Odyssey Journeys

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Our offering is simple and powerful in its intention. Without truly developed leaders, creating the conditions to deliver your strategic goals becomes almost impossible. Odyssey will help you join the dots to create the cultural behaviours and ecosystems you need to achieve this.

It might be that your focus is on improving psychological safety, creating a speak-up culture, becoming more inclusive, or striving for a high-performance environment, to name a few. Whatever your goals, our Odyssey Framework creates a unique journey tailored to you, integrating strategy, culture and leadership development, to hit the sweet spot! 

We have devised a simple but powerful three-stage framework:

You can’t explore the oceans unless you know where you are and where you want to go. Odyssey Discovery is a deep dive into how your people feel.  Our independence and ability to create trust and safety means we can gather valuable data that truly is your employee voice.  

Your discovery stage might include coaching and mentoring your leaders to uncover what they need, and team listening groups to explore what life is really like on the seabed! We’ll analyse whether your culture is up to the challenge of delivering the behaviours needed and guide you strategically.  

Odysseus believed that responsible leadership is the key to creating a healthy community. And so do we. Whether your leaders are “rising stars”, steady “rockstars” or “superstars”, we’ll create a bespoke and supportive programme to develop leadership capability over the timescale you need. We don’t believe the jewels of the ocean are discovered after a 90-minute boat trip! During the Odyssey Evolve stage there will be a blend of one to one executive coaching and mentoring, group coaching and training, self-led learning and peer to peer reflection.  

The golden threads of our leadership journeys - accountability, compassion and trust - will help develop the multi-faceted leader you need.  A leader who can create and role model a safe and transparent culture, navigate conflict, lead strategically, coach their team and demonstrate unbiased decision making. 

The sort of development areas we cover in the Odyssey Evolve stage include, but are not limited to:

• Leadership styles - mentorship vs coaching
• Managing upwards
• Creating a performance feedback culture
• Delegation and career coaching
• Communication styles in difficult moments
• Creating a safe culture - psychological safety and trust building
• Creating a culture of 'calling it out'
• Navigating behaviours and emotions to manage risk
• Keeping conflict heathy
• Bullying and harassment at work

We get that it's important to see return on investment for leadership development programmes. We also get that measuring the impact can be tricky. We work with our clients from the very beginning to map out how we can measure the impact of our journey over a period of time by deciding on key metrics and impact assessment tools. This will also be a bespoke part of the Odyssey journey. 

Our Odyssey Journeys are designed to be fully bespoke. We will explore how much time needs to be spend on each stage and craft the journey accordingly. Much will depend on your strategic goals and how we can best support you to achieve those. 

We also offer a range of other services to support our clients. See below for more details.

Contact us to find out more about how we could partner with you on a unique Odyssey Journey.