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Developing Leaders

Retaining and developing your most important resource through bespoke training interventions

You probably spend a lot of time and effort managing risk and minimising threats to your organisation - but what about the risk of losing your best staff?

The consequences damage effectiveness, efficiency and inevitably profitability.

Arguably the most important resource in any organisation, we need to inspire loyalty and motivation in our people.

Do your people feel valued?

Do your leaders lead?

  • Do they promote team work and ambition?
  • Are they able to quickly and effectively deal with conflict, absence management and performance issues?
  • Can they adapt to situations and the needs of individuals?
  • Can they motivate individuals with differing needs?

Do your teams work as teams?

  • Do they recognise and build upon their diverse skills and attributes?
  • Can they communicate effectively and embrace constructive conflict?
  • Is there a balance between the needs of the team, the individuals within it and the job in hand?

We can offer bespoke workshops for teams and managers in:

Feedback, coaching, experiential learning, problem solving, action learning sets, performance development, absence management, situational leadership, grievance handling, people management, skills analysis, communication, team dynamics and diversity awareness.

Lead trainer:

Juli Read MSc, PGCE, Home Office Police Trainer

A Retired police sergeant, Juli spent the last ten years of her service training leadership and development along with technical subjects such as police custody, regulations, terrorism, discipline, and law. She then worked for The Police Federation, specialising in equality, diversity, organisational values, negotiation and influencing. More recent roles include training specialist for Continental Tyre Group and a bespoke leadership/change management programme for the defence industry.

Juli’s experience and qualifications include: MSc in Training and HRM, education and mentoring, action Learning sets, restorative justice, assessing and NLP.

Juli is an experienced facilitative trainer with a passion for developing others in personal and technical skills in:

  • Absence management
  • Appraisal
  • Skill v. Motivation
  • Communication skills
  • Assertiveness
  • Situational leadership
  • Self-awareness (Johari)
  • Team task individual (Adair)
  • Team dynamics (Tuckman / Lencioni)
  • Diversity awareness
  • Feedback, coaching, problem solving, action learning sets