Accidental Leaders Program ©
You're leading, but you never intended to lead?
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You can’t take time off or step back from the business because it all falls apart when you do
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You can’t seem to find a way to get the best out of people
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The changes you’re looking for aren’t happening or aren’t happening fast enough
Growing a business or building a career is rarely a straight line, and often even squiggly.
So we can find ourselves promoted to positions managing and leading others, that you never intended.
This can spark "accidental monsters".
That can look like: not managing your stress, giving feedback that inspires low confidence or conflict, not delegating workload well, and or not feeling confident in yourself.
The accidental leaders program teaches six skillsets that will lead
to less stress, more confidence, and a happier team at work.
I’ve designed this learning journey based on my extensive experience working with accidental leaders:
This is a 3 month blended learning programme with peer-to-peer plus 1-2-1 coaching and assessments at start/end.
How it works
1. SELF ASSESSMENT
A simple questionnaire to create style insight and focus for learning.
2. PRE-WORK
To be agreed with programme facilitator/coach.
3. WORKSHOP ONE
An interactive virtual workshop to cover how to design a high performance team.
4. WORKSHOP TWO
An interactive virtual workshop to cover leadership style, employee engagement and change leadership.
5. WORKSHOP THREE
A highly interactive face-to-face workshop using an organisation as a case study to make the learning relevant, actionable and ‘sticky’.
6. ONGOING LEARNING
Access to other resources as required.
3 months later…
7. SELF ASSESSMENT
To measure competence and confidence improvements and identify any areas for further development.
3 x 60 minutes 1-2-1 coaching for all delegates
How you’ll benefit
Find your leadership style
Believe it or not, we all have a natural leadership style, that feels unique to our individual personality and upbringing. Being able to lead well is about finding out what that style is, and learn how to lean into it at work.
You'll get:
A personalised plan for your best leadership style, with the gaps you can improve and how.
Know how motivation works
We teach the theory behind the different aspects of motivation. And how these differ from person to person. In order to lead well, you need to motivate effectively across a diverse team of people.
You'll get:
Simple models for understanding how to motivate your team, and improve employee engagement.
Diagnose stress, build resilience
We all respond differently to stress.
So understanding how we respond to different things, is the first step in improving our resilience. Awareness will enable you to make better decisions and make the changes you want to make in managing stress.
You'll get:
Tools and strategies you can apply to your everyday stresses.
Give feedback, manage conflict
Managing people often leads to needing to improve performance at work. That means giving feedback and moderating how people show up at work in a way that's compassionate, and constructive.
You'll get:
Tools and strategies to manage conflict, mediate disagreements, and give feedback well.
Listen and speak confidently
Minus the fluff and myths, leading people well is really a series of relationships. And great relationships need great communication skills. The better we listen, understand others, and express ourselves clearly, the better we can lead others.
You'll get:
Numerous ways to build rapport, listen, and speak confidently.
Delegate and reduce work load
Lastly, learning to let go and delegate as you rise in leadership positions is essential to managing your stress, and workload. When you delegate well you free up time for the "important, not urgent" work that helps the business.
You'll get:
An understanding of the behaviour and mindset needed to delegate.
Sounds good?
Register below and let’s get you started!
Some of my thoughts on what it takes to be a leader
We have to calibrate
I don’t know about you, but I had no idea what sort of leader I was. What I was good at. What I wasn’t so good at. What I was like under pressure. What impact that had on others and their performance.
That’s been a hard, long journey of discovery. Filled with potholes and accidents.
I can help you accelerate that learning journey. We can figure out what you’re amazing at, what you need to polish, and how you can be even more brilliant, so that your team can too.
Communicating well
Minus all the fluff and myth, leadership is just a series of relationships. And, like all relationships, it needs great communication.
Sometimes, we think we’ve been clear, but we haven’t. Sometimes we think we’ve been thoughtful and careful, but we’ve ended up with someone in tears (or is that just me….?).
Clients who’ve worked with me have discovered what their default communication style and preference is. And how their communication lands, or doesn’t, with others. They’ve learnt new ways of communication that create clarify, harmony and high performance.
Learning to motivate
Humans are beautiful in their diversity of thought and perspectives and actions. They can also be utterly baffling! Why on earth is that person behaving that way???
Clients who come to work with me have literally tried EVERYTHING to get their teams to perform in the way that they would like. They’re at their wits end. But they don’t stay that way…..
We soon learn what makes their teams tick, and how to use that information to select the right motivation tool or technique to get them performing BRILLIANTLY!
Moderate Performance
Telling people that they need to improve their performance is the kind of conversation that leaves me feeling a bit sick. It’s hard! What if they disagree? What if they kick off? What if they run out of the room crying (true story…)?
Sometimes, it feels so hard, we just don’t bother. and then we get frustrated by their continuing underperformance that we have to ask others, or ourselves, to backfill. What if there were another way?
Simple models, techniques and a generous dose of the right mindset and this problem becomes easier than painting by numbers! And that’s how I help.
The art of delegation
You’ve grown you business from a small, inspiring spark of an idea. You’ve nurtured it, protected it, worked for it, spent long nights on it. It’s flourishing and you’re super proud. But you can’t do it all anymore.
How do I give this precious and fragile part of me to someone else to deliver?? What if they don’t care as much as me? What if they’re not as good as me? What if they mess it up?
Learning to delegate, and truly let go, of our businesses is something I help business owners do. They gain back their sleep, their sanity and their time. And in return, they see their revenue grow, their profits swell, and their anxiety shrink.
Stress: the Derailer
Did you know that 80% of our performance comes down to our mindset? Not what you know, or what you can do. But how you are feeling on any given day. And guess what? Stress is a massive vacuum cleaner when it comes to our mindset. Because, “under stress, we regress”.
As part of my coaching programmes, I always help leaders manage their stress so that they can continue to be BRILLIANT leaders, even when the proverbial is hitting the fan!
We work on their ‘leadership shadow’ and build personalised resilience building plans that keep them in top performance. Zero stress = zero regress!
Tel. 07713 196730
Email: johanna@limitlesspeakperformance.co.uk
Website: www.limitlesspeakperformance.co.uk