THE PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
The Unleash Potential Personal Leadership Programme delivers improved bottom line results by fundamentally challenging the way individuals think and clearly demonstrates how they can impact performance with small, but critical behaviour changes. Participants learn how to create a working environment where people learn to work more effectively together by supporting and developing each other to achieve their full potential.
We believe that a fundamental element of outstanding leadership is the development of others. We examine how we can achieve this through every aspect of our behaviour. There is a strong focus on communication as the foundation for developing empowered working relationships and high-performance teams. In the programme, we highlight and analyses each individual’s communicating style and support them in moving towards more positive behaviours.
SIMPLE
EFFECTIVE
LEADERSHIP
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OVERVIEW
The programme is run with groups of 10-12 people.
STRUCTURE
It is run over three days: the first two consecutive days provide the major individual learning opportunities and the third day happens 2-3 weeks later.
The Personal Leadership Programme provides a powerful springboard for generating the understanding and co-operation required for success, as well as exploring abilities and expanding horizons. The programme is based on the belief that outstanding leadership is not just about how good a leader you are, but about how many leaders you develop behind you. The programme explains the fundamental elements of creating an environment where individuals can think clearly, deeply and creatively.
During the three-day course, there are many opportunities to explore how our own and others’ beliefs and behaviours are intrinsically linked. With a deeper awareness of this connection, individuals are empowered to challenge, explore and positively change both behaviours and beliefs.
Every area of this development programme is firmly grounded in the business environment, so that individuals leave with practical capabilities, allowing them to make immediate changes in their own behaviour. This will significantly impact the confidence and performance of their teams and colleagues.
The Personal Leadership Programme provides individuals with a unique and extremely effective style of leadership that leads to significant improvements in team performance, employee engagement and ultimately profitability. The programme will develop:
- Teams who thrive on openness, trust and effective communication to deliver high performance with real efficiency.
- A passionate and completely engaged team – hungry to grow and take on increased responsibility.
- A team so energetic and driven, they not only perform – but actively seek ways to drive the business forward.
- A team with the confidence to deliver innovation and build a competitive edge.
KEY OUTCOMES
- Greater team co-operation and openness
- The building of more open, supportive and transparent relationships to increase shared responsibility
- Improved communicating behaviours
- Improved team support and enhanced performance
- Greater understanding of the needs and challenges faced by each team member and a willingness to work together to achieve the desired outcomes
- The programme inspires individual confidence and provides a practical framework to encourage creative thinking and behaviour.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Learn how to foster and encourage trust and openness
- Understand how to communicate effectively to create win/win situations
- Be able to create a “leadership environment” to enhance the creativity of the team
- Learn to build a spirit of co-operation and involvement in teams
- Be able to create a climate in which everyone takes personal responsibility
- Understand how to resolve difficult situations with positive outcomes
- Develop the confidence and understanding to shift from reactive responses and replace them with pro-active ones
- Recognise how to understand and move past unhelpful repeating patterns of behaviour
- Understand how to make empowered choices
PRAISE FOR THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Our participants have given us superb testimonials about the impact of the programme, from a participants’ point of view.
After talking around (and reading these testimonials) our company decided to bring Maurice in to discuss the opportunity to work together. Our cross-functional and multi-cultural team was strong, but never before had we all sat down together to grow as a leadership team – and that’s exactly what Maurice delivered on. Over the course of the 3 days we were challenged to work together in a positive and supportive environment and walked away with tangible, actionable items to take to our teams the very next day. What was so successful was seeing immediate improvement in both the way our team worked together, but also the impact that had on the greater operations in our office. Within days, we’d completed our homework activities, started to spread the learnings to our other offices and scheduled our own internal trainings to boost communication and workplace culture. This program was a fantastic foundation for our leadership skills to grow and develop and we’re excited to see how they play out over the next 6-12 months. And to top it off, the skills are easily transferable to daily life and helping us improve on a personal level as well! Highly recommended for groups looking to come together in a unique way while building strong personal and professional relationships.
Our organization wanted to run a leadership development program and wanted to strengthen team bonding, so we decide to participate in Maurice Whelan’s Personal Leadership Program. Maurice was an excellent facilitator and set the right tone for the 3-day program right off the bat with his open and honest communication style. The setting was ideal, at an old house along the coastline of Dalkey and inspired the team members to be open with each other. It was the first time our team felt so close to each other after almost a year working together and it was surprising to discover more aspects of our colleagues’ personalities. Maurice' interpersonal skills are second to none and the team really trusted him from the get-go. The Personal Leadership Plan helped us, not only professionally but also on a deeper more personal level. This has been an amazing experience and I would recommend Maurice to any group of professionals that want to create deeper team bonds and learn more about themselves.
The Personal Leadership Programme was excellently facilitated by Maurice Whelan and was attended by some great people from diverse backgrounds which added huge value to the experience. The tone for the 3 day programme was set from the outset with Maurice’s open and engaging style which encouraged us, participants, to follow suit. The experience was subtle and demanded a level of introspection and honesty, which was helped by the group dynamic. For any leader looking to take the next step, look no further. The Personal Leadership Programme provides the learning experience and tool set to grow your capabilities as a leader. For that and the personal connections I made throughout the programme, I can’t recommend Maurice and the PLP highly enough.
The Personal Leadership Programme (PLP) with Maurice Whelan was eye-opening and literally life-changing. I went in with an open mind and took away a treasure chest of simple tools and techniques for driving better performance. Maurice’s approach is straightforward, authentic, positive, inspirational and powerful and it applies equally to leadership and life in general. Through the three days of interaction with Maurice and the rest of the group in attendance, I developed a fundamentally different understanding of the words Responsibility, Authenticity, Empowerment, Appreciation, Teamwork, Communication. I also discovered how to leverage the relationship between beliefs and behaviours and how this relates to performance. It was a real pleasure and an enriching experience to meet and work with Maurice and I would recommend the PLP with Maurice Whelan to anyone.
I was fortunate to have experienced The Personal Leadership Programme with Maurice Whelan, never before have I seen a facilitator give so much to a group in terms of his commitment, openness and honesty. Maurice’s passion for his subject was evident throughout the 3 days and every participant remained engaged. The learning took place in a very informal relaxed manner, but the learning was powerful and its impact significant. Participants are provided with a tool set to embed into their work and home life and the impact of this can be life changing. What was amazing was that on day three when participants had been using the tools for a period of two weeks the feedback and changes experienced by all was incredible.
Attending Maurice’s course resulted in 2 great things happening for me– I met a soul-mate in Maurice and learned how to optimise the leader within myself and to flourish. Good leaders manage but great leaders inspire and empower others to be the great person that they are and that’s what Maurice shares and facilitates. It’s not simple but not overly complex – just authentic.
The course changed my thinking. I now interact with my colleagues in a totally different way, which has improved my work relationships and we are delivering better results with an improved working environment. More importantly, it changed my thinking and the way I interact with people in my personal life. The tools and the skills that Maurice shared have already become invaluable. It is not a system or a process, it’s a different way of thinking, about how you react with the people around you to achieve the greatest of results. The group of 10 that attended the course would all agree that the course has changed our lives for the better.
I attended the Personal Leadership Programme in January 2014. The program empowered me not only to be a better leader for my people but also to become a better person in my own personal life. The course was cleverly structured and very well delivered by Maurice Whelan. The first 2 days we learnt about the main pillars of leadership and we tested some of these techniques in the classroom, we then had a 2 weeks break to embed our learnings into our day to day life and it worked! I cannot recommend Maurice and the Personal Leadership Programme enough as for the first time ever a course did make a big difference in the way I run my life.
The Personal Leadership Programme (PLP) is an excellent opportunity to stop and reflect on what is important and why! It is an opportunity to step back from your hectic work environment for 3 days and really think about what you wish to get out of life and your role. It reminds you that it’s all about choices, but you are the one to make those choices, and only you are in control. The tools and models used allow you to acknowledge where change is necessary in order for you to be that effective leader. The section on beliefs and behaviours will resonate with every individual. Being mindful of these beliefs and behaviours and making the choice, to make small changes can have a huge impact not only for you, but also on the engagement and effectiveness of your teams. The sessions, led by Maurice were excellent, they were motivational and thought provoking. Maurice’s authentic style and introduction on the first day really captured the group and took us to a much deeply level of participation and the honestly shared was far greater than I have ever experienced on a programme like this one before.
The Personal Leadership Programme, which was conducted by Maurice Whelan of Unleash Potential was, without question, the best Training Course with which I have ever been involved. From the very beginning Maurice set a positive, open-discussion tone for the course, which allowed myself and the other participants to get the most out of the three-day experience. The topics and subject matter were informative and the engagement between the attendees of the course and Maurice was of the highest quality. There is no doubt that the positive one-to-one and group engagement that developed throughout the course was a result of Maurice’s professional influence and facilitation skills. In other words – the guy knows how to get the most out of the participants! I will be incorporating a great deal of what I learned from the course in my dealings with work colleagues, friends and my own personal/professional development. Maurice Whelan made the Personal Leadership Programme very real for the attendees and ensured that they will continue to use and develop what they learned well after the course was over.
I would highly recommend this Programme to organisations that want their managers and teams to be the best. Unlike other courses, this gets to the heart of leadership, and gives you a toolkit for the workplace. It is simple, yet extremely effective. The benefits are instant and the toolkit is easy to implement with little or no additional cost to the Organisation. As a facilitator Maurice takes you under his wing and brings the course alive in a way that other facilitators fail to do. I was very impressed with his professionalism and degree of engagement to ensure we fully benefited from the training. It truly is amazing training and so worthwhile.
I recently completed the Personal Leadership Programme, facilitated by Maurice. The course offers a completely different perspective and approach to leadership and how as a leader you can approach every day challenges and circumstances. It helped me truly deepen my understanding of my own leadership style and how that impacts me and others, both inside and outside of work.
The Personal Leadership Programme with Maurice Whelan was one of the best career moves I have made to date. I have no doubt that the comradery and sense of team within the group was not by chance, it was due to Maurice’s outstanding ability to elicit the best from any person that he comes in contact with. As CEO of a large charitable organisation, one of the biggest surprises of all was that the material used in the course can be directly translated into every aspect of my personal life! To anyone out there even considering completing the course, my message to them is…….it has proven results, it changes your mind set and it works!!
I had the privilege of attending the Personal Leadership Programme, facilitated by Maurice Whelan.
It was truly a life-changing experience. Maurice created a safe, open and trusting environment for the participants.
Among the topics covered were communication, listening, goal setting, appreciation, positivity and the importance of formulating good questions to draw out the best in colleagues.
The concepts were simple, and the exercises very revealing but more powerful than in any other training I have attended and fun as well. My way of thinking has changed. I am far more appreciative of the great people around me and now believe in thinking big! I highly recommend the course and Maurice is an amazing and brilliant facilitator. I wish everyone I know could avail of the training.
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