Leadership & People Development

Nous works with clients to:

• Build leaders - developing leadership growth initiatives
• Maximise the performance of people and teams - designing and delivering people performance strategies and programs
• Enable personal insight and change - using diagnostic tools, coaching and mentoring for personal growth

Nous consultants have successfully designed and delivered programs for CEOs, senior executives, managers and team leaders for several of Australia's top companies where rapid industry change and increasing customer demands have gone hand-in-hand. In the public sector Nous has provided leadership development for a cast range of Commonwealth, State and Local government organisations from the most senior level to middle level managers.

Nous brings to all its leadership programs:

• A deep understanding of issues confronting leaders in today's business and government environments
• Experience designing and delivering outstanding programs
• Customised design for participants
• Challenging and engaging program design
• Conceptual frameworks - intellectual capacity
• Expert team and systems

Nous leadership and people development programs

Nous programs are designed with an understanding that the best learning is achieved through active participation and application. We have developed a Nous style of facilitation that creates increased opportunity for participants to share their valuable experience and knowledge, be challenged and stretched in their thinking, explore issues and problem solve through a variety of activities including:

• Experiential learning activities to actively engage participants
• Use of relevant case studies
• Varied use of group discussion and feedback
• Time for reflection
• Active management of group dynamics to maximise the learning of all participants
• Application of all learning to the workplace and organisational context
• Adherence to adult learning principles

Nous' approach is informed by a marriage of experience, analytical rigour and quirky lateralism (or more soberly, innovation). All of Nous' leadership development work is underpinned by an approach that we call Active Realism -

Active in that leaders must personally engage in the development process - they cannot simply observe or analyse, but must work to be part of the leadership opportunities and solutions. Our programs are active in that we encourage participants to actively address the challenges and issues that individually confront them; and in that they should aim to actively change the organisation.

Real in that the leadership development should directly address the specific values and behaviours of the individual leader, and confront each leader with others' experience of their leadership; and real in that it should press leaders to always consider the very real demands and needs of their organisation - its strategic direction, customers' demands and followers' needs and expectations.

Nous has develop a suite of leadership programs, some examples include:

• Supervisor and manager development programs for thousands of staff across a large aviation business
• An innovative leadership program developed around a leader teach model with on the job development activities for 300 managers across an automotive business
• A customised experiential for the top 250 leaders in a division of a large retail bank
• An advancement program for a trade organisations high performing middle managers who are located in posts around the world
• Two leadership programs being delivered to over 300 senior executives and managers in a government employment agency
• A leadership and team development program sponsored by the Senior Executive Group for Directors and Assistant Directors in a State government department