Higher Ground: transforming good leaders into great leaders
Higher Ground is a long term Leadership Development Programme designed to build the leadership culture in your organisation. We’ve taken the very best of our Leadership Development Workshops and Leadership Coaching Packages to deliver you an all inclusive programme that makes certain your leaders will have the necessary skills to take your organisation to Higher Ground.
Overview
Organisations are now realising that developing leadership throughout an organisation is a vital strategy. Leadership is more than (just) management. Leaders take initiative and drive their function, inspiring those around them to do the same. Fostering leadership behaviours and building a culture of leadership are vital to your organisation’s survival.
The Higher Ground Leadership Development Programme is engineered to take good leaders and turn them into great leaders. It’s as simple as that! And when you have great leaders you can expect the following results for your organisation:
- Better business outcomes!
- People taking of ownership and responsibility for their role in your organisation.
- Less strain on upper management to provide all the answers.
- An Increase in entrepreneurship and innovation at all levels.
- Improved collaboration and sharing of information across organisational boundaries.
- An increased pool of talented, inspired leaders to fuel your growth.
But the benefits don’t only apply to your organisation. Your individual participants will get:
- Increased self awareness.
- A chance to learn skills that will allow them to more effective in their role and advance their careers.
- More joy out of taking on leadership responsibilities and developing the leaders around them.
- An opportunity to work with different people and be directly involved in a strategic project.
How does it work?
True leaders don’t just have an impact on their direct colleagues; they influence your entire organisation and its stakeholders. That’s why this Leadership Development Programme is designed around our unique L5: Leader as a Diamond Model:
L1 – Leading Self
L2 – Leading One-On-One
L3 – Leading Teams
L4 – Clients
L5 – Leading the Organisation
This model ensures your leaders are competent in all facets of leadership and in all circumstances. Like a diamond, you want your leaders to ‘shine’ in all these areas. The more they ‘shine’ in one facet the more ‘brilliance’ they will bring to other facets and the whole organisation.
Through a combination of workshops, leadership coaching, leadership profiling tools and real business projects, Higher Ground introduces your participants to all the L5 modules. It’s all about ensuring your leaders can lead in all situations and in all circumstances.
You will find more information about the Higher Ground Leadership Development Programme here:
How is it different?
Tailored approach
Different organisations require different leadership behaviours. You know that a standard ‘off the shelf’ leadership development programme wont work. You need something tied to your strategic intent and the leadership behaviours required to develop your culture.
We’ll work extensively with you to engineer a programme that is just right for your organisation. We won’t dish you up any predetermined goals or insist that you include certain development components. You’ll set the tone for the programme and choose the leadership competencies that you want your participants to focus on.
Learning’s that stick
This Leadership Development Programme is not just about workshop sessions. Incorporated into the program is a real life project undertaken by participants called the Opportunity For Improvement (O.F.I). This cross functional project is designed to get your leaders to put into practice their learning’s in a real business situation to give you a tangible way of assessing the return on your investment.
Setting you up for the long term
Higher Ground gives your participants the skills to develop the leaders around them. Think about that for a moment. If your leaders are passing on the skills they learn from this Leadership Development Programme they will essentially build the leadership culture themselves.
Measuring R.O.I
Of course you’ll want to track the progress of your leaders. That’s why we’ve included four levels of measurement to track your leaders’ journeys:
Self Measurement – each participant will measure their progress using simple scaling techniques and self assessment instruments.
Others perceptions – An appropriate 360 Degree Feedback tool is used to measure the impact of the leaders behaviour at the beginning and end of the program.
Leadership Culture – The Organisational Development Questionnaire (ODQ) is used to measure the change in leadership culture and the balance of transactional and transformational leadership behaviours.
Whole Business Outcomes – Before the programme we’ll agree on an appropriate measure of ‘business success’.
What Next?
If you would like more information about the Higher Ground Leadership Development Programme and how it could benefit your organisation simply:
Or phone us now on:
+61 2 9905 5535
One of our team will be able to answer your questions and you can arrange an obligation free meeting with one of our consultants.
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What Others Say
In 2003 I introduced Paul and the team of The Human Enterprise to the Senior Leadership team at St Vincents & Mater Health. Not surprisingly their experience was overwhelming and resulted in the development of a unique Leadership Development Programme, targeted at future leaders within the health care setting.
To date 100 participants have commenced their journey with Paul and the impact of the programme has exceeded our expectations.
Kerrie Field General Manager HR, St Vincent's & Mater Health, Sydney
Key to the success of our strategy has been our partnership with The Human Enterprise and their delivery of the SAP ANZ Higher Ground program. Prior to introducing the program, few of our managers invested sufficient time in the people aspects of their roles. The Higher Ground program has helped us to build a Leadership culture in the organisation with dramatic improvements in employee satisfaction, engagement and the overall business results. Leaders have a better understanding of our expectations of them as leaders.
Participants believe that we have made a significant investment in their leadership capability and now have both the skill and will to lead. Many participants rated the Higher Ground Program as life changing, gaining a significantly better perspective on their strengths and development needs as a leader. All participants saw the program as practical, thought provoking and highly relevant.
Geraldine McBride, CEO and Managing Director, SAP Australia and New Zealand (Hewitt Best Employer 2006-2007)
The Human Enterprise has become synonymous with the quest for developing today’s and tomorrows leaders within CSFB Operations across the Asia Pacific region.
We have made great strides in transforming CSFB into an organisation where leadership skills are now at the forefront of everyone’s minds, where we challenge processes and strive for improvement, value that we are human and need to make our workplaces an enjoyable and fun place to be. Our corporate culture has metamorphasised!
We salute you Paul Mitchell & The Human Enterprise!
Kate Mason-Dryden, Global Head of Learning & Organisational Development Credit Suisse (USA) Inc
Congratulations once again. From the feedback received to date, the Leadership Development Programme was an exceptional experience for our young partners.
The board of Horwath Australia met last week and received the participants feedback and asked me to pass on to you their appreciation for the contribution you and your team have made over a long period of time to the development of our leadership talent.
Michael Stibbard, ex Managing Director, Horwath Australia Ltd. (Now Partner, Growth Solutions, Deloitte)
You may recall that I participated in the SAP L5 (Higher Ground) course that you lead a couple of years back. After a period of personal reflection and change I can really appreciate the experience and find myself using much of the learning on a daily basis.
In short, I wanted to thank you for assisting me in my journey. You have provided me with the tools that are life-long, not training course long
Graeme Burt, ex Channel Sales Manager SAP Australia and New Zealand, now Commercial and Partner Sales Director, Oracle Australia
