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MANAGERS at all levels of experi- ence have been invited to hone their skills in Ballyvaughan next month by taking part in a leaders for busi- ness programme.
The programme, which has been developed by the Burren Leadership Forum, will take place in the Burren Coast Hotel in Ballyvaughan from November 25 to 28.
“We are bringing together a group of 15 managers from various dif- ferent levels to take part in the pro- eramme. The premise of the ap- proach is that, in order to be able to lead others, we have to be first able to lead ourselves,” said Barry Walsh,
leadership coach and organiser of the Leadership for Managers Pro- eramme.
“We will look at ourselves as indi- viduals and establish what kind of leaders we want to be. So each in- dividual will then develop a specific plan for becoming the leader that he or she wants to be.”
The organisers have developed a programme of modules over the last number of months which they believe is unique to the industry of developing managers.
“One good example of this is a module on leadership through crea- tive thinking, which we hope will be a great success. Another is ‘Leader- ship Through Finding Your Own
Voice’ where we will be working with a vocal coach and a psycho- therapist on body posture and find- ing your authentic voice. The core programme is to develop a strategic personal plan and finding one’s own leadership goal.”
The programme uses methods such as reflective enquiry, detached ob- server and Enneagram personality profiling, which organisers claim are unique to developing an authentic leadership style.
The programme is different from others as it helps participants to work from the inside out as opposed to tra- ditional approaches that encourage information download from the out- side in. This is very much the core
of the Burren Leadership Forum phi- losophy.
Those leading the modules include Barry Walsh, leadership coach, Mar- tin Hawkes, entrepreneur and per- sonal development specialist, Mary Hawkes Green, founder of the Bur- ren College of Art, Professor Timo- thy Emlyn Jones, artist and dean of the Burren College of Art, Mar- tin Myler, psychotherapist, Archie Simpson, vocal coach and Padraig Cleary, management consultant.