The EI model suggests that one cannot be fully successful in a team environment without both IQ and EQ. The EI model is predicated upon two pathways to growth and destroys the idea that we are stuck; that we cannot get beyond yesterday’s mindset.

Increasing EI helps to establish impact with others, to influence and lead through motivation. It is therefore a great underpinning philosophy for managing in a coaching style; when one maps leadership and coaching skills together, we find a very great overlap in these skills. See explanatory video on leadership skills vs coaching skills.

As well as training to help managers augment their management styles with coaching skills, we also go further than that with full culture-change programmes using ‘the coaching culture’ as a model for change and have been active in this area since 2004.

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Press Release Dated: 09 Feb, 2009 – 

Eponymous NLP course, ‘Me, Myself, My Team’ – next date Tuesday 30 March & Wednesday 14th April, 2010. Birmingham.

Sue Noble and Angus bring NLP to you in both in-house and open training in NLP!

Effective management and leadership? - What is the difference which makes the difference?

How can two managers with similar backgrounds, education, skills and commitment be so different in terms of their effectiveness and the way they communicate with others?  This course helps you discover your own effectiveness, the secret behind successful leadership and building teams through powerful influencing,  flexible thinking and openness to self-challenge. 

This is an advanced course which builds on any previously attended workshops in Coaching and Leadership Development with the emphasis on Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques & models to develop positive mindsets and solution-focused outcomes. 

A book by the same title as the course, Me, Myself, My Team and written by Dr. Angus McLeod is available to buy to accompany the course and as a useful reference during the workshops.    

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this course you will have more choice over your style of leadership and where your similarities or differences are with your team, your manager and your stakeholders.  Take responsibility of your own style of leadership and focus on how changing behaviours create change around you! these eventually leads to a change of culture where we train whole teams.  

In-company, this is ideally a two day course with a break between day 1 and 2 to allow skills practice in a range of NLP techniques and the opportunity to discuss challenges and further NLP skills development towards excellent leadership.  

Who should attend?

• Anyone who has previously attended ILM and other Coaching workshops
• Anyone who is leading or managing a team and is looking to improve working relationships, performance and motivation in themselves and others
• Anyone having previously attended an Introduction to Management course.

Course Outline

Day 1 

• Managing Similarities and Differences at work
• Working with the team’s values and behaviours
• Leader v Follower style of leadership
• Improving performance mindsets through positive thinking
• Recognising internal conflict and dialogue in yourself and others
• Understanding Thinking Preferences
• Communication styles – adopted or adapted? 
• Close and Review

Day 2

• Review of day 1, lessons learnt, challenges met
• Assessing Motivation and Needs
• From Responsibility to Achievement
• Managing Personal and Team Objectives and Action Tasks
• Promoting the Coaching Culture through effective leadership
• Managing conflict within external teams
• Working towards Open Minds and Flexibility
• Close and Review

Incorporating Me, Myself, My Team with Action Learning Sets (in-company only)

It is recommended that to enhance the learning, understanding and on-going development of single-organisation delegates wishing to attend this 2 day course, an initial half day Action Learning Sets be arranged to enable the delegates to learn more about the ongoing benefits of Action Learning and how to ensure success during the Set by learning about the process.  

This will then be followed by the 2-day ‘Me, Myself, My Team’ Coaching and Leadership course delivered by Sue Noble and Angus McLeod.

A further 2 x half day Action Learning Sets are recommended with groups mixed and split into two groups to continue discussion on development needs and how their skills and knowledge can be utilised by team delegates to gain further experience and expertise. Corporates can manage these themselves if they wish.

Angus McLeod Associates

Culture Change

Measurement of Effectiveness

J. Fleming, Director, Fenton Group plc.

Some examples of Feedback for Training from 2005 to now:

• Session was adapted really well. Felt I got much more out of it and obviously tailored more specifically to my own needs. Great feeling of empowerment, I can do THIS!!  LW
• I thoroughly enjoyed this course! CC
• I thoroughly enjoyed! BN
• Ensured that can continue the learning through facilitated group sessions and refresher sessions. TO
• Good, well-managed, well paced, clear objectives. Group is stimulating, cooperative. Trainer is knowledgeable. Course is useful and relevant to my work. HS
• A very useful and interesting course. AS
• Very useful course which I intend to continue considering and applying to my practice. JS
• I will take back the skills I have learnt to the workplace. NB
• Found the day enjoyable & challenging. JB
• Trainer was excellent, subject content relevant and well paced. CC
• Practical sessions were useful and challenging + the feedback insightful. Good balance of input + doing. Tiring! SJ
• Excellent. Thank you. MR
• Course taught me about myself and how I should develop others. Some extremely useful ‘nuggets’ of information provided to take back and apply in the workplace. An excellent course. ND
• Instructor knowledge very good especially the coaching demonstration. PY.

Some examples of Feedback for Angus from 2004 to now:

• Who is the best coach?  ‘Angus McLeod’, Robert Dilts, co-founder of NLP, 2004
• Angus’ knowledge + contribution excellent. GT
• Angus McLeod sets a high standard of teaching by story telling. His examples of coaching dialogues serve so well to illustrate how to skillfully handle many coaching situations. Sir John Whitmore, author, Coaching Performance.
• Superb advice from a master coach. Richard Denny, Chairman, Richard Denny Group and author of `Motivate to Win`
• Angus McLeod offers strategies for challenging and or supporting the key governors of growth and development in the organization. Judith DeLozier, co-founder of NLP
• Angus has done excellent work, elegantly integrating and adapting the skills of NLP into the process of coaching.  Shelle Rose Charvet, author of ‘Words That Change Minds’
• The world needs as much of Angus McLeod as he can share…I think what he brings to the table is an alternative to the ‘command and control’ approach to leadership and development, and that caring and concern can be an effective alternative to ‘kicking ass’. Jim Brush, imarkup.com
• It was a delight and privilege to observe a masterful coach at work. ICF National Official
• Flabbergasted, transforming. JHW, international Cable TV/web/comms business.

Industry: Executive Development 1-2-1 Coaching

Industry: Business stressed, CEO received coaching

Industry: Failed IIP Inspection

NGO: Executive Development for Board including Remediation Coaching

NGO: Executive Development 1-2-1 Coaching to Support Rapid Change

Publisher: Training Event

Government: Coaching master-class to support coaching-skills training for managers

Government: Executive Development Training for Senior Managers – Coaching-Skills

We work to create performance solutions, effectiveness, better influencing skills and greater self-confidence. Our coaching technologies develop learning in new mental skills that transform the efficacy of the individual immediately and sustainably. Coaching develops independence – your performance coach should and will become unnecessary within 4-8 sessions compared to up to 12 elsewhere. We can coach to profiling instruments including iWAM, IE, Extended DISC and more.

In short-term contracts we may provide you with an integrated mix of coaching & mentoring to provide win-win for effective change. Discuss your needs and vision with us to pinpoint a winning strategy that fits your culture and your aspirations for change.

“The best value invoice I have ever had the pleasure to approve” – J. Fleming, Director, Fenton Group plc.

Your coaching team is selected from leading coaches internationally. We focus on team objectives and individual performance within an agreed coaching remit. Clients include Telewest PLC., Fenton Group PLC., Liverpool Victoria, Crown Equipment and PPP Healthcare.

Dr McLeod is also first-call coach for remedial-coaching with top-level executives who have lost their way or lost the confidence of some of their team. In some cases, whole boards are coached with a view to obtaining coaching for one specific senior executive who, though of great importance to the organisation, may be disruptive with some stakeholders. Even a cynical and resistant director working on the world-stage can reach a breakthrough in 10-20 minutes with Angus McLeod; the 1-2-1 then starts to make significant progress as a functional, performance partnership for change. Two sessions of 150 minutes are typically sufficient.

We are experienced at measuring the effectivenesss of our work should you wish to monitor ROCE. Performance Coaching from AMA creates performance solutions, effectiveness, improved influencing skills and greater self-confidence. AMA Performance Coaching technologies develop learning in new psychological skills that transform the performance of the individual immediately, but importantly, in the future as well. They are now ‘learning to learn’ smart in new ways. Invariably these learning also create improvement in their non-work time too.

Executive Development coaching develops independence – your performance coach should and will become unnecessary within 4-8 sessions. Expenses are charged out at cost without any hidden, additional charges.

This 5-day qualification programme will systematically develop your skills, expand your knowledge and build your confidence to influence others in any situation with staff, stakeholders and directors.

Practical learning takes place in the training rooms via coaching sessions together with group work facilitated by highly experienced and qualified tutors.  There are 30 hours of tutor-led training, a minimum of 12 hours of coaching pracice and a minimum of 15 hours of reflective learning coupled with learning-log activity. This course is externally assessed by the Chartered Management institute.

The 2-day course for inspiring NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) without the nonsense language. Applied skills and a free copy of one of Angus McLeod’s books*

Based primarily on the user-friendly book, ‘Me, Myself, My Team’ you will learn more about yourself and others enabling you to manage yourself and others with influence.

This course is normally run by Angus McLeod and Sue Noble, providing an inspirational setting for practical learning in a fun environment.

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* a free copy for each delagate from the following: Performance Coaching, Self-coaching Leadership, Performance Coaching Toolkit or Me, Myself, My Team.