Leadership & Team Development

About JTILTD

General Information

James Thornton Institute of Leadership and Team Development (JTILTD) provides proven products and educational programs based on leadership development and team building theories. Programs embody the work of Drs Charles Margerison and Dick McCann, Team Management Systems; Dr. Meredith Belbin, Belbin & Associates; with Dr.Reg Revans' powerful methodology of leadership development through action/experiential learning programs.

Increasingly, organizations are making strategic choices to support life long learning, leadership and team development in order to gain and sustain competitive advantage. We focus on human capital by helping you create and sustain high performance teams and leaders across your organization. Helping you execute your organization's vision through a "specific set of behaviours and techniques that companies need to master in order to have competitive advantage." (Bossidy & Charan, 2002, p. 7)

"Organizations don't execute unless the right people, individually and collectively, focus on the right details at the right time." (Bossidy & Charan, 2002, p. 33).

Our consultants are uniquely qualified to help you:

frame key issues related to leadership and team development in your organization through developing team and leadership competencies.
encourage the forging of collaborative learning teams & partnerships across your organization.
shape a culture characterized by trust and openness and in which every employee understands how individual competencies support your organization's vision.
optimally align work with employees strengths and preferred team roles/behaviours.
demonstrate how success can be achieved through increasing self-knowledge and knowledge of others.
achieve success using leadership and team development approaches grounded in research and best practice.

"Action learning has emerged as one of the most powerful and effective tools employed by organizations worldwide to develop and build their leaders." (Marquardt, 2000, online).

We will train your senior management team to execute plans through action/experiential learning. Use action learning, combined with TMS and/or Belbin assessments, to develop your employees leadership and team competencies while solving real organizational problems.Many organizations who "exclaim 'people are our most important asset' usually do not think very hard about choosing the right people for the right jobs. They and their organizations don't have precise ideas about what kind of people they need to fill those jobs. As a result, their companies don't hire, promote, and develop candidates for their leadership needs." (Bossidy & Charan, 2002, p. 109).

Through our workshops, you will learn and practice the skills necessary in order to place the right people in the right job at the right time.

Our programs focus on learning outcomes that:

develop a shared understanding of leadership and high performance team competencies within your organization.
determine the optimum team membership based on team roles, team competencies and the challenge facing the team.
identify when it is best to use and not to use a team approach to problem solving.
develop leaders and team competencies across your organization.
nurture an organizational culture that supports learning about leadership, teamwork and self-mastery.

Our combination of internationally recognized theories and validated methodologies form the basis of JTILTD's powerful leadership and team development offerings. Our ultimate goal is to deliver programs that are responsive to the needs of your organization’s leaders; sensitive to the challenges that your organization must face; and designed to support your organization in sharpening its competitive edge.

"Common sense tells us the right people have to be in the right jobs. Yet so often they aren't. What accounts for the mismatches you see everyday? The leaders may not know enough about the people with whom they're comfortable, rather than others who have the courage to discriminate between strong and weak performers and take the necessary actions. All of these reflect one absolutely fundamental shortcoming: The leaders aren't personally committed to the people process and deeply engaged in it." (Bossidy & Charan, 2002, p. 113).

We develop your expertise, knowledge and skills in order to correct these fundamental shortcomings.

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