The Harthill Seminars : Insight into Action

These Harthill Seminars have a deliberate focus on enabling leaders in organisations to learn how to act in ways that support the transformation of themselves as leaders, their teams and their organisations. We will provide intellectually rigorous input, stimulating and lively debate with some of the best leaders in the UK today and a light-hearted touch that will ensure you go away enlivened and encouraged.

Grounded Strategy: Leading Common Sense Transformation


• New dates in 2008 to be announced
• We can also deliver the seminar in your organisation

A successful strategy does more than turn the handle on profit – it envisions a future that has meaning for the leaders and staff of an organisation and focuses their energies and capabilities in converting aspiration into actions that they are proud of.

Harthill has developed a powerful approach that enables organisations to develop, articulate and implement strategy in a way that is profoundly creative and deeply grounded in the realities of the current context, in their relationships, and with their deepest sense of who they are as leaders. This grounding forms the basis for new possibilities out of which they weave their strategic actions.

Harthill’s process involves the radically participative development of strategy, an engaging (hearts-and-minds) approach that starts small and grows until it touches the whole organisation. It addresses the development of leadership capabilities and of a culture for ongoing renewal and action.

In this seminar we will:

• engage you in exploring the underpinning assumptions of this unique approach
• identify the required conditions for success
• give you deep insight into the process,
• in true Harthill style we will be truthful about the highs, lows, risks and benefits

Led by Matthew Hancocks who has been working at the leading edge of strategic transformation for many years as researcher, practitioner, consultant and collaborator. And David Rooke who is author of award winning HBR article ‘Seven Transformations of Leadership’ and the book ‘Personal & Organisational Transformations’. He has been consulting with leaders and executive teams for more than 30 years.

To book a free place or to register interest in 'Grounded Strategy' please contact
sarah@harthill.co.uk or call +44 (0)1594 530223.

The Harthill Seminars : Senior Women on the Move

This is an invitation to gather with other women business leaders to explore the common themes facing women of influence. Please click on the links below for more information or contact Sarah Thomas (on email link below) to book a place.

Senior Women on the Move - London

Tuesday 24th June 2008, 8.30am to 10.30am
Tuesday 23rd September 2008, 8.30am to 10.30am
Tuesday 9th December 2008, 8.30am to 10.30am

All at the Grand Cafe and Bar, The Courtyard, The Royal Exchange,
London EC3V 3LR

MEMBERSHIP
£600 per year for private sector organisations
£400 per year for not-for-profit organisations

For more details click here or contact sarah@harthill.co.uk to book a place.

Harthill Programmes:

A suite of programmes based on the theory and application of the
Leadership Development Framework (LDF)

Please find below brief details of open programmes in the UK and worldwide for 2008/09. Multiple organisational members and intact teams welcome. In addition, all are currently being facilitated as dedicated development processes for single organisations. Please contact us to request further information or to discuss these options.

Transforming Leadership: 3 day learning and development intensive
• 15th to 17th October 2008 Boston USA
• 5th to 7th Nov 2008 (West Dean Conference and Arts Centre, Chichester, UK)
• 2009 Singapore - Dates and other details tba
Aimed at those who play an active part in the development of managers and leaders in organisations - HR staff, internal or external consultants, change agents, recruiters and leaders who coach or mentor their own staff, as well as management academics. Blends learning about your own developmental frames with an in-depth exploration of how to use the LDF in support of high quality leadership development. Leads to authorisation in the use of the Leadership Development Profile (only authorised users may commission profiles for others).

For details and booking click here.

Leadership Beyond the Conventional: 5 days in two modules with coaching between modules
• Offered only in single organisations or as a collaboration between two or more organisations (please contact us for a conversation about the benefits of this approach)
Aimed at practicing managers and leaders who confidently use their authority to deliver results; they have mastered the core skills of leading yet have an emergent sense that there is more to the art of leading than is currently within their grasp. Typically they want to explore what increased effectiveness might look like from a different perspective.
When Jim Collins (in Good to Great) carried out his research into 1450 companies and identified the 11 that had performed best over a 15 year period he discovered all 11 were led by leaders who were described as having ‘Strategic’ or ‘Alchemist’ action logics. This programme develops a type of thinking and ability to learn from experience that is typical of these ‘post-conventional’ action logics. The key leadership issues of power, timely action, leading in a complex environment, language as a form of action and inquiry based learning are all addressed.

For details click here.