Leadership & Management Training | Consulting & Coaching
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Services

Training, Coaching, Consulting

Five services across the management layer — from first-time managers learning the craft to senior leaders running other leaders, with consulting work where the people side of the operating model needs attention.

01 — Training

New Manager Programs

A structured program for first-time and recently promoted managers. The mechanics of the job done properly from day one — one-to-ones, feedback, delegation, prioritisation, performance and the difficult conversations no manager looks forward to but every team needs.

  • First-Time Managers
  • Promoted ICs
  • One-to-Ones
  • Feedback
  • Delegation
  • Prioritisation
  • Performance Reviews
  • Difficult Conversations
02 — Training

Experienced Manager Cohorts

For mid-level managers and heads-of-function. Bigger teams, more ambiguity and more politics. Builds the operating habits — calibration, stakeholder management, hiring, cross-functional decision-making — that separate managers who plateau from managers who scale.

  • Middle Management
  • Heads-of-Function
  • Operating Cadence
  • Team Performance
  • Calibration
  • Stakeholders
  • Hiring & Firing
  • Cross-Functional
03 — Training

Senior Leadership Programs

For executives, directors and senior operating leaders. The shift from running the work to running the people who run the work — strategic thinking, executive presence, board-level communication and the discipline of leading other leaders rather than out-managing them.

  • Executive Programs
  • Leading Leaders
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Executive Presence
  • Board Communication
  • Succession
  • Operating Rhythm
04 — Coaching

Executive & Leadership Coaching

One-to-one coaching for leaders in transition, under pressure or building toward a bigger role. Confidential, contracted around what should change, structured to make the shift visible to the team and the board. Team coaching is available for senior leadership teams.

  • 1:1 Coaching
  • Transition Coaching
  • CEO Coaching
  • New-Role Onboarding
  • Executive Presence
  • Team Coaching
  • Confidential
05 — Consulting

People-Side Management Consulting

Diagnostic and advisory work on the people half of the operating model. How teams are structured, how performance is managed, how decisions get made, where culture is helping or hurting, and what the management layer needs to be capable of next.

  • Capability Diagnostic
  • Org & Team Design
  • Performance Systems
  • Operating Rhythm
  • Culture Diagnostics
  • L&D Architecture
  • Manager Standards
Engagement Formats

Match the Shape to the Goal

Four formats. Most clients begin with a diagnostic so the program is built on evidence rather than assumption.

2–4 Weeks

Capability Diagnostic

Targeted engagement to surface where your management layer is strong, where it is exposed, and what should be built first.

3–9 Months

Cohort Program

A single cohort of managers takes a structured program — live sessions, practice between modules, accountability throughout.

6–18 Months

Multi-Tier Build

Layered programs across new, experienced and senior managers so the whole leadership pipeline moves at once.

6–12 Months

1:1 Coaching

Confidential coaching for an individual leader, contracted around outcomes and reviewed every quarter.

Delivery

How Programs Run

Programs are designed so managers practice on their actual work between sessions — not so they sit in a room nodding at a slide deck.

Live Virtual Sessions

Cohort sessions that prioritise discussion and practice. Camera-on, phones-down, real cases from the cohort's own teams.

In-Person Workshops

Short, intense workshops at the start and at pivot points in the program. The bonding and the calibration happen here.

Structured Between-Module Work

Practice assignments on the manager's real team. We are not interested in case studies that someone else solved.

Peer Practice Pods

Small groups inside the cohort that meet between sessions to run cases, troubleshoot live problems and hold each other to standard.

Direct-Report Feedback Loops

The managers' own teams are the most reliable signal. We build short feedback loops into the program so progress is observable.

Outcome Reporting

We agree the success measures up front — behaviours, team metrics, 360 — and report against them at the close of the program.

Ready to Brief Us

Tell Us About Your Management Layer

A first conversation usually clarifies the brief on its own. We will tell you honestly whether The Effective Manager is the right team and what shape the engagement should take.