Action Centred Leadership (ACL)

Course Overview

The Action Centred Leadership (ACL) programme develops the leadership skills you need to mobilise people, deliver exceptional results, and lead with purpose and values.

This course equips you to inspire, motivate, and support individuals and teams while navigating change, complexity, and ethical decision-making. You’ll learn how to build high-performing teams, foster collaboration, and create a culture of continuous improvement that drives organisational success and stakeholder value.

What You Will Gain

By attending this course, you will gain a clear understanding of effective leadership behaviours and how to apply them in real workplace situations. You’ll strengthen your emotional intelligence, communication, and feedback skills, enabling you to influence others positively and manage diverse teams with confidence.

You will also develop the ability to turn challenges into opportunities, improve team performance, and balance organisational goals with individual wellbeing.

You Will Learn

You will learn to define leadership and distinguish it from management, identify your leadership style, and understand the core principles of Action Centred Leadership.

You’ll explore emotional intelligence, motivation, team development, and organisational culture, including how personality, behaviour, and diversity influence performance. Through practical exercises and case studies, you’ll develop skills in feedback, teamwork, and decision-making, and apply ACL principles to deliver sustainable results and transformational change.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals responsible for delivering results through teams while meeting the expectations of organisational stakeholders.

It is suitable for senior executives, middle and first-line managers, team leaders, supervisors, superintendents, and functional managers across all sectors who are accountable for leading people effectively, driving performance, and achieving sustainable organisational outcomes.

Learning Methodology

Presentations, case studies, and practical desk-top exercises are used to help you understand the role of leaders within modern public and private organisations.

You will also have the opportunity to gain deeper insight into your personal skills, preferences, leadership styles, and behaviours that influence performance and decision-making.

Certification Criteria

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance: You must attend all sessions of the course. If, for any reason, you miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions, you will not be eligible to sit the course assessment
• Successful completion of the course assessment: Assessments will be ongoing and based on in-class participation and activities

Delivered by Alan

Alan has been a training and development professional for over fifty years. He began his career in the computer industry and subsequently spent over thirty years in the U.K. banking sector.

Certified by CPD UK

The CPD Certification Service is an independent accreditation centre working across all sectors, disciplines and further learning applications and supports policies of institutional and professional organisations globally.

Adair Leadership

The Adair Leadership Institute is a world-renowned in leadership development, recognised for its pioneering Action-Centered Leadership (ACL)framework.

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