Leadership Fundamentals for Managers
The essential mindset and behavioural foundations every manager needs - whether they're stepping into people leadership for the first time or refining years of experience.
Practical leadership development that delivers business results.
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What This Programme Delivers
For Your Managers:
- Clarity and confidence to make decisions that stick and bring people with them
- Skills to have courageous conversations that shift performance - not avoid them
- Capability to inspire and motivate teams without resorting to pressure or micromanagement
- Coaching skills that build capability, not dependency
- Tools to establish team behaviours and standards that drive performance and wellbeing
For Your Organisation:
- Managers who multiply performance across their teams
- A leadership pipeline ready to step up when your business needs it
- Leaders who retain good people because they're worth working for
- Fewer people problems escalating to senior leadership
- A culture where performance and humanity go hand-in-hand
Why Manager Development Matters
People management is where leadership really happens. It's where your strategy meets reality, where culture is built or broken, and where most employees decide whether to stay or leave.
Yet many managers - whether newly promoted or years into the role - have never had proper leadership training. They're expected to drive performance, develop people, and handle complex conversations... often with little more than instinct to guide them.
This creates business risk:
- Good technical performers struggle as managers
- Team performance plateaus or declines
- Talented people leave
- HR and senior leaders get pulled into avoidable people issues
- Your leadership pipeline remains underdeveloped
Ignite addresses this directly.
What the Programme Covers
Ignite is a modular 3-day programme built around your needs.
Every cohort completes 4 core modules that establish essential leadership capability.
You then choose 2 additional modules that address your organisation's specific priorities.
Core Modules (Always Included)
Fundamentals of Leadership
Establish what effective leadership looks like, develop a clear leadership identity, and understand how to lead with purpose and authenticity.
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Build self-awareness, manage emotions under pressure, and develop the empathy and resilience that high-performing leaders need.
Coaching & Developing Others
Learn practical coaching techniques to build team capability, help people solve their own problems, and develop talent rather than create dependency.
Courageous Conversations
Develop the skills and confidence to have the conversations that matter - performance issues, feedback, conflict, and difficult decisions - with courage and skill.
Choose 2 Additional Modules
Time Management & Prioritisation
Help managers navigate competing demands, focus on what matters most, and model effective prioritisation for their teams.
Foundations of Leading Teams
Build capability in team dynamics, establishing team identity and purpose, and creating the conditions for high performance.
Managing Performance
Equip managers to set clear expectations, monitor progress, address underperformance early, and recognise good work effectively.
Motivating & Delegating
Develop skills to inspire genuine engagement, delegate meaningfully to develop capability, and create autonomy that drives performance.
Recommended Programme Enhancements
Insights Discovery Profile
Boost self-awareness with a personal profile that helps managers understand their leadership strengths and blind spots. When managers know how they naturally show up, they can lean into their strengths and adapt their approach to get the best from different people.
1:1 Coaching Sessions
Give managers personalised support to apply what they've learnt, work through specific challenges, and embed new behaviours in their real-world context.
Peer Coaching Circles
Peer Coaching Circles
Create ongoing practice opportunities where managers coach each other, share experiences, and support one another to navigate real leadership challenges. This builds a community of practice that sustains learning well beyond the programme.
How We'll Work Together
1. Pre-programme consultation - We'll discuss your organisation's context, challenges, and which additional modules will deliver most value
2. Module selection - Choose 2 additional modules from our options to complete your cohort's 6-module programme
3. Participant preparation - Optional pre-programme diagnostics or Insights Discovery profiles
4. 3-day programme delivery - Expert facilitation with real-world application and practice
5. Post-programme support - Resources, optional coaching sessions, and peer circles to embed learning
Who Should Attend
Ignite is designed for managers at any stage - whether newly promoted or experienced leaders who need to strengthen their impact.
Ideal participants:
- Managers within their first 6-12 months of leading a team
- Experienced managers who've never had formal leadership training or need a refresh
- High-potential individual contributors about to step into management
- Managers whose teams aren't performing as well as they could
- Leaders transitioning from technical expertise to people leadership
Business Outcomes You Can Expect
High performance without high turnover.
✓ Managers who multiply team performance - through inspiration and coaching, not pressure and control
✓ Improved retention - employees stay for managers who develop them and treat them well
✓ Stronger performance culture - standards and behaviours that drive sustainable results
✓ Leadership pipeline development - managers ready to step into bigger roles when needed
✓ Reduced escalation - people issues addressed early through skilled conversations
✓ Better engagement scores - teams led by confident, capable managers report higher satisfaction