Leadership Development

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“Leadership isn’t about having to know everything; it’s about empowering those around you to realise their potential. You don’t hire smart people and tell them what to do”

Developing leadership at various levels from a first-time people manager through to Executive Level we apply and leverage coaching practices that harness empowerment.

We design and facilitate workshops that impart lasting practical tools and support this with individualised coaching to get the best out each employee and various teams across the business.

Some of the popular tools regularly sort after by our clients are as follows:

Defining Your Business or Team Strategy Workshop: A workshop designed to expedite defining clear roadmaps that breakdown actionable items to move leaders, executives, and businesses through to achieving their desired objectives.

Mirrored Horizons has seen the benefit of this workshop and its positive impact on businesses through:

  • Agreeing on the current state of the business

  • Identifying a clear purpose that provides clarity on direction

  • Outlining all necessary objectives needed to move forward to achieve

  • Prioritizing all initiatives to ensure high impact, high value work is delivered

  • Establish clear measures that will be used to identify progress

Human Synergistics- 360 Life Styles Inventory (LSI): Mirrored Horizons are accredited practitioners in facilitation of The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) which is personal and professional development tool that uses both self-assessment and colleague360 degree feedback to identify individual thinking and behavioural styles that provides insights that can be leveraged to enhance performance and effectiveness.

Mirrored Horizons has seen the benefit of this tool and its positive impact on leaders through:

  • Increasing awareness of thinking and behaviours that effect interactions in the workplace

  • Improving leaders effectiveness in their roles

  • Developing strategies to better cope with stress, pressure, and change

  • Increasing accountability and subsequently the achievement of goals

  • Applying more flexible and creative thinking

  • Improving their interpersonal relationships

  • Increasing their personal effectiveness.

Designed for managers, leaders, students and those in professional and technical roles, the LSI has helped millions of people to understand and change the way they think and behave. It has also received great feedback on LinkedIn and been referenced in numerous management and psychology books and journals, and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal.

DISC Profiling: Mirrored Horizons are accredited trainers in DISC® which is used by more than one million leaders every year to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace.

Mirrored Horizons has seen the benefit of this tool and its positive impact on leaders through:

  • Raising self-awareness

  • Improving teamwork

  • Changing the perception of “conflict” in the workplace

  • Developing stronger customer centric and stakeholder management skills

  • Creating a platform for increasing effective management

  • Creating a nurturing environment free from judgement

  • Improving meeting agendas and structures to focus on outcomes

  • Creating a culture that is inclusive through creating an awareness of some differences

Leadership Alignment Workshop: The intention in design of this workshop is to garner leadership clarity. An insightful understanding of how to best unite and work together as a team. To walk away from the workshop with a confidence in the leadership’s alignment and direction for the team and broader business.

Mirrored Horizons has seen the benefit of this tool and its positive impact on leaders through:

  • Clarity on our current state and who we are as a business, Clarity on where we want to go (purpose) and alignment on how we are going to get their individually and collectively

  • Collectively agreeing on leadership priorities

  • Developing clear agreed leadership behaviours

  • Defining strategies of supporting “who we’re not”

  • Understanding leadership capability and challenges

  • Defining what success looks like

  • Developing a leadership commitment plan to achieve targets

“Mirrored Horizons is clear in their intent to provide an empowering and comfortable space for self reflection, awareness and provide many call to actions for you as a leader. Thank-you Em and Jules!”
— Chantal Thomas, Head of Engagement, Northern Grampians Shire Council

 
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