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Leadership Development Action Plan
Four Free Management Tools Below ⬇️
Leadership Development Action Plan - Leadership Gap Action Plan
Turn your Leadership Gap Score into a practical Leadership Development Action Plan
Knowing where your managers could improve is useful.
Knowing what to do next is far more valuable.
The Leadership Gap Action Plan has been created to help business owners, HR professionals, senior leaders and managers turn the results of the Leadership Gap Scorecard into clear priorities and practical action.
Rather than trying to improve everything at once, the Action Plan helps you identify the areas that matter most and decide what needs to happen next.
Your Leadership Gap Toolkit includes four practical resources to help you put your plan into action.
A management team with their completed 30 Day Management Improvement Planner
1. 30-Day Management Improvement Planner
Turn good intentions into better management habits
Most managers already know there are things they could do better.
The problem is finding the time, structure and accountability to make those changes stick.
The 30-Day Management Improvement Planner helps managers focus on one improvement at a time.
That might include:
- Giving clearer expectations
- Delegating more effectively
- Providing better feedback
- Having regular one-to-one conversations
- Addressing problems earlier
- Improving communication
- Developing team members
- Holding people accountable
Instead of simply saying:
“I need to become a better manager.”
the planner encourages managers to identify:
What will I do differently?
When will I do it?
How will I know it is working?
Small improvements, repeated consistently, can make a significant difference to the way a team is managed.
2. Manager Health Check Meeting Pack
Find out what is really happening within your management team
How often do your managers actually sit down together and talk about management?
Not targets.
Not production.
Not customers.
Not day-to-day problems.
But how they manage people.
The Manager Health Check Meeting Pack gives you a ready-to-use structure for holding that conversation.
It can be used with supervisors, managers or senior leaders to explore areas such as:
- Management strengths
- Leadership gaps
- Team expectations
- Accountability
- Delegation
- Communication
- Feedback
- Difficult conversations
- Manager confidence
- Development priorities
One of the most useful questions in the session is:
“What are we currently tolerating that we probably shouldn't be?”
That single question can reveal a great deal about the culture of a team or organisation.
Use the Manager Health Check as a standalone management meeting or as the starting point for a wider management development plan.
3. Difficult Conversation Planner
Help managers prepare for the conversations they would rather avoid
Most managers will face difficult conversations.
- Performance problems
- Poor attitude
- Attendance
- Behaviour
- Conflict
- Missed deadlines
- Falling standards
The problem is that many managers have never been shown how to prepare for them.
So they delay.
And the problem becomes harder.
The Difficult Conversation Planner gives managers a simple structure to think through the conversation before it happens.
It helps them consider:
- What has actually happened?
- What evidence do I have?
- Why does this matter?
- What outcome do I need?
- What questions should I ask?
- What does the employee need to understand?
- What support might be appropriate?
- What happens next?
Good managers do not need to become confrontational.
They need the confidence to have clear, fair and professional conversations when they are needed.
4. 20-Minute Leadership Gap Masterclass
5 reasons good employees struggle under otherwise good managers, and what to do about them
As part of your Leadership Gap Action Plan, you will also receive access to a practical 20-minute leadership and management masterclass with Adrian Close.
The session looks at five common leadership gaps.
Expectations
Employees cannot meet a standard they do not properly understand.
Accountability
What managers repeatedly tolerate can quickly become the accepted standard.
Difficult Conversations
Problems rarely become easier because nobody talks about them.
Delegation and Development
Managers who continually do everything themselves may be preventing their teams from developing.
Management Training
Being good at a job does not automatically prepare somebody to manage other people.
The masterclass is designed to make you think about what happens inside your own organisation and identify where management development could have the greatest impact.
5 Reasons Good Employees Struggle Under Otherwise Good
Managers - And What To Do About Them
Management Training
Being good at a job does not automatically prepare somebody to manage other people.
The masterclass is designed to make you think about what happens inside your own organisation and identify where management development could have the greatest impact.
Need More Than a Toolkit?
The Leadership Gap Action Plan is a useful starting point.
But sometimes the gap is bigger than one conversation, one planner or one management meeting.
You may need to develop:
- Newly promoted managers
- Supervisors
- Middle managers
- Senior leaders
- Individual managers through one-to-one coaching
- Whole management teams through bespoke training
I work with organisations throughout the UK and further afield to provide practical leadership and management development at every level.
That can include:
- One-day management and leadership training
- Bespoke in-company programmes
- Longer-term leadership development
- One-to-one coaching
- Support for newly promoted managers
- Difficult conversations and performance management training
- Leadership and management development programmes
If you're not sure what would be right for your organisation, the first step is simply a conversation.
Adrian Close, Director of Ultimate Leadership Training with his New Book Focused LeadershipTell me a little about your managers, the challenges you're facing and what you'd like to improve.
Leadership Development Action Plan
From Leadership Gap Score to Leadership Development Plan
The purpose of these resources is not to give your managers more theory.
It is to help them do something differently.
Your Leadership Gap Score may highlight several areas for improvement.
Don't try to fix them all at once.
Instead:
Identify
Which management gap is currently having the biggest effect?
Prioritise
What one or two changes would make the greatest difference?
Act
What will your managers start doing differently?
Review
After 30 days, what has improved and what needs more work?
That simple process turns your Leadership Gap Score into a practical leadership development action plan.
Who is this Leadership Development Toolkit for?
These resources are particularly useful for:
Business owners who want managers to take greater ownership.
HR professionals who want a practical approach to management development.
Senior leaders who want more capable and confident managers beneath them.
Learning and Development professionals looking for practical management development tools.
New managers who need more structure and confidence.
Experienced managers who want to improve specific areas of their leadership.
Don't try to improve everything at once
One of the biggest mistakes in management development is trying to change too much.
A manager attends a course.
They identify ten things they should improve.
They return to a busy workplace.
Within a week, nothing has changed.
A better approach is to ask:
“What is the one management behaviour that would make the biggest difference right now?”
Then work on it.
Practise it.
Review it.
And only then move to the next one.
That is the thinking behind the Leadership Gap Action Plan.
Start building your Leadership Development Action Plan
Your Leadership Gap Score has shown you where there may be opportunities to improve.
Now turn those insights into action.
Your resources include:
✓ 30-Day Management Improvement Planner
✓ Manager Health Check Meeting Pack
✓ Difficult Conversation Planner
✓ 20-Minute Leadership Gap Masterclass
Together, they give you a simple starting point for building more confident, capable and consistent managers.
About Adrian Close
Practical leadership from someone who has actually managed people
I’ve spent much of my career managing people, leading teams and dealing with the real challenges that come with responsibility.
The targets. The pressure. The difficult conversations. The team members who need support. The ones who need challenging. The days when everything goes well — and the days when nothing seems to.
That experience shaped the way I now work with managers and leaders.
I believe good leadership is often much simpler than people make it.
Set clear expectations. Have honest conversations. Deal with problems early. Develop your people. Hold standards. Build trust.
Today, I help managers and leaders become more confident, capable and consistent through practical training, coaching and development.
One question I often ask is:
“What would your team say it is like to be managed by you?”
Because leadership is not really about what we think we do.
It is about what other people experience from us.
My aim is simple: to help people become better managers in a way that feels practical, realistic and genuinely useful when they go back to work.
A Final Thought
Management development does not happen because somebody reads a report.
It happens when somebody decides:
“I'm going to do this differently.”
Then does it.
Your Leadership Gap Action Plan is designed to help make that happen.
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As well as lots of smaller businesses and organisations, below are examples of some larger organisations who have received training from our director of learning at Ultimate Leadership Training:
Please contact us to discuss any training requirements you have, we either deliver for you or sell you the course for your trainers to deliver to your team
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