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Understand : dare : thrive
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We're an innovative leadership and career development company committed to helping you make positive, strategic scale change.
We know this takes bold thinking and that real satisfaction comes from taking leaps, not baby steps.
We've done it ourselves, so know if it's hard to achieve, the results will be better for longer and the journey will be far more rewarding, energising & fun!
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Clients want to do great things and make a big difference.
Organisations want to realise the talent of their senior & specialist resources to drive their strategic agenda. Do you ...
- find your talent delivering incremental, not strategic impact?
- need innovative solutions to hit Lord Davies targets?
- want diversity initiatives that deliver performance benefits quicker?
Individuals want to make the most of their talents and passions. Do you ...
- believe you could achieve more, if only ...
- want greater fulfilment at work?
- see less talented people get on and wonder how and why?
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We focus on 3 pivotal groups;
Our flagship strategic impact programmes are:-
We create and deliver via a client-specific blend of:-
- Interactive Seminars
- Assessment Tools
- Facilitated Training
- Coaching
- Mentoring
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A 'synapse' is the area between nerve cells where impulses pass to tell our bodies what to do. It's clever (and critical) stuff.
At Synapse LI, we do the same: create the conditions for electric thinking and stimulate the right actions you need to thrive.
We're a potent team, having all had successful senior level careers in business and delivering results.
We 'get it', so you get practical, fast results.
We share an ethos of challenging and breaking down barriers, so you get dramatic results from bold thinking.
We have a wealth of Applied coaching, psychology, research & people development expertise, so you always enjoy bespoke, flexible, informed approaches.
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| Research is very clear that in this multi-stakeholder, multi-cultural and highly competitive era historical definitions of great leadership are more likely to inhibit than release potential. Today’s environment and demands call for new types of talent and leadership delivering consistently across all fronts. |
Left Brain  Whole Brain
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Business has been dominated by left brain thinking for the last century – analysis, process, detail, logical straight line thinking. Great for manufacturers, computer programmers, number crunchers and six sigma fans.
Bringing in our right brain thinkers will bring sight of the big picture – trends we can tap into –it will bring creativity that can discover new ways to capture new opportunities that left brain business would argue could not be accessed even if they did exist.
Whole brain businesses will be the ones that pioneer their way up and away from the pressures of recession while the old-fashioned left-brainers try and cost-cut their way down through it to a de-valued future
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Analysis synthesis
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Pockets of analysis deliver limited value, increments at best. Joined-up insights about existing and potential external stakeholders are those on which thriving futures will be built. What are the macro external dynamics for the stakeholders of today and tomorrow? how are you connected to them?
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Added value design
| The most successful brands are those which have been most highly augmented going way beyond functionality to connect emotionally, culturally, even spiritually. This should be the model of how we seek to connect our offer to our stakeholders |
Argument story
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Differentiation remains a constant barrier to entry. Statistics and attractive returns go so far, but to truly connect requires a context brought to life with emotional impact, engaging the audience with your scenario and bonding them within it.
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Command and control inspiration, collaboration and engagement
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We have all learnt that the transactional, command and control, style of leadership caps the potential of any team. However, those who have struggled to learn the more potent transformational style are likely to revert to type under pressure – the time when it is most critical to inspire greater things from one’s team. When the outcome needs to be greater than the sum of the parts
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Internal focus total stakeholder value chain commitment
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Finding comfort in the familiarity of the deck chairs will not save the ship from sinking! It is only by finding new/ better/more connected ways of satisfying existing and new stakeholders that we can create a thriving destiny. New structures, lower costs and lower prices have to end somewhere – only propositions can continually evolve.
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Mono-cultural leadership diverse leadership using 100% of the talent pool
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New opportunities, new solutions, new cultures struggle to emerge from homogenous leadership – defined, as it is, by its sameness. Challenging these “norms”, the way things have always been done, and creating new futures requires diverse perspectives. Businesses must see beyond on their blind spots to create their most competitive talent proposition.
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We work with business leaders (execs, non-execs, entrepreneurs), emerging leaders (senior management, spot-light talent, newly promoted leaders, leaders of strategic projects), women in leadership or aspiring to leadership and HR professionals responsible for talent and leadership development.
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Every organisation and every individual is unique so nothing we do is off-the-shelf. As experts in our field we have defined the critical components and nuances. However, we seek first to assess where the gaps exist and understand the way our clients work before proposing approaches to bring out the priority changes in the areas identified.
We believe in working with live challenges tied in with business planning cycles. We have found that the greatest gains have been made by those with a high ambition-low ego profile.
We have developed a number of potent frameworks to ensure that development is rapid, personal and deeply embedded
- Discovery Stream» «Thinkshop™
- Orientation«»Growth™
- Pause for success™
We also use:-
- TGROW – classic coaching model
- The Thinking Environment®
We work with complementary experts preferring to do the right thing rather than everything. We constantly listen, learn and grow our offer and capability
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