Culture precedes performance
Build capacity throughout your organisation with bespoke leadership development training for all members of your team.
Motivational leadership courses for business
Matt's courses are available as 90 minute, half day or full day programmes and can be online or venue-based dependent on requirements. Bespoke one-to-one coaching is also available on request.
Strategy
Course Details
- Delivering a long-term purpose
- Shaping organisational vision, culture, and values
- Leadership lessons from elite sport
- Minding the gap between values and action
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Innovation & Change - 1
Course 1
- Understanding why change is needed
- Why change initiatives sometimes fail
- Change leadership in practice
- Developing others to enable the organisation to move forward
- Making change stick
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Innovation & Change - 2
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- Lead and change self before leading and changing others
- Developing sustained collaboration
- Harnessing the science of persuasion
- Committing to urgency
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Innovation & Change - 3
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- Lead and change self before leading and changing others
- Developing sustained collaboration
- Harnessing the science of persuasion
- Committing to urgency
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Innovation & Change - 4
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- Lessons in conflict management from the world of elite Football Refereeing
- Managing difficult and challenging conversations
- Leadership in a VUCA environment (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity)
- Providing feedback that achieves real impact
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Enterprise & Risk
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- Ethics and values-based leadership
- Adapting and learning how to be at the heart of your organisation
- Developing trust
- Managing emotions
- Discovering your authentic leadership
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Leading & Developing People
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- Creating a high-performance culture
- Lessons from elite sport and agile businesses
- Develop your Emotional Intelligence to build successful, collaborative teams
- Build trust and rapport, with ability to ‘positively’ challenge
- Becoming a ‘Captain-Coach’ leader to drive high-performance
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Leadership Behaviours - 1
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- Lead by example
- Embed a positive culture of mental health and wellbeing in your organisation
- Develop your Emotional Intelligence to develop outstanding leadership practice
- Listening and communicating non-judgementally
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Leadership Behaviours - 2
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- Judgement and challenge: taking personal accountability
- Building psychological safety in the workplace
- Develop humility in all working practices to succeed
- Becoming a resilient leader and developing resilient behaviours in colleagues
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Leadership Behaviours - 3
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- Role-modelling professional and ethical behaviours
- Galvanising a team to succeed
- Embracing mistakes and failure
- Legacy leadership with a purpose
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Leadership Behaviours - 4
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- Recognising the importance of courage and curiosity
- Leading and managing in a VUCA environment
- Making consistent and effective decisions under pressure
- Valuing difference: understanding the power of coaching/mentoring to drive high performance
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Improving Leaders' Mental Health & Wellbeing - 1
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- Recognising your workplace stress
- Understanding signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression
- Self-care and organisation responsibility
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Improving Leaders' Mental Health & Wellbeing - 2
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- Improve your emotional health and wellbeing
- Build relationships to build resilience
- Manage your energy
- Replacing counter-productive habits with wellbeing habits
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A few words from Matt's clients...
Bill Sawyer
IAPS
“Matt delivered a really empowering workshop for us, a group of independent school Heads. It caused us to pause, reflect and consider how we lead ourselves in terms of our personal well-being before leading others in our schools. His delivery is compassionate, good-humoured and uncompromising in terms of the need to put well-being at the heart of all you do. I thoroughly recommend Matt to any team looking to develop clarity and connection around leadership resilience”.
Sandra Breene
President - Regional Delivery
“I have had the pleasure to hear Matt speak at two events now, on both occasions he captured the audience's interest and enthusiasm with his story telling and very relevant examples. The exercise where he asks everyone to assess their well being in the four different areas really makes one think about truly getting good work – life balance and what we need to do as leaders to ensure our organisations encourage this. Similarly, his approach to leadership by developing strong coaching and mentoring skills is a topic that all those who have responsibility for people should embrace. Engaged, inspired people certainly do create more successful organisations but also ones where people love to come to work. Matt inspired me and the team and I look forward to more insights from him.”
Andrew Carpenter
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
"I have used Matt on a number of occasions as both a motivational speaker at business meetings and as an after dinner speaker and he always delivers the goods. His past life as a Premier League referee offers a number of interesting and amusing anecdotes and his man management skills learned during that time shine out and give him the kudos that audiences respect."
Jenna Goodridge
CHIEF COMMUNITY FUND RAISER
“Matt has stepped up to lead and volunteer for us on a number of occasions; delivering speeches; MC at charity auctions; and assisting with local projects, displaying authentic leadership every time.”
Claire Hutchison
MANAGING DIRECTOR
"I recently attended a workshop that Matt Messias was running as part of the York Business Week and found it refreshingly different, not only the content but the engaging delivery of it. Matt offered a wholly different perspective on the concept of 'coaching' relating it to the results of some of the best sporting and athletic based teams in the world. Interesting, relatable and lots of those 'light bulb' moments we all wish for in a workshop of this kind....thanks Matt."
Steve L
DIRECTOR
"Matt is a sincere and uplifting leadership coach, a magnet of positivity who has enabled me to re-think, explore and re-develop my business strategy to great effect."
Richard Wilson
DIRECTOR
"Matt very generously came and helped at our Inaugural Golf Day which was held to raise money for our local charity – SASH York. Matt was confident, calm and authoritative and was able to successfully lead a room filled with over 100 local business people. Matt engaged with our audience and interspersed stories from his past football days with current business tales. With his help, we raised over £5,000 for the Charity on the day. An extremely professional individual with a personal touch, I would have absolutely no issue recommending Matt and we plan to utilise his services again in the future."
Christopher Evans
Deputy Head (Pastoral)
"The INSET with Matt was of great benefit to all of the teaching staff at Silcoates. Matt was engaging throughout with a captivating manner and a range of thoughtful discussion activities. All staff left with the ability to create a plan to support their own wellbeing and tools to face some of the more challenging situations that they may encounter on a daily basis. I would highly recommend Matt as a speaker to work with staff or students."
Chair of Governors
Clifton Green Primary School, York
Matt has worked with us for 2 years and built up a strong reputation locally to York whilst already having an established profile in other parts of the UK. Matt has been exceptional in coaching our leaders; building self-belief in colleagues throughout the school and has been an integral part of the recovery we’ve been through. This guy is the real deal! “
Executive Director of Education
Marches Academy Trust
“Matt has worked with a number of our senior leaders and headteachers at Marches Academy Trust and the outcomes have been significant. Our leaders have developed resilience; solutions-focused thinking; confidence; and are able to lead and manage effectively under pressure. Matt is a coaching expert who has empowered our leaders to thrive in challenging times.”