Leadership Development

It is essential that staff have role models to look up to and that organisations confront the challenges involved in establishing leadership that reflects the diversity of the organisation and the community that it serves. Astar’s Leadership Development Programmes focus on:

• Leadership competencies
• Personal development
• Mentoring and coaching
• Career planning and development
• Encouragement to pursue further self development opportunities, i.e. secondment, shadowing, training courses and voluntary projects

By developing staff’s leadership potential, organisations can ensure that a diverse pool of people, including those from under-represented groups, are encouraged to seek out development opportunities and progress into leadership roles.

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Supporting Mentors & Mentees

Mentoring relationships should effectively support career progression and learning, as well as promote diversity and equality, to enrich the services of your organisation.

Astar delivers training programmes that enhance the specific skills and general behaviours that both mentors and mentees require to work together effectively. Our programmes include:

• The roles of the mentor and mentee
• The mentoring contract
• Building and managing the mentoring relationship – benefits and challenges

Successful mentoring partnerships bring together sources of potential and sources of experience within your organisation, giving members of staff the opportunity to maximise their potential, development new skills, improve their performance and gain a better understanding of others’ needs and requirements.

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Coaching

Maintaining consistently high levels of personal performance is critical to sustaining business excellence. Astar offers coaching to support individuals and organisations in the following areas:

• Self Awareness
• Personal Development
• Executive Coaching

Astar’s coaching can incorporate the use of psychometric and personality tools such as Myers Briggs Type Indicator, 16PF, 15FQ and Repertory Grids. Astar’s coaches are qualified in the use of psychometric tools and have British Psychological Society membership and adhere to the BPS Code of Ethics and Conduct.

We work with clients to understand the vision and objectives of both the organisation and the individual and develop plans for effective personal performance.

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Personal & Team Effectiveness

Ensuring you have the most effective organisation able to respond quickly and effectively to the daily challenges of 21st century life lies at the core of business success. Astar has considerable experience in facilitating personal and team effectiveness programmes. These include:

• Personal Effectiveness Training: Helping individuals to recognise their talents and harness them to achieve their personal goals
• Coaching: Personal development of key individuals for the enhancement of their performance and the organisation’s performance
• Teamwork Sessions: Facilitating troubleshooting and building relations within a team to maximise the value of the contributions each person brings to the unit

Our approach strives to support and enhance personal, team and organisational morale and productivity and makes the most of each individual’s ability. Focussing individual and team performance is key to sustainable success and creates a culture in which people feel invested in, helping to keep retention rates high and encouraging motivated and valuable individuals to join the organisation.

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Psychometric & Personality Tools

Psychometric and personality tools can be used to objectively consider and recognise individual ways of working. Identifying personal strengths and weaknesses can assist individuals and organisations in assessing development needs, career planning and in building effective teams and working relationships.

Astar can incorporate the use of psychometric and personality tools into our Coaching, Leadership Development and Personal & Team Effectiveness Programmes. These include:

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator: used to identify preferred ways of thinking and behaving to help individuals understand how they make decisions
• 16PF & 15FQ: both used to create a personality profile to identify individual strengths as well as group dynamics
• Repertory Grid: a system based on an individual’s own values – or ‘constructs’ – and enables people to be understood and developed within their own specific terms

Astar’s coaches are qualified in the use of psychometric tools and have British Psychological Society membership and adhere to the BPS Code of Ethics and Conduct.