The solution to your challenges may be sitting under your nose - develop and encourage the intrinsic leadership ability and passion that lies within your senior managers. As the companion piece to our book "Leadership On Top: How Managers and Others Become Leaders", the LOT approach is designed to do just that.

Objectives of The LOT

  • To enable senior managers to connect to the essence of their own intrinsic leadership ability and passion.

  • To advance the core work of leadership in modern organisations – the 3Cs of leadership work, namely, Change, Collaboration and Creativity.

  • To deliver the leadership success which is most wanted and needed right now by businesses, organisations and communities – the type of leadership which succeeds at achieving our purposes, executing our strategies and delivering on our performance goals.

  • To enable senior leaders to overcome the natural forces of entropy and to continue to grow as leaders. 

“Thank you! The intensive delivered way beyond my expectations. It was clear to me by yesterday that we managed to really shift the mindset of the entire group as to what leadership is.”
— Associate Professor, University of Melbourne

Who is it for?

Senior Leaders with significant strategic and organisational responsibility.

Businesses and Organisations who aspire to achieve ambitious goals, and who are committed to developing a group of senior leaders who together execute strategy, change and performance initiatives brilliantly.

Individual & Organisational Benefits

The emergence of Strategic Leaders who can mobilise and influence others to:

  • Perform really well together and bring the best out of each other

  • Achieve common purposes and strategic goals

  • Deal with adaptive challenges and change

  • Make tough choices

  • Be creative and innovative about the future

  • Be successful and fulfilled

“Thank you for a great experience with my team and coming to Darwin to do what you do – which is amazing.”
— Senior Manager, NT

What is the range of content?

The process brings together everything which we have learnt over the past twenty years from conducting leadership development with thousands of senior managers drawn from hundreds of great companies and organisations in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

The underlying structure of the program is based on the chapter design of our Guidebook "Leadership On Top: How Managers and Others Become Leaders", and addresses:

  • Leadership, Power and Authority;

  • Leadership, Dialogue and Learning;

  • Leadership and Self;

  • Leadership, Purpose and Values;

  • Leadership and Mindfulness;

  • Leadership and Emotions;

  • Leadership, Groups and Collaboration;

  • Leadership, Organisations and Performance;

  • Leadership, Strategy and Creativity, and;

  • Leadership, Change and Culture.

    Clients can mix and match these topics depending on their own needs and priorities.

Sample content for a program / workshop

The sample content for a program or workshop may include:

  • Exploration of theories and frameworks around the Nature of Modern Leadership

  • Introducing Leadership Insight Dialogue method

  • Large and Small Group Consultations over a current Strategic, Innovative or Personal Leadership Opportunity/Challenge for each participant

  • Sources of Power and Influence for Transformative Leaders

  • Daily Individual and Group Reflection and Group-As-Case Reviews

  • How leaders build Trust

  • Symlog Group Leadership Feedback instrument exploring typical organisational dynamics, optimal team and leadership performance and peer feedback from the workplace. One-on-one coaching.

  • Futures Thinking, Creativity and the Three Strategy and Growth Horizons

  • Critical Decision Making in the face of Uncertainty

  • Identity and Leadership

  • Personal and Collective Immunity to Change and How To Transform It

  • Emotions and leadership

  • Purpose and Values and Generating change

  • Mindfulness and Group Leadership

  • Culture and Organisational Change

  • The "Five Foci Framework" for Leadership Success for the Business and Organisation: the Leadership and Culture focus; the Strategy and Change focus; Innovation and the Future focus; Collaboration and Performance focus and: the Challenges and Opportunities focus

  • Changing Habits with the 3P Method

  • Strategic Leadership into Action

“Thank you, Richard. I am thrilled with the workshop and with my team.”
— Senior Bank Executive, NAB

What is the learning method?

The LOT uses our own exciting and innovative learning method called Leadership Insight Dialogue - hence our nickname is the "LID with the LOT". Our method has seven elements which are integrated into each session of the program. These are:

  • Dialogue

  • Group Dynamics

  • Feedback

  • New Ideas

  • Reflection

  • Mindfulness

  • Personal Sharing

Delivery formats

Different lengths; different focus: same strong impact.

The Leadership On Top approach can be tailored for different organisations, different needs and adapted for executives, senior leaders or middle management. We also tender for development work when invited. Clients request a range of very different formats and shorter program lengths, but the four most popular formats for the program are:

  1. A five day program is led by Richard Searle and with a range of specialist presenters and feedback givers.

  2. A modular format of 2 Days plus a 3 Day Leadership Intensive and a 1 Day Follow-Up, and led by Richard Searle with one feedback giver.

  3. A short 2-3 Day Leadership Workshop.

  4. It is also possible for you to be a sponsor organisation and invite external participants to enrol on your program. Find out more by clicking here.