Leadership development for individuals from aspiring to experienced leaders

Embarking on a new leadership role can be exciting and daunting. Leadership development is essential for new leaders to build the skills and confidence needed to navigate their new roles.

By investing in leadership training, organisations can equip emerging leaders with the tools to make informed decisions, communicate effectively, and inspire teams toward shared goals.

Development programmes foster a deeper understanding of what you bring to your leadership role, different leadership styles, emotional intelligence, and conflict resolution, ensuring you can lead diverse teams and create a collaborative culture. 

Coaching and mentoring provide invaluable personalised support for leaders and kaiako to enhance your effectiveness and growth. Individual or group sessions can offer deeper insights into your strengths, challenges, and leadership or teaching styles. 

Coaching offers a partnership to explore self-awareness in shifting your thoughts and behaviour to maximize your personal and professional potential. Coaching provides space to explore new perspectives to bring about change. 

Mentoring can provide growth in specific areas of expertise which are essential to your leadership or kaiako role. This tailored approach allows for focused exploration of areas relevant to your context, such as communication, decision-making, conflict resolution, leading teams, building strong relationships with ākonga, next steps in career development, emotional intelligence and the art of courageous conversations. 

eDISC profiling is a powerful tool for leaders who want to further develop an understanding of their leadership behaviours and how to best work with others.

The profiling reports can provide self-awareness, an understanding of your strengths and areas of growth, and they can inform your goal setting. It provides you with valuable insights into how you can better communicate with and lead others. It is also an excellent tool for understanding team dynamics and providing guidance on how a team can work more effectively together. 

As a senior leader, external coaching adds value to your Professional Growth Cycle by providing a confidential space to explore your role's successes and challenges, deepen your understanding of leadership, and gain support in creating tailored action plans to achieve your goals.

Termly sessions can provide support for goal setting, action plan implementation, and 360 leadership reviews. A summary report of the PGC cycle is provided.

The tumuaki Professional Growth Cycle PLG is your opportunity to meet termly with other principles to reflect on the successes and challenges of your role, your understanding of leadership and find support in designing specific action plans to achieve your goals in a confidential environment.

Support is provided to design individual leadership goals at the beginning of the cycle and a summary report of the PGC cycle is provided at the PGC conclusion for Boards of Trustees.

Tumuaki are also encouraged to engage in a 360 review every 4-5 years to gather the voices of key stakeholders. This process provides rich feedback on your leadership role and the needs of your community.