Anita Douglas, OwnerLeading Results has mastered this feat.
A top-tier, result-driven leadership development organisation, Leading Results helps companies develop aspiring and current managers with a proven, evidence-based approach. It offers specialist support to empower them with behaviours that align with the expectations of the organization and the next level of leadership, for successful progression. Leading Results is a female owned business started by seasoned industry veterans Anita Douglas and Doreen Yarnold.
“We ensure the practical application of training programs to produce tangible outcomes within the workplace,” says Anita Douglas, Owner.
Well-formulated training programs centred on evidence-based methods stem from Douglas’ background in occupational psychology. These programs foster a strong, positive behavioural and cultural change, propelling leadership development to new heights. Instilling and communicating a set of values to reinforce desired behaviours, they shape attitudes that define successful leaders.
The Path to Cultivating Leadership
Leading Results’ large array of training programs are designed to produce significant outcomes. They comprise of facilitated, highly interactive and blended learning workshops to serve a diverse clientele at all levels of leadership. Customised leadership development programs cover everything from executive coaching to aspiring manager programs and senior manager programs.
Distinguishing the company is its extensive industry expertise and a customer-focused approach to leadership development. With the right blend of academic knowledge and corporate experience, the team meticulously creates programs to produce tangible results within different organisational settings.
Leading Results follows a systematic methodology to deliver its offerings. It obtains insights by working directly with clients’ leadership, behaviour and competency framework. This paints a clear picture of the scope of the program, including the target behaviour and areas of strength and growth. In cases where clients lack a strategic framework, it creates one for them.
Fundamental to its methodology is the dedication to understanding the delegates and the distinct obstacles they encounter. Before onboarding, the delegates are interviewed to ascertain to what degree they are motivated to take part in the program and that they have the right level of resilience to balance the training and work. It also ensures the proper onboarding of the delegates’ immediate line managers.
The program often starts with a development centre. It engages delegates in a series of activities crafted to help them understand their current behaviour. The team provides feedback and lessons on how to develop certain behaviours.
It then counsels clients and provides the best course of action for achieving their leadership development goal, whether it’s fostering the growth of upcoming leaders or honing the abilities of current ones to excel in their jobs.
The programs cover a breadth of interventions within the leadership space to translate goals into the right managerial behaviours. They are delivered in modules, face-to-face and remotely. Backed by professional actors, the team also conducts conversational workshops involving short skits, from which delegates can learn to react wisely to real workplace situations. After the completion of each module, delegates are given constructive feedback on behavioural changes. Initial goals and areas for improvement are revisited to assess the learning.
The Leading Results team coaches line managers about their roles and responsibilities in the continued development of the delegates on the programmes and encourages line managers to continually support delegates as they apply the learning back in the workplace. They are coached on various topics, including observation, feedback and having conversations with the delegates to ensure the behavioural change is happening because of attending the programme and that the impact of the change is seen in the business.
Our agility, scalability and client-centric approach have made us successful, and the results speak for themselves
Delegates are offered continual support post workshops to reinforce the lessons learned and how to apply them in their workplaces.
A keen focus on the outcome helps Leading Results deliver ROIs of over 200 percent in its programs, as validated by clients.
One example is its aspiring manager program, which has garnered huge success. A noteworthy instance was of a leading automotive client that wanted to create a program for line managers and prospective managers for advancing into senior positions. Through an extensive curriculum centred on behavioural outcomes delivered through in-person workshops, virtual sessions and continuous coaching, Leading Results was able to help attendees shift behaviours, practically implement the lessons they learned and demonstrate the financial impact on the business by successfully measuring the ROI.
Another example is the success of a client operating in the hospitality industry. Through regular development centres and customised programs, Leading Results was able to identify high-potential individuals and provide them with the necessary skills for career advancement. The client experienced a notable rise in internal promotions, highlighting the efficacy of the Leading Results methodology.
Bringing Workplace Transformation to Life
Focusing on the client’s needs at every stage is the cornerstone of Leading Results’ success. It guarantees alignment with an organisation’s aims and objectives and the delegates’ learning ability. Working as an extension of their client HR staff, the team creates long-lasting business partnerships, strengthening the sense of trust and collaboration.
“Our agility, scalability and client-centric approach have made us successful, and the results speak for themselves,” says Douglas.
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We ensure the practical application of training programs to produce tangible outcomes within the workplace
It is also adept at recruiting for senior-level positions, up to the board level. Douglas’ expertise in psychometric and behavioural profiling plays an instrumental role in uncovering candidate behaviours through rigorous testing and detailed interviews. Clients are presented with a report and candidates are recruited for the role if their behaviour aligns with the organisational expectations and values. Clients can leverage Leading Results’ development centres as assessment resources for recruiting.
Leading Results adapts nimbly to the changing needs of clients and works on multiple projects simultaneously. It rejects the allure of fads in favour of evidence-based methods that produce outcomes.
With an excellent track record of success spanning over a decade, Leading Results is a pillar of support for aspiring and potential managers to realize their dream roles and boost organisational success.
