The Emerging Leader equips new leaders to move confidently from technical expertise into leadership impact. Across an induction and seven focused sessions, participants build self-awareness, core skills, and practical tools to lead people, manage performance, and navigate change—accelerating their leadership journey and laying the foundations for long-term success..
Content and Outcomes
The natural leadership shift
From reactive, waiting for instructions or reactive to task. To proactive, anticipating needs, taking initiative, shaping priorities.
From focused mostly on 'doing' and 'delivering own workload'. To growing focus on enabling others, delegating and empowering.
From comfort in peer-level work yet unsure how to manage people. To empowering and confident in developing others.
From seeing conflict as a threat or something to avoid. To considering it a signal for opportunity; more capable of managing it.
From short-term focus; may see strategy as someone else's job. To beginning to see and connect and align with wider strategy.
Understanding core leadership skills, behaviours and models
What makes a leader; distinguishing leadership vs. management. Unique leadership value and values. Who am I as a leader?
Conscious leader
Defining my natural leadership style, communication preferences and impact. Discovering strengths, and purpose. Optimising intelligent emotion, intellectual calm and physical ease as leadership presence.
Confident leader
Performance leadership and priorities. clarity of message, managing up and across, increasing engagement, ensuring accountability. Ensuring grounded authenticity.
Communication leader
Effective communication and relationships skills. Presenting a visions, giving and receiving feedback, non-verbal communication, clarity of message. Adapting communication style to intention, audience and impact.
Coaching leader
Developing others to their natural potential. Recognising talent, developing potential, abundance of mindset and coaching techniques.
Courageous leader
Navigating conflict and hosting difficult conversations. Holding space, tension and emotion while moving forward. Turning conflict into opportunity.
Collaborative leader
Challenging and innovating, strengthening relationships. What change leadership is. Framing , influencing and stakeholder mapping. Inviting perspectives and including all voices. Aligning team with organisational strategy.
Change leader
Leading change and forward strategy. Create safe space for psychological safety and wellbeing and articulating the opportunity to inspire and align around change.