Ascend Launches New Virtual Leadership Programmes

Ascend has unveiled a new programme of virtual leadership development workshops, designed to help organisations provide crucial and highly focused support to their leadership teams.

Ascend’s CEO and Founder Bill Lawry explains:

“These uncertain times call for exceptional leaders who can help others to be resilient, can build strong remote teams, have successful conversations, and create powerful client and customer relationships.

“Supporting and developing exceptional leaders has never been more important. We have designed and developed our virtual leadership programmes to give business leaders and senior executives the tools and resources to address the current demands on their leadership, whilst being mindful of the scrutiny on budgets and expenditure.”

Ascend has worked globally in the field of behavioural change for over ten years. To create its newest virtual programmes, the team has distilled its proven leadership development resources to create a powerful, modular, mini-series of virtual leadership development workshops. 

The virtual programmes are a blend of facilitated discussion, peer learning, and insightful content tailored to suit the current climate, that will deliver the skills and knowledge to arm leaders with the know-how and resilience via an online session. It launches with four key topics:

• Enhancing personal and team resilience

• Leading successful remote teams

• Building successful client relationships

• Successful remote conversations.

To maximise the value for participants, each workshop runs over two 75-minute sessions and for a maximum of 12 people, and is ideal for senior professionals and business owners and leaders, executives, and senior HR professionals, irrespective of business type, market, or sector.

“People will get the most from the programmes by signing-up to all four workshops, but their modular format means they can work on a pick-and-mix basis too,” explains Bill. “We are very happy to discuss how participants can tailor the programmes to suit individual aims and the organisation as a whole.”

Additional workshops are already in development and due for launch later this year.

Bill adds: “Now more than ever, it is important for leaders to recognise their management and communication styles, which is not always easy during a period of rapid change. We need to find the balance of adjusting to the changing situation, while also giving a level of consistency to colleagues.

“An organisation is built on its people. With a workforce likely operating remotely, often in isolation, people are now dealing with a unique set of pressures and day-to-day uncertainties. Successful leadership  depends heavily on leaders’ own resilience, performance, and effectiveness, and the new programmes are designed to develop these skills, which are critical to elite leadership at this time.”

For more information, visit: www.ascend.world/virtualleadershipprogrammes or email: christina.grieve@ascend.world