The National Centre for Strategic Leadership forms part of the Silverstone High Performance Centre – to support and develop high performing teams across all business sectors throughout the UK and internationally.

1. The central focal point for the development of Leaders & Leadership throughout the UK High-Performance Centre Founder of NCSL The

2. 'The economic crisis doesn't only make us free to imagine other models, another future, another world. It obliges us to do so.' President Nicolas Sarkozy, September 2009 ‘ We cannot solve our problems by using the same thinking we used when we created them.' Albert Einstein, May 1921

3. “ If it is how the workforce performs that determines to a large extent whether companies or organisations succeed, then whether or not the workforce is positively encouraged to perform at its best should be a prime consideration for every leader and manager, and be placed at the heart of business strategy” David MacLeod & Nita Clarke 2009 Report to Government on Employee Engagement

4. “ Those companies with a highly engaged workforce improved operating income by 19.2 per cent over a period of 12 months, whilst those companies with low engagement scores saw operating income decline by 32.7 per cent over the same period” “ Over a 12 month period, those companies with high engagement scores demonstrated a 13.7 per cent improvement in net income growth whilst those with low engagement saw net income growth decline by 3.8 per cent” David MacLeod & Nita Clarke 2009 Report to Government on Employee Engagement

5. Other Recent Studies: The Corporate Leadership Council reported in 2006 that engaged organisations grew profits as much as three times faster than their competitors. Highly engaged organisations reduced staff turnover by 87% and improved performance by 20% Companies in the ‘Best Companies to Work For’ table in the period 04–08 increased T/O by 94% & profits by 315% The Chartered Management Institute Quality of Working Life 2007 research programme found a significant association and influence between employee engagement and innovation.

6. A 2009 Watson Wyatt study of 115 companies indicated that a company with highly engaged employees achieves a financial performance four times greater than companies with poor engagement. They also reported that the highly engaged are more than twice as likely to be top performers – almost 60% of them exceed or far exceed expectations for performance. Moreover the highly-engaged missed 43% fewer days of work due to illness Other Recent Studies:

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8. Vision x Inspiration = Performance

9. “ True leaders conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts” John W Gardner, 1990

10. CMI Manifesto: Why? Less than 20% of managers are professionally recognised 63% of managers ‘have never had management training’ CPD isn’t mandatory, yet everything is changing We face the hardest 10 years in modern business history Releasing discretionary performance is worth >30% The

11. Defining the new leadership role, skills & expectations Supporting professional recognition & qualification Providing the central source for leader CPD Unifying & integrating the best leadership development Helping leaders to release discretionary performance The National Centre for Strategic Leadership @ Silverstone: Why?

12. Practitioner research & think-tanks Professional recognition & qualification programmes Leadership CPD programmes Uniting the leading thinkers and deliverers In-company employee-engagement programmes The National Centre for Strategic Leadership @ Silverstone: How?

13. Founder of NCSL The Later... How you can participate in NCSL and support the drive to transform leadership in the UK....

14. The central focal point for the development of Leaders & Leadership throughout the UK High-Performance Centre Founder of NCSL The

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