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    Leadership Development Programme

    Learn to lead your team with confidence, contribute more to strategic direction, and deliver ongoing value to the business.
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    Criteria

    Manager / Leaders
    $1M+ turnover

    Format

    Group sessions
    In-person

    Time

    7 days
    3 x monthly sessions

    Programme overview

    A critical part of developing a profitable business is having a highly capable leadership team. The Leadership Development Programme helps business owners build a high-performing team around them - people who understand the challenges of growing a business, can be trusted, take responsibility when needed and share the load in a growing business.

    Unlike typical qualifications that stick to frameworks, theories, and case studies, this program takes a fresh approach. We're all about applying real-world know-how from experts straight to your role and your business.

    Outcomes

    Completing the Leadership Development Programme brings remarkable outcomes and positively impacts the leader/participant and the business. It enhances productivity, improves efficiency, fosters better communication among teams, clarifies business values and strategies, boosts morale, and provides a valuable network of successful leaders from diverse industries. Leaders will find and refine the leadership skills that have been proven to make businesses more successful.

     

    You'll leave the programme with:

    • Techniques to improve leadership, communication and management skills
    • A better understanding of the challenges of an owner-manager
    • How to think strategically to contribute to growing a business
    • A better fundamental understanding of business functions including, marketing, finance and operations
    • A project focused on a tangible challenge within your business
    • A strong network of other successful senior leaders, facilitators and business experts

    Structure & Format

    The programme consists of two three-day residential blocks conducted over two months, with a final one-day session four to six weeks later.

     

    The session format includes small and large group work, one-on-one discussions, a business simulation and guest speakers while working around themes of self-awareness, personal effectiveness, and leadership, followed by a project focused on a tangible challenge within their business.

    Facilitators & Speakers

    You'll have two programme directors alongside you for the duration of the programme.

     

    In addition, we'll bring through subject matter experts, industry leaders and guest speakers to share their stories to help contextualise the learning. 

     

    The business owner / leader will also join us on the final day during your project presentation.

    Your Coursemates

    You'll be joined by up to 25 other managers at a similar stage in their journey as you. We'll make sure there are no conflicts in the room, meaning everyone can speak freely.

     

    This also ensures the room is full of people from different industries, as often the ideas that create the greatest positive change come from places you wouldn't normally look.

    What's covered on this programme?

    Leadership Skills

    Build and lead successful teams, embed a performance culture, develop your communication skills, and understand the working styles of others

    Business Planning

    Think strategically and contribute to the planning and execution of the wider company strategy

    Productivity & Efficiency

    Embrace lean thinking, fine-tune business performance, and improve operational performance

    Business Acumen

    Build a strong foundation of business skills including finance, people management,  digital thinking, change management, customer intimacy and operational efficiency

    Personal Effectiveness

    Evaluate your personal performance, learn effective time management, build resilience, explore emotional intelligence and wellbeing, and understand your own leadership and working style

    A Project For The Business

    Carry out a project on a tangible challenge or opportunity the business is facing, and present it to the owner

    Upcoming Dates

    LDP64: Auckland, Aug 2025

    Block 1: 27 - 29 Aug 2025, Auckland

     

    Block 2: 24 - 26 Sep 2025, Auckland

     

    Block 3: 23 Oct 2025, Auckland

    LDP65: Auckland, Oct 2025

    Block 1: 13 - 15 Oct 2024, Auckland

     

    Block 2: 10 - 12 Nov 2025, Auckland

     

    Block 3: 11 Dec 2025, Auckland

    "Just do it!

    I’ve done a lot of leadership courses and this is the best one by a mile.

    It’s practical and hands-on, and you learn so many things that you can implement into your business straight away."


    Shayne Forrest
    Hobbiton
    Leadership Development Programme Alumni
    Read Shayne's Story

    Meet the Directing Team

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    Jo Clayton

    Programme Director
    Mel Rowsell

    Mel Rowsell

    Programme Director
    Rachel Stotter

    Rachel Stotter

    Programme Director

    Don't just take our word for it...

    "We all came from so many different industries, walks of life and ages. Yet 18 months down the track, I can pick up the phone and call those people now. I can talk to them about stuff I'm going through."

    Mel Buckley

    General Manager at Wallace Stratton

    "Before I went on the Leadership Development Programme, I didn't understand fully the business as a whole but now I’m able to have this wide view of all the different parts. I came out with more confidence that ‘You've got this’."

     

    Amy Penwarden

    Supply Chain Manager at Shot Darts

    "I did put it in the proverbial bottom drawer. About a year later, I pulled it out and I realised that even without referring to it every week, we’d managed to complete a lot of these things that I set out to do, just by “doing”. It definitely instils change in you."

     

    James Duder

    CEO of Sales at Energylight

    "We all came from so many different industries, walks of life and ages. Yet 18 months down the track, I can pick up the phone and call those people now. I can talk to them about stuff I'm going through."

    Mel Buckley

    General Manager at Wallace Stratton

    "Before I went on the Leadership Development Programme, I didn't understand fully the business as a whole but now I’m able to have this wide view of all the different parts. I came out with more confidence that ‘You've got this’."

     

    Amy Penwarden

    Supply Chain Manager at Shot Darts

    "I did put it in the proverbial bottom drawer. About a year later, I pulled it out and I realised that even without referring to it every week, we’d managed to complete a lot of these things that I set out to do, just by “doing”. It definitely instils change in you."

     

    James Duder

    CEO of Sales at Energylight

    Scholarships

    Scholarships are regularly offered by our partners like BNZ, friends and alumni. Ask us what might be available!

     

    Payment Plans

    We may be able to offer flexible payment plans to make it easier for your business to access our programmes and invest in your growth.

     

    Funding

    Management Capability Development funding may be available through your Regional Business Partner. To explore if your business is eligible for support, please contact your Regional Business Growth Advisor directly. Please email us for an introduction.

    Airpoints™

    When you register for this programme, you’ll earn 1 Airpoints Dollar for every $50 invested, along with 200 bonus Airpoints Dollars.