Farscape Development — Reach Your Goals Faster

Case Study Allianz

What were the challenges?

• Recent and future restructures meant that people would be stepping up to leadership roles who had not had any practical experience or training.
• A history of autocratic leadership at the top had left a culture where people did not know how to be accountable or responsible.
• With a significant number of people wanting to take on more responsibility, Directors needed a way of helping people to recognise their own strengths and weaknesses as well as getting external feedback about leadership potential.

What happened?

Farscape developed a bespoke 6 month programme for groups of 12 Allianz personnel, which included both indoor and outdoor elements. Each delegate had the opportunity to:

• Go on a personal journey to discover their own strengths and weaknesses (including psychometric profiling and feedback).
• Identify personal values and drivers to help individuals understand themselves and others in order to communicate more effectively.
• Identify what good leadership looks like in order to agree a set of principles or behaviours that they would show and be measured against.
• Develop a personal leadership mission statement as part of their journey to becoming the best leader that they can be.
• Practice different skills and techniques to identify what styles are appropriate for different people and situations.
• Learn about the foundations of high performance team work in order to help build more effective teams at work.
• Give and receive feedback about individual and team performance in order to practice having difficult conversations.
• Learn about different approaches, models and frameworks in order to develop a tool box of skills for use when leading (including coaching and briefing).
• Reflect on personal attitudes and behaviours in order to identify where changes need to be made to improve performance (including creating a personal action plan).

What are the outcomes so far?

With over 50 people having taken part in the programme, Allianz have given the following feedback.

“Quite simply the most professional and innovative training provider I have ever experienced. Individuals who have taken part in the programme are now more confident and self aware. They have a clear understanding of the importance of building trust as a leader and how to build positive working relationships. They have a number of tools and models that are practical and useable in the workplace. Project teams are operating more effectively and less time is being wasted through miscommunication and lack of clarity.”
Don Morgan, IT Director, Allianz

A second 6-month programme is now being designed to build on these excellent foundations.