Active Strategy | Effective Leadership Academy

What is it?

In the biggest companies all over the world for many years special attention has been paid to organisational culture and leadership skills. An effective leader creates a favourable work atmosphere and motivates the team to efficient work. The hope to achieve the set objectives, deliver the essential tools and remove the obstacles that lie in the way of the team is placed in the leader.

The Effective Leadership Academy is our own programme that addresses these needs. With our methods developed throughout the years and many years of work with such companies as Allegro, Siemens, Nasza-Klasa.pl, Techland, Ten Square Games czy Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa, our Academy creates wonderful work atmosphere and brings the anticipated results. During the Academy we focus on a long-term change and not just a temporary improvement. We deliver the tools that the users can apply in their work after each workshop. We know how to ensure effectiveness of managers. We prepare customised and successful competence development programmes and build a great atmosphere in your company!

For whom?

Our programme is targeted to the management staff

Our programme is targeted to: Team leaders, project managers, entrepreneurs, technological companies (IT, R&D, BPO/SSC, engineering) and companies employing mostly persons from generation Y (or Millennials). It is the efficient leader that creates a favourable work atmosphere and motivates the team to effective actions. The hope to achieve the set objectives, deliver the essential tools and remove the obstacles that lie in the way of the team is placed in the leader.

With the Effective Leadership Academy you will learn how to meet the requirements set by the superiors and reports and how to reconcile work with personal life.

Benefits for the company

46% of companies admitted “leadership” was the skill hardest to find in employees. Luckily it is possible to develop your managerial skills!

Our Academy enhances leadership competencies in managers, extends the knowledge on team management and improves the skill of building friendly atmosphere at work. Team leaders learn how to use the staff’s potential and how to effectively monitor the group. We discover their strengths, define and overcome barriers and increase satisfaction from the taken actions and from work.

Increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the leaders
Increasing satisfaction from work of the leaders and their subordinates
Improving efficiency and effectiveness of teams in the company
Increasing motivation of employees
Proper delegation of tasks to subordinate staff
Ability to define and solve problems and conflicts in the team
Learning how to solicit feedback from subordinates and superiors

Methods

In order to create development programmes targeted especially to the management staff we incorporate the best from various methods. We use experimental learning, action learning, coaching approach (of various schools), design and strategic approach. Our programmes are based on David Kolb adult learning style model.

During training we use strategic games, simulations, case studies, feedback from the group and the moderator, work with a camera, group discussions, discussion about games and simulations, creative methods. If this is justified and the location allows, we move the games to the field and conduct them in the outdoor form. The taught rules and techniques are organised in a coherent, practical and efficient set of tools. We use knowledge of the selected authorities, including: Richard Branson, Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Steven R. Covey, Peter Drucker, Daniel Goleman, Reid Hoffman, Tony Hsieh, Patrick Lencioni, Peter M. Senge, Simon Sinek, Brian Tracy, Jack Welch, John Whitmore and own experience.

Experiential Learning

The participants excel the selected skills through practical exercises, simulations, indoor and outdoor tasks or social projects. The exercises represent situations and challenges analogical to those encountered in the workplace. We observe, discuss and draw conclusions which we can then transfer to specific optimisation of methods and tools functioning in the organisation.

Metaphors

This is a pleasant and effective method using different comparisons, from the natural environment, through sports disciplines, art to science. All of them allow to learn new theories using other concepts that are well known to the participants.

Coaching approach

We ask questions that allow us to work not only at the level of knowledge and habits, but also at the level of convictions and values. We encourage the participants to draw their own conclusions and adapt the proposed techniques to their own character and organisation. This increases the chance to achieve permanent change

Action learning

With support of feedback participants experiment and reinforce the acquired skills in their workplace.

Follow up

We help the participants reinforce the acquired skills by subsequent and repeated discussions and organising the programme in a coherent cycle. This allows to master the tools learnt a few weeks before.

Testimonials

We have invited Active Strategy as a delivery partner for the GlobalLogic EMEA Directors Development Program. We deeply appreciate providing the interactive, practical and hands-on online training in English. After discussion about lessons learned, which we see very beneficial, we are discussing the opening of the 2d edition.

Ewa Maleszka-Pabian, Head of Learning & Development – Central and Northern Europe z GlobalLogic

Thank you for the entire Effective Leadership Academy. At the beginning we specified what results we wanted and the trainers responded to that. The program was very engaging for all leaders, the exercises super conducted and the atmosphere was relaxed. The trainings gave a lot of reflection, practical techniques and prompted us to put them into practice. I hope we'll meet again.

Piotr Naszkowski, CIO z T4B Sp. z o. o.

Despite my initial skepticism towards the Leader Academy, it turned out that these were the first soft skills training I did not sleep on. We are a demanding, self-confident and busy group. However, the program responded to our expectations and we achieved exactly the goals that we agreed on at the beginning. Active Strategy has been recommended to me and I recommend them further.

Przemysław Krzyzanowski, Head of Global IT Infrastructure z Knauf IT Services Poland

As a large company, it has been quite impressive to see Active Strategy successfully deliver training and workshops that accurately represent our business across various teams. They are also very knowledgeable and well-experienced in their industry. Active Strategy is a very solid business partner. I would highly recommend them.

Paweł Furyk, Manager z Magna International Training Center Poland

Organising Leadership Academy was an initiative of our Project Managers and Active Strategy was recommended to us. After the workshops, 87% of participants admitted that they would put new skills into practice. Even if there was a weaker moment in the project, the trainer responded immediately and fixed a minor mistake. At the end Active Strategy presented to the board a very accurate picture of how we operate and what we should pay more attention to. Very valuable development recommendations. We recommend them as a partner for the development of management teams, especially in rapidly growing companies.

Maciej Popowicz, CEO i Arek Pernal, COO z Ten Square Games

Our university has cooperated with Wojciech Paździor in several areas since 2010. In the academic year 2013/2014 Active Strategy implemented a programme improving the competence of executive management. We repeated it for the next group in 2015. The programme included team management, manager effectiveness, motivation and conducting meetings. Through this collaboration we improved our managerial work. I recommend Active Strategy with full responsibility as a partner in the development of management team.

Dr Marek Natalli, Chancellor z WSB University

Our Project Managers have found passion for exploring their strengths and talents. Wojtek gave us a new perspective on the development of our life and profession, we found inspiration to many positive changes in the workplace.Thank you for that. I recommend the workshop with Active Strategy trainers.

Paulina Lukasik, Project Portfolio Manager z Concordia

Wojtek designed and delivered a development programme for top management in our organisation. The cycle of workshops and executive coaching allowed managers to analyse their managerial effectiveness from a different perspective. He gave us lots of energy and ideas. We still benefit from the time we spent in the programme. I really appreciate the cooperation with Wojtek and Active Strategy, his calmness and professionalism!

Joanna Ukleja, HR Generalist z WSB University

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