The Edge

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Introducing… The Edge.  A  leadership development programme from Dorset Chamber designed to equip aspiring and current leaders with the essential skills to excel in their roles.
 

This suite of five half day workshops provides a collaborative and interactive learning environment where participants can engage in discussions, share experiences, and gain practical tools for immediate application.

Delivered by leadership specialist, Clive Ozzard, the course cost is £850+vat for Dorset Chamber members. Standard price is £995+vat.

Delegates will focus on specific areas through the programme, supporting them in their personal development as leaders. Sessions are designed to be interactive with practical takeways that can be implemented on the return to the workplace. 

The workshops are: 

Workshop 1: Aspiring Directors  – the route to the board

Whatever your background, the step up to become a company director can be significant. For many it means moving on from a set of specialist technical skills, and embracing a very different way of thinking. This course provides the tools necessary to enable that transition to be as successful as possible. It covers what every aspiring director needs to know, not just the legal requirements, but the skills required, and the derailers to avoid.

Working with a group of peers, you will have the opportunity to share real life examples of your own experiences, and also learn from others who are following a similar journey.

Workshop 2: Strategic Thinking – seeing the big pictureMoving from task or project focus, requires a major change to your way of thinking. Your existing methods may need significant change, to embrace and thrive in a very different context. As a director, you must be a strategic thinker who takes a genuinely big picture view, with a future focus rather than just concentrating on the day to day.

Using proven techniques, the course allows you to review your business, identifying both positive aspects and areas for change. The focus is on planning and enabling growth and providing you with the essential tools to help you put this into practice. .

Workshop 3: Influencing Skills – helping everyone win
For many new directors, the changing role leads to the first time of having to operate at board level. This often means dealing with multiple stakeholders, both inside and outside of the business.

Conflicting priorities and agendas can be challenging, needing a much different focus to more project-centred working.

As someone responsible for ensuring the delivery of business objectives, your director level role means working with others, exerting influence and maintaining good, ongoing relationships.

The course provides the tools to effectively influence at a higher level

Workshop 4: Self-development for the Senior Leader – moving onwards and upwards. 

A key aspect of growth in business is both self-review and personal development. Understanding yourself, and identifying your personal motivations is directly linked to business success or failure.

Many senior staff spend far less time on their own development, than they do on those who report to them. This can lead to a lack of practical skills or personal growth.
 

Developing the essential skills for self-understanding, and how to achieve that, will lead to productivity, profit and personal achievement.

Workshop 5: Leadership – Steering from the front. 

Taking people with you is vital to see sustainable business growth.Working with a peer group, we will look at what being a leader in the modern business world really means and how you can develop in that role.

For full details of what is covered in each session visit here. 

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