Most people believe that leaders are born, not made. At Sea-Change Partners, we believe that every individual has the capacity for leadership. We think of leadership the activity, and not just as a role. Leadership comprises both the ability to bring out the best in others and the ability to mobilise groups of people to accomplish tasks and achieve goals. We know leadership skills are the product of a combination of personal characteristics, experiences, and of learning.
Leadership & Organisations
Leadership training has existed in different forms for centuries. Today it is most typically found in military institutions, government agencies, and business schools. While exact estimates vary, research shows clearly that after high-end, practical training, participants perceive that their leadership performance improves considerably, and that the improvements in performance are further increased when training is combined with one-on-one coaching.
While leadership training alone might not be enough to transform an organization, it is clear that improved leadership performance is often a key to an organizations’ success.
Skilled leaders
- attract the best talent and increase employee retention,
- improve morale, and
- inspire and facilitate better performance.
At Sea-Change, we trust the clear scientific evidence that shows that leadership CAN be learned – and enhanced through training, coaching, and assessment.
How Sea-Change Can Help You:
At Sea-Change, we provide highly interactive, results-driven courses to fit the needs of participants; whether they are new to corporate management, seasoned executives, managers, political leaders, community leaders, or senior military officers.
We use simulations, psychological assessments, case studies, and interactions within the groups we train in order to highlight specific leadership strengths and to identify leadership challenges.
Sea-Change Leadership consultants and trainers have more than 20 years of experience working with leading business schools, the armed forces, successful start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, government ministries, and international organisations.
Our Leadership offerings draw from the concepts and frameworks developed at leading institutions; including Harvard Business School, and the Centre for Public Leadership of the Harvard Kennedy School, and . Sea-Change is one of the first organizations to bring these pioneering approaches in Leadership to Asia, and one of the only firms based in Asia with experience teaching at Harvard and other top global institutions.
How does Sea-Change Partners help organizations increase their leadership capacity?
Our leadership services include:
Diagnostic analyses provide insight into organizations’ strengths, weaknesses, areas for improvement, and opportunities to grow from its own learning and experience..
Sea-Change consultants will work with your organization to identify areas of strengths and challenges in the areas of leadership skills, team management, and overall organizational health. Diagnostic tools include:
- facilitating focus group discussions among staff members,
- interviews,
- surveys, and
- 360 degree feedback assessments.
Results from the diagnostics are analyzed and explained to your organization. These exercises provide tremendous value in identifying needs, obstacles, and other challenges the organization faces, and they suggest what activities will most effectively help your organization to address them effectively. Diagnostic Analyses are also useful in times of leadership transition and change, in helping to focus your organizations’ change management efforts in the most productive ways, while avoiding the missteps that can be debilitating at critical times of transition.
Training workshops are highly interactive and focus on improving practical skills. These workshops usually run for between 2-5 days and are led by Senior Sea-Change consultants. Sea-Change Consultants utilize simulations, case studies, and presentations in order effectively to engage and empower participants in their learning.
Emotional Intelligence
This course, based on the groundbreaking framework developed by Daniel Goleman, is one of the most popular and effective foundations of good leadership. Previously regarded as “un-serious” skills, measures of emotional intelligence – self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills – are now widely acknowledged to be KEY skills of successful leaders. This workshop focuses on understanding these skills and equipping participants with practical and effective ways to increase their abilities to apply them with results, as they exercise leadership.
Adaptive Leadership
This Adaptive Leadership course is a cutting-edge workshop that pushes participants to improve their leadership abilities with purpose. The focus of this workshop is on understanding the dangers and challenges that come with exercising leadership. It introduces participants to the risks of leadership and empowers them to respond to these risks while maintaining focus on their organisation’s goals and direction. Key skills taught in this workshop include the ability to diagnose leadership challenges within organizations and learning to balance action with contemplation.
This course is highly interactive, and significant emphasis is placed on:
- Reflection and learning from past leadership challenges
- Personal Ambitions and Drive
- Obstacles to achieving organizational goals
- Interpersonal dynamics in the workshop
Purpose and Direction
Effective leaders understand and pursue their dreams and goals.. The grind of routine work can obscure the original passion and purpose that first drove one to success. This intense workshop helps participants re-discover that energy and to direct it in purposeful way.
Peak Performance and Self-Sabotage
This psychologically-intense workshop introduces participants to their own competing commitments and behaviors that can lead to immunity to change. It helps them uncover ways in which they hinder their own growth and leads them to actualize their own potential.
The Art of Feedback
Managers live and die by their capacity to give and solicit feedback skilfully. Rules and tips on leadership may suffice when enhancing one’s own leadership performance. However, learning how to learn from others and being able productively to develop the skills of our colleagues through feedback is one hallmark of a truly effective leader.
Dangers in Teamwork
Teamwork can be both rewarding and dangerous. Teamwork can also be productive, or a waste of resources. There have been instances of elections being lost, companies failing, and even wars starting because of the hidden dangers within teamwork. This highly interactive workshop examines some of the most important issues that arise in teamwork and builds the capacity of participants to be aware of — and protect against — them.
Sea-Change professionals are among Asia’s most expert leadership coaches. Every top athlete in the world depends on a professional coach, and it is the best athletes who benefit the most from good coaching. We offer focused coaching for individual professionals in order to enhance their leadership skills, improve their performance with their teams, maintain higher levels of enthusiasm, and achieve better bottom-line results. Sea-Change has a team of experienced professionals who will develop and implement a customized program of leadership coaching and strategic assistance, in consultation with our clients.
Our coaching programs include initial baseline needs assessments; to align the coaching sessions with our clients’ learning objectives, to assess a leader’s strengths and areas of need, and to set appropriate targets for improvement. We then ensure that our coaches help leaders get the most out of themselves by being skilled and effective – and by having well-designed strategies for dealing with the leadership challenges they face.
Our coaching sessions usually include a mix of focused skills training, applied work on – and preparation for — real challenges, assisted practice in simulations and role-plays, and assessments, feedback and reporting. Sessions can be scheduled to accommodate our clients’ needs and schedules. Typical sessions are a half day (3 hours of coaching), and we work with our clients to determine the most appropriate setting. Depending on the challenges they face, some clients benefit from a formal, structured environment, such as their own workplace, while others benefit more from an informal setting, away from the office.
