Leadership Development

Leadership Development - Management Training

Self Awareness

Leadership demands genuine responsibility, and at Interactive Solutions, we ensure that our leadership development programmes foster each individual’s commitment to their leadership role through awareness and understanding of their leadership capabilities. This knowledge and self awareness provides the key to their future growth and development.

We focus on the range of skills required to build and lead effective teams, while motivating and empowering individuals. One-on-one feedback with our experienced coaches ensures that the learning environment is challenging, and demands involvement and commitment, thus ensuring a powerful experience, for each individual, that is focused and specific to each person’s needs.

See a sample of our case studies outlined below. These include:

Self Management

Our Leadership programmes develop individuals who will:
Gain an insight and understanding of how to manage strategically in a dynamic business environment

Understand, and be able to implement, the key skills required to motivate individuals and teams through effective leadership

Increase awareness of their own individual personal strengths and limitations, and how to work effectively with other individuals, to gain a synergy from the different strengths and limitations.

Proactively and effectively manage and lead people through change, to create a dynamic working environment

Create action plans that are strategic, visionary, and aligned with the business needs

Take on the responsibility of leadership, and create and maintain high performing teams

Coach and mentor the personal development of individuals throughout the organisation

Develop an ability to communicate effectively, to use conflict positively, to challenge the status quo, and to deliver resolutions to current strategic business challenges

Develop an ability to demonstrate flexibility in their choice of behaviour in different types of leadership and team situations, in Ireland or internationally

Relationship Management

Specific Modules
If the only tool you have in your toolkit is a hammer then  everything seems to look like a nail”

When we design each Leadership development programme with our clients we determine what skills need to be developed and then include specific modules with practical tools individuals can use. We encourage the participants to adapt the tools to their own style so that they can be effective Leaders. Modules include:

  • Effective Communication
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Influencing and Personal Impact
  • Presentation/Facilitation  Skills
  • Time Management/Personal Effectiveness
  • Performance Management/Appraisals
  • Project Management
  • Managing Conflict
  • Coaching skills

“I have used Fintan several times over the last 15 years in a number of roles for Team Training and also as a Personal Coach. He has a fantastic way of understanding what you are trying to achieve and delivering this in a way that maximises its impact”  

David killeen, Program Integration Director at Irish Life Assurance

“Fintan acted as facilitator at our annual Sales Conference in Oxford during August 2010. The group comprised members of the senior management team and key sales people. Fintan provided excellent direction for the strategic planning sessions throughout.

Aidan Cullen, Marketing Communications Manager at Generali Worldwide.

“Fintan provided presentation training for a large statutory organisation as part of a media and communications skills programme. His work was professional, engaging, encouraging and highly attentive to the specific needs of the group he was working with. There was no "one size fits all" training here.”

Edel Hackett, PR Director Persuasion Republic