Day 1: Leading-self

Understand yourself, your motivations and your purpose, create your goals and develop your strategy for success. Explore the hierarchy on board and how it progresses and identify the department head’s priorities.

Key take aways

• Connect with your own natural strengths and preferences, with the help of the LH Dynamics assesment tool
• Gain clarity on your vision and your dreams 
• Identify the steps you need to take towards your destiny 
• Restore balance to your life and focus your energy on your highest priorities 
• Learn how to take responsibility for your behaviour and support your own growth by being more proactive in your sphere of influence

Day 2: Leading others
Explore communication with others and how to manage time, tasks and stress to achieve the objectives by helping others attain theirs. Practise sharing ideas on behaviour by using the FBI (Feeling + Behaviour + Impact) feedback model.

Key take aways

• Shift your focus to finding wins for everybody in your team
• Learn how to listen in a way that deepens your understanding of others 
• Practice collaborating with others to find solutions to old problems
• Gain confidence in expressing your prespectives clearly
• Find creative ways to build teamwork and create a collaborative culture

Day 3: Leading teams
Learn the skills and behaviours that leaders need in order to engage and motivate their teams to achieve their shared goals and deliver results. Understanding the different leadership styles and when to use them.

Key take aways

• Explore the critical mindset shifts that will maximise your success as a leader
• Deepen your understanding of challenges within your team
• Support and empower your team to take responsibility, trust their own decision making and solve problems 
• Practice giving feedback to develop team member confidence and competence; improve your own performance by seeking feedback from others
• Identify how to support your team’s self-development to help them navigate change and achieve high performance 
• Understand how to create a plan that focuses the team on its most important priorities 
• Strenghten your ability to be an effective leader by integrating the 5 Energy Drivers

Day 4: Support your team’s growth
Learn to develop a culture of teaching on board, taking into account the different ways of learning and development needs of your crew members and helping them give of their best. Learn what motivates people and how to link this to their performance goals

Key take aways

• Gain a deeper understanding of how to adopt a flexible leadership lifestyle 
• Feel more confident in your ability to resolve conflict and create harmony within your team 
• Gain confidence in how to motivate and inspire your team
• Gain deeper insight into how to create high performing teams 
• Understand how to identify and reduce the causes of stress 
• Create an action plan that will allow you to hit the ground running on your return to the yacht