leadership from World of rhythm

Leadership with a real difference - Learn to inspire, not just manage

While leadership is easy to explain, leadership is not so easy to practise. Leadership is about behaviour first, skills second. Good leaders are followed chiefly because people trust and respect them, rather than the skills they possess. Leadership is different to management. Management relies more on planning, organisational and communications skills. Leadership relies on management skills too, but more so on qualities such as integrity, honesty, humility, courage, commitment, sincerity, passion, confidence, positivity, wisdom, determination, compassion and sensitivity.

Today ethical leadership is more important than ever. The world is more transparent and connected than it has ever been. The actions and philosophies of organisations are scrutinised by the media and the general public as never before. This coincides with massively increased awareness and interest among people everywhere in corporate responsibility and the many related concepts, such as Fair Trade, sustainability, social and community responsibility.

The modern leader needs to understand and aspire to leading people and be creative in achieving greatness in all these areas. The modern concept of ethical organisations encompasses many related issues including:

• corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• the 'triple bottom line' – People, Profit, Planet
• ethical management and leadership
• 'Fairtrade'
• globalisation (addressing its negative effects)
• sustainability and permaculture
• well-being at work and life balance.

Many businesses focus on the mental and physical aspects of leadership (and team) development but are consistently faced with a workforce that is unmotivated, dissatisfied and unfulfilled. What’s missing is a focus on ‘the soul’.

World of Rhythm addresses this shortfall, giving consideration to qualities such as empathy, awareness, vision and humility. Our Leadership Programmes examine these qualities and engineer a mental shift resulting in a workforce that is motivated, satisfied and fulfilled; in essence more ‘grounded’. This, in turn, increases effectiveness and ultimately improves your organisation’s bottom line.

We achieve this through use of our Mind, Body, Soul Programme, a system developed to make leaders much more effective. Through the integration of Mind, Body and Soul, we can feel complete in ourselves, which optimises our daily performance, reduces stress and gives us life tools to deal with the overwhelming demands placed on the leaders of today.

“We can truly state that by combining arts-based activities World of Rhythm delivers a powerful tool for shifting a team of leaders to their next level of performance.” Cataline llie-Birsu, HR Learning and development manager, Vodafone Romania

Objectives and Outcomes:

• To have a clear understanding of how to develop individual and team competence, skills and capabilities
• To be able to align individual contributions to organisational strategy
• To know how to balance the needs of the team, individual and task for optimum team performance
• To know what motivates you and the individuals in your team
• To be able to run effective one-to-one feedback sessions
• To be able to prepare for and lead successfully through change
• To understand relationship theory and prevent and manage conflict

One of our many unique selling points is that we have started our own charity, The Pegasus Project, for street children in Nepal. As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility objectives, we truly believe in assisting developing nations such as Nepal though our work with corporations and a percentage of all World of Rhythm profits goes towards building an amazing sustainable community.

Whether you are looking for Leadership Training, a Team Building Event, a Conference Ice-breaker, a Motivational Event tool or an innovative way that you can train your teams with Corporate Social Responsibility in mind, then call us today on 0870 24 24 295 to speak with a member of our team.

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