Welcome to our Leadership Academy

"I was relatively new to leadership roles within my workplace and felt I could do with improving my leadership skills. I had attended internal training courses, which were a good foundation, but I felt that I needed a course which was more in depth.

I had heard of the programme through other colleagues who were graduates of previous Top Talent courses and spoke with others further about the course and what it would deliver for me as a leader."

"I believe the benefits of attending this course has allowed me to improve my own skill set but also enabled me to grow. At the time of the course I was the Team Lead for ICT Support.

And now, since the course, I have developed my leadership skills to focus on not only managing the ICT Department, but also other areas within the Council. I firmly believe that without participating in this programme I would not have been able to gain the promotion to my current post"

"Top Talent was unlike any leadership course I have previously undertaken, which was too focused on my management style rather than me as an individual and a leader. As such, Top Talent has not only helped my career; there is a personal dimension to the course that previous leadership course has simply not addressed.

I have applied the lessons - especially emotional intelligence - to my home life and found my relationships at home have been helped by the topics and ideas addresses at TT"

During the course I came to understand some beliefs I had that were holding me back such as my own independence which meant I viewed asking for help as a sign of weakness"

"The programme was a real eye opener – it changed my working world and now external networks have become a crucial part of my life….."