Leadership & Management training courses
Build the judgement, presence and strategy that turn managers into leaders teams follow.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Strategic Leadership and Organisational Vision
This programme helps senior managers translate long-term vision into practical strategy that teams can act on. Participants examine how to align departmental goals with corporate direction, communicate priorities clearly, and lead through periods of significant change.
Emotional Intelligence for Effective Leaders
Leaders who understand and manage emotion build stronger, more resilient teams. This course develops self-awareness, empathy, and relationship skills that improve day-to-day management and reduce workplace conflict.
Managing High Performance Teams
Building a team that consistently delivers requires clear expectations, honest feedback, and the right balance of support and challenge. This course gives managers practical tools to raise team output and sustain motivation over time.
Change Management and Organisational Transformation
Most change initiatives fail because of poor planning and weak communication rather than the change itself. This programme equips leaders to plan, sequence, and deliver change while keeping people engaged throughout the process.
Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Managers
Managers who coach well develop capable, confident teams that need less day-to-day supervision. This course teaches structured coaching techniques and shows how to build effective mentoring relationships across the organisation.
Decision Making and Problem Solving for Managers
Sound decisions depend on clear thinking, good information, and awareness of common biases. This course strengthens analytical and judgement skills so managers can solve problems methodically and decide with confidence.
Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams
Managing people you rarely see in person calls for different habits and tools. This course covers how to maintain trust, accountability, and connection across distributed teams without resorting to micromanagement.
Conflict Resolution and Difficult Conversations
Unresolved conflict drains energy and damages results. This course gives managers practical methods to address disagreements early, hold difficult conversations calmly, and reach outcomes that preserve working relationships.
Delegation and Time Management for Leaders
Leaders who cannot delegate become bottlenecks and burn out. This course helps managers decide what to hand over, match tasks to the right people, and reclaim time for the work only they can do.
Executive Presence and Influence
Senior roles demand the ability to command a room, influence peers, and represent the organisation with credibility. This course develops the presence, communication, and persuasion skills that mark out effective executives.
Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen
Managers who understand how the whole business makes money contribute far more than those focused only on their own function. This programme builds commercial awareness and the habit of thinking several moves ahead.
Leading Innovation and Creative Problem Solving
Innovation rarely happens by accident. This course shows leaders how to create the conditions for new ideas, run structured creative sessions, and move promising concepts from discussion to delivery.
Crisis Leadership and Business Continuity
When a serious disruption hits, staff look to leaders for direction and calm. This course prepares managers to make sound decisions under pressure, communicate clearly during a crisis, and keep essential operations running.
First Line Management Essentials
Moving from doing the work to managing those who do it is a significant shift. This foundation programme covers the core skills new managers need to lead a team, from planning and delegation to feedback and motivation.
Advanced Negotiation Skills for Managers
Managers negotiate constantly, over budgets, resources, deadlines, and agreements. This course sharpens the planning and tactical skills needed to reach strong outcomes while protecting long-term relationships.
Building and Leading Organisational Culture
Culture shapes how people behave when no one is watching, and it drives performance more than any policy. This course helps leaders understand, assess, and deliberately shape the culture of their organisation.
Performance Management and Appraisal Skills
A good performance system turns annual appraisals into ongoing conversations that improve results. This course covers goal setting, evidence gathering, and the appraisal discussion itself, so managers can raise performance fairly.
Women in Leadership
This programme supports women to step into and thrive in senior roles. It addresses the specific challenges women often face at work while building the confidence, network, and skills needed to lead with authority.
Leading Across Cultures and Generations
Diverse teams bring fresh ideas but also new management challenges. This course helps leaders bridge cultural and generational differences so that varied perspectives become a source of strength rather than friction.
Strategic Workforce Planning for Leaders
Getting the right people in the right roles at the right time is a leadership responsibility, not just an HR task. This course helps managers forecast talent needs and plan the workforce to match business direction.
Ethical Leadership and Corporate Governance
Leaders set the ethical tone for their organisations and are increasingly held to account for it. This course examines ethical decision making, governance duties, and how to build integrity into everyday management.
Leadership Communication and Storytelling
Facts inform, but stories persuade and stick in the memory. This course helps leaders craft clear messages and use narrative to align teams, win support, and communicate change in a way people remember.
Leading Through Organisational Restructuring
Restructuring asks managers to hold a team together while its shape is being changed underneath them. This course covers how to communicate uncertainty honestly, keep capable people engaged and sustain delivery through a period when trust is fragile.
Decision Making Under Pressure
Managers rarely get the luxury of complete information and unlimited time. This course builds a usable discipline for making sound calls quickly, recognising where judgement goes wrong under stress and knowing when a decision must be escalated instead.
Managing Upwards and Across the Organisation
Managers are trained to lead the people below them and left to work out the rest by trial and error. This course covers managing the relationship with your own manager, and earning cooperation from peers whose priorities compete with yours.
Leading Through Budget Cuts and Cost Reduction
Cutting cost badly removes the capability you will need when conditions improve, and the people who leave first are usually the ones you wanted to keep. This course covers leading a reduction that the organisation survives well.
Motivating Teams Without Financial Reward
Most managers cannot change what their people are paid, yet are still accountable for how hard they work. This course covers the sources of motivation a manager genuinely controls, and the everyday practices that make work feel worth doing.
Succession Planning and Building Bench Strength
Organisations discover their succession gap at the moment a key person resigns. This course covers identifying critical roles, assessing readiness honestly and developing successors before the vacancy arrives.
Managing Change Resistance
Resistance to change is usually a rational response to a real cost that nobody acknowledged. This course covers diagnosing what people are actually protecting and addressing it rather than trying to overcome it.
Managing a Multigenerational Workforce
Teams now span four working generations with different expectations of communication, hierarchy and career. This course covers managing that mix without resorting to stereotypes about any age group.
Running Effective Management Meetings
Management teams spend much of their week in meetings that decide little. This course covers designing a management meeting rhythm where each meeting has a distinct purpose and produces decisions.
Setting Objectives and Cascading Goals
Goals set at the top rarely survive translation into what people actually do on Monday. This course covers writing objectives that mean something at every level and keeping them alive between review cycles.
Leading a Turnaround in a Struggling Unit
Taking over a unit that is failing means fixing performance while morale is at its lowest. This course covers diagnosing quickly, stabilising the basics and rebuilding confidence without pretending the problems are not real.
Managing Technical Specialists
Specialists are motivated by mastery and often manage badly if pushed into conventional supervision. This course covers leading experts whose work you may not fully understand, and building technical careers that do not require management.
Strategic Planning Facilitation
Strategy sessions often produce a document nobody uses. This course covers facilitating planning that reaches real choices, including how to handle the dominant voice and the topic everyone avoids.
Leading Safety Critical Operations
In operations where errors injure people, leadership behaviour sets what gets tolerated under pressure. This course covers leading where production and safety pull against each other.
Managing Family Business Transitions
Family businesses fail at succession more often than at trading, because ownership, management and family roles get confused. This course covers separating those roles and planning a handover that the business survives.
Building Accountability Without Micromanagement
Managers who want reliable delivery often reach for closer supervision, and get compliance, slower work and no ownership. This course covers holding people to outcomes while leaving them room to work.
Cross Functional Team Leadership
Leading people who do not report to you means influence has to replace authority. This course covers building cross functional teams that deliver when the members answer to someone else.
Managing Your First Six Months in a New Role
The first months in a new management role set expectations that are difficult to reset later. This course covers learning an operation quickly, deciding what to change and what to leave, and building credibility before spending it.
Managing Poor Performance in Senior Staff
Underperformance at senior level goes unaddressed for years because the conversation is uncomfortable and the person is capable. This course covers confronting it fairly and constructively.
Leading a Merger or Acquisition Integration
Most of the value in an acquisition is won or lost after the deal closes, in the integration nobody planned as carefully as the transaction. This course covers leading that period.
Leading a Shared Services Function
A shared services centre is judged by internal customers who did not choose it and cannot leave, which makes service definition and credibility everything. This course covers running one well.
Managing Managers and Building a Leadership Layer
Leading people who lead others is a different job, and managers promoted for their own delivery often keep doing their team's work through them. This course covers leading at one remove.
Leading a Function Through Rapid Growth
Everything that worked at twenty people breaks at eighty, usually all at once and usually without warning. This course covers leading a function that is outgrowing the way it has always run.
Leading Volunteers and Unpaid Contributors
You cannot manage a volunteer with pay, promotion or a performance process, so everything depends on purpose, respect and how the work is organised. This course covers leading people who can walk away.