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HOW IT WORKS

Development that happens alongside the day job.

The Leadership Upgrade runs over three months, giving managers time to learn concepts, implement in the real world and come back with what happened.

Becoming a better manager can’t just happen in a training room. It happens in the everyday conversations, decisions, and situations they face.

01 LEARN

Monthly half-day workshops

Three live, practical workshops that build the skills managers need as they move through Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading Beyond.

Designed to be delivered in-person, with virtual delivery available when needed

02 APPLY

Put it to work

Participants leave each workshop with specific actions to use in their role: a conversation to have, something to delegate, an expectation to clarify, or a leadership habit to change.

The learning gets tested where it matters: on the job.

03 WORK IT THROUGH

Individual 1:1 support

Each participant has a monthly 1:1 conversation with Julie to work through what’s happening on their own team and apply the programme to real situations.

No hypothetical case study required. Bring the actual problem.

WHAT CHANGES

Better leaders build more capable teams.

The aim isn’t simply for participants to know more about leadership. It’s for their organisations to see a difference in how they lead.

01 Managers stop being the bottleneck

They delegate more effectively, make better use of their team’s capability, and spend less time doing work that should sit elsewhere.

02 Teams become less dependent on their manager

People are encouraged to think, make decisions, and solve more for themselves rather than escalating everything upwards.

03 Problems get addressed earlier

Expectations are clearer and difficult performance or behavioural conversations happen before small issues become bigger ones.

04 Leadership capability gets stronger

Managers become more confident operating beyond their technical expertise whether that’s with their teams, their peers or stakeholders across the organisation

The technical expertise that earned them the promotion remains valuable. It just stops being the only thing they rely on.

WHO IT’S FOR

Built for the people caught between expert and leader.

The Leadership Upgrade is designed for technical professionals who are new to people management or still finding their feet in the transition.

It works particularly well for organisations where managers:

  • have been promoted because of their technical expertise

  • are still heavily involved in day-to-day technical delivery

  • are managing people who were previously their peers

  • need to delegate more and develop greater capability in their teams

  • are avoiding or struggling with performance conversations

  • are experiencing decreased productivity or engagement with their teams

  • need to build confidence working with stakeholders beyond their immediate team

Built for engineering, technology, professional services, sciences, and other technically led environments

WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

One programme. Two ways to experience it.

FOR ORGANISATIONS

The Leadership Upgrade - Cohort Programme

For organisations developing a group of newly promoted or emerging technical leaders.

Includes:

3 × monthly half-day workshops
3 × individual 1:1 sessions per participant
Practical workplace application between sessions
In-person delivery as standard
Virtual delivery available where required

FOR INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

The Leadership Upgrade - 1:1

For individual technical professionals making the transition into people leadership.

Includes:

6 × bi-weekly 1:1 development sessions
The complete Leadership Upgrade framework
Practical application between sessions
Support tailored to the manager's own team and challenges

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MAKE THE NEXT PROMOTION COUNT

Don’t wait until they’re struggling to start developing them

If you're promoting technically brilliant people into management, The Leadership Upgrade gives them practical support to make the transition before old habits become leadership problems.

Let's have a 20-minute conversation about the managers you're developing and whether the programme is the right fit.

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Julie Falls Consulting

julie@jfalls.com