The quality of leadership in any organisation is a major determinant of performance, delivery and success. At Dearden, we pride ourselves on our ability to help individuals, teams and Boards realise their full leadership potential and so maximise the contribution they are making. We do this by making the leadership challenge a core focus of any development initiative, whether that be for an individual, for an Executive Team, for a group of key staff with leadership responsibilities, or for your Board.
Our approach to leadership development is always tailored to your own setting, as we strongly believe that leadership is contextual and that the leadership approach which is best suited to your organisation will be influenced by your purpose, values and culture.
Whilst this will always be our starting point, there are aspects of leadership which we believe to be critical in any setting. In particular, we believe that the most effective leaders:
• Are self aware and aware of others
• Display high order inter-personal skills
• Manage their own emotions and sense of well-being
• Create, and share, exciting visions of the future
• Actively challenge the status quo
• Empower others to act
• Have a practical approach to driving change
• Act as role models
• Give active encouragement and celebrate success |
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I am writing to say thank you for the recent work that you have completed with our Executive Team in relation to Leadership and 360 Degree Appraisal. I know that I can speak on behalf of the whole team in saying just how valuable we found both the individual and the team event.
PCT Chief Executive |
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I didn't believe this could help. We were so split up - hardly talking to each other. And now we're working together - we've got real plans. I really believe we'll do it. Thank you. You've been brilliant!
Senior Manager, Voluntary Sector |
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When we are helping your leaders to develop and improve their performance, we will make use of different approaches and techniques which will be agreed with you in advance. This might include:
• Creating leadership frameworks which can be used by your leaders to self-assess their own leadership performance
• Designing and facilitating processes which allow your leaders to receive feedback on their leadership performance from different sources and in a secure and confidential environment. We are licensed to use a wide range of psychometric instruments including MBTI, OPQ and LQF.
• Using Development Centres to help leaders produce well-informed Performance and Development Plans
• Providing Team and Board Development events which focus on their leadership contributions
• Providing one to one coaching and facilitating Learning Set activities for leaders which are based upon Action Learning principles
Feedback on Our Services
Below is a small sample of the feedback we have received on the recent Assigments we have carried out.
"The feedback from Board colleagues has been universally favourable so once again Dearden have done us proud!"
PCT Chief Executive
"Thank you so much for the superb facilitation of the development workshop. I came with a degree of scepticism, but all of that was completely erased. I really do think this will be a significant turning point in my career and personal development."
Participant in a national development workshop
