Mount Anvil
Modular Leadership Development Programme
Mount Anvil is a mixed use property developer and contractor operating in London since 1991.
Objective
Mount Anvil recognised that to sustain its significant growth and development it needed to invest in leadership development to enhance the skills of its senior management
Impact UK proposed a modular development programme called REACH with three complementary aims:
• To provide a unique and memorable leadership learning journey
• To support organisational development objectives in creating a well aligned business
• To build a cross functional core of applied leadership thinking.
Solution
REACH runs over a 10-month period and includes five residential modules. Leadership development is the key theme, with modules focusing on personal development, influencing, change, managing high performance and sustainable business activity. Skilled Impact facilitators use simulations, dialogue and behavioural feedback to enhance the learning.
The establishment of clear leadership development objectives for participants is crucial. A dedicated 360° feedback tool created specifically around Mount Anvil’s values and leadership competencies, together with a network of internal learning support both managers and mentors, ensures that participants review and update these as learning is applied to roles.
Result
Participants are now three quarters of the way through the programme. Early results have shown that people taking responsibility for their own learning and its application is providing real developmental value.
Investment throughout the modular process on senior management sponsored business projects is helping shape the future market place profile of Mount Anvil. Participants have also been challenged to research, design and deliver a unique Community Action Learning (CAL) project in partnership with a charitable organisation of their choice, utilising their leadership skills. This final module will complete their formal learning journey, but the informal one is set to run for the foreseeable future.
"The REACH programme has been a challenging and rewarding experience for all the participants. It is already having a positive impact on our business."
Killian Hurley
Chief Executive
"One of our key objectives for REACH was to see an increase in the confidence of our leaders. Impact’s ability to listen effectively to and understand our requirements in creating and delivering the programme meant that this confidence was highly visible after just the first module."
Cathryn Francis
Business Support Manager
Further Information
Read more about Impact's approach to Developing Leaders
Read more about Impact's approach to Community Action Learning
