PwC - Responsible Leadership Programme
Common Purpose partners PwC in the design and delivery of its
annual "Responsible Leadership Programme" for senior partners, a
transformational leadership development programme equipping its
leaders to take the organisation through times of unprecedented
complexity and change.
"We thought long and hard about
our choice of partner to develop an innovative community based
leadership development programme. Common Purpose stood out for
their understanding of, and depth of contacts within, the private,
public and voluntary sectors. Feedback from participants on the
programme, and the voluntary organisations they worked alongside,
has been exceptionally positive. I believe that Common Purpose
involvement has had a lasting and positive effect on everyone in
the programme."
Christine Adshead, Partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Lufthansa - Transformation Programme
Top executives spent a week in Mumbai focusing on the theme of
Transformation. Common Purpose worked alongside London Business
School to run immersion visits to leaders of organisations in
Education, Health and Livelihood.
"Our senior executives required an
out-of-the box experience, to take them out of their comfort zones,
broaden their horizons, and make them really think about their own
leadership. Common Purpose designed an immersion experience, taking
the group out of the classroom to meet inspirational leaders and
entrepreneurs around Mumbai, showing them how different leaders
operate in vastly different contexts, and with extremely limited
resources. The experience was very moving, and the response to the
visits very emotional. Common Purpose designed and facilitated
feedback and reflection sessions, allowing the group time to
reflect what they had seen and heard, and subsequently draw out the
key issues and think about what this meant for their leadership at
Lufthansa. We were delighted with the programmes and its outcomes,
it represented good value for money, and had a real impact on the
executives who participated."
Karin Klatt, Lufthansa School of
Business Management Programme (and Project Leader for the Lufthansa
Transformation Programme)
KPMG - The Full Circle programme
A leadership development programme for 60 Senior Managers from
the audit function of KPMG. The programme provided a dynamic
learning experience to help build the confidence and broaden the
skills of senior staff to make external links with customers and
stakeholders and to extend their abilities to influence, lead and
transfer their skills from one context to another. 93% of the
participants found it a valuable use of their time.
"Taking a step back from the day job,
realising that spending more time with your adult team on basic
skills/moral building is of extreme benefit. The course has
also allowed me to fully appreciate the skills that I have and how
I can put these to use in other environments, giving me much more
confidence in my role."
Participant on the KPMG Full Circle
Programme
Ernst & Young - Future Directions programme
The aim of this two day programme was to support a smart
transition to new roles for E&Y partners within 3 years of
retirement.
"We chose
Common Purpose because of their established record of delivering
high quality courses for the senior audience that we were working
with, coupled with good value for money. The course was very
practical and helped the participants to structure their thinking
and begin to plan their transition ahead. We had high expectations
for this course and they were met - Common Purpose will be
delivering subsequent Future Directions events for us."
Niels ter
Mors, Enterprise Wide Learning Leader, EMEIA HR
Strategic Investment Board Northern Ireland
The role of the Strategic Investment Board Limited is to advise
and guide Northern Ireland's Government departments in the delivery
of capital projects to improve the Region's
infrastructure. Common Purpose was commissioned to work with
the whole staff to enable an open exchange of views and ideas and
achieve a clearer appreciation of the organisation's guiding
principles.
"Common Purpose made a considerable
effort to understand our unique organisation. Consequently the team
succeeded in engaging everyone in the task of focusing on our
guiding principles. The work revealed how ambitious the team is for
Northern Ireland's success and how committed they all are to the
organisation's mission. The event was motivating and
energising and the Common Purpose team was responsive and flexible
to our needs."
David Gavaghan, Chief Executive,
Strategic Investment Board Limited
Walsall Primary Care Health Trust
A one day workshop for Chief Executives from NHS Walsall, Manor
Hospital, Walsall Borough Council, Walsall Community Health, Dudley
& Walsall Mental Health Partnership enabled the
participants to break down barriers and start to work on better
partnerships and collaborative working across the
organisations.
"I chose Common Purpose because of their
ability to understand our needs and their creativity in developing
a programme. They delivered with professionalism and flexibility,
impressing all of the very varied attendees. The day has been
memorable and is frequently referred to in future partnership
building events."
Denise McLellan, Chief Executive,
Walsall PCT
Sutton Borough Council
We helped the Sutton Council Senior Management Team to evaluate
the challenges facing Sutton going forward, and explore what kind
of leadership behaviours will enable them to continue to be a top
performing Council and drive through efficiencies.
"Here in Sutton, we wanted support on
leadership behaviours. Our belief is that the way top people behave
is at the centre of our leadership mission. We needed to reassess
this, especially as we needed new approaches to taking cost out of
our organisation. Common Purpose helped us diagnose what was needed
and facilitate a series of events to take our senior managers
through this journey. The particular skill of the Common Purpose
facilitators was to ensure that every participant was a
contributing member. Every person was challenged to consider their
own leadership behaviours and development needs."
Paul Martin, Chief Executive, Sutton
Council
Cheshire Chief Executives Group
Following the restructuring of local government across the
former Cheshire County an opportunity was identified for the Chief
Executives of the major public sector agencies to
collaborate. The backdrop to the event was the need to improve
public service delivery and to achieve efficiencies through the
sharing of resources, information, and bargaining power.
"We worked with Common Purpose because
of their experience of working with diverse groups and different
perspectives. They succeeded in giving us the opportunity to share
our own issues whilst also challenging our thinking and introducing
new perspectives, information and ideas. At the end of the two
days we had a clearer appreciation of one another's specific
organisational tensions and priorities. We also had a firm
commitment across the group to start sharing and working together
differently with a common understanding of our direction of
travel."
David Whatton, Chief Constable,
Cheshire Constabulary
