LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Helping your people deliver your strategy
Leadership Development
Helping your people deliver your strategy
Our Leadership Development practice works with different levels of your organisation to make sure people have the right capabilities, and are supported by the right culture, so that your strategy can be delivered.
Even with a clear strategy which leaders have consistently communicated, people in an organisation can still struggle to execute it.
Research tells us this is because the organisation has some combination of capability and culture gaps that now need to be addressed. Failing to close either of these gaps will put the execution of your strategy at risk.
Capability gaps occur when, although the strategy is clear, people don’t currently have the skills they need to deliver it.
Culture gaps occur when, although the strategy is clear and people have the required skills, the current culture isn’t enabling or encouraging them to work in this way.
We work with you to diagnose the new skills and culture your organisation needs in order to deliver your strategy. You can then choose how you’d like to close these gaps.
There are two ways we can help you close these gaps:
1
Bespoke, custom programmes
These are designed specifically for your organisation and the target population(s) within it. These bespoke programmes are always delivered live and usually in person.
2
Licensed off-the-shelf programmes
Our four licensed programmes teach you the key skills all organisations require in order to succeed. You purchase the number of licences you need and participants complete their learning online and at their own pace.
Examples of our clients
Linklaters LLP is a global, magic circle law firm headquartered in London. With over 5000 employees, and nearly 500 Partners in their 30 offices worldwide, Linklaters prides itself on being ‘best in class’. We work with them on a number of leadership programmes, including their annual programme for New Partners and a regular 4-day programme for the firm’s future leaders.
Elsbeth and her team know us incredibly well. This means they don’t just “teach” us what they think we need – though that’s important and they do that brilliantly. But they can also coach and advise us on how to put the learning into practice. That’s added real and immediate value to how we work with each other and with our clients.
Gideon Moore
Firmwide Managing Partner
Barclays plc is a global universal bank, headquartered in London and operating in personal, corporate and investment banking, as well as wealth and investment management. We worked with over one hundred of their senior leaders, designing and delivering a leadership development programme that aimed to take them and their businesses to the next level.
Elsbeth led a year-long leadership programme aimed at accelerating the growth of high potential individuals at the Director/Managing Director level. The programme provided me with an opportunity to learn more about leadership, strategy, change and innovation. The skills, tools and knowledge gained on the programme helped me improve my ability to lead others and the organisation. None of that would have been possible without Elsbeth. Her energy, intellect, passion and engaging manner were exceptional. She balanced academic knowledge with practical examples, and helped me to think through and plan complex business scenarios to deliver tangible client benefits.
Jon Doyle
Managing Director; Chief of Staff, Barclays Legal and formerly COO, Corporate Banking Product
Baringa LLP is a global management consulting firm, with 75 Partners and 700 employees. Awarded accolades by both its clients and its people – as a great company to work with, and a great place to work – Baringa has delivered enviable levels of year-on-year growth. We worked with the firm to help prepare its Partners for the next stage of growth, designing and delivering a programme that covered leadership, strategy, culture, communication and commercial acumen.
Elsbeth has been an outstanding teacher, facilitator, coach and trusted advisor to me, and the entire leadership team of 70+ partners at Baringa, for the last 18 months. I have never worked with an outsider in quite the same way – she absorbed the Baringa culture, identified our leadership development needs and established trust across the entire Partnership almost instantly. That means that the frameworks and tools we explored really fit us – both our strategy and our culture – and that means we’ve been using the language and the frameworks from the Programme back in the real world right from the start. It’s now just part of how we think and what we do. I’ve heard lots of my fellow Partners say that this was the single best leadership development programme they’ve ever been on – and the teaching and coaching is definitely world-class. But for me, the test is what difference has it made not just to individuals, but to the firm. The fact is the SystemShift programme helped us accelerate our leadership development and change our firm in exactly the way we wanted.
Adrian Bettridge
Managing Partner
