSc in Organizational Leadership.