The one thing that holds back many leaders (even seasoned self-proclaimed ‘pros’) is understanding behaviours in their team, their peers, their managers, and even the broader community from stakeholders, boards and future employers. Nothing is worse than having your words and actions  misunderstood, negative workplace politics, a team that needs hand-holding in order to deliver, and having to work all-the-hours to get your team’s work done as well as yours. 

Yet, this is the nightmare that many managers find themselves in (including business owners, and experienced leaders).

It’s not that they don’t want to effectively navigate the politics of the workplace team dynamics and delegate efficiently. They’re just overwhelmed by politics and people, and have no clue why their ideas keep getting shut-down, and their team is working hard, yet under-delivering.

So they just keep doing what they were doing before, hoping that they’ll be the exception to the rule. Fortunately, there’s a better way. And in Module 1, I’ll show you how to work with people like a pro, develop your team so they do more for all of you without excessive oversight, the art of effective delegation and how to manage laterally and manage up.

Meaning, you’ll be armed with total confidence and excitement to influence change, navigate the politics, and lead a team that is constantly high-performing (and clarity on what to do when things aren’t going right in the future).

Effective leadership is largely down to good communication. Sounds so simple. Right?!

Raise your hand if you have these problems: 

• You have a great idea, but you keep getting shut down by your boss.
• You feel like you get conflicting priorities handed out week after week.
• You feel unable to tell people how they are screwing up, even though  with every missed deadline that you let happen, and every subpar piece of work, that these people are damaging the team
• You are working even harder as you keep covering for people while dealing with a boss who doesn’t see that things could  be done better
• You feel like you need to repeat yourself 10 times to get people to take action on what really matters.

Yep. Totally get it.

As a stand-out techy and leader, you want to feel that you are having an impact, you want your ideas taken seriously. You don’t want to be full of the resentment (and yes anger!), that is lurking under the surface every time you are let down.

That’s why in Module 2, you’ll get access to the key skills that enable you to use communication alone as the most important strategy in your leadership toolkit. I’ll help you figure out where to focus, and what you need to do to get your stakeholders listening to your ideas, and taking them forward. We’ll break down those barriers that are holding you back, and how to stop having to repeat yourself 10 times to get the important stuff heard.

And because communication is a two-way process, you’ll also be developing your team’s communication, so that you have improved team dynamics, effectiveness, all while creating your social influence that helps you stand-out as a leader, influencer and change-maker.

Oh and did I mention, you’ll learn how to do this, and get comfortable with it all, even if you are an introvert, and how to use these skills for improved interviews?

Now that you have the biggest (and most common) barriers to great leadership tackled, it’s time to develop the skills that set you apart from the competition. 

Far too many teams and business’ fail to thrive because they don’t understand true strategic process. From start-ups to established business’ I’ve seen far too many fail to fulfill their full potential because strategy is often considered an optional extra in tech. Or something that you just ‘know how to do’.

In this module I’ll show you the true role of strategy and process in leadership and management instead of using just the project management approach. 

I’ll take you through the ‘Do More With  Less’ principle that helps you stay ahead of the competition, and target your strategic development priorities (oh and stand out in that next round of promotions!).

And you’ll find out about the 6 key strategies every company needs, and which apply to your area of expertise and current role, and figure out how to contribute to them, even if it isn’t in your current job description. 

Even if you’ve never written a strategy in your life, and you are a more tactical person, this module will break it down into simple, easy-to-execute steps that will finally make you feel confident about creating and sharing an influential and game-changing strategy!

Ever been told that you don’t have the promotion or job because you need to work on your ‘Executive Presence’? Even though you are doing-all-the-things right, and you have amazing results on your resume?

This module is worth the cost of enrollment alone. In it, you’ll learn everything there is to know about Executive Presence, and why it is being used as a blocker in your career.

From working effectively under stress, to overcoming boardroom “stage” fright, what to do if you aren’t seen as a leader, what to do if your public speaking skills are lacking, and my personal favourite: what to do if you can’t think on your feet as well as creating and communicating irresistible strategy that gets buy-in from all levels in the business, and setting a vision that has everyone excited and engaged — it’s ALL inside this module.

In the juiciest module of this program, you’ll learn how to leverage a perfect mix of self-promotion, influence, and healthy workplace politics to ENSURE you are taken seriously every time. Even if you’ve never tackled workplace politics, this module will break the whole process down, show you what you are missing, and the actions you need to take in simple, easy-to-execute career up-levelling steps.

This is where you graduate from “that’s nice” results to, “let’s celebrate with champagne” results.

This is the bit where you’ll suddenly see all the pieces coming together, and wake up realising that leadership is taking less time and getting you more results.

In this module, we’ll cover the tools that you probably use every day, that are currently holding you back, and flip those into techniques to create better outcomes.

You’ll learn how to stop drowning in decisions, and instead leverage decision-making as a leadership quality.

We’ll talk about emotional intelligence and how using it can make it easier to get what you need from your team, peers, bosses and board, while making your team more loyal and more productive. 

This is the module that the majority of leadership courses never cover and yet is where everything comes together and becomes easier, day after day. 

Without this, you’ll be leaving a good chunk of potential on the table.

By using the resources waiting for you inside this module, you’ll eliminate the guesswork and start impacting your broader organization.

Congratulations!

You’ve now mapped out your future leadership career, built an extraordinary set of leadership tools, and you are influencing change to create better tech, all without the hustle and stress that lead to burnout!

Now we get to the step in the process where you’ll learn how to embed these principles for life and build the leadership mindset that equips you for good days, bad days, tough decisions and developing you and your extraordinary team! 

Using your new communication, executive presence and emotional intelligence skills, you’ll dig into your natural leadership archetype, the benefits this offers and the common pitfalls to avoid.

You will develop a detailed understanding of how to leverage your natural tendencies, as well as developing the necessary components from other leadership archetypes.

And we wrap it all up by leaning into your greatness as you learn how to embed small actions that build into great things.