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Programs for leaders, teams & organisations

Whether you want to find and live out your purpose, build purpose into your organisation, or get your team working well together and delivering, there’s a program for that, tailored to you.

Track one

Purpose

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Leadership Calling Program

  • 3, 6, 9 or 12 months
  • Individual or group

Based on my forthcoming book, Leadership Calling, this program takes leaders on a journey of discovering their individual purpose, finding deeper meaning and becoming more impactful in everything they put their hand to. It enables them to create and live out a legacy sourced in purpose across work, life and leadership, and to more fully realise their unique calling.

Key program elements

  • Discovering, and being able to clearly articulate, your individual purpose and personal calling as a leader.
  • Connecting individual purpose to organisational purpose and to the work that is done every day.
  • Crafting a legacy sourced in purpose, and making that legacy a reality across all areas of life.
  • A framework to make all of this real in a practical, accessible and flexible way.

Outcomes for individual leaders

  • Greater results with less effort, by spotting and using key leverage points in all areas of life.
  • Deeper meaning and fulfilment in everyday life, and more impact in everything you do.
  • A further distinction in your leadership that sets you apart.
  • A deeper and more sustainable source of energy for work, life and leadership.
  • A greater ability to maintain balance and wellbeing amid high pressure and competing demands.

Outcomes for businesses

  • A greater ability to meet both tactical and strategic business goals.
  • Both the perception and the reality of being a great place to work.
  • Intrinsically driven employee engagement.
  • Productivity boosted through creativity and working smarter.
  • Attracting and retaining the best people.

Format

Individually or as a group, over 3, 6, 9 or 12 months. Each three-month period mixes individual work, experiential facilitation of the program elements, practical experimentation, and regular coaching and support.

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Individual Purpose Program

  • 4 weeks
  • 1:1 or group

This program leads you through a process of discovery that uncovers your individual purpose in a profound and powerful way. Along the way, you’ll connect your purpose to the work you do and the life you live every day.

Many of us are living through a “crisis of meaning”: we need our life and our work to have an underlying purpose. Research over the last few decades points to one underlying key to longer, healthier, happier, more fulfilling and more productive lives: purpose.

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Organisational Purpose Program

  • 3 months
  • Leadership teams & organisations

A facilitated three-month journey of discovery for an organisation and its leaders, ending in a clear organisational purpose that is woven into strategy and goals.

Research shows that when a business is clear on and lives by its purpose, it is more profitable, more productive, more innovative and more competitive. It grows faster, attracts and keeps the best talent, and has the highest employee engagement.

Organisations on the ASX100 with a purpose-driven, engaged culture performed 2–4x better than the index average.

We Are Unity Analytics, May 2021

Read more in my whitepaper, Creating Inspired Organisations (PDF).

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Track two

Teams & delivery

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Team on Purpose

  • Tailored to your team
  • Teams & leadership teams

Get your team working well together. Most teams are full of capable people, but far fewer work well as a team. This program builds what makes the difference: a shared purpose, trust and psychological safety, clear roles and ways of working, and the habits of communication and feedback that keep a team healthy under pressure.

What we work on

  • A shared purpose and clear goals the whole team owns.
  • Trust and psychological safety, so people speak up early.
  • Roles, responsibilities and how decisions get made.
  • Ways of working and rhythms, like retrospectives, that keep the team improving.
  • Communication, conflict and feedback.

What changes

  • A team pulling in the same direction.
  • Issues raised early instead of late.
  • Less friction and fewer dropped balls.
  • Better delivery, with more energy and engagement.
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Delivery Capability Review

  • 6 weeks
  • Findings & recommendations

A full assessment, with recommendations, of your end-to-end project or product delivery. It suits any mix of traditional, agile, plan-driven, change-driven, adaptive or “home-grown” delivery models.

The review is thorough, covering people, culture, process, practices, systems and tools. The people and culture part includes a research-based psychological safety assessment and an employee NPS score.

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Team & Delivery Uplift Program

  • 3-month increments
  • Any team, delivery or not

Lift how your team works to best practice across people, culture, process, practices, systems and tools. It’s for any team: a project or product delivery team, an operations or business-as-usual team, a business function or a leadership team.

For every team

  • Clear priorities, and a visible flow of work everyone can see.
  • Ways of working and rhythms that suit the team, like planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.
  • Less firefighting and rework, and more time for the work that matters.
  • Habits of continuous improvement the team keeps up after the program ends.

For delivery teams, as well

The best of traditional plan-driven approaches and modern change-driven (agile and adaptive) ones, combined into a delivery model that is safe, innovative, agile and adaptive all at once.

The program runs in three-month increments. Each increment acts as a “change release”, building capability into how your team works.

Background reading: Agility in Projects & Programmes and Agility in Continuous Improvement (PDFs).

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Getting started

How we’d begin

  1. A conversation

    We talk about where you are, where you want to be and what’s getting in the way.

  2. A tailored plan

    I shape the program around your people, your context and your goals.

  3. The work

    Facilitation, coaching and practical experiments, with regular check-ins on progress.

FAQ

Questions about working together

Do you work with individuals or organisations?

Both. The Leadership Calling Program and the Individual Purpose Program run one-to-one or in groups. The Organisational Purpose Program, Team on Purpose and the delivery programs work with leadership teams, teams and whole organisations.

How long do the programs run?

The Individual Purpose Program runs over 4 weeks and the Organisational Purpose Program over 3 months. The Leadership Calling Program runs for 3, 6, 9 or 12 months. The Delivery Capability Review takes 6 weeks and the Team & Delivery Uplift Program runs in 3-month increments. Team on Purpose is tailored to each team.

What does purpose actually do for a business?

Research shows that when a business is clear on and lives by its purpose, it is more profitable, more productive, more innovative and more competitive, grows faster, attracts and keeps the best talent, and has the highest employee engagement. Organisations on the ASX100 with a purpose-driven, engaged culture performed 2–4x better than the index average (We Are Unity Analytics, May 2021).

Where are you based?

I’m based in Auckland, New Zealand, and have worked with organisations across New Zealand and Australia.

How do we get started?

Get in touch by email at hi@glennbolan.com or call 027 210 1726. We’ll start with a conversation about where you are, where you want to be and what’s getting in the way.

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Let’s find the right fit.

Tell me a little about your team or organisation and what you’d like to change, and we’ll work out the best next step together.