With Ben Whitehouse
Leadership development programmes that connect practical sessions over time, helping your people build confidence, improve communication and strengthen the way they work together.
Developing professionals, established professionals and experienced leaders bring different responsibilities to the room. Each programme reflects that experience and starts with what your organisation needs its people to do differently.
The brief comes first. Discuss the challenge, the evidence behind it and the outcome you want. That conversation helps identify the focus, the right intervention and how your organisation will support the work between sessions.
Short programmes bring together three to five connected sessions. The work moves from understanding an idea to applying it, returning to what happened and reinforcing useful behaviours over time.
WHSTL’s learning structure connects context, concept, application, feedback and commitment. Agree what progress should look like at the start, then use feedback and review to decide what needs more attention. The measures should reflect your team’s actual work.
A programme can focus on communicating under pressure, making decisions, giving feedback or leading without formal authority. Ben draws on experience from rugby and policing to explore practical questions your people face in their own roles.
Trust, accountability and shared standards shape how people work together. Connected sessions give leaders and teams space to examine current behaviours, agree practical commitments and return to those commitments as the programme develops.
Ben Whitehouse is a professional rugby referee, former frontline police officer and founder of WHSTL. He helps leaders and teams apply lessons from those environments to their own work.
A workshop gives one challenge focused attention. A programme connects sessions over time, with opportunities for application, feedback and reinforcement between conversations.
Short programmes use three to five connected sessions. The schedule, audience and focus are agreed around your needs. Share any timing constraints in your brief so Ben can discuss a suitable approach.
Tell Ben who will be taking part, what you would like to work on and any preferred timing.
Start a brief