Leadership training for managers and leadership teams

In the morning a new target arrives from above; by lunchtime the team asks why the plan has changed again. A middle manager stands between the two and does what has always worked: explains faster, pushes harder, takes more on themselves. Sometimes it helps. Often it does not.

Leadership training helps leaders see their own leadership style and its impact on others. Once a leader notices their automatic reaction, they can choose how to lead different people and situations.

A woman leads a group discussion at an Insights Discovery workshop

For middle managers

You have moved from specialist to manager and are finding your own way of leading.
Expectations come from above, your people are beside you, and both need you at once.
Your team has people with different styles, and one approach does not work for everyone.
Giving feedback or having a difficult conversation keeps getting postponed.

We work with middle managers in a small group of 1–6 leaders from the same team, because we discuss real situations, real people and real decisions.

For leadership teams

A leadership team with similar styles reaches agreement quickly, but tends to see the same things and overlook the same risks. In another leadership team, decisions drag on because disagreement is never voiced.

We work with the leadership team as a team. The Insights Team Wheel shows which perspectives are over-represented around the table and which are missing. Once the blind spots are visible, we agree together how to bring the missing perspectives into decisions.

How we work

A short conversation. We map the situation, goals and participants, and recommend a programme and length.
A personal profile. Leadership development builds on the personal Insights Discovery® profile (Foundation chapter), which leaders receive in Insights Discovery: An Introduction. If your leaders have already completed it, we add only the leadership chapters. If not, we start with Insights Discovery: An Introduction.
The workshop. In the first half we look at the leader: their natural leadership style, how it lands with people of different styles, and what happens under pressure. We then practise recognising other styles and consciously adapting our own leadership. In the second half we open the personal profiles and work through real leadership situations: feedback, delegation, a difficult conversation, a decision. Each leader ends by writing down what they will do differently next week.
Next step. Insights Discovery Full Circle (360) shows how others experience a leader’s behaviour. As a follow-on to Insights Discovery: Discovering Leadership Effectiveness, Insights Discovery: Self-Aware Leader deepens an experienced leader’s self-awareness.

Programmes for leaders

Insights Discovery: Discovering Leadership Effectiveness is for middle managers and leadership teams, 1–6 leaders from the same team. It helps them understand the impact of their style, adapt their leadership to different people and create clarity in expectations. The Team Wheel shows how the group’s styles interact.
Insights Discovery: Self-Aware Leader is for experienced and senior leaders. It focuses on strengths and shadow sides and conscious choices under pressure. It follows Insights Discovery: Discovering Leadership Effectiveness and adds the Transformational Leadership profile.
Insights Discovery Full Circle (360) combines self-assessment and colleagues’ feedback in the same language.

Participants keep their personal profile. In the next programme only the new profile chapters are added.

Price

The personal Insights Discovery profile (Foundation chapter) is the basis of every programme, and leaders receive it in Insights Discovery: An Introduction. Leadership development adds only the new chapters: Discovering Leadership Effectiveness adds the leadership chapters (Management and Personal Achievement); its follow-on, Self-Aware Leader, uses the Management and Personal Achievement chapters the leader already has and adds only the Transformational Leadership profile. No profile or chapter is bought twice, so we calculate the exact price in the proposal based on what your leaders already have. Travel outside Harju County is charged at EUR 0.50 per km.

Where the training takes place

We train leaders across Estonia at your premises or a venue of your choice, whether in Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu or elsewhere, and virtually via MS Teams. Training is delivered in English or Estonian.

Who leads the training

The trainer is Ertti Hermanson, the only licensed Insights Discovery practitioner in Estonia, with more than 30 years of leadership experience at Alexela, Servaali, Kaupmees & Ko and Momentin, so leadership is discussed from a practitioner’s perspective. Kvadrant Koolitus is the official Insights Discovery partner in Estonia.

Frequently asked questions

Is leadership training suitable for a new manager?

Yes. For someone who has moved from specialist to manager, the training gives a language to make sense of their way of leading and the confidence to adapt it to different people.

Do leaders need to complete Insights Discovery: An Introduction first?

Yes. The personal profile (Foundation chapter) and the shared language are the basis of every later programme. If your leaders have already completed it, we start straight with the leadership chapters.

Why do you work in small groups?

Leadership situations involve real people. With 1–6 leaders from the same team we can discuss them openly and keep the conversation concrete.

What is the difference between Insights Discovery: Discovering Leadership Effectiveness and Insights Discovery: Self-Aware Leader?

The first focuses on how a leader leads others. The second goes deeper into the leader themselves: strengths, shadow sides and choices under pressure.

Can leadership training be delivered virtually?

Yes, on MS Teams. Small-group work works well virtually.

Let’s talk about your leaders

Or write to ertti.hermanson@kvadrantkoolitus.ee or call +372 51 19 878.