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Leadership is the cornerstone of organisational success. At Turned on its Head, leadership training is designed to develop strong, adaptable leaders who inspire teams and create positive cultures. These programmes go beyond theory, focusing on practical strategies and mindset shifts that deliver real results. Available across South Wales, the South West, and virtually, leadership training offers flexibility without compromising impact.
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Why Leadership Training Matters

Effective leadership is not about authority, it’s about influence, empathy, and vision. In today’s fast-changing world, leaders need more than technical skills; they need resilience, adaptability, and emotional intelligence. Leadership training with Turned on its Head equips individuals with the tools to lead confidently and authentically. Through interactive sessions and personalised coaching, leaders learn how to communicate effectively, manage change, and inspire their teams. The combination of support available from Turned on its Head helps organisations build a culture of trust and collaboration, ensuring long-term success.

What Leadership Training Includes

Core Leadership Skills
Develop decision-making, communication, and strategic thinking.
Mindset Development
Build confidence and resilience to handle challenges.
Culture Leadership
Learn how to create and sustain positive workplace cultures.
Empowerment Techniques
Motivate and engage teams for brilliant performance.
Virtual and In-Person Options
Flexible delivery to suit your organisation’s needs.

Why Choose Leadership Training with Turned on its Head?

Individually owned and founder-led for a personal, tailored experience.
Bespoke support available.
Holistic approach combining leadership skills, HR skills and mindset coaching.
Flexible delivery: in-person or virtual sessions.
Practical tools that create measurable results.
Focus on authentic leadership and cultural transformation.

Benefits of Leadership Training

Stronger leadership capability
Improved communication and decision-making
Increased confidence and resilience
Enhanced team engagement
Positive organisational culture

Training and Facilitation for Leaders

Training is available in the following key areas:
Coaching skills for leaders and managers
Coaching skills for leaders and Managers can be provided over one day or two days depending on the extent to which an Organisation wishes to embed Coaching into their leadership culture. The one day course seeks to introduce Coaching, introduce the benefits of Coaching to Organisations, Consider the impact on Organisational Culture, Understand how Coaching changes Leadership and encourages creativity and ownership. The session looks at Coaching styles, Coaching Models and an opportunity to practice new skills.
The two day Coaching skills for leaders and Managers course includes all of the content in the one day session but goes further by raising greater awareness of questioning, listening and feedback skills, provides a greater opportunity for leaders to consider the importance of non verbal communication in their coaching and provides an opportunity to create a personal action plan to integrate coaching techniques with their teams and to consider any challenges they anticipate facing. The two day session moves from knowledge to really considering how this new skill set might best be implemented in teams.
Coaching and compassion
Would you like to explore the links between compassionate leadership and coaching? Would you like to understand how both elements can make a positive difference to your business? This one day session focusses on:
The importance of compassionate leadership
The importance of kindness at work
The importance of creativity and authenticity at work
Discovering the benefits of coaching in leadership
Using coaching skills to empower and engage individuals at work.
Planning for the future with a view to utilising coaching approaches at work
Meetings, conflict and communication
This one day facilitated training session gets to the bottom of what is and what is not effective about your meetings. It looks at conflict and how this is created in meetings, it looks at emotional intelligence and empathy and the power of communication. The session has a focus on individual mindsets and on individual responsibility and accountability and finds ways in which teams can work more efficiently together to ensure meetings internally and externally are more effective, engaging and supportive.
This session is engaging, insightful and fun and has had some wonderful feedback from clients.
Recruiting the best staff and avoiding unconscious bias
The session covers the following key areas:
The legal position on equalities in recruitment
The actual facts
The power of the unconscious mind
The different types of bias
The impact of bias on recruitment
The importance of the interview panel
The importance of communication - verbal and non verbal in the recruitment process
Why the best people should be selected and not those presumed to be
Making a plan to combat unconscious bias
The payback
Managing with compassion
A beautiful one day session that looks at the Organisational and Individual benefits of embedding a compassionate approach to leadership and management. The session encourages leaders to develop an understanding of compassionate leadership principles, learn practical tools to manage teams with care, support and encouragement, understand the impact of compassionate leadership on psychological safety, motivation and morale and all important business metrics. The session looks to aid leadership self reflection, raise awareness of levels of emotional intelligence and create plans for change.
Celebration of leadership
A wonderful one day facilitated session celebrating the importance of leadership!
Attendees will:
Celebrate personal impact and success
Consider the importance of leadership on organisational success
Consider the importance of leadership on individuals
Agree the importance of role modelling values
Consider what leaders need and make a plan for the future needs of leadership within your organisation
Avoiding employee relations case work
This one day session encourages managers and leaders to consider the root causes of employee relations case work, the negative impact that case work has on everyone involved and provides an honest insight from a People professional on her experiences dealing with case work and where steps can often be taken to address the root cause and eliminate some of the problems. This session addresses the importance of leadership, communication, training, wellbeing, consistency and taking a person centred approach. Leaders and Managers will leave this session with a list of things they can be looking for, a list of things they can be doing and a list of things they can be being to avoid employee relations case work. The session also raises the question as to the positive impacts reducing case work will have on their organisation, their budget and their reputation, let alone their people. This session is for the organisations and leaders who want to do things differently.
Managing change for leaders and managers
This one day session helps leaders and managers to manage change better, the session looks at the psychology of change, the impact it has on individuals and teams, the impact it has on mindset and psychological safety and the typical reactions we see to change in organisations. This session helps leaders to understand why people react the way they do and how they can offset some of the typical responses with some brilliant change management knowledge. Leaders and Managers will consider the importance of communication, consultation and engagement and the importance of clarity and consistency. Leaders and Managers will understand how they can manage their own emotions and uncertainty and the important roles they play in the change management process (regardless of their level of leadership). Leaders and Managers will leave this session feeling with a change toolkit and a greater level of confidence in managing change.
The importance of belonging at work
This half day session focuses on the importance of belonging at work, the session will provide leaders with a practical knowledge, self awareness and useful strategies that will help them to encourage greater belonging in their teams. The session will look at what belonging is, how it fits with inclusion, what gets in the way, how it impacts organisational culture and metrics and what that really means in teams. The session encourages participants to consider their own biases, their personal preferences and their potential impact on the important issue of belonging. The session asks leaders to consider conflict in the workplace and how this impinges on belonging and to focus on positive strategies that encourage authenticity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Managing stress at work
This half day session is for leaders and managers at all levels and seeks to provide knowledge and practical strategies to reduce stress and enhance personal and team wellbeing. By the end of the session, participants will be able to recognise the signs and sources of stress in the workplace, understand the impact stress has on physical health, cognitive health and behaviour, understand the HSE Management Standards 6 key areas of work design and how these might impact on individuals. Leaders and Managers will develop management strategies that assist in the management of stress at work and discuss ways in which they can help others through emotional intelligence, excellent communication and support. This session provides leaders and managers with knowledge they need to spot the signs of stress, support people with stress and to put in place supportive action and risk management.
Communication and motivation skills for leaders
This one day session for leaders and managers provides strategies to improve communication and influence in the workplace and then goes further by considering how leaders may use these skills to motivate others. The session looks at the dynamics and barriers of effective communication, encourages leaders to reflect on their own communication styles and strategies, provides insight into the different elements of communication, provides tips to improve verbal and non verbal communication, touches on the importance of clarity and consistency and looks at the impact of communication on trust, rapport and engagement. The session will move from communication to motivation and leaders will consider the different ways in which employees are motivated and consider what strategies might be most effective in their workplace. Leaders will look at employee energisers and will learn techniques to inspire and energise teams. The session will provide leaders with a toolkit for reflecting on their own communication skills and styles and strategies they can use to communicate and motivate.

Training and Facilitation for Teams

Facilitated sessions which shape culture change in wider team environments are often created as bespoke sessions aligned to the client's specific workplace but readily available sessions include:
Meetings, conflict and communication
This one day facilitated training session gets to the bottom of what is and what is not effective about your meetings. It looks at conflict and how this is created in meetings, it looks at emotional intelligence and empathy and the power of communication. The session has a focus on individual mindsets and on individual responsibility and accountability and finds ways in which teams can work more efficiently together to ensure meetings internally and externally are more effective, engaging and supportive.
This session is engaging, insightful and fun and has had some wonderful feedback from clients.
Values and behaviours
During this 1 day facilitated session there is an opportunity for a group of people to really understanding your values and behaviours. Use the session to work with a group of staff, trustees or stakeholders to :-
Consider the relevance of current values, or the importance of creating values
Understand the importance of values to the various stakeholders and in the business context
Consider how values fit in the context of risk and change
Discuss the importance of behaviours and how these underpin your values
Consider examples of behaviours that the organisation would expect to underpin their values
Vision boards for team success
A half day session providing a wonderful mix of coaching, creativity, strategic planning and team building.
Quality time to explore aspirations, values, the importance of individuals in teams, the importance of the team, exploring gratitude, support and belonging.
Creating a blueprint for effective meetings
This one day session acknowledges that your meetings are a corner stone for standards of behaviour and embedded values
If you've never spent time with your team to really understand what is working and not working when it comes to your meetings you are seriously missing a trick, but don't be fooled into thinking this is a quick conversation or that there aren't important things to be discussed here.
Meetings are the place where your organisational culture becomes visible, it is where power imbalances can be noticed and where your organisational values and behaviours become clear.
There is actually lots to be discussed and agreed to create a blue print for effective meetings but so worthwhile, this facilitated session creates a safe space to build clarity and agreement on what really needs to happen for your meetings to be fair, consistent, effective and safe places for communication.
Creating a company or team charter
If you have spent time discussing values and behaviours but have never really worked with your team to discuss what is and is not expected within your organisation, from your leaders and your employees, then a team charter is a beautiful piece of work which provides an appropriate next step. The Charter work is best undertaken collaboratively with a cross section of the workforce. A charter provides a clear framework of standard of behaviour and conduct and means of resolution and safety at times of conflict and change.
This one day session takes the shape of a number of facilitated workshops which results in the content for an Company or Team Charter.
The Facilitator can provide follow on work to finalise your Charter in print based on the responses received from people involved (this would be at an additional charge)

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