Leadership Skills

Our leadership programmes focus particularly on the difference between leadership skills and management skills. For many managers and team leaders this distinction is important and unfamiliar. Leadership implies movement, change, aligning people and taking people somewhere new.. Management processes, such as organising people and controlling how resources are used, may be familiar...but setting out a direction and making change happen are less comfortable and familiar.

Our programmes can include some of the management skills of problem solving, planning and organising the work of others. There's more detail about this on our management training pages. However our main emphasis is practical and readily learnt techniques to improve direction setting, aligning and motivating people in a continuously changing environment.

For many, one of the first steps in leadership is a better understanding of individual strengths and weaknesses and how they impact on and affect the behaviour of other people. You may find our 360 Feedback pages offer a powerful and interesting way to achieve this.

Beacons have provided opportunities for managers to learn and develop their leadership skills for more than 20 years. During our programmes, managers learn about leadership from fellow participants, as well from our experience of organisations ranging from IT to bread making and right across the public sector.

We offer three varieties of leadership programme, all of which are tailored to the needs of your organisation and the individual participants taking part. We can also provide short on-site sessions covering specific individual leadership topics.

Leadership in Action

We offer leadership training with a practical, partially outdoor flavour through our popular Leadership in Action Course which we first ran in 1981 - the particular part of the country where we ran it gave us our company name! Today Leadership in Action runs at The Speech House in the Forest of Dean, either in-house or as a public programme involving participants from several organisations.

Middle Leaders

Middle Leaders is a term widely used in schools, to describe those with growing management responsibility but a full-time teaching job to do as well. Middle Leaders applies equally well to team leaders and junior managers in business and other public sector organisations. Find out more about the retention and talent development of your Middle Leaders to ensure that they don't become disenchanted and seek opportunities elsewhere, or get stuck as 'just' excellent teachers.

High Potential

HiPo, our high potential talent development programme, is a year-long talent development opportunity for your high potential staff to stretch themselves and develop new skills and confidence. Often ambitious, young and impatient to progress, HiPo provides a perfect opportunity to develop their talent.

Leadership Skills Modules