At the core of all our programmes is Tuff’s own methodology developed over the past twenty years. People love training with us because they see the results that are possible when you training in how you are being, and not just what you are doing.
Leading individuals
Practise the essentials of a new leadership mindset and way of being
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Leading teams
Practise leading groups in a way that unleashes potential everywhere
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Social impact organisations
Our affordable yet powerful leadership intensive for nonprofit organisations
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I keep coming back to Tuff to help me build out leadership programmes. They have a very practical, impactful way of providing both managers and employees with the right tools to build a high performing work environment built on trust.
Mariabrisa Olivares
Chief People Officer, Owkin
It’s hard to shift from predictable machinery to new ways and Tuff Leadership Training helps at the most challenging level for this: individually.
Perry Timms
Founder, People & Transformational HR Ltd
This course is a MUST for progressive leaders who are truly looking for ways to empower their teams.
Lina Maskoliune
Chief of Strategic Growth, Profitus
As a result of our programmes, leaders get a completely new view of what leadership can be. They gain revolutionary insights into their pitfalls, which gives them self-interest to intensively train in ‘the new’.
Participants get hold of new ways of relating and leading, and develop the abilities that liberate commitment and responsibility in their teams. This means that they not only gain new insights, but it affects how they are, how they behave and how they communicate.
Over the years, our clients have told us again and again that our programmes are the best they have ever experienced because they create real, lasting shifts in people. Here’s why…
Training in ways of being and new abilities is tough. We are masters in creating safe spaces, but more than that, we create brave spaces where participants dare to make mistakes and try out strange, new things. They feel able to share openly their pitfalls and struggles, knowing that it is part of a process.
It may sound harsh, but without confronting our inability, there is no self-interest to learn. The vast majority of leaders come in with an attitude of “I already do this” and nothing will shift so long as that attitude prevails. Nowadays we are able to dissolve this is no time.
A large part of the participants’ development happens by identifying their pitfalls. This is what is ‘tough’ and painful – to be confronted with your pitfalls. Our trainers have devoted years of training to be able to perceive participants’ pitfalls at lightning speed. No participant gets through without having challenged their pitfalls and this is a huge part of the personal shift. It simply becomes too painful to continue as before.
Results do not come from the transfer of theoretical knowledge. They come from practising, practising and practising again. Participants practise new ways of being and get constant feedback and coaching until no longer feels strange and they start to create their own version of a trust based, empowering, adult-adult leadership.
Practical, intensive training where you:
Discover your automatic, unfavourable mindsets which limit others' commitment, responsibility and drive
Explore and train in new ways of relating to your colleagues
Train core communication skills, such as listening so that the other person feels heard
Get a toolbox of simple, useful models for the the five most common leadership-related conversations
Tuff’s co-founder Carl-Erik talks about the essence of our training:
Depending on the target audience and your level of ambition, we have a curriculum of different programmes. All programmes are open, but can also be run as internal programmes.
The Tuff core curriculum
5 days in person
2 + 2 days in person or 6 modules over 10 weeks online
2+2 days in person or 4 modules over 6 weeks online
6 half-day sessions
5 half-day sessions
5 half-day sessions
We'd be happy to have a conversation with you about your needs and to share the different ways Tuff could support you
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