SUMMARY of PROGRAMMES, WORKSHOPS and COACHING (scroll below for more detail on each of these offerings)
Voyager Advanced Leadership Programme
Leading Great Teams Management Development Programme
Accelerator Emerging Leaders Programme
Sustaining Great Teams High Performing Teams Programme
Business Planning: Bringing to life a purpose/mission, vision, strategy & values/behaviours
Change Management: Making workplace change easy
Managing Effective Meetings: Fun and productive meetings
Decision-making/Problem-solving: Making good decisions for the long term
Employee Engagement & Culture Change: Producing a positive workplace which delivers great results
Reward and Recognition: Motivating people for greater performance
Succession, Career and Critical Role Planning: Safeguarding the people for your future
Recruitment, Selection, Interviewing and Induction: Getting the right people through the door
Tough Conversations: How to confront and talk with difficult people
Performance Management: Building a high performance workplace
Voyager Advanced Leadership Programme
Leading Great Teams Management Development Programme
Accelerator Emerging Leaders Programme
Sustaining Great Teams High Performing Teams Programme
Business Planning: Bringing to life a purpose/mission, vision, strategy & values/behaviours
Change Management: Making workplace change easy
Managing Effective Meetings: Fun and productive meetings
Decision-making/Problem-solving: Making good decisions for the long term
Employee Engagement & Culture Change: Producing a positive workplace which delivers great results
Reward and Recognition: Motivating people for greater performance
Succession, Career and Critical Role Planning: Safeguarding the people for your future
Recruitment, Selection, Interviewing and Induction: Getting the right people through the door
Tough Conversations: How to confront and talk with difficult people
Performance Management: Building a high performance workplace
DETAIL of PROGRAMMES, WORKSHOPS and COACHING
Voyager Advanced Leadership Programme
Overview
An extensive, confronting and compelling leadership programme covering the critical elements of leadership which drive business results and motivate people. If you aspire to deliver significantly improved business outcomes and results; be sharper and clearer in your vision for the future; more resolute and accurate in decision-making; or importantly want enriched connections with people…then the Voyager Advanced Leadership Programme by SamePage Group will provide enormous, and potentially life-changing, benefit. Whilst the Programme is challenging, confronting and demanding; it is also invaluable in bringing about lasting and rewarding personal change. Ultimately the Programme will equip you to become a great leader in order to improve your bottom-line, grow your organisation and become more effective at what you do.
Who Should Attend
The Programme is designed for leaders who make decisions which significantly impact the results or direction of their organisation e.g. business owners, CEOs, MDs, leadership team members, advanced technical specialists or advisors in any field.
Learning Outcomes The outcome is simply becoming a great leader or at least having the skills to become a great leader. The Programme is spread over eleven months in recognition that developing great leadership skills takes time. In fact being a leader is relatively easy; however being a great leader is a lifelong voyage. Over the course of the Programme, a variety of learning activities are included:
Overview
Forming and leading teams is one of the most complex challenges facing leaders today. When passionate leaders connect with well-designed teams, they deliver high performance results. Effective, high-performing teams build consensus and use conflict in constructive ways to open the gateway to peak performance. Leading a team is not an overnight event, so the programme is deliberately spread over a period of time in which you can trial and practice new ways to increase your effectiveness over time. You will also learn about NZ employment law, how to handle poor performers, manage disciplinary issues, and how to manage long term sickness.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team / people.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will learn management skills and be able to:
Accelerator Emerging Leaders Programme
Overview
If you have an emerging leader or are one in your organisation…you are incredibly valuable and important to that organisations future. You might even be the one leading it one day. This programme is a perfect platform from which to learn the critical leadership skills that really make a difference. The programme is therefore not designed to be easy. It provides foundational, yet challenging leadership skills that will help take participants to next level roles. It will be a little confronting and a big focus will be on increasing self-awareness and impact on others. Importantly participants will get a glimpse of what leadership is like leading an organisation.
Who Should Attend
Middle managers and those next in line for senior roles.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will learn to use and put into practice the skills learned to open up new skills which will challenge them and help them decide if they are up for future roles through simulation and trialling the skills in a safe environment.
Sustaining Great Teams High Performance Team Programme
Overview
An impactful and dynamic programme to take teams from dysfunctional or average performing to high performing. A team feedback diagnostic questionnaire is completed prior to the programme to assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses in team performance. Emphasis is placed on clarifying and agreeing on the team's purpose, specifically its mission, vision and values and how this links to the overall company purpose. Specific observable behaviours that bring the values into reality are clarified and agreed to.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team and their team members.
Learning Outcomes
All team participants will learn how to increase trust and open communication between each other:
Overview
Planning ahead and having a vision and goals to pursue is a given in a competitive market-place. Just turning up to work does not cut it these days. Organisations need to navigate their way through inevitable change and challenges. Planning is a pre-emptive way of reducing risk and softening any unexpected and even inevitable events. More so planning is about positioning for the future whatever that might be for your organisation or team. This might be growth, increased customer satisfaction, new product development, or myriad of other things. This programme will take participants through a six step process which aims at getting the leadership team and then the rest of an organisation on the same page including developing and bringing to life in a fresh way the mission, vision, customer value proposition, strategy and plans, and values/behaviours in such a way that they drive improved business results.
Who Should Attend
Executive and senior leaders (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will gain a clear understanding of each of the 6 steps required to better align and focus an organisation so that it can concentrate on the things that need to get done.
Change Management: Making workplace change easy
Overview
Work is change. In fact life is change! Yet the majority of people and organisations seem to avoid it. Successful people and organisations you will find are the ones who have embraced change and even enjoy it. This workshop will give you some of the key concepts about change including the types of change, change methodologies for you to use, and some interesting facts about organisations that change vs those who don’t.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn why change is important; the types of change; change methodologies and processes; the different stages of change; and ways to transition others through change.
Managing Effective Meetings: Fun and productive meetings
Overview
Ever been in a boring meeting and even wondered why you even bothered. This workshop will give you some great practical tips to help you make meetings exciting and meaningful.
Who Should Attend
Anyone who chairs or leads a meeting…or who wants to.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn the value of meetings as a management tool; how to craft a solid agenda; recognise the critical planning step that makes meeting time more effective; lead robust, inclusive discussions; use tools to focus on the right information; and practice techniques for handling counterproductive behaviour.
Decision-making / Problem-solving: Making good decisions for the long term
Overview
Every leader is expected to make sound decisions, but decisions are more than judgment calls based on experience and domain-specific knowledge. In this workshop, you will learn the two different types of decision-making, how to apply decision-making processes in order to reduce risk and choose the best course of action for the project, team, or the organisation.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to solve problems and make decisions more deliberately and systematically, and will be able to use decision analysis techniques and group processes, integrate constructive behaviours and values into decisions, and generally, have increased confidence in decision-making.
Employee Engagement & Culture Change: Producing a positive workplace which delivers great results
Overview
Developing a work environment which brings out the best of people so they are as productive as possible is the challenge for many organisations. It seems pointless going to work only to not enjoy it because it is a difficult or disruptive work environment. Employees who are engaged and motivated to go the extra mile are who you want. This workshop will give you an introduction in how to do just that and to understand the incredible power a constructive work environment and workplace culture has.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn about the theory and background of workplace culture and employee engagement; how it increases workplace performance and productivity; and the basic elements of how to create a great or greater place to work.
Reward and Recognition: Motivating people for greater performance
Overview
Everyone likes to be acknowledged somehow for the work they do. Rewarding and recognising people for good work is a complex area because different people are motivated by different rewards and types of recognition. This workshop will provide some basic and more complex ways to reward and recognise good work.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team / people.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn about the elements that bring about the best and motivate others; they will learn various ways to do that; and find out ways to integrate reward and recognition into their own workplace.
Succession, Career and Critical Role Planning: Safeguarding the people for your future
Overview
Providing a safeguard for the future of an organisation is critical so that not only the best people are retained, but are prepared for future roles. Being proactive means that risk will be reduced over time. This workshop provides an overview of the process for succession and critical role planning.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn robust and practical methods to identify, retain and develop the people who will take the organisation forward in the future; identify roles which are critical for the organisation and how to make sure there is cover for these roles.
Recruitment, Selection, Interviewing and Induction: Getting the right people through the door
Overview
Making the wrong hiring decision means throwing away a substantial investment of time and money on recruitment, training and benefits. This workshop is your ticket to make the right hiring decisions and contribute more to your company's bottom line with people who suit your organisation.
Who Should Attend
Anyone involved in recruiting and interviewing.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to hone interviewing skills to make the right hiring and promotion decisions; avoid veering off course and asking invalid, or worse, illegal questions; use of behavioural interviewing; skills which will enhance candidates’ positive perceptions of your organisation; improve retention by helping select people who are engaged and who will be a good fit within your organisation.
Tough Conversations: How to confront and talk with difficult people
Overview
Never again fall victim to those who love to make life miserable for the rest of us! This workshop gives you concrete techniques for dealing with difficult people in the workplace and even at home!
Who Should Attend
This is a universal issue, so this workshop is open to anyone who wants to face into "that" difficult person!
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to deliver difficult messages clearly and powerfully; how to confront someone without provoking them; how to persuade difficult people; how to begin a difficult conversation; how to discuss issues that take you by surprise; and how to manage strong emotions.
Performance management: Building a high performance workplace
Overview
There is something powerful about having all employees aligned and focused on achieving an organisation’s business goals. This workshop will take participants through the process of aligning business goals to individual goals; and how to give feedback and appraisals of performance. It is also inevitable that there are or will be employees that for whatever reason just aren’t cutting it. Most often this situation just won’t go away by itself and the most effective approach is to face into the matter. This workshop will take you through a very practical process to make managing poor performance, disciplinary, and absence issues for whatever reason as easy as possible.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team / people.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to align their own team to the wider organisation goals; how to lift team and individual performance; coaching & transitioning underperforming employees; managing disciplinary issues; and managing those who are absent or unable to work full duties because of long term sickness or injury.
Voyager Advanced Leadership Programme
Overview
An extensive, confronting and compelling leadership programme covering the critical elements of leadership which drive business results and motivate people. If you aspire to deliver significantly improved business outcomes and results; be sharper and clearer in your vision for the future; more resolute and accurate in decision-making; or importantly want enriched connections with people…then the Voyager Advanced Leadership Programme by SamePage Group will provide enormous, and potentially life-changing, benefit. Whilst the Programme is challenging, confronting and demanding; it is also invaluable in bringing about lasting and rewarding personal change. Ultimately the Programme will equip you to become a great leader in order to improve your bottom-line, grow your organisation and become more effective at what you do.
Who Should Attend
The Programme is designed for leaders who make decisions which significantly impact the results or direction of their organisation e.g. business owners, CEOs, MDs, leadership team members, advanced technical specialists or advisors in any field.
Learning Outcomes The outcome is simply becoming a great leader or at least having the skills to become a great leader. The Programme is spread over eleven months in recognition that developing great leadership skills takes time. In fact being a leader is relatively easy; however being a great leader is a lifelong voyage. Over the course of the Programme, a variety of learning activities are included:
- Workshops – 10 morning sessions, each followed by a light lunch
- A weekend away – one weekend away at a countryside retreat including meals
- Executive coaching – two sessions per participant at any time during the Programme
- Small groups – one session in between workshops with 2-3 other participants.
Overview
Forming and leading teams is one of the most complex challenges facing leaders today. When passionate leaders connect with well-designed teams, they deliver high performance results. Effective, high-performing teams build consensus and use conflict in constructive ways to open the gateway to peak performance. Leading a team is not an overnight event, so the programme is deliberately spread over a period of time in which you can trial and practice new ways to increase your effectiveness over time. You will also learn about NZ employment law, how to handle poor performers, manage disciplinary issues, and how to manage long term sickness.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team / people.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will learn management skills and be able to:
- more effectively manage their team including understand how effective teams develop and the critical factors needed for performance
- undertake effective team member goal setting and give performance feedback
- understand the challenges of team leadership in managing the team through change
- create personal strategies for inspiring team members to strive for high levels of performance.
Accelerator Emerging Leaders Programme
Overview
If you have an emerging leader or are one in your organisation…you are incredibly valuable and important to that organisations future. You might even be the one leading it one day. This programme is a perfect platform from which to learn the critical leadership skills that really make a difference. The programme is therefore not designed to be easy. It provides foundational, yet challenging leadership skills that will help take participants to next level roles. It will be a little confronting and a big focus will be on increasing self-awareness and impact on others. Importantly participants will get a glimpse of what leadership is like leading an organisation.
Who Should Attend
Middle managers and those next in line for senior roles.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will learn to use and put into practice the skills learned to open up new skills which will challenge them and help them decide if they are up for future roles through simulation and trialling the skills in a safe environment.
Sustaining Great Teams High Performance Team Programme
Overview
An impactful and dynamic programme to take teams from dysfunctional or average performing to high performing. A team feedback diagnostic questionnaire is completed prior to the programme to assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses in team performance. Emphasis is placed on clarifying and agreeing on the team's purpose, specifically its mission, vision and values and how this links to the overall company purpose. Specific observable behaviours that bring the values into reality are clarified and agreed to.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team and their team members.
Learning Outcomes
All team participants will learn how to increase trust and open communication between each other:
- understand individual personalities and motivation preferences
- practice team roles, decision making; effective communication skills
- positive reinforcement of desired behaviours
- conflict resolution
- setting team objectives and goals in their specific work areas
- monitor and evaluating performance.
Overview
Planning ahead and having a vision and goals to pursue is a given in a competitive market-place. Just turning up to work does not cut it these days. Organisations need to navigate their way through inevitable change and challenges. Planning is a pre-emptive way of reducing risk and softening any unexpected and even inevitable events. More so planning is about positioning for the future whatever that might be for your organisation or team. This might be growth, increased customer satisfaction, new product development, or myriad of other things. This programme will take participants through a six step process which aims at getting the leadership team and then the rest of an organisation on the same page including developing and bringing to life in a fresh way the mission, vision, customer value proposition, strategy and plans, and values/behaviours in such a way that they drive improved business results.
Who Should Attend
Executive and senior leaders (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will gain a clear understanding of each of the 6 steps required to better align and focus an organisation so that it can concentrate on the things that need to get done.
Change Management: Making workplace change easy
Overview
Work is change. In fact life is change! Yet the majority of people and organisations seem to avoid it. Successful people and organisations you will find are the ones who have embraced change and even enjoy it. This workshop will give you some of the key concepts about change including the types of change, change methodologies for you to use, and some interesting facts about organisations that change vs those who don’t.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn why change is important; the types of change; change methodologies and processes; the different stages of change; and ways to transition others through change.
Managing Effective Meetings: Fun and productive meetings
Overview
Ever been in a boring meeting and even wondered why you even bothered. This workshop will give you some great practical tips to help you make meetings exciting and meaningful.
Who Should Attend
Anyone who chairs or leads a meeting…or who wants to.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn the value of meetings as a management tool; how to craft a solid agenda; recognise the critical planning step that makes meeting time more effective; lead robust, inclusive discussions; use tools to focus on the right information; and practice techniques for handling counterproductive behaviour.
Decision-making / Problem-solving: Making good decisions for the long term
Overview
Every leader is expected to make sound decisions, but decisions are more than judgment calls based on experience and domain-specific knowledge. In this workshop, you will learn the two different types of decision-making, how to apply decision-making processes in order to reduce risk and choose the best course of action for the project, team, or the organisation.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to solve problems and make decisions more deliberately and systematically, and will be able to use decision analysis techniques and group processes, integrate constructive behaviours and values into decisions, and generally, have increased confidence in decision-making.
Employee Engagement & Culture Change: Producing a positive workplace which delivers great results
Overview
Developing a work environment which brings out the best of people so they are as productive as possible is the challenge for many organisations. It seems pointless going to work only to not enjoy it because it is a difficult or disruptive work environment. Employees who are engaged and motivated to go the extra mile are who you want. This workshop will give you an introduction in how to do just that and to understand the incredible power a constructive work environment and workplace culture has.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn about the theory and background of workplace culture and employee engagement; how it increases workplace performance and productivity; and the basic elements of how to create a great or greater place to work.
Reward and Recognition: Motivating people for greater performance
Overview
Everyone likes to be acknowledged somehow for the work they do. Rewarding and recognising people for good work is a complex area because different people are motivated by different rewards and types of recognition. This workshop will provide some basic and more complex ways to reward and recognise good work.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team / people.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn about the elements that bring about the best and motivate others; they will learn various ways to do that; and find out ways to integrate reward and recognition into their own workplace.
Succession, Career and Critical Role Planning: Safeguarding the people for your future
Overview
Providing a safeguard for the future of an organisation is critical so that not only the best people are retained, but are prepared for future roles. Being proactive means that risk will be reduced over time. This workshop provides an overview of the process for succession and critical role planning.
Who Should Attend
Leaders and managers (including technical specialists) of corporate and large organisations; directors, managers and owners of SMEs.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn robust and practical methods to identify, retain and develop the people who will take the organisation forward in the future; identify roles which are critical for the organisation and how to make sure there is cover for these roles.
Recruitment, Selection, Interviewing and Induction: Getting the right people through the door
Overview
Making the wrong hiring decision means throwing away a substantial investment of time and money on recruitment, training and benefits. This workshop is your ticket to make the right hiring decisions and contribute more to your company's bottom line with people who suit your organisation.
Who Should Attend
Anyone involved in recruiting and interviewing.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to hone interviewing skills to make the right hiring and promotion decisions; avoid veering off course and asking invalid, or worse, illegal questions; use of behavioural interviewing; skills which will enhance candidates’ positive perceptions of your organisation; improve retention by helping select people who are engaged and who will be a good fit within your organisation.
Tough Conversations: How to confront and talk with difficult people
Overview
Never again fall victim to those who love to make life miserable for the rest of us! This workshop gives you concrete techniques for dealing with difficult people in the workplace and even at home!
Who Should Attend
This is a universal issue, so this workshop is open to anyone who wants to face into "that" difficult person!
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to deliver difficult messages clearly and powerfully; how to confront someone without provoking them; how to persuade difficult people; how to begin a difficult conversation; how to discuss issues that take you by surprise; and how to manage strong emotions.
Performance management: Building a high performance workplace
Overview
There is something powerful about having all employees aligned and focused on achieving an organisation’s business goals. This workshop will take participants through the process of aligning business goals to individual goals; and how to give feedback and appraisals of performance. It is also inevitable that there are or will be employees that for whatever reason just aren’t cutting it. Most often this situation just won’t go away by itself and the most effective approach is to face into the matter. This workshop will take you through a very practical process to make managing poor performance, disciplinary, and absence issues for whatever reason as easy as possible.
Who Should Attend
People who lead a team / people.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to align their own team to the wider organisation goals; how to lift team and individual performance; coaching & transitioning underperforming employees; managing disciplinary issues; and managing those who are absent or unable to work full duties because of long term sickness or injury.
