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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Deliver outstanding business outcomes

About the Program
The Leadership Development Program (LDP) is an innovative, team-based program built around a strategic business project that participants deliver to their own organisations.

The LDP is in high demand amongst Consortium members as it is designed in collaboration with four member organisations who work together to maximise inter-organisational learning opportunities that will build their own business bottom line.

The program is a powerful development opportunity for high-potential executives who will benefit from a broader perspective on strategic issues that affect overall performance of the entire business.

This program exposes participants to the latest thinking and practice in leadership. It also helps participants critically review and develop their own practice as leaders.

Target Group
Typical participants in the LDP include high potential executives, possibly in functional roles, reporting to top levels of the organisation, who have been identified as future top talent.

The titles of typical participants in previous LDPs include: National Project/Program Manager, Group Manager and Managers responsible for significant Operations, Infrastructure or Commercial performance.

Program commitment

Contact Time

In-company team-building day 5 day residential Team coaching day

Investment
$8,500 (inc. GST)

Organisational Project
Participants work in organisationally-based teams on a strategic project developed in collaboration with their Project Sponsors– see detail below.

Fig 1: The LDP design process engages four member organisations in an integrated approach to problemsolving that results in outstanding cross-fertilisation and learning opportunities for the participating organisations and their high potential people.

Program activities
The Leadership Development Program uses action learning principles to develop participants’ awareness of their own leadership style and the way they approach leading others.

The program involves four member organisations agreeing to work together. Each member provides 5 -7 high-potential executives who work in a team on an agreed project that has strategic and business importance for their organisation.

Participants commence work with an internal Project Sponsor to scope a relevant project. This is then taken to the one-week residential workshop where the proposal is developed into a workable business opportunity and tested by both the team itself, and their peers in the larger group.

On completion of the program (10 weeks in total), the teams present their project to the Board/Executive of their organisation.

Other elements of the program include a leadership diagnostic, presentations from role model leaders, theory sessions and practical exercises to develop each participant’s understanding of their own leadership style, and how they can improve their business performance.

Aims and benefits
This program impacts at all levels of the leadership relationship hierarchy:

		individual – knowledge of personal capabilities and improvement strategies;
		group – inter and intra-organisational working skills and team development strengths;
		organisation – capacity to assist and influence the strategic business performance of the enterprise in tangible ways.

With design input from the participants’ own organisations, the LDP is tailored to build personal skills in the full set of leadership capabilities necessary for the success of the business.

Return on Investment
For the organisation, the ROI includes:

		a cohort of leaders who are able to develop strong, committed teams with a high level of affiliation to the enterprise’s business goals;
		improved capacity to diagnose, analyse and act on critical change processes that affect business performance; tangible, practical strengths in cross-organisational strategic problem-solving;
		executives with a sense of business and strategic realities broadened by extensive work with other Consortium members.

What participants say about the LAP

		“Completely different perspective on leadership compared to my usual approach – an excellent experience, enormously valuable for my personal development…Fantastic!”
		“There was so much relevance to issues that I am dealing with right now. So I have a great opportunity to apply what I have learnt immediately.”
		“Excellent opportunity to look at different leadership approaches in practice. I could reflect on, and test, the range of potential styles I can use in my job.”
		“This is a ‘self-discover’ course… It will not spoon feed you, which I think a number of people – including, at first, myself – thought it would.”

Program Leaders and Speakers
The facilitators for this program are Richard Jones and Michelle Morrison, two of Australia’s most experienced consultants and team facilitators.

		Richard Jones has worked with most of Australia’s leading companies, plus dozens of overseas enterprises and agencies. He is an enormously experienced individual with a breadth of business and leadership knowledge in theory, practice and action. His roles in business have included senior management responsibilities, consulting and academic positions at Australia’s and the UK’s most prestigious business learning institutions.
		Michelle Morrison is a leadership educator, registered psychologist and psychotherapist. Michelle specialises in the design and delivery of programs that help senior executives within organisations thrive. She has worked globally in both tactical and strategic capacities, is an experienced practitioner with experience in transport, tertiary education, finance, tourism and resources, and has a long history of successful work as coach and adviser to senior leaders.
The speaker list for each program is developed in collaboration with members during the design process leading up to the LDP. Recent speakers have included:
		Jason Cotton - Principal, Dynamic Horizons
		Richard Denniss – Deputy Director, The Australia Institute
		Steven Green – Practice Manager of Mindsets and Capability, McKinsey and Company
		Peter Williams - CEO, The Eclipse Group
		Rob Moodie - Chair of Global Health, University of Melbourne
		Stefano de Pieri – chef, author, entrepreneur and champion of the regional food movement

Full details on all Consortium facilitators and speakers, plus details of the full calendar of upcoming events are available on the Consortium website, www.theleadershipconsortium.com.

Contact for LDP bookings and enquiries

David Osborne Program Logistics Manager The Leadership Consortium email: dosborne@au1.ibm.com phone: +61 3 9626 6602