High Performance Leadership
"The course focuses on looking within yourself and exploring why you act and respond as you do. Through this I gained a deeper understanding of myself and, equally, a much better insight into the people I work with. Many courses have a very limited long-term impact on the way you work. But High Performance Leadership certainly wakes you up. Afterwards you really live what you learned during the programme."
Cranfield worked so well for me, says Marcus Cotter-Stone, International Supply Director of quality tea company, Twinings, because of the people - both course leaders and participants. "My course, Cranfield?s High Performance Leadership programme, demands a good deal of personal reflection. Looking within can stir up dormant emotions but, facilitated by the professional and insightful Cranfield team, I found it an illuminating but safe experience."
Marcus was looking for a leadership course that offered something different and he was taken by the whole approach of this three-module programme. "We didn't know the timetable, for example, and a lot of the content was 'unknown' but the Praxis centre facility was very relaxed and the teaching staff treated you as part of the team. I found their balanced and involved approach combined with the 'at home' feel of the venue helped accelerate the learning experience for me.
"The course focuses on looking within yourself and exploring why you act and respond as you do. Through this I gained a deeper understanding of myself and, equally, a much better insight into the people I work with. Being able to read myself and other people more accurately has helped me become a much better and more informed leader, with greater skills in communicating with understanding and, I hope, better placed to inspire others.
"The course helped me review my whole leadership approach and develop new ways of leading. Since the course I have led two projects incorporating some significant remodelling of Twining's supply footprint and the skills I learnt in terms of building relationships and bringing people together from very different parts of the organisation have proved invaluable.
"Many courses have a very limited long-term impact on the way you work. But High Performance Leadership certainly wakes you up. Afterwards you really live what you learned during the programme."
Marcus Cotter-Stone, International Supply Director of quality tea company, Twinings