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We help leaders cultivate the qualities that are often spoken about but not always fully realised. At the heart of our approach is authentic communication, genuine connection, and meaningful collaboration. In today’s volatile environment, leaders face greater pressure than ever to keep people engaged and motivated to deliver results.
At cmt.training, we work alongside you to strengthen your leadership presence in a credible, collaborative, and inspiring way.
This programme includes practical tools drawn from The Work of Leaders, focusing on three critical areas: creating a compelling vision, aligning people behind it, and ensuring effective action to achieve the desired results.
Designed to be more in-depth, the programme runs over two to three months, giving you the space to practise and embed your learning. Breakthroughs often happen in the personal coaching sessions, where you’ll explore your specific needs and work through any blocks or challenges to unlock your full potential as a leader.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Develop your authentic leadership presence
- Show up calm, centred, and connected with others
- Craft and communicate your vision through story
- Lead collaboratively and build greater trust
- Engage effectively to inspire and motivate both individuals and groups
- Listen openly and work with different perspectives
- Take people with you through difficult or challenging times
- Break through personal barriers by examining what holds you
In today’s competitive world, the value cmt add, is like gold dust
Mark KelseyCEO
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
6 - 12 delegates
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This advanced course is designed to help you elevate your presentations through the power of storytelling, ensuring your message is engaging, memorable, and impactful.
Building on our core presentation skills programme, it is tailored for those who present to larger audiences, senior leadership groups, conferences, and other high-profile external settings. You will learn how to inspire, motivate, and connect more effectively with every audience.
The course is aimed at confident speakers who want to move from good to great. A key feature is individual coaching within the workshops, giving you the opportunity to explore and refine your unique presentation style. You will also gain insights from the techniques used by the world’s most successful speakers, enabling you to deliver with greater authority, authenticity, and presence.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Develop a more engaging and authentic speaking style
- Increase your credibility with both internal and external audiences
- Prepare and structure compelling, story-based presentations
- Read, respond to, and actively engage different audiences and groups
- Master the essential tools of great speaking
- Handle difficult or challenging questions with confidence and composure
- Create speeches that inspire hearts, minds — and action
Leaders say it’s the best, most practical event they have attended, providing techniques that can be implemented immediately
Lynne McCormickHead of Leadership
Rolls Royce
6 - 12 delegates
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Working collaboratively boosts productivity and gives everyone a stronger sense of purpose. This workshop focuses on the how of collaboration. Effective communication is key to building a collaborative team, supported by emotional intelligence and respect for those both similar and different to ourselves.
Collaboration is especially valuable where relationships need to be developed and sustained over time. The workshop increases your awareness of your preferred influencing style and strengthens your ability to respond to others in an authentic, appropriate way. This enables you to build relationships and influence conversations with greater confidence and sensitivity to the needs of others.
The workshop is highly practical. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills through interactive activities, challenging role-plays with actors, and by demonstrating your influencing style in a meeting. You will also receive feedback and coaching to help you develop greater flexibility.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Build and manage more collaborative relationships
- Gain permission to lead and influence others effectively
- Recognise the impact of using preferred “push” or “pull” influencing styles
- Read and respond to different people’s behaviours with confidence
- Identify what matters most to others to work with them more effectively
- Develop deeper listening skills to engage with both what is said and unsaid
- Deliver difficult messages without jeopardising relationships
Very professional. Highly credible. Hugely impactful. This is the best learning we deliver to our team!
Mark AldrichInternal Capability Lead
HMRC
6 - 12 delegates
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Achieving your outcome and influencing is not just about putting together a logical message. It requires an understanding of the politics involved and the appropriate level of impact to ensure that your message gets heard and acted upon. This programme focuses on the behaviours that underpin successful influencing to give you more options when communicating at meetings or speaking to groups. We will also work with you to boost the impact that you have in these situations. This programme is not about being ‘brash’ or manipulative, it is designed to help you feel confident and build the flexibility to turn-up the right bit of your personality at the right time.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Develop a greater array of influencing styles
- Communicate with greater credibility
- Engage others and be more approachable
- Deliver challenging messages and be able to deal with push-back
- Remain calm and credible in uncertain situations
- Connect better with others
- Be able to read and influence the group dynamic
Superb. Significantly exceeded my expectations. Thank you.
Steve LanganFormer CEO
Hiscox USA
6 - 12 delegates
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The most powerful communication tool you have is you!
This session is for people who want to maximise their presence and impact at meetings, when presenting or with ‘tricky’ individuals. It will help you to create the impression you want so that you can communicate with clarity and impact. We will explore not just what you say—but specifically how you say it, through greater use of voice and body language. This course will enable you to develop your own authentic ‘brand’ of personal impact which is a key part of being professionally effective.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Know how to make an impact
- Have greater confidence in using your voice and body language
- Be a more confident and relaxed communicator
- Know that your voice is “saying” what you want it to
- Use non-verbal communication to read and handle ‘tricky’ situations
- Communicate in a more collaborative way
- Have developed a flexible yet authentic style
cmt are brilliant. If you are considering asking them to help you develop the personal impact of your people, go ahead – you will not be disappointed
Alison ColemanHead of Six Sigma
Unipart
6 - 12 delegates
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This course will help you develop the crucial business skill of speaking and presenting in person and on screen. It is a highly practical and popular and will enable you to present in a coherent, concise and compelling way. It also includes how to structure a memorable message so as to create the maximum engagement with your audience. You will receive specific feedback on the content of your message, how its landing and coaching to boost your delivery skills. At the end of the programme you will feel more confident and credible as a presenter.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Produce and deliver more stimulating and powerful presentations internally and externally
- Organise and deliver presentations in a coherent, concise and compelling way
- Increase your credibility and be a more memorable speaker
- Use your voice with more variety, authority and power
- Increase the impact of your body language
- Develop greater competence and confidence speaking to individuals and groups
- Get your key message across in 30 seconds or less
These guys taught me more about presentation skills in half a day, than I’d learnt in the previous twenty
Adam EatonOD Specialist
Royal Air Force
6 - 12 delegates
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Research shows that the most feared conversations are not personal, they are professional. We try to avoid having conversations with our colleagues about poor performance, money and workplace behaviour. The aim of this workshop is to help you build a resolute but not combative approach to difficult conversations. To do this we will explore how you keep the channel of communication open by being a good listener, and ensuring that the message is truly heard. Additionally, resolving a challenging situation is not about ducking the core issues. It is about recognising and validating the other persons experience while also helping them to take ownership to ensure they make the appropriate changes.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Have more honest and open conversations
- Challenge more elegantly while maintaining the relationship
- Deliver a message with more authority and/or sensitivity
- Avoid unnecessary conflict when putting your views forward
- Reading others to make sure you have ‘permission’ to air your views
- Increase awareness of your behavioural preferences and their impact
cmt understand our values and helps leaders to connect, inspire and build trust in a real way
Des JohnsonOrganisational Development Manager
WDH
6 - 12 delegates
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The aim of this programme is to give you a simple set of tools to help you feel more confident while leading and influencing meetings. You will be able to apply these skills if you are the person in charge or part of the group. The workshop will help you read the dynamic of a meeting, both what is said and unsaid. You will increase your awareness of not only the tone of a meeting but also learn how to keep it on track and ensure everybody is involved. This programme is designed to help you boost your credibility while developing the ability to collaborate effectively with everyone.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Lead and influence meetings more effectively
- Develop greater awareness of the dynamics of a group
- Stay calm and look like the person in charge
- Recognise how and when to intervene elegantly in a group situation
- Understand the effect of your style on others
- Draw out the wallflowers and quieten the over talkative
- Deal with challenge so that it doesn’t become personal
You have restored my faith in training
Roger HighfieldEditor
New Scientist
6 - 12 delegates
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This programme is designed for managers and team leaders who want to understand and refine how they engage, support and motivate their teams during organisational change.
There are typical and predictable patterns of behavioural responses to new processes and practices. Working through the stages of these transitions, leaders will be more prepared for managing change and any diverse behaviour they encounter. And ensuring a more collaborative approach during implementation, will help to make sure there is a smoother navigation and real buy-in for all those affected. The skill development includes, active listening, clear communication, and managing what can and cannot be controlled so as to minimise the adverse impact on performance and morale.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Understand the psychological stages of change and the necessity of transition
- Be able to minimise the impact of transition on morale and performance
- Support individuals at different stages of the change curve
- Strategies for managing and challenging behaviour through change
- Impact of what can/cannot be controlled
- Be able to communicate change more effectively
Without doubt one of the best courses I’ve been on, in terms of practical tips, tailor-made feedback and relevant skills. Highly Recommended
Fiona GreenMinistry of Defence
6 - 12 delegates
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This workshop enables you to assert yourself with skill in different situations at work. It focuses on the mind-set and behaviours that increase self-confidence so you can be more assertive whilst respecting the rights of others.
You will gain more awareness of how you come across to others in certain contexts, and ways to move towards more empowering, respectful and assertive behaviours. This might be with more energy from being passive to more assertive, or to tone down aggressive behaviours to ensure respect and consideration towards others.
You’ll develop practical behaviours to give you more choices about how you respond to situations involving work colleagues, clients, and suppliers.
Objectives
This courses will enable you to:
- Recognise four main default behaviours (assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive)
- Notice which of these behaviours you resort to under stress and when and why this happens
- Develop more behavioural flexibility so you manage difficult situations with more choices and skill
- Gauge when to hold back and when to push to be heard
- Learn how to say no with confidence
cmt provide relevant, highly practical content, delivered by excellent facilitators, and are a trusted partner to work with
Lynne McCormickHead of Leadership
Rolls Royce
6 - 12 delegates
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