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Leadership Refresher Lab

For experienced leaders who want to sharpen their skills, challenge old habits and lead with fresh confidence.

Experience gives you perspective, but the way people work keeps changing. Familiar leadership habits may need a fresh look when teams become hybrid, priorities shift or you want to develop others more deliberately. We understand the value of stepping back without starting again. Bring what you know; make room for what comes next.

1 day face to face or 4 live online sessions6–8 delegatesCourse-specific online & face-to-face options
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Small groups. Your real scenarios.

your world belongs in the Lab —

Why this Lab exists

Your experienced leaders have plenty to bring. They may also be navigating different expectations, dispersed teams or habits that no longer serve them quite as well. We create space to step back without starting over. The content is designed to challenge familiar thinking, reconnect leaders with their purpose and explore how they can support people more deliberately. Fresh perspective meets practical rehearsal, so experience becomes a foundation for the next chapter rather than a reason to stand still.

From practice to your working world

Reflect on your current approach, explore it with experienced peers and practise alternatives. Leave with a focused development plan, clearer priorities and practical changes to the way you support your team.

What your people can develop

  • Identify the habits helping and hindering you
  • Adapt your style to the people you lead
  • Set a clear personal leadership purpose
  • Leave with a practical reset plan
  • Build trust in a hybrid team
  • Set a communication rhythm that works
Who is this Lab for?
  • Managers with 3+ years' experience
  • Leaders stepping into bigger roles
  • Leaders who feel they've plateaued
  • Leaders of hybrid or remote teams

Choose a course below for its full topics, outcomes, audience, duration and starting prices. Individual workshops and combined programmes have different scopes; we agree your booking and any additional support with you.

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Leadership Refresher Lab

For experienced leaders who want to sharpen their skills, challenge old habits and lead with fresh confidence.

the complete programme —

Leadership Refresher Lab

Experience is valuable; taking time to challenge your habits makes it more valuable still. This focused refresher helps established leaders reset their leadership style, strengthen modern and hybrid teams, think and influence strategically, and develop future talent. Choose an immersive face-to-face day bringing all four topics together, or four live online sessions with space to apply ideas between meetings. Reflection, peer challenge and practical work on your own leadership situations turn the programme into a clear plan for what you will do differently.

Who it's for

Experienced managers and senior leaders looking to enhance their leadership skills.

6–8 delegates — everyone seen, heard and practising

Choose how you run it

Face to face1 day · 9:30am–5pm

From £4,900per group + VAT

All four topics in one focused workshop day, with facilitated discussion, practical exercises and a personal leadership action plan.

Live online4 online sessions

From £3,900per group + VAT

One topic per live session: leadership style, modern and hybrid teams, strategic influence and developing others. Apply your actions between sessions and bring your learning back to the group.

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the journey, module by module —

What's in the programme

  1. 1
    Leading with Purpose: Your Style Revisited

    Revisit your leadership style, challenge established habits and reset how you lead with greater purpose and adaptability.

    • Identify the habits helping and hindering you
    • Adapt your style to the people you lead
    • Set a clear personal leadership purpose
    Module details
  2. 2
    Leading Modern & Hybrid Teams

    Build trust, connection and performance across hybrid, remote and multi-site teams, while responding to different generations and individual needs.

    • Build trust in a hybrid team
    • Set a communication rhythm that works
    • Spot and support wellbeing issues early
    Module details
  3. 3
    Strategic Thinking & Influence

    Move beyond managing tasks to shape strategic direction, make clearer decisions and build support for your ideas.

    • Link team goals to the bigger picture
    • Make clearer, faster decisions
    • Map and influence key stakeholders
    Module details
  4. 4
    Developing Talent & Future Leaders

    Recognise potential, coach for growth and develop the people who will become your organisation’s next generation of leaders.

    • Recognise potential in your team
    • Hold coaching conversations that grow people
    • Create meaningful development plans
    Module details

Choose one face-to-face day or four live online sessions covering the same four leadership topics. Groups of 6–8 give every leader space to reflect, contribute and address their own development needs.

your people. their potential. our starting point.

How we train leaders.

Leadership is learned by leading. Our leadership sessions put managers in the situations they actually face — the difficult conversation, the underperforming team member, the change nobody wants — and give them a safe space of 6–8 peers to practise, reflect and build confidence.

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Good conversations. Lightbulb moments.

Before the training

We understand each leader's world

It starts with listening.

  • A briefing with you on your leadership expectations and culture
  • Short pre-work so each leader reflects on their own style and challenges
  • Real people scenarios from your business built into the content

During the training

Practise the moments that matter

Have a go. Find your flow.

  • Small groups of 6–8 so every leader rehearses real conversations
  • Peer coaching and shared experience across your management population
  • Reflection on personal style, impact and trust in the team

After the training

Leadership that shows up on Monday

This is where it comes to life.

  • A personal leadership action plan agreed before leaving the room
  • Tools for one-to-ones, feedback and team meetings
  • Optional follow-up to review progress and coach through new challenges

Bring your real world. Leave with something you can use.

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Ready to step into the lab?

Your business. Our training. Together, we thrive.

Bring the challenge your people want to work on. We'll shape a practical training workshop or coaching experience around it — with room to explore, practise and take a useful next step.

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