Leading to Excellence

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The Leading to Excellence Programme
A programme jointly developed and delivered by
The Leadership Trust Foundation and the
University of Worcester Business School
Presentation at the Lifelong Learning Network,
Herefordshire and Worcestershire, 27th January
2009
Leading to Excellence
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The Leading to Excellence Programme

• An accredited programme of bite-size leadership
  and management development courses leading to an
  Executive MBA

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The Importance of Leadership

• Understanding leadership is the single most
  important task for society today
• Donald G. Krause, 1997

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The Importance of Leadership

• Stock price of well-led companies grew by over
  900 over 10 years, compared with74 for
  poorly-led companies.
• Institute for Strategic Change, USA,
• quoted by Warren Bennis, 1998

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Background to The Leadership Trust

• Founded in 1975
• An educational charitable trust
• To enhance influence leadership and leadership
  development in all aspects of society
• 80 bedroom centre near Ross-on-Wye
• Employ 80 people
• 200 approx. visiting tutors

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The secret of leadership is to keep the four
guys who hate you away from the five who are
undecided.Anon
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If you want to lead someone in this part of the
world, find out where they are going. Then walk
in front of them.Jeremy Paxman, 1999
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The Leadership Trusts Definition

• Leadership is using our personal power to win
  the hearts and minds of people to achieve a
  common purpose.

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Programme Ethos

• Athletes train to achieve and maintain
  performancewhy shouldnt business people and
  managers?

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Programme Content

• The delivery of a range of course modules, on an
  ongoing basis, addressing the key business areas
  of
• Leadership
• Sales and Marketing Management
• Organisational Strategy and Management
• Financial and Operational Management

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Leadership v. Management

• Management produces orderly results which keep
  things working efficiently
• Leadership creates useful change
• We need both if organizations and nations are to
  prosper
• John Kotter, 1990

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Successful Change Ensures Survival

• It is not the strongest species that survive,
  nor the most intelligent, but the ones most
  responsive to change.
• Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859

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The Keys to Successful Change

• ______________________________________
• Leadership 92
• Corporate values 84
• Communication 75
• Teambuilding 69
• Education and training 64
• ________________________________________
• of senior executives mentioning these as
  important in an
• American Management Association survey of Fortune
  500
• companies in the USA, 1995

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