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  Edgecumbe have taught leadership skills to leaders in business, healthcare and public sector organisations around the world.

Our programmes are designed individually to meet your specific needs to ensure that they:
   
 
  • are set in your context, reflective of your environment and culture;

  • help participants to become more aware of themselves and others;

  • use real issues and opportunities wherever appropriate as a vehicle for learning;

  • are based on a model of leadership of what leaders in your organisation need to do
   
  Leadership assignments range from week long residential courses to modular programmes with work based assignments to short one or two day workshops to develop specific leadership skills.

In addition to leadership programmes and often as part of a development programme, we provide executive coaching.


What do leaders do? – The Edgecumbe leadership model
So much has been written about leadership, and the qualities of great leaders (much of it conflicting) we believe that the best way to develop leadership effectiveness is to help participants to answer three questions:
  What do leaders actually do? – The tasks of leadership
What do I have to offer as a leader?
How should I go about fulfilling my leadership role?


Whilst our leadership programmes are all custom built to meet your specific situation and needs our core programmes are often designed around this basic architecture.

The first step is to develop an understanding of oneself and to learn about how to understand others more clearly. Second we focus on what leaders actually do. Fortunately this is not as complicated as you might think. During Edgecumbe leadership workshops we look at a model of leadership, which is derived and distilled from the best evidence and research that we have come across over many years. Then we link the tasks of leadership to your personality. This makes the learning experience entirely practical and clearly linked to each participant’s personality and context. Finally we examine the tasks of leadership in more detail using real challenges or simulations to fully engage participants in the process.

Once these three questions have been answered, the second stage is to develop critical leadership skills identified through appropriate development initiatives such as work-based assignments, coaching or skills workshops.
   
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