Npower: Leading the Vision Programme
Develop inspirational leaders

Over 50 leaders in four groups completed this challenging programme which became the flagship development programme within this organisation.

“The programme was indeed iconic, truly engaging and world class, not least because of the exceptionally innovative techniques deployed. Networks that have been built across the organisation are being maintained and have led to unprecedented levels of cross-business working and removal of cultural barriers. The increased confidence of the participants to champion, challenge and lead is incredible and has resulted in tremendous commercial benefits to the organisation.” Client feedback

Our client’s strategic objective was to differentiate in the marketplace by building a powerful brand that was full of character. We were commissioned to design and implement an ‘iconic’ development programme to enhance leaders’ ability to inspire people to live this brand.

We designed a programme around differentiators of future high performance: emotional strategic and learning agility. Critical to the success of this programme was the unprecedented levels of senior executive involvement, the amount of real work (as opposed to exercises) and the involvement of followers both in providing feedback, engaging with leaders between modules and in turning up to make modules very ‘live’ experiences.

The programme itself was an eight-month program run with cohorts of twelve participants. The three conceptual dimensions of the design were: Leading Myself, Leading Our People, Leading Our Business. These were delivered over four modules.

The first module saw leaders testing and refining their levels of self-awareness and sense of purpose working with a rural Maasai community in Tanzania.

The second module saw leaders gathering feedback and engaging directly with their followers to understand their leadership impact and to focus on their strengths and signature style.

The third module saw leaders testing their ability to inspire with the help of a singer and voice coach and a surprise business challenge accompanied by the arrival of busloads of followers to be communicated with.

The fourth module saw leaders really grow their commercial understanding with the requirement to build a live, commercial model of the current business with the help of graphic cartoon artists and under the watchful and challenging eye of the most commercially incisive Executive team member.

Over 50 leaders in 4 groups completed this challenging program which became the flagship

development program within this organization.  Post-programme evaluation demonstrated a positive impact on employee satisfaction with leaders:  “I am inspired by those people leading our business”. Evaluation also demonstrated a link between the programme and leader promotion as well as the achievement of revenue generating and cost saving goals by leaders.

They said “The program was indeed iconic, truly engaging and world class, not least because of the exceptionally innovative techniques deployed. Networks that have been built across the organization are being maintained and have led to unprecedented levels of cross-business working and removal of cultural barriers. The increased confidence of the participants to champion, challenge and lead is incredible and has resulted in tremendous commercial benefits to the organization.”