UGM's approach to leadership and leadership development
We can help you:
- develop or refine your organisation's leadership framework.
- provide leadership development / leadership training for the Senior Leadership Team and executives, middle managers, and high potential individuals. Our services are supported by a suite of robust, customised tools to assess needs, measure progress and evaluate outcomes.
- get the day-to-day job done while enhancing leadership capability.
At UGM we don’t limit ourselves to the perspectives of a single theory, neither do we constrain our views to those of only a few leadership scholars. In fact, we strongly encourage our clients to adopt a similar approach because both research and our own experience show that it maximises the returns on investment in leadership development.
Using an evidence-based approach, we extract the very best leadership and management thinking and research findings from leading journals and top leadership and management scholars and practitioners. Then we complement this with our own wide-ranging practical experience (in many diverse industry sectors and organisation types) and independent, original thinking. When clients don't have a leadership framework, or need to review an existing leadership framework, we use our insights and expertise to craft a best-fit framework that addresses the unique needs of their business. We often use customised leadership assessment instruments (for example a customised 360 degree feedback tool) to help us measure and monitor progress. These also help ensure that leadership skills and leadership development initiatives are tightly linked with the context of the organisation.
This leads to us developing a fit-for-purpose approach that always has a primary focus on client business drivers and bottom line returns. Usually this means equipping leaders with the specific skills they will need such as improved change management capability, better strategic planning and implementation, more aware risk management etc. This approach ensures that the organisation and the individual is able to realise immediate, tangible benefits.
UGM is also able to provide organisations with specialist advice on women in leadership. Dr Margaret Byrne's PhD thesis examined leadership styles used by men and women during meetings, the engine room of leading and managing in most organisations.
Find out more about the UGM approach
to Leadership and Leadership Development. You might also find a number of the UGM newsletters on leadership of interest.
Test your views on team leadership by taking our interactive quiz - see how your views sit with some of the latest thinking.
If you would like to receive further information about UGM's approach, please send us an e-mail via info@ugmconsulting.com.
