The Harvest Leadership Pathways Programme is a comprehensive portfolio of solutions designed to foster career progression for Leaders at all levels, from Front Line to Senior Executives. It is structured into four distinct tiers, each tailored to address the unique leadership development needs at every stage of a leader’s career.
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Introducing Leadership Pathways
The Harvest Leadership Pathways Programme is a comprehensive portfolio of solutions designed to foster career progression for Leaders at all levels, from Front Line to Senior Executives. It is structured into four distinct tiers, each tailored to address the unique leadership development needs at every stage of a leader’s career.
All programmes are fully customised to provide a unique pathway for your staff.
1. Front Line Leaders Programme Leadership Foundations
2. Experienced Leaders Programme Experienced Leaders
3. Senior Leader and High Potential Programmes Senior Leadership and High Potential
4. Top Team Programme Executive Team
The single biggest way to impact an organisation is to focus on leadership development John C. Maxwell
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Harvest Leadership Pathways will:
Raise Management Standards Close the gap between your current management practice and what your company needs of your people, taking them to the next level of success. Enhance Agility and Career Progression Improve your employee experience, engagement and retention with clear pathways for leadership progression and a consistent approach across your business.
Guaranteed Return on Investment Using a leadership skills scorecard, we measure before and after leadership capability to assess impact and guide your next steps.
Your company is unique… We bring our experience to meet yours.
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1. Front Line Leaders Programme Leadership Foundations For those new to people leadership and individual contributors ambitious for Team Leadership, Front Line Leaders.
Front Line Leaders are crucial to an engaged, high performing workforce and to delivering operational performance through teams. A Leader role requires a shift in mindset and a different set of skills. This shift is often very challenging as Front Line Leaders face a range of new challenges, often with little or no training. By the end of our tailored learning, participants will be equipped with core managerial skills and a grounding in leadership, applied to your unique context and ambition for your company.
Success at this level means… Supporting others to do their best work.
Successful Front Line Leaders have: • People and performance management skills • Strong communication skills • Team leadership skills • Emotional intelligence and personal leadership • Ability to support employee growth • Operational efficiency skills • Ability to cultivate a positive culture
• Handling communications and difficult conversations • Dealing with performance issues • Supporting team dynamics and functioning • Personal confidence and emotions • Transitioning from peer to leader • Decision making and problem-solving • Digitisation and their role • Personal and team resilience Are these some of the challenges faced by your Front Line Leaders?
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Success at this level means… Balancing strategic initiatives with team leadership responsibilities. For Experienced Leaders, Leaders of multiple teams, Mid-Level Leaders and High Potential Front Line Leaders. 2. Experienced Leaders Programme Experienced Leaders Successful Mid-Level Leaders have: • Strong core management and leadership skills • Strategic mindset and understanding • Ability to mentor and support newer leaders • Stakeholder management and influencing skills • Decision making and problem solving expertise • Ability to balance short-term and long-term goals • Ability to consider multiple perspectives and objectives
Mid-Level Leaders connect strategy implementation with the rest of the workforce. A strong middle management layer needs to understand both front line realities and executive perspectives driving the organisation’s direction. Typically strong in functional expertise, moving into more senior management responsibilities calls on more advanced leadership capability, enterprise mindset and cross-functional understanding to drive organisational effectiveness and implement change. By the end of this tailored learning, participants will strengthen the practice of management across your organisation.
Are these some of the challenges faced by your Experienced Leaders?
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration • Becoming a Coach-led leader • Nurturing and retaining good people • Goal setting and accountability • Prioritisation and delegation • Becoming a data-driven decision maker • Coping with and leading change
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3. Senior Leader Programme Senior Leadership
For Senior Leaders, Heads of Functions and High Potentials for Executive Leadership positions. Success at this level means… Looking beyond functional management to organisational leadership and a vision of success.
The best senior leaders delicately balance operational needs, with planning for the future within the broader organisational landscape. They support and trust their staff, knowing when to step in and when to step back. They are expected to drive change, innovation, CSR, sustainability, strategy, future planning and much more… Senior leaders also handle complexity and set the standard for ways of working. We will stretch them to expand their thinking and their leadership skills. By the end of this tailored learning, you will have a cohort of highly effective senior leaders who together raise the standard in leadership practice.
Successful senior leaders have: •
Strong strategic thinking ability
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To be able to lead through complexity
• To spearhead change and foster innovation • Ability to communicate a vision and inspire others • Advanced communication and influencing skills • Business acumen and enterprise mindset • Personal leadership and emotional intelligence skills • Ability to balance accountability and growth for their teams
Are these some of the challenges faced by your Senior Leaders?
• Ability in strategic visioning and choice making • Building an executive presence • Communicating at board level • Foresight and scenario planning • Leading innovation • Values-based leadership • Global and internal stakeholder management • Enterprise-wide thinking • Digital transformation • Resilience and adaptability
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Success at this level means… Closing the gap on leadership capabilities for critical role fill opportunities. 3. Senior High Potential Programme Senior High Potentials For Senior High Potentials aiming for Executive Leadership Positions. To transition to Executive Leadership, high potential leaders need: • Emotional Maturity Emotional and professional maturity to handle complex situations • Resilience Persistence and the ability to recover from setbacks • Growth Capability Potential to develop and grow beyond current performance levels • Drive Strong motivation to write the next chapter for their organisations • Courage Willingness to take risks and make bold decisions when necessary
High potentials are recognised as having strong performance to date, however developing their potential to perform at a higher level requires a focussed and tailored solution. This learning experience is best designed to accelerate leaders’ capabilities, so they are ‘ready now’ for executive leadership. The experience should be fast-paced and stretching, with regular talent touchpoints providing visibility on learners’ progression. Learning impact is also provided with a pre and post assessment which culminates in a talent heat map to support succession planning. By the end of this tailored learning, you will
have identified your ‘ready now’ successors for top team positions.
Are these some of the challenges faced by your Senior Leaders?
• Ability in strategic visioning and choice making • Building an executive presence • Communicating at board level • Foresight and scenario planning • Leading innovation • Values-based leadership • Global and internal stakeholder management • Enterprise-wide thinking • Digital transformation • Resilience and adaptability
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4. Top Team Programme Executive Team For C-Suite Team, Top Team and Executive Team. Success at this level means… Defining, communicating and role modelling the future vision while setting a culture that aligns and supports the entire organisation.
The top team shapes the vision, culture and strategic direction of the company. The top team is responsible for both current and future performance but they rely on others to consistently deliver. High levels of self-awareness and emotional intelligence allow for intentional leadership and ongoing growth. Often senior executives need to break out of divisional thinking to work together to support the company as a whole. Navigating complexity and becoming a high functioning team is a core focus at this level. Our tailored learning aligns your top team, expands their thinking to future-proof your company.
Top Teams need: •
Strategic thinking and foresight
• Strong emotional intelligence and self control • To be an aligned and cohesive • Excellent stakeholder management • Advanced decision making skills • Ability to represent organisational values • Ability to navigate complexity • Understanding of external environment and trends • Understanding of functional collaboration
Are these some of the challenges faced within your Executive Team?
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Top team relationship contracting
Top team unity
Board and stakeholder engagement
Executive resilience
Strategic thinking and visioning
Succession planning Talent management
Building organisational resilience
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The Harvest Way
1. Diagnostic Listening To You We take the time to really understand you, what you want to change and the levers that will make the difference.
2. Design Getting Started Each solution is different. The design including themes, structure and outcomes are fully customised to address your specific needs.
4. Development Taking you Further We support you to measure leadership competency changes and build on them after the programme ends.
3. Delivery The Learning Experience We are experts in cutting-edge delivery with consistent excellent feedback from our clients and participants.
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