Plan and lead meetings that are focused, engaging, and result-oriented — with clear outcomes every time
Closed-group, tailored to your organisation. 4-hour interactive workshop, delivered in-person or live online.
Managing Upwards with Purpose
Align effectively with your manager by anticipating needs, managing expectations, and building mutual trust
Ideal for professionals who need to strengthen their ability to work effectively with senior managers.
Participants typically include:
- Team leaders and supervisors
- Mid-level managers and specialists
- Professionals seeking to improve visibility, alignment, and influence with senior leadership
Closed-group, tailored to your organisation. Delivered as a half-day or full-day workshop, available in-person or live online.
- Understanding managing upwards: Why it matters for you, your team, and the organisation
- Adapting to senior styles: Learn how leaders process information, make decisions, and how to adapt your communication accordingly
- Best practice for managing upwards: Communicate outcomes, quantify results, and connect your work to business impact
- Effective communication techniques: Anticipate questions, adopt a solution-focused mindset, and communicate with clarity and professionalism
- Building credibility and trust: Demonstrate value, manage expectations, and strengthen your professional reputation
- Practice and feedback: Engage in real scenarios such as updating your manager, handling difficult requests, and responding constructively to criticism
- Stronger alignment between managers and their teams
- Employees who anticipate needs and communicate proactively with senior leaders
- Reduced friction and clearer expectations across reporting lines
- Greater trust, visibility, and confidence in communication upwards
Arrange a short needs analysis and explore how Managing Upwards with Purpose can help your teams build stronger relationships with senior leaders and contribute more effectively to organisational success.
Adapting to Working Styles
Understand different working styles and learn how to adapt, collaborate, and lead across personalities
Designed for professionals at all levels who want to improve collaboration and reduce friction by understanding and adapting to diverse working styles.
Participants typically include:
- Team leaders and managers
- Project or cross-functional team members
- Professionals seeking to strengthen collaboration and communication within mixed-style teams
Closed-group, tailored to your organisation. Delivered as a half-day or full-day workshop, available in-person or live online.
- What are working styles? Define habits, preferences, and behavioural patterns; explore why they matter and how they influence collaboration
- Identifying your own style: Increase self-awareness, recognise strengths and blind spots, and understand how others may perceive your approach
- Adapting to others: Learn how to flex communication and collaboration techniques—from presenting ideas and giving feedback to running meetings—when working with different styles
- Working styles in teams: Manage risks of style clashes, strengthen collaboration, and harness diversity of styles as a team asset
Practical frameworks: Apply a simple four-quadrant model (Driver, Analyst, Amiable, Expressive) to navigate and bridge style differences
- Teams that communicate and collaborate more effectively across style differences
- Reduced workplace friction and greater cooperation
- Leaders and employees who can flex their approach to meet diverse needs
- A stronger culture of inclusivity, adaptability, and collaboration
Arrange a short needs analysis and explore how Adapting to Working Styles can help your teams reduce friction, strengthen collaboration, and turn working style differences into a performance advantage.
