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A Leadership Development group For Managing Directors and similar leaders www.MD2MD.co.uk

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We meet many leaders who have never had any formal training in leadership.

MD2MD allows business leaders to learn from and with other leaders with real university of life experience, through peer group and action learning.

http://www.md2md.co.uk/

A confidential sounding board of real business leaders

Learn through private discussion with a peer group of Chief Executives, Managing Directors and other real business leaders.

Share thinking with them as a sounding board. Let them support you when you feel challenged and challenge you when you don't .. and learn even more by doing the same for them.

MD2MD - The real world business school

The secret of MD2MD is simple: Learn with and from others like you. MD2MD is an alternative to the traditional business schools for real leaders responsible for an Enterprise (Social, Private or Public) of 10-200 staff or more. Such leaders typically value most developing their thinking, their skills and their ideas with other leaders with real university of life experience. And they cannot afford long periods out of the office so we meet as a group for one day at a time. This is also more effective than traditional courses in applying Kaizen (continuous improvement) to learning. Improving your business one step at a time, month after month ultimately delivers radical performance improvement.

Workshops with experienced practitioner speakers

You participate in a small group of around a dozen fellow business leaders led by an expert practitioner, a top professional in their field of a calibre most real business leaders only get to see on stage at a distance.

You'll be provoked by them to think a bit differently about your business, your leadership and yourself.

You'll be motivated by them to take action and do something different or differently.

Discuss and inform yourself about the economic outlook - so you can be be ahead of the game

Develop your understanding of the economy as the context for your business.

Don't let the economy drive you - your primary focus should be your own business, it's staff and it's customers - but the economy is an an important context for and influence on your decisions.

Should you be battening down the hatches or investing for growth? Should you be recruiting or laying off? Noone, even the top economists, knows for sure, but by sharing views and insights with others trading in different sectors you'll stand a better chance than most of being ahead of the game.

Marginal gains: Step by step 1% improvements add up to transformational performance improvement

The British Cycling team transformed itself into the world's greatest such team in ten years by being very focused on achieving success. But they didn't do so through one clever initiative. Instead they looked at everything on the basis thatif they improved everything by 1% they'd win. And they did. MD2MD works to the same ethos. If, at each meeting you come up with just ONE improvement idea, and then go away and implement it, you will over time, raise your game massively. We have members who've been with us ten years. And in that time their leadership has been transformed. From being buried in detailed doing to motivating and coordinating a self sufficient and capable management team

Build confidence. Stay motivated in a tough world.

As the leader you know all the answers don't you! Well however unrealistic that's what's usually expected of you as a leader. And whilst you may be able to be reasonably open with your staff and customers, you can't usually share with them your biggest fears and your greatest worries. If they are to follow your lead, they need you to be reasonably confident in front of them. But that may not always be your internal reality...and that is good! Research shows that the very best leaders are those that are internally continually challenging themselves.

You are though likely to find it helpful to have somewhere to share those challenges and even your fears .... and check them out ... and put them in context. And that's where MD2MD meetings help. Our meetings are a private place where, having developed trusted relationships, you can be honest about what challenges you. Work it through and return to your workplace confident in your approach.

And running a business can be difficult even for the best of us. Working with an inspirational speaker full of enthusiasm and ideas helps. And so does simply taking a day out to learn with and from peers facing similar struggles and similar ups and downs is itself motivational. It's not just you that sometimes finds it tough out there!

Our reason for being: Improved business success with less stress

MD2MD meetings are enjoyable. But if that's all you want go to a comedy club. MD2MD meetings are interesting and make you think. But if that's all you need go to the theatre or a literary festival. So whilst it is important that meetings are enjoyable and interesting - because that's what gets your brain engaged, MD2MD exists for one clear purpose: TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR BUSINESS - BY IMPROVING YOUR COMPETENCE AND CONFIDENCE AS THE LEADER. If you take away and implement just one improvement after each meeting and repeat every meeting, your leadership will improve small step by small step. Which will make your business so much better than those led by people who haven't understood, as Albert Einstein said that insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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