Leadership Development Programme
Leading for new Ways of Working
This 3-month senior leadership programme is designed to build the principles, mindsets, and behaviours essential for leading impactful, lasting change.
Starting with a comprehensive 360° feedback process, the programme guides senior leaders through three modules, each followed by executive coaching and actionable strategies helping leaders gain the skills to foster new ways of working and deliver improved outcomes.
Module 1 - Understanding Why, When and Behaviours
Explore the "why" behind change, discern when to apply agile, lean, or alternative approaches, and develop leadership behaviours that prioritise psychological safety and intentional action.
Each module includes real-world application, in engaging workshop style sessions and peer-supported learning within an exclusive cohort, helping leaders build confidence and consistency in their practice to deliver better outcomes. This programme equips senior leaders with the insight, tools, and community they need to drive meaningful change across their organisations.
Module 2 - Achieving Outcomes & Improving Flow
Dive into flow fundamentals, optimise for value, and shift from output to outcome-driven work with concepts like OKRs, value streams, and continuous improvement practices.
Module 3 - Embedding Change That Lasts
Learn strategies to make change stick by fostering a supportive environment, encouraging agency, and applying neuroscience principles for sustainable behaviour shifts.
Starting with a comprehensive 360° feedback loop from peers and colleagues, the programme guides senior leaders to reflect on the culture they are creating, engage with the content & inform impactful action planning
Expert support: 1hr of 1:1 executive coaching, between modules, for each candidate to discuss their vision, current state, options & obstacles and action plan
Certified Training Courses
Business Agility
Patterns and Antipatterns
Learn from practical examples how to experiment with patterns in your context. Energise your organisation with a clear ‘why change’ narrative and jargon-free language.
Value Outcome Leadership Product Training
Role model the behaviours needed to optimise for value delivery, irrespective of the framework your organisation has chosen to use, to lead a high performance product team.
Team Foundations: Unlocking High Performance
Mobilise your high performance team with this industry accredited course. Establish trust as well as an understanding of the mindset, roles, principles and practices needed to operate with agility and improve flow, leading
to great customer outcomes.
Kanban System Design (KMP1)
As the world of work becomes more complex and accelerated, many organisations are seeking to improve how they deliver change...
Kanban Systems Improvement (KMP2)
Completing Kanban Systems Improvement will see students awarded the Kanban Management Professional accreditation by Kanban University.
Kanban Systems Improvement takes...
Leadership Coaching
1 on 1 or Group
Coaching
Supercharge your progress with personalized 1:1 or small group coaching by Sooner Safer Happier authors. Navigate your unique challenges, applying insights and action to your daily operations to achieve your goals.
Fearless Organisation Psychological Safety Scan
Improve team effectiveness, with a practical and evidence based approach. Building an organization where team members feel safe to express ideas, take risks, and learn from failures can significantly impact engagement, retention, and resilience.
Cultivating Psychological Safety
Foster an environment where everyone thrives and grows as part of a supportive and high-performing team.
Dive deep into specific elements of psychological safety, providing actionable strategies. Foster a culture of continuous improvement as teams reflect on their experiences and learning.
Half-day Team Workshops
This workshop will help you understand the sources of wait time and quantify the power of flow, leaving you with a comprehensive set of tools to take away and use in your organisation.
Get the skills you need to achieve measurable improvements in your business outcomes, and deliver better value to your customers. Learn how to optimize performance, and drive meaningful outcomes within your organizations.
Can you improve the value your portfolio generates?
Experience the difference between a traditional resource management style of PMO vs a focus on OKRs, Outcomes and Value.
Value Stream Workshop
Identify value being provided, who are the producers and consumers. Articulate a hypothesis about what your organisational value streams might be. This work shop will help you get started and embed principles to support an evolving approach to delivery of customer value.
Metrics Dashboard Workshop
Create a culture of using data and insights for continuously improving ways of working and customer outcomes. Participants will gain hands-on experience and insights into the fundamental principles of building impactful dashboards.
Our Clients Include
Why our training is different
Our courses are designed to maximise your learning outcomes. They are designed to enable participants to connect the learning to their own context, provide time to discuss and question using real-life stories, and to practise the concepts to demystify the theory. All of our courses heavily rely on case studies, group discussion, and practical scenarios-based exercises.
Our expert facilitators are able to spend more or less time on particular concepts as guided by participants so learning can be prioritised where it will be most valuable, and make sure that the core concepts are covered in the program.
Delivered virtually or in-person through back-of-the-room facilitation, we offer different training programs and courses that are engaging and interactive. Participants can sign-up for the publicly offered courses or private in-house sessions can be organised for groups within an organisation.
Join the movement and enhance your skills to deliver value sooner and safer with happier teams. Don’t wait to take action, start learning now!
Our experience sets us apart
Our courses are delivered by deeply experienced Ways of Working practitioners with over 20 years of experience in the fields of telecom, healthcare, IT, financial services and more. With a passion for agile and lean practices, measurements and delivering Better Value Sooner Safer Happier, we share real-life stories that we have experienced first-hand to bring the learning outcomes to life.
Not only are we experienced practitioners, we are expert trainers and facilitators. Having delivered multiple training programs, we will ensure that you have fun, learn and can apply the concepts to your context.
Quick learns
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Exercise
Business outcome (OKR) writing
Are you looking for support to help shift your focus from output to outcome? Are you looking to experiment to keep up in today’s Age of Digital world? This simple exercise enables everyone to understand, measure and improve the identification and delivery of value.
Talk to us about
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Enterprise operating model and organisation design
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Team design
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Value stream design and implementation
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Lean portfolio management and OKRs
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System of work and WoW
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Governance, risk and compliance
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Leading for better outcomes
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High performing team
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Enterprise transformation approach to change
Book a 15min call with one of the team to discuss your challenges and potential improvement approaches
Bestselling business agility book
An indispensable guide for leaders who truly want to transform
Jonathan Smart and co-authors, who are business agility practitioners, thought leaders, and coaches, reveal patterns and antipatterns to show how business leaders from every industry can help their organizations deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. It leaves no stone unturned by touching on how to change and how to lead with practical examples of what to consider.
