In-house Leadership Development Programme

Developed by Dr Simon Western

Analytic-NetworkCoaching

System forLeaders

New Leadership for our NetworkedSociety

The Analytic-Network Coaching System is designed tohelp managers become 'network leaders'. This meansdeveloping collaborative, adaptive and influencingskills, fit for today’s inter-dependent and networkedorganizations.

Top down leadership is giving way to lateral dynamicsand distributed leadership. This innovative programmefocuses on developing the leadership needed for ourfast changing times.

Developing Individual leaders andOrganizational leadership

We offer a unique coaching-leadership approach, thatdevelops individual, team and organizational leadership.

We can work with one or many cohorts, to create acritical mass of leaders who can lead the change yourorganization needs.

We work closely with you to tailor the programme toyour needs, building leadership capacity and deliveringculture change across your organization.

An advancedcoaching system

that supports newleadership for our

networked society

The mostTHEORETICALLY

ROBUST coaching process in the field today, drawing on

psychoanalytic, systems and network

theory

Developing Network LeadershipEco-LeadershipDistributedLeadership

Leadership Developmentbased on solid foundations

Dr Simon Western designed this programmedrawing on his unusual depth of experience in threedomains:

Theory: Simon is an internationally publishedscholar in leadership and coaching, lecturing atleading business schools. He holds honorarypositions at Lancaster, Birkbeck and BirminghamUniversities. Previously, Director of Coaching atLancaster University management School, and hasled Masters in Organizational Consultancy(psychoanalytic approaches) at the Tavistock Clinic.

Practice: He draws on wide experience as anexecutive coach and OD consultant working onpersonal and team leadership, strategy and whole-system change, with CEO’s and C-suite leaders inbanking, retail, manufacturing, health, educationand not-for-profit sectors.

Previously a family psychotherapist, he brings anunusual breadth of experience, ranging fromworking with powerful executives at the top oforganizations to the most marginalised in society.

Training and Development:Simonis an international key note speaker on newleadership for the networked society, and coachingapproaches to achieve this. His themes are Eco-Leadership, Autonomist Leadership and howorganizations can learn from social movements. Heapplies this expertise to deliver bespoke coachingand development interventions for senior leadersacross organizations. He is a leading exponent ofexperiential and action-learning, designinginnovative programmes such aswww.lead2lead.com. Simon has worked with CEO’sand senior leaders in many organizations, includingLondon Business School, IMD Business School,HSBC bank, Caterpillar and the NHS.

Our five-frame system has been tried and tested withleaders across the globe. We use our A-N CoachingSystem to coach leaders directly in this trainingprogramme.

Leadership can be broken down into five core areas setout below

• Self-awareness and values (DA) • Relationships and teamwork (RA) • Leadership influence and power (LA) • Influencing networks to lead change (NA)• Strategic thinking and planning (SA)

Tailored for your organization

The programme is tailored for your organizations needs,to ensure the training aligns with your company vision,aims and culture.

Outputs

Personal• Personal leadership analysis: The WILD

Questionnaire assesses individual leadership stylesand reports on individual styles, strengths, challengesand potential. Peer coaching then digs deep tosupport change whilst practicing leadership-coachingskills.

• Personal development: Developing self-awareness,leadership capability, writing a personal developmentplan utilizing peer-coaching.

• Developing leadership skills: Leaders need coachingskills to lead others i.e. influencing skills, relationshipskills, giving and receiving feedback. They also needto develop network and strategic mindsets to realizetheir leadership potential.

• Certificates of attendance are given to individualsfor CPD purposes.

Team• Team Development: Improving relationships,

working creatively together, managing conflict andtensions, building trust, exploring group dynamics.

• Team Leadership: Improving team-work andcollaboration skills. We train participants to bothfollow and lead, as active following is also an art andskill! The best teams distribute and changeleadership as contexts change. Leaders becomefollowers and followers leaders as required.

• Strategic planning for action: Participants planstrategies to achieve individual and team goals.

Organizational• Improved Organizational Performance: The course

delivers more effective teams, improved collaborativeworking, building leadership capacity and culturechange.

• Innovate and motivate: This programme raisesmorale, engages people and develops innovative andnetwork mindsets. Participants are motivated asthey discover their new potential to change things.

• Building New Networks: We support yourorganization to select the right mix of participants, sothat the organization can build new, lasting networksacross the company.

• Organizational Audit: Our task is not only to trainbut also to act as a learning hub for your organization.We gather hard and soft data from these courses, andwrite an organizational report for you, reporting onstrengths, challenges and themes that arise from ouradvanced data analysis.

TimeThis is a 3 day programme but can be delivered inmodules 1 day + 2 days, or 3 separate days.

Roll OutThe programme is designed to be scaleable , to be ableto build capacity across the whole organization bytraining large numbers. To achieve this we can leadthe training ourselves, or run an in-house train-the-trainers process and licence you to run the traininginternally .

CostsEach programme costs £20,000 and we work with upto 30 participants each cohort i.e. £660 per person.

Influence Network

Transform Self

SAStrategy

DADepth

TeamDynamic

Sustainable Change

NANetwork

LALeadership

RARelational

ANALYTIC-NETWORK COACHING SYSTEM FOR LEADERS

‘Simon Western has coached both teams andindividuals at HSBC. His coaching enablesindividuals and groups to think about theirpersonal purpose and center their authenticleadership effectively and consistently in thenetworks that make up their personal andprofessional lives. His unique perspective helpsindividuals to achieve harmony between differentaspects of life, and thus authenticity.’ Christopher Yates - Global Head of OD, HSBC Bank

‘Coaching with Simon has enabled me to connectmy personal, leadership and organisational issuesin a profound way and to make major leaps ofunderstanding...’ Dr Lynne Sedgmore, CBE, CEO - UK NationalCentre for Excellence in Leadership, EducationSector

Leadershipdevelopment based onrigorous theory anddepth of experience

TrainingProgramme

withDr. Simon Western

Turning managers

into leaders

‘In a highly original way, Dr Westernhelps us to obtain greater insightinto the enigma of leadership.’ Manfred Kets de Vries - Director,INSEAD Global LeadershipCentre

‘An outstanding addition to theLeadership literature.’ Professor Cary L. Cooper CBE - Professor ofOrganisational Psychology and Health,Lancaster University ‘

This book provides a unique and much neededvoice to the field of leadership studies, and willhave a significant impact worldwide.’ Professor Jonathan Gosling - Director of theLeadership Centre, exeter University

This is an unusual and path breakingbook. Simon Western explorescoaching in its many variations andsimultaneously critiques the differentdiscourses that comprise it.’ Larry Hirschorne - Professor ofHuman and Organizationdevelopment at Fielding GraduateUniversity, Principle CFAR

‘Finally an in-depth inquiry into coaching andwhy it is so popular. Coaching and Mentoringcontains a profound analysis of the culturalbackground of coaching.’ Erik de Haan - Director Centre for Coaching,Ashridge University; Professor oforganizationDevelopment and Coaching, VUUniversity Amsterdam

ContactsTo discuss this leadership programme for your organization Contact Simon Western - simon@analyticnetwork.com Tel +353 85136 2219 Website www.analyticnetwork.com

Developingleadership

capacity across your

organization