Rhys Davis from Armstrong Watson shares his story of how PDW helped him with his professional development goals, and gives some great tips on how you can start your own journey towards self-improvement!
Corporate Leadership Development Training
Game changing leadership training & development from PDW Group to ensure leaders enable their people whilst they're present, & leave a lasting impact when they're not.
Leadership Training & Development
We adopt a unique practice and feedback-based approach with the use of high-quality filming of simulated scenarios to drive self-awareness and develop new behaviours.
The best leadership course is one which is tailored to the needs of the employees and aligned with the needs of the company. It’s a proven fact that the effective leadership of a business or major project is a critical component of business success. This is not something which is achieved overnight and providing the best training regularly to employees, managers and senior leaders so that behaviours are developed consistently at all levels of the company and over a period of time is vital to ensuring the learning is embedded in the company’s DNA.
What Is Corporate Leadership Training?
We are often asked ‘What makes for good corporate leadership training?’ The answer is unique for every firm but ultimately corporate leadership training is a structured program designed to develop the skills, knowledge, and behaviours necessary for effective leadership within an organisation. The goal is to prepare current and potential leaders to lead teams, manage resources, and drive the company towards its strategic goals. Most organisations have a strong handle on developing the skills and knowledge for their field of expertise but aren’t well placed to support developing their behaviours. This is where we can help.
Why Leadership Training Fails And How To Prevent This
Most leadership training doesn’t work because it is focused on theories and generic content. The practising of the required skills is minimal and not placed in the context of the learners.
The best leadership training is tailored to the individual and their organisation, it provides various opportunities to practise and develop the skills learned in a safe environment, it gives them the opportunity to look at their progress, review it and identify strengths and areas for development before giving them the opportunity to ‘go again’ and it builds on what they can already do; developing confidence and competence, hand-in-hand.
Good leaders develop their people and good leaders know who to turn to in order to support them to do this well.
There are a number of different applications for leadership skills in the workplace depending on your organisation’s need. Each of these may require a different solution and approach.
Do you want to find out more? Click the button below to learn about our unique experiential training solutions.
Our experience tells us there are four reasons to develop leadership in your organisation, and these are displayed below.
The Four Applications for Leadership Development
Many companies invest significantly in training & development, but are often not clear on why they are doing it. Regularly it appears to be little more than just ‘feeling the need to just invest in our senior people’.
So start by asking, why you want to invest in your leaders, which leaders should be involved and how the investment should be made.
If you do this properly, then the solution we can provide will be perfectly tailored to exactly what you want it to be. This means your leaders will be much more likely to achieve their aims and the ideal outcomes for your business. The four ‘reasons to invest’ are below.
- Day to day leadership behaviour, capability and confidence
- Strategic thinking and working ON the business
- Developing leadership team units into high performing teams
- Leading change, or a major project such as a business acquisition
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We're proud to have provided leadership training & development to some fantastic clients
Our Unique Approach to Leadership Development
We have years of experience working with businesses across the UK & Europe. The approach we use to transform leadership capability and confidence is unique.It is highly effective and unlike any other leadership development solution available in the market.
It uses no slides, no large book of notes, and no lecture style.
Take a look at our video and click on the ‘want to know how it works?’ Watch our video to help you to bring our leadership development proposition to life.
We have broken the mould with this type of leadership development. All our research and experience tells us that when it comes to behavioural change and skills improvements in adults, most training doesn’t work!
Other ways we can help you...
Mental toughness training.
I often hear myself say “Great opportunity to use your PDW skills” – or, in shorthand, just “PDW!” This has been the most effective training I have done in my career – and to call it training downplays it.
Particularly good feedback from the team on all the practise sessions as this really brings the theory to life – and a great team helping to do that.
Good structure, very well facilitated and the combination of project and personal skills training meant that it was easy to see how the personal skills could be practically applied.
I often hear myself say “Great opportunity to use your PDW skills” – or, in shorthand, just “PDW!” This has been the most effective training I have done in my career – and to call it training downplays it.
Particularly good feedback from the team on all the practise sessions as this really brings the theory to life – and a great team helping to do that.
Good structure, very well facilitated and the combination of project and personal skills training meant that it was easy to see how the personal skills could be practically applied.
Download Our Free Guide: Why Most Training Doesn’t Work
What’s the level of commitment, motivation and connection with training in your organisation? How much do the delegates feel that it’s really designed for them? Download our free guide on Why Most Training Doesn’t Work to find out more.
Noble Events What’s It Really Like ToWork With PDW?
We know that reading about PDW isn’t the same as seeing the impact our training has on your team, or taking part in a session, yourself. To help you get a feel for what’s really involved, and better understand how our approach could benefit your business, we’re talking to Sarah Cox, an MD who’s already taken the positive step of working with PDW.
Rhys’ Story How PDW Behavioural Training Has Helped My Professional Development
Success Story A Prestigious Accountancy Firm Endorses Leadership Development From PDW
PDW Group specialises in developing new behaviours and habits for professionals via unique business training courses that allow them to prepare for new responsibilities, or to perform better in their current role. In this blog post, we look closely at how PDW’s training helped a top accountancy firm to transform the way they work.
Success Story Endorsement from Richard Bugler - Albert Goodman
At PDW we recently had the honour of receiving this glowing testimonial from Richard of Albert Goodman. He explains below how his partners thoroughly invested in our leadership development training and reaped the numerous rewards. Read on to find out more, in Richard’s own words…
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Coaching enabled Sandra to see some of the specific blockers that were preventing her from being the type of partner she wanted to be how it lead her to be a happier person.
Testimonial Fisher German
Fisher German’s partner of the future needed a more innovative and robust approach in order to be different. They wanted their partners to be suited for partnership. This means having the right skills and leadership ability, both internally and externally.
Testimonial Openfield
As a leading agribusiness, Openfield are one of Britain’s most successful and enduring cooperatives, committed to putting their members’ needs first.
Openfield are realising their vision to be an integral part of their farmers’ and customers’ businesses, building unique relationships that create value.
Testimonial Robson Laidler
Robson Laidler are a leading accountancy firm in Newcastle – upon- Tyne. They approached PDW Group to develop the leadership ability within the senior teams in the firm to improve overall performance and employee engagement.
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