Here is the honest truth about developing people:

Even at the highest levels in the best organisations, most leaders give unimpactful feedback, then wonder why their people don’t change.

It’s not the people that are the problem - it’s the leader.

When you take responsibility for your people’s growth and have ongoing and meaningful feedback conversations, change happens very quickly and performance is transformed.

Let us show you how.

Some leaders manage people.

Other leaders grow them.

Which kind do you want to be?

Great leaders develop people. They enable them to reach their potential. It isn't an accident - it is very deliberate. They think about them, consider what’s possible and work with their people to grow capability.  

They way they do this starts with how they use feedback… and it goes way beyond what you’ve been taught. It’s an ongoing dialogue that is grounded in one belief: I believe in you.

Great leaders build talent. They establish a culture of engagement and connection alongside an expectation of growth. They create milestone moments in people's careers; moments that enable people to meet their potential.

Are you ready to become one of these leaders?

Introducing Feedback that Transforms - a 6-week Advanced Leadership program that will shift you from giving feedback that informs to feedback that transforms. This program will not only transform your peoples performance, but their engagement and connection with you, too.

Your feedback will become strategic and motivating. It will be grounded in observation, the bigger picture and two-way dialogue. It will be conversational, not abrupt. Unemotional yet highly supportive.

We work with the number one barrier to giving feedback – it’s uncomfortable – and learn how to manage this to ensure feedback conversations are non-confrontational yet impactful.

You will learn how to use both positive and negative feedback to build confidence that will accelerate both engagement and capability.

The course creates habits that underpin quality development conversations - habits that will improve your leadership every day of your career.

Integrated into how you lead, the program will change how you develop people, forever.

“This is not Feedback 101; this is Masters-level feedback training for leaders who want to become experts in developing people.”

What past participants had to say

  • As a result of the course, I have prioritised more reflection time to assess people's performance and what feedback I could provide - this has led to better and deeper conversations and understanding.

  • I would highly recommend this program to anyone who manages a team and wants to be more confident when they are faced with having to have a more challenging conversation with one of their team members

  • It was such a lightbulb moment realising how trying to protect other peoples feelings wasn't respecting their ability to handle it.

  • The program has changed my understanding of why the things I am seeing or not matter, so I am clear on why feedback is required and I can therefore better articulate it to others.

  • As a result of this program I am more open to practise giving feedback and more conscious about noticing what I'm seeing, what the impact is and what qualities people are exhibiting so I can help them understand themselves better.

  • I feel more confident giving feedback to my team. It really challenged me to think about all the things that hold me back and the benefits of actually getting on and having the conversation - ensuring that I am well prepared before I do so!

  • My team member is now more open with me about the challenges she is having and I could give her real examples (based on my observations) of how that is impacting her interactions with others and me.

  • The practical frameworks assisted me to order my thinking and make notes around the observations which were invaluable when it came to actually having a conversation. I could be objective and less emotive.

  • The main impact is the confidence I now feel in delivering feedback.

  • I would strongly recommend this program for any people managers and business influencers, and in fact have done so by recommending to Mars NZ to progress enrolling other Line Managers into this course.

  • Kate is very effective as a facilitator, I have enjoyed her presentation style, communication skill and strengths in both listening and questioning.

  • The program has made me reconsider my approach, spend a bit more time up front in planning and having discussion questions ready. I've seen the importance of not just providing positive feedback to the top performers and negative feedback to the lower performers, but the importance to provide positive and negative feedback to all my direct reports consistently, as well as to other associates with key working relationships across the business.

How effective is your feedback?

Use this free Masterclass to rapidly assess the quality of your feedback and supercharge it’s impact today.

Great leaders develop people intentionally.

You can be one of them – a leader who helps people reach their potential using feedback as the catalyst. A leader who deliberately builds talent and faces into discomfort in favour of the benefits.

You’ll use feedback to create conversations that unlock barriers and transform performance without losing trust or connection.

You will shift from delivering feedback via one-off uncomfortable conversations to an ongoing constructive dialogue that enables people to grow and grow and grow.

Through the power of feedback, you can become the leader who creates confident future leaders.

Program Content

  • Module 1 - Preparation

    Learn a framework that will enable you to prepare feedback that opens up conversations which get to the heart of the issue.

    Overcome discomfort and build EQ and self-awareness through your own preparation.

  • Module 2 - Conversation

    Shift from delivering one-way feedback to creating powerful two-way dialogue that uncovers barriers and leads to clear actions.

    Learn how to overcome your own emotional barriers and how to support the recipients emotion to ensure feedback is received as intended.

  • Module 3 - Acceleration

    Learn how to use positive feedback in a unique way that accelerates growth and creates true confidence.

    Understand what is important in creating confidence that lasts, and how to ensure positive feedback is received and shifts self-image.

  • Module 4 - Continuation

    Understand ‘what’s next’ if feedback hasn’t resulted in the desired change, and how to use feedback to develop connection and trust.

    Identify your personal development edges to become an expert and what you need to do to shift your capablity.

What you’ll get out of the program

Shift performance

Experience feedback conversations that result in sustained performance and behaviour change.

Feel comfortable

Leave the discomfort behind and become excited to give feedback knowing the performance it unlocks.

Make it a habit

Learn how to habitually incorporate feedback into every interaction you have as leader without thinking about it.

Understand yourself

Understand your personal barriers to giving feedback and how to overcome them.

Create confident leaders

Learn how to create real confidence in your people that provides a platform for growth.

Manage emotions

Overcome the fear of hurting people’s feelings and managing your own emotions.

Build your skills over 6 weeks to transform your ability to grow people using the incredible untapped power of feedback. Through the duration of the program you will create habits through experience and implementation rather than just acquiring knowledge, supported each week by an expert at developing talent.

4-Module self-paced online course: 3-4 video lessons per week @ 7-22 minutes each.

Two course options available:

  1. Group Program in-house

    Limited to 5 participants, ideally in one leadership team

    6 x 1-Hr Group coaching sessions - weekly

    Four module online course content

    NZD8999 (+GST NZ businesses only)

  2. Individual Program

    6 x 1-hr individual coaching sessions - weekly

    Four module online course content

    Sole focus on your development and your team

    NZD7999 (+GST NZ businesses only)

The Offer

Is this program right for you?

This is for you if:

  • You are an experienced leader who wants to be an expert at developing people

  • You believe your team can be better

  • You want the capability of your team to grow

  • You would like to be able to give impactful feedback with ease

  • You'd love to be able to build your people’s confidence

  • You want to grow not only performance, but connection and engagement too

  • You are already proficient at giving feedback

This is not for you if:

  • You've never given feedback before

  • You don't want to give more feedback

  • You don’t believe your team has any more potential

 FAQs

  • The course is designed for leaders looking to develop their people and maximise their potential. It is not entry level feedback, it is for those who are experienced giving feedback and are ready to take it to the next level. Participants must be managing at least one person.

  • Everyone is capable of change. Through the program we will uncover the barriers to change to ensure that it is clear how to move forward where change is more challenging. Where there is no will to change, we will explore that and how to proceed too.

    You will be supported by an expert in people development in the coaching sessions as you progress through the course material.

  • At times it is not feedback that’s required, it’s clear and aligned expectations. Distinguishing the difference is important. Feedback is always a catalyst to growth, as long as it is done right – through the course I will teach you how to ensure you are doing it in a way that results in change.

  • Confident people are less stressed, take more calculated risks and engage others more constructively. Having these people in your team results in better outcomes and higher engagement. The value is immense!

  • The course consists of four modules, each made up of 3-4 lessons. The lessons start with knowledge, to create an understanding, then building your self-awareness, and finally the how-to for each module. Each video lesson is between 6-21 minutes and some have exercises to complete after the lesson.

    There are handouts that can be downloaded and printed within each module.

    There are coaching sessions throughout the program in which you can ask Kate any questions you have or share your experience in applying the skills.

  • The intent to be a leader who develops people and prior experience giving feedback.

  • The course content won’t take more than 1-1.5 hours per week plus a coaching call, then the application will be on the job. It will be important that you practise the skills daily if you want to create these new habits.

  • There are 4 modules to be completed over 5 weeks.

  • The course content and approach is specific to someone that you have a management relationship with, however you will find elements of the tools you learn applicable to other feedback conversations too.

About Kate

Kate Morton is a Leadership Coach and former FMCG Executive, previously the General Manager of Wrigley NZ and Sales Director at Mars NZ.

Kate is an expert in unlocking potential, growing performance and creating engagement in teams and individuals, both as a coach and in prior roles leading and growing teams of up to 200 people.

Kate is passionate about effective communication, the growth potential inherent in all of us and in developing leaders who create confident future leaders.

Kate supports the growth and development of leaders through The Transformation Space, a leadership development company with a special interest in self-leadership - growing confidence, emotional intelligence, authenticity and connection with yourself and others.

My guarantee.

I am confident that when you work through the program and apply your learnings with your team you’ll see a marked shift in performance and engagement.

If you don’t see that I’ll offer a full no-questions-asked money back guarantee on the program.

Become an expert at growing people.

Join the Feedback That Transforms Program today.