Human Leadership & Communication
Skills Training
What is Human Leadership?
We need to unlock a more human world of work.
Here is why:
1) AI is shifting work faster than organisations can absorb.
Less than 1% of workers need advanced AI-building skills, but many more need managerial and human skills such as creativity, problem-solving, creativity and innovation.
2) Sustainability is hard to operationalise
90% of executives believe sustainability is important, but only 60% of organisations have sustainability strategies.
Along with systems thinking, we need a regenerative approach with compassionate leaders who can listen with humility, who can find connection in complexity and courage in discomfort.
3) People who can be at their best, stay and do their best work
57% of employees who quit in 2021 indicate that they did so because they felt disrespected at work. When we need better retention, engagement and performance, we need to work on connection, trust and care. Allow the mental space and energy to work with purpose and through our values.
4) The culture we have limits innovation and creativity
To generate ideas and stimulate innovation and collaboration, leaders need to create psychological safety, to listen with curiosity and courage so that people can be heard, belong and be appreciated.
5) Change is hard and often fails at the senior to mid-leadership levels
70% of all change initiatives fail. When we need change and transformation to be ready for the future. People need to understand the change in their own language, believe and explore meaning for themselves. Leaders need to communicate with courage, clarity and stories.
All our Leadership and Communication training and coaching is built and delivered bespoke to your needs…
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE TRAIN ON:
Core Leadership Development- The Human Leadership Skills
Regenerative Leadership- Leading Beyond Sustainability with Inner Development Goals
Coaching skills for leaders and managers- Leader as Coach
Communication skills for leaders and managers
Communicate for engagement and performance
Communicate for trust, belonging and psychological safety
The human workplace, healthy virtual and hybrid teams
Strategic communications- from cascade to dialogue
Strategic thinking for strategic communications
Stakeholder mapping and connecting
Listening and Dialogue
Presence and impact
Deep and active listening and emotional intelligence
Dialogue and the art of conversation
Feedback and feedforward conversations- Nonviolent communication
Leading and communicating through change- managers and leaders
Compassionate leadership through change
Human centric change communications
Leading with authenticity, compassion and courage
Inclusion, belonging and cultural intelligence
Storytelling for leaders
And more…
Soft skills are Human skills. They are hard, but they can be developed.
We build bespoke training and train-the-trainer to develop leadership confidence, competence, and commitment to a more human way to lead and communicate.
We use a broad evidence based wisdom of how humans thrive in work and life that goes beyond ‘the usual’ business leadership knowledge.
Our training and coaching is:
Targeted and Tailored- We know that you, your team and your organisation is unique, so we provide bespoke leadership and communication skills training and development
Flexible- We design the content, format and other elements to suit the best learning environment for your people
Train the trainer- We upskill and train your functional support teams to make support and ongoing growth more sustainable
Before- Coaching and support before the training, including drafting invitations and building stakeholder support
After- We support you with aftercare to review the workshops and sessions, but also to support where there are new challenge.
Training is often a logical place to start and progress further into your development and transformation journey
The table below show where you might go next…
About Chaya, our lead trainer
Hi - Hello, I am Chaya, Founder and Director of Humanly, here is a little about me and my experience.
Me in Coaching and leadership development
I founded Humanly, a leadership development consultancy in 2019 where we train, coach and consult on the soft skills needed for human leadership and communication. I lead a diverse, global team of associate coaches spread across Europe.
I started coaching in-house. I had developed a global communication skills coaching programme and delivered the train-the-trainer to more than 90 communication professionals. So I knew that coaching came naturally. With 15 years of training and coaching experience under my belt, and then stepped into coach training at Barefoot Coaching (they don’t pay me to promote them) I felt like I was in the right place, with ‘my people’ and the skills I learned were a gamechanger!
I work with corporate clients to put training and coaching together to create human leadership development programmes. I lead a 300+ community of leaders communication and HR professionals, coaches and consultants- The Human Leadership Collective and The Inner development goals - Global human leadership network.
Me in Public Relations (PR)
I am a Chartered PR Practitioner with 25+ years experience, 13 years of those years, in the energy industry. I work with brilliant minds who need support on softer/human skills. Often these are technical experts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industries. My experience spans; sustainability, energy, engineering, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, luxury brands and hospitality.
In-house, I started to train leaders in communication skills in 2010 blended this into support and coaching for senior leaders. I noticed the strategic shift in my work, the richer relationships and effective outcomes from coaching. I finally went independent and trained as an executive coach in 2019 .
I am one of the trainers for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) , I run these courses; The psychology of PR, High Performing PR Leadership, Strategic Thinking, Change Communication and Introduction to Internal Communications. I am also Past Vice Chair of CIPR Inside committee, and a member of the CIPR diversity and inclusion network. I worked with a team of volunteers to research and create a report on Line manager communication. As a supporter of the PR community, winning a volunteers award in 2022 to recognise me for my work to build an inclusive and resilient community in PR.