Webinars
for Leaders,
Managers
and Teams

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Contents

Page 3 ~ 4 - An Introduction to Morgan James Consulting

Page 5 - Webinar 1 – Managing People in a Crisis (for leaders and managers)

Page 7 - Webinar 2 – Overcoming the Challenges of Distance Managing Your People (for leaders and managers)

Page 9 - Webinar 3 – Finding Your Iron Underpants:- Building Resilience in Tough Times (for staff at all levels)

Page 12 - Leading Through Adversity (For leaders and managers)

Page 14 - Webinar 5 – How to Use Your Time More Effectively (for Staffs at all levels)

Page 16 - Webinar 6 – Empowerment Through Effective Delegation (for leaders and managers)

Page 18 - Your Mission, Vision and Values: Getting Them off the Paper and into the Behaviours of your People (for leaders and managers)

Page 20 - Webinar 8 - Don’t Have a Groundhog Day – Changing Your Habits to Find a Better Way! (for staff at all levels)

Page 22 - Webinar 9 - Making the Most of our Talents and Understanding Difference (For staff at all levels)

Page 24 - Webinar 10 - Recruiting and Retaining Great People (For leaders and managers with recruiting responsibilities)

Page 26 - Webinar 11 - The 3 Agendas of Leadership and Effective Communication (For staff at all levels)

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Page 28 - Webinar 12 - Investigating Human Bias in Decision Making (For leaders and managers)

Page 30 - Webinar 13 - What’s Your Problem? Developing an Adaptive Approach to Problem Solving (For staff at all levels)

Page 32 - Webinar 14 - Project Stakeholder Management - Moving Stakeholders From ‘Part of the Problem’ to ‘Part of the Solution’

Page 33 - Webinar 15 - Get BIG or Go Home – The 7 Things you MUST do to move from Growth to SCALE (for leaders and managers)

Page 36 - Our Webinar Delivery Team

Page 37 - Get in touch

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Introduction

Many thanks for opening this booklet which outlines just some of the topics that we can cover for you in this age of lockdown and online personnel development.

Whilst most of the programs we deliver are face to face, we pride ourselves in ensuring that our webinars are fresh, lively, insightful, interactive and engaging.

We recognise that 21st Century leaders are facing greater commercial pressures than at any time in history. Finding the balance between inspiring people; protecting profits; beating competitors and adapting to a continuously changing environment is a fine balancing act. And this is where our team of  hand-picked specialists come in.

Their laser-sharp insights and experience of helping to grow leaders in almost every industry puts them in a perfect position to build capability for you and your people.This series of webinars will help you to develop your personal skills and those of your team(s).

We are a leadership consultancy that recognises that every company, every culture and every team member is different. Therefore, whilst this booklet shares with you the bones of each webinar, each session that we deliver will be developed to fit the specific needs of your company.

Call us on +44 (0)1606 883383 for a no obligation discussion about your business needs.

Our programs and webinars are regularly described as:  “highly interactive”, “results driven” and even “life changing.” Our values led approach means that we are continually challenging ourselves to bring new innovations to the table, whilst building on the foundation stones of sound leadership theory.

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If you don’t find a webinar that you need in amongst our offering, the chances are, our expert team of 20+ will be able to develop something that fulfils your needs and exceeds your expectations.

We hope to have the opportunity to work with you to build better leaders or stronger teams and look forward to hearing from you!

Kindest regards

Lily Newman

Lily Newman ~ Founder and Managing Director

Morgan James Consulting

Tel: + 44 (0)1606 883383

Email: Lily@morganjamesconsulting.co.uk

Lily Newman

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Webinar 1: For Leaders and Managers

Managing People in a Crisis

One thing that you can be certain of is, at some stage in your working or personal life you will be faced with crisis of varying magnitude. This webinar is for leaders and managers who need to navigate the choppy waters of change. It will also give you some tools to create a new world order for your staff and your business once you’ve made it through the storm.

Duration: 60 – 90 minutes

Group size: 5 – 50

Facilitator: Lily Newman

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Where are we now? The transition process and how do we lead our people through it?
  • What do we need to change in order to deliver consistent leadership? The importance of the 3 Agendas of leadership
  • Top 10 tips for leading people successfully through a crisis
  • Preparing for the new normal – re-focusing and creating a new landscape of opportunity
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Webinar 2: For Leaders and Managers

Overcoming the Challenges of Distance Managing Your People

It can sometimes be challenging enough to manage people whom you see every day. Therefore, it’s no wonder that managers can struggle with leading virtual workforces that have instantly been created due to COVID-19. This webinar will help you to build a highly effective virtual team who are capable of maintaining the culture you want and delivering the vision you are striving to achieve, whether it’s from your office or their living room!

Duration: 60 minutes

Group size: 5 – 30

Facilitator: Lily Newman

Webinar framework includes:

  • Defining your new work structure
  • The importance of power – how are decisions made?
  • Maintaining your company culture in lockdown
  • Developing a more flexible leadership style
  • It’s all about communication
  • Keep your eyes on the prize – clarifying the short term vision
  • The 3 circles: what can you control and influence and what do you need to drop?
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Webinar 3: For staff at all levels

Finding Your Iron-Underpants:– Building Resilience in Tough Times

As chaos, adversity and constant change become our new 'normal' how can we turn these challenges in to opportunities to learn, grow and thrive? Type R leaders don't just 'bounce back' they use stress and upheaval as a springboard to propel themselves forward, into new realms of awareness, thinking and action. Find out how you too can use transformative resilience to deliver your best work yet!

Duration: 60 minutes

Group size: 5 – 50

Facilitator: Nicola Jackson

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Understanding the concept of ‘Type R’ Leadership and Transformative Resilience
  • Recognising the benefits of building your resilience and that of your team and staff
  • Increasing awareness of, and developing the skills to build your ‘Iron-Underpants Resilience Kit,’ to see you through the toughest of times!
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Webinar 4: For Leaders and Managers

Leading Through Adversity

Walt Disney once said, “You may not realise it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth might be the best thing in the world for you!” This webinar gives you the tools to lead yourself and your teams through the most challenging of times and to come out of the other side, stronger, faster and psychologically fitter than ever.

Duration: 60 - 75 minutes

Group size: 5 – 50

Facilitator: Elizabeth Soehren or Lily Newman

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • How to re-frame adversity as a tool for growth
  • How to manage your emotions in order to stay resourceful and remain effective
  • How to manage team members’ states and moods to maintain motivation
  • Exploring the actions you need to take to adapt your business model to meet current challenges
  • Utilising all six of the Emotional Intelligence Leadership styles to make a positive impact
  • Setting a vision and create a positive metaphor/narrative to lead your people through change
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Webinar 5: For Staff at All Levels

How to Use Your Time More Effectively

Time Management is a misnomer. We cannot manage time – we can only manage our own use of time or, in the final analysis, we can only manage ourselves.This webinar will focus on key principles to help us manage our use of time more effectively.

Duration: 60 minutes

Group size: 10 – 50

Facilitator: Paul Reynolds

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • The Time Bank
  • "Know Thy Time" - where is my time actually being spent?
  • What can I eliminate, combine or delegate?
  • The magic of ‘Block Time’
  • How to prioritize effectively
  • The Pareto Principle (the 80/20 Rule)
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Webinar 6: For Leaders and Managers

Empowerment Through Effective Delegation

Most leaders recognize that they cannot achieve the results they should unless they are making best use of their people, yet many find it hard to delegate for a variety of reasons.

Duration: 60 minutes

Group size: 5 – 50

Facilitator: Paul Reynolds

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Why is delegation necessary?
  • Why don't some people do it, or do it badly?
  • What benefits follow, and to whom, when it's done well?
  • What should I delegate?
  • To whom should I delegate?
  • What steps do I take to delegate in an empowering way that will work?
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Webinar 7: For Leaders and Managers

Your Mission, Vision and Values: Getting them off the paper and into the behaviours of your people

This Mission, Vision and Values webinar is designed specifically for leadership teams who wish to define their organisation’s foundations and seek to embed them into the culture of their businesses, using them to drive the behaviours that will deliver success.

Duration: 90 minutes

Group size: 5 – 15

Facilitator: Lily Newman or Paul Reynolds

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Creating a vision that is emotionally compelling, behaviourally directive and strategically clear.
  • How to create a values led culture.
  • Helping to align and engage your team in the delivery of your growth or performance intentions.
  • The impact of recruiting people whose values are not aligned with those of your business!
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Webinar 8: For all Staff or Social Groups

Don’t Have a Groundhog Day – Changing Your Habits to Find a Better Way!

So, how many weeks, months, and years do you kick off with great intentions to change the habits that are holding you back, threatening your health or stopping you from being the best that you can be?

This webinar will help you to understand the psychology of how negative habits are formed and how to flip them to create more affirming, productive habits to help you achieve your career or your personal goals.

Duration: 60 minutes

Group size: 5 – 15

Facilitator: Elizabeth Soehren or Lily Newman

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • What are habits? Why are they important?
  • Explore your ‘craving brain’
  • Break the hold of negative habits
  • How can we create empowering habits? Small steps
  • Generate the conditions to support new habits

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Webinar 9: For Staff at all Levels

Making the Most of our Talents and Understanding Difference

This webinar will help to increase your self-awareness, and help you and your team to play to its strengths through understanding different behavioural preferences.

Duration: 60 minutes

Group size: 5 – 25

Facilitator: Elizabeth Soehren

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Trait Behavioural Profiling and understanding difference.
  • Why do people do what they do & why can’t they see that my way is better?
  • Trait Profiling for greater personal awareness.
  • Understanding difference and ‘flexing’ your leadership style to help others.
  • Recognising and addressing team strengths and team blind spots.
  • Adapting your leadership style to improve team performance.
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Webinar 10: For Leaders and Managers with Recruiting Responsibilities

Recruiting and Retaining Great People

Almost every leader that we’ve ever worked with has struggled with bad hires: - people who may have interviewed brilliantly but haven’t delivered a fraction of what they promised or have even destroyed team culture and caused friction in the business.

This webinar provides you some foundation stones of good practise in recruiting and retaining great people.

Duration: 75 minutes

Group size: 5 – 25

Facilitator: Lily Newman

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Your Organisational Chart: when to recruit and how? Developing a values led recruitment process: From job conception to advertising through to interviewing and inducting.
  • Differentiating your brand: How do you make sure that your business stands out in a crowded market place and that the stars in the market are banging on your door to get a job.
  • The Importance of Talent Management: 7 tips for performance managing and retaining great people.

Photo by kind permission of Jaco van Gass

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Webinar 11: For Staff at all Levels

The 3 Agendas of Leadership and Effective Communication

Some of the biggest challenges that business leaders need to overcome are how to: Engage, align and empower their people; inspire them to follow you when you know how; to challenge them to lead you when you don’t and to translate the dreams you have for business success, into a reality.

This webinar will share with you the importance of leading your people effectively using 3 Leadership Agendas of Leadership in your business: The Strategic, Emotional and Behavioural Agendas.

Duration: 90 minutes

Group size: 5 – 25

Facilitator: Lily Newman

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Creating an understanding of the 3 Agendas of Leadership and what happens when one or more is ignored.
  • Finding Flow in your teams – getting the balance right between the agendas to energise and inspire your people
  • Using the Value Building Behaviours for exceptional communication
  • How to hold uber effective meetings and improve personal performance
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Webinar 12: For Leaders and Managers

Investigating Human Bias in Decision Making

How objective is our decision making and how much are we influenced by our subconscious self?

This webinar investigates how our judgment may be driven more than we realize by our subconscious than by our conscious mind and explores some of the effects of unconscious bias on our decision making.

Duration: 90 minutes

Group size: 5 – 15

Facilitator: Dave Bartholomew

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Defining human heuristics and associated cognitive bias
  • Recognising how cognitive bias can affect everyday judgment and decision making
  • Examining techniques to address bias
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Webinar 13: For Staff at all Levels

What’s Your Problem?

Developing an Adaptive Approach to Problem Solving

This webinar considers the principles of problem classification, from simple to chaotic and introduces frameworks and approaches to help your organisation to adapt and respond appropriately.

Duration: 60 - 90 minutes

Group size: 5 – 15

Facilitator: Dave Bartholomew

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Catagorising problem spaces for projects and decision-making using common models and frameworks such as; ‘Wicked’ and ‘Tame’ problems, the WHOW matrix, the Stacy model and the Cynafin framework
  • Defining complexity
  • Identifying the tools and techniques that are appropriate for different types of problem
  • Matching solution approaches to problem spaces
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Webinar 14: For Project Managers and Leaders

Project Stakeholder Management

Moving Stakeholders From ‘Part of the Problem’ to ‘Part of the Solution’

This webinar considers the effect of stakeholders' perceptions and actions on project success. It presents tools and techniques to: Identify and understand the wider stakeholder community; then build effective and positive communications to enhance project’s success.

Duration: 90 - 120 minutes

Group size: 5 – 15

Facilitator: Dave Bartholomew

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • A review of some of the common challenges in managing diverse communities of stakeholders in complex projects.
  • How to identify and catagorise stakeholders based on their levels of: Support, power and interest.
  • Understanding stakeholder needs, wants and fears and employing Emotional Intelligence.
  • How to develop an effective communications strategy and plan that will engage with stakeholders using an ‘Onion Model’.
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Webinar 15: For Leaders and Managers

Get BIG or Go Home – The 7 Things you MUST do to move from Growth to SCALE

I can’t think of ANY business owner that doesn’t say they would like to earn more whilst working less! And yet research shows that far less than 10% of business owners ever achieve anything like that. And that is rarely down to a lack of trying, but a lack of knowing what to do, and in what order to create TRACTION.

But business leaders who apply these 7 steps quickly begin to see their business differently, theystart to do things differently and they begin to receive a completely different set of results.

Duration: 90 minutes

Group size: 5 – 50

Facilitator: Jay Allen

Webinar Framework Includes:

  • Understand the 5 segments of success within EVERY industry / sector and identify where you and your business currently sit.
  • Identify the 7 Steps to move from Survive to THRIVE and the order in which to apply them to your business
  • Create a ‘Game plan’ to ensure that you can engage your people and significantly and sustainably SCALE your business

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.

It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.“

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Our Webinar Delivery Team

Dave Bartholomew

is a project/programme management professional with over 35 years’ of experience in delivering results. He has worked with a variety of SMEs, FTSE 100 corporate clients, public sector bodies, international NGOs and UN organisations, spanning almost any sector you care to mention!

Elizabeth Soehren

has studied psychology since her days at university. As a qualified NLP Trainer, Elizabeth has been applying NLP and Neuroscience in business in a wide range of training programmes and consultancy contexts. She helps individuals and teams to recognise their strengths and limitations and works with them to improve their personal and business success.

Jay Allen

has set up and grown 4 of his own businesses since leaving the army and worked as a consultant with some of the most well-known names on the UK high street. He currently sits on the national board for a national print management business. Whether he’s speaking internally to business teams or externally to business audiences, Jay is renowned for connecting with any audience and has a track record of helping them to implement changes to get immediate results.

Lily Newman

is a behavioural strategist and leadership consultant with 20+ years’ experience of building better businesses and stronger teams. An ex-BBC journalist with a first-class honours degree in Communications (majoring in psychology and corporate communications) Lily is also a brand development specialist, helping leaders to develop values led teams who are committed to delivering unambiguous growth plans, whilst creating fantastic company cultures within which they can thrive.

Nicola Jackson

is an organisational development practitioner and coach with over 20 years' experience in helping companies to deliver effective change strategies and achieve business growth. Nicola is our expert in Resilience and can help individuals and teams discover the power of using transformative resilience techniques to gain real value from their experiences of adversity and change.  

Paul Reynolds

is Programme Director of our well renowned Step Into Management Programme. He is a Business Coach and Trainer specializing in Leadership and Management Development. He brings broad senior management and Board level experience in global companies such as Tate & Lyle and major bulk liquid terminal operators to the role. Paul has worked "on the ground" in over 30 countries worldwide as an international trader in the molasses business and has managed multi-disciplined teams of managers in hazardous industries.

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Get in Touch

Morgan James Consulting Ltd

Tel: +44 (0)1606 883383
Mob: +44 (0)776 4585030
Email: admin@morganjamesconsulting.co.uk
Web: www.morganjamesconsulting.co.uk
Twitter: Lilynewmanmjc
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker