Leadership Training
Engaging training experiences – virtual or face to face
Effective leadership training is interactive, engaging and fun. Ricky Nowak brings energy and her signature theatrical style to capture your audience’s attention, and provide learnings that stick.
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“Thank you Ricky for being emcee for our three day virtual conference on the future of strategy implementation in Feb 2021. You were able to turn what could have been a typical zoom meeting into an informative, elegant and eventful event. You have a natural talent in capturing the key learnings of the day and sharing them with the participants, while maintaining engagement with your very natural facilitation style. You made the difference between good and great.”
Designing and delivering digital presentations
Online meetings and presentations are the new normal. We meet on screen and engage through a virtual medium.
In this interactive workshop, Ricky shares the skills and styles that will help you maintain energy levels in an online meeting and keep everyone on the same page. She’ show your participants how to take their presentations from dull to dynamic by:
- Setting the scene and establishing presence
- Developing voice pitch and tone
- Energising and engaging clients
- Thinking on your feet to call out distractions
- Using feedback to improve your performance
Audacious leadership – leading with commitment, courage and care
Many leaders simply follow a style that worked for others, in the hope that it will do the trick for them.
But leadership is individual. Being a leader requires something not often talked about in leadership circles – audacity. In this workshop, Ricky explores the concept of ‘audacious leadership’ – what it means, and how every person can embrace it in line with their individual style.
- Finding your own audacious style
- Transition from manager to visionary leader
- Live your legacy
- Know your style, position and purpose
How could audacious leadership transform your organisation?
Resilience in business and personal relationships
In challenging times, the key to leadership is to first build your own resilience. ‘Just keeping going’ is not resilience – it risks you becoming overstretched and ineffective. Putting on your own oxygen mask is the difference between burnout and bounceback.
Ricky explains how to create dialogue and share the load. Participants learn how communication is more effective than simply acting alone and telling others what you have done.
- Develop critical skills for essential conversations
- Learn how to establish boundaries and new rules of engagement
- Understand communication options
- Adjusting mindset to change behaviours
Start your journey to resilience.
The eight critical truths of trust
Integrity and transparency are essential. Trust improves commercial outcomes, deepens relationships and drives better results. ‘Off duty’, ‘off limits’ and ‘off the record’ no longer exist – leaders are judged on all their activities.
Ricky shows how to build trust from the ground up, and build a solid corporate and personal reputation. She shares the ‘eight critical truths’ that cement a position of integrity.
- Rethink notions of trust
- The Trust Triangle (Lecioni) and The Eight Trust Competencies (Horsager)
- Responding to intuition
- ‘Group Think’ and how it influences behaviour and outcomes
Give your team the tools to build trust.
How to commercialise conversations – and win more business
Sales teams are driven by rewards, recognition, results and the desire to build business. Yet the biggest obstacle to writing more business is often a failure to commercialise conversations.
Recognising buying signals, articulating value and converting prospects into buyers are essential client-facing skills. Ricky’s proven FLOW model will help you to close the deal, improve relationships and get referrals.
- Respond to the client’s most important need
- Maximise referral partnerships
- Stay client centric
- Nurture your respected relationships
Ready to reap the rewards of commercialisation?
Making good people great leaders
Savvy leadership skills are a must for those charged with directing a business. Leaders must switch on the ‘enabler button’, so teams can make decisions with confidence and contribute by choice.
Ricky explains how your organisation can transform good people into decisive and inspirational leaders. Leaders with vision and drive for a successful and profitable future.
- How to connect and make a positive difference
- Understand your best fit – and why
- Closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be
Got good people but need great leaders?