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Scott Watson

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Leadership and management development expert developing leaders and teams through emotional intelligence development

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"Lloyds Banking Group had the pleasure in having Scott Watson talk to nearly 200 colleagues about how each of us can proactively manage uncertainty and change. Not just in a fast changing business environment, but also in our personal lives too. Scott's talk wasn't focused just on the 'How' but more importantly the 'What' we can do to make the journey less challenging, and even more enjoyable...yes enjoyable. The session was really interactive, thought provoking and enjoyable. There are so many parallels between Emotional Intelligence and Mental Wellbeing which can add great value to any organisations greatest asset...it's workforce! It is clear that there are many benefits for any organisation in developing a greater understanding of the value of healthy Emotional intelligence amongst the workforce. I highly recommend Scott Watson to your organisation for expert input on this fascinating subject."

Martin Roborts, Lloyds Banking Group See all references

Why you should book Scott Watson for your next event

  • Scott’s engaging, inclusive and thought-provoking presentation style, mixes actual case studies and hard data with powerful, time-tested tips, tools.
  • Scott presents techniques with humorous anecdotes and little-known approaches that drive home the message that your leaders, managers and teams can be more, can achieve more, and can deliver even more, by developing a more emotionally intelligent approach to how they choose to operate.
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Scott Watson is an internationally recognised authority in developing high performing leaders, managers and teams through Emotional Intelligence development. A popular speaker, his unique, results-focused approach to developing organisational leaders, mobilising managers and galvanising teams is endorsed by business leaders, HR Directors and eminent academics alike.

Why you should book Scott Watson for your next event

  • Scott’s engaging, inclusive and thought-provoking presentation style, mixes actual case studies and hard data with powerful, time-tested tips, tools.
  • Scott presents techniques with humorous anecdotes and little-known approaches that drive home the message that your leaders, managers and teams can be more, can achieve more, and can deliver even more, by developing a more emotionally intelligent approach to how they choose to operate.

Scott Watson has spent more than two decades studying how top performing existing and aspiring leaders and managers acquire and successfully apply their somewhat unusual style of leadership to deliver optimal personal and collective effectiveness, and organisational financial performance.

Scott Watson has helped to transform organisations, reinvigorate leaders and refocus management teams with his light-hearted, collaborative yet incisive approach to leadership and team development.  He is able to make serious subjects safe to explore, interesting and inspiring, and it is this skill, partnered by his ability to deliver measurable improved results quickly for clients, that has led to him being chosen as trusted leadership and team development partner to many organisations worldwide.

He has taught his unique approach to, and shared it with, thousands of existing and aspiring leaders at organisations across the globe including DHL Express, Radisson BLU Hotels & Resorts, Royal Air Force, GE, TNT Express, Royal Bank of Scotland, and an increasing number of start-up entrepreneurs.

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Speaking topics

  • Emotionally Intelligent Management – This Missing Link Between Your Bosses, Staff And Financial Performance
  • Why Many Leaders Fail To Perform At Their Best  – And How To Stop The Rot
  • How To Turn Great Technicians In To High Performing People Managers (Quickly)
  • 5 Ways To Equip, Enable And Encourage Your Teams To Perform At Their Best
  • Proactive People Management – Do Your Managers Help Or Hurt Engagement And Financial Results?
  • Emotionally Intelligent Leadership That Delivers Bottom-Line Benefits
  • How To Quickly, Easily And Effectively Turn Around Under Performing Teams
  • Emotional Resilience – How To Develop It, Use It And Bounce Back From Setbacks More Quickly
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"I had the absolute pleasure of engaging with Summit Consulting And Training Limited, to deliver a session on Emotional Intelligence for Senior Managers within our orgonisation. Ihe consultants were supportive and helpful in terms of discussing the training to ensure that it would meet our objectives, which is one of the main reasons I chose Summit. The team are knowledgeable, friendly and approachable and are happy to help when discussing training requirements to ensure you qet the course that works for vou. The content of the training was relevant and thought provoking, delivered in an enthusiastic way; with lots of examples; interaction and fun exercises; which was received really well by the team here. As our business moves increasingiy from task tocussed Manaqers to People Leaders, the importance of emotional intelliqence and self-awareness is ever more prevalent ond this training coupled with follow up support has better equipped our Senior Team to do so. I fully believe that all Managers should attend this training as it's one of the best courses of this type that I've ever been on. "

Victoria Jane Wilson, HR Manager

Gist

"I have worked with many Executive Coaches and Leadership Facilitators over the years, and few have impressed me as much as Scott Watson at Summit Consulting & Training. I've had the pleasure of working with Scott while at Sitekit, collaborating on an Executive Coaching programme and a Management Development Programme. I was particularly impressed with Scott's ability to listen to others, read the room, and think fast on his feet to provide for useful coaching sessions or training environments. And he has great chat, which makes any session with Scott fun too. If you're looking for a new Executive Coach or Leadership Development partner, l highly recommend Scott Watson and Summit Training."

Jessica Igoe, Chief People Officer

Condatis

"Our company was looking for a credible external HR consultancy to partner with us in developing the capability of our senior leadership and management population. My initial telephone discussion with Scott Watson at Summit focused more on the value our company wanted to realise from its investment in this learning, rather than simply the leadership and management skills we would want to learn. The facilitation of the training programme was excellent throughout. It was involving, thought provoking and positively challenging in a very supportive way. Our exposure to the need for and value of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace led to one of our Directors becoming a globally Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner with Summit. This in- house capability is positively supporting initiatives including recruitment and selection and succession planning through to mental health and well-being. Would I highly recommend Summit to business leaders who want to expose leaders and managers to action focused training which leads to a commitment to apply learning back in the workplace? Absolutely!"

Joanna Thompson, Managing Director

Inspire Structures Ltd
05,30,2016

Interview with Scott Watson

In your talks you proclaim the importance of Emotional Intelligence in strategic business decisions. Why is that so?

The quality of relationships throughout a leadership team directly reflects how well they will collaborate and communicate, or not, when making important, and sometimes business critical decisions.

When a high levels of trust, collaboration and empathy exist throughout a leadership team, rather than only within pockets of it, higher quality decisions are made due to greater levels of transparency, mutual trust for personal character as well as technical competence, and a genuine understanding throughout that the decisions being made are for the organisation’s benefit rather than to serve personal agendas.

Plus, the best quality decisions aren’t made when the decision makers are in a state of panic or fear, so it is vital that leaders, individually and collectively are equipped with the skills needed to manage themselves more effectively.

Can you provide 3 tips to improve one’s personal Emotional Intelligence?

  • Improve your Self Awareness by inviting candid, collaborative feedback from four people you trust. A healthy amount of Self Awareness provides a leader with the opportunity to understand the impact you have on others, what you do well, and the opportunity to explore and address specific areas where you may benefit from being more aware and flexible.
  • Begin to notice which specific situations cause you to become angry, despondent, motivated, inspired even. By becoming more aware of the source of the emotion and how your inner-world impacts your level of engagement you can quickly learn how to easily access your internal resources which will enable you to escape emotional states which, when prolonged aren’t helpful or productive, and to access the emotional states which enable you to operate effectively and perform optimally.
  • Create a ‘Safe Space’ with your team. Creating a ‘Safe Space’ means actively promoting, inviting and sharing candid, meaningful dialogue and feedback with each other. The only boundaries are:
    • 1. That everyone, despite seniority or position in your organisational structure, is equal and deserving of attention and consideration.
    • 2. In this safe space, everyone commits to providing feedback which is intended to add genuine value to the recipient and the team.
    • 3. This space is not a forum for publicly berating or criticising colleagues to serve your own personal agenda.

What are reasons why many leaders fail in motivating their teams and how can they be prevented?

The leaders who aren’t successful in motivating, engaging and enabling their teams to perform optimally can often be:

1. Promoted From An Unrelated Role

The leader was promoted to their leadership position, not because they had demonstrated any capability, skill or even desire to lead people effectively, but because they were technically brilliant in a completely unrelated role. Usually a role where they were solely responsible for achieving his or her own targets and goals. In this situation, the transition from Technician to Leader can be somewhat challenging, for the leader, and their team members.

One Solution?

Be open to counter-balancing your technical skill and expertise with some deeply human EQ competencies such Self Awareness, Impulse Control and Empathy. Developing a healthy level of each of these competencies can prove extremely productive and worthwhile in developing a genuine sense of team.

2. Excessive Focus on Task Achievement

Excessive focus on the achievement of goals and delivery of specific tasks outweighs the need for and value of, ensuring that team members are equipped, enabled and actively encouraged to achieve goals and successfully deliver tasks on time, right first time, virtually every time. Leaders are measured on what they deliver for the organisation and this brings an element of pressure, so to an extent task focus is an operational imperative. Maintaining a healthy balance between task and people is though essential.

One Solution?

Provide clarity for your team right at the outset regarding what your most important collective goal is, what you expect from them, and why these expectations are so important, plus, remember to tell your team what they can reasonably expect from you. You may be surprised at just how quickly your life as a Leader becomes less stressful and more enjoyable.

3. Auto-Pilot Leadership

The Leader whose auto-pilot leadership style is one of ‘Command and Control’ rather than collaborative and considerate is actually hurting rather than helping the organisation. Yes, there is a time and a place for command and control leadership, but the problems manifest when it is, or is felt to be by employees, that this style is the norm. Often, but not always, the Leader is not aware of how his or her leadership style is impacting team members; and unless a high trust relationship exists between the Leader and team members, it takes a very brave team member to give the Leader some candid feedback on how s/he might benefit from changing their approach.

One Solution?

Create a safe environment which actively encourages authentic, solution focused feedback both to you from team members, and from you to them. As the Leader, you deserve to hear what your team members are thinking, and to understand how they are feeling in relation to how you lead them and communicate with, and support them.

What results can clients expect from your talks?

Audience members can expect a bespoke presentation which is designed specifically to meet their unique requirements, rather than an off-the-shelf presentation which is general and not of any genuine value to them. Following my specialist input, improvements verified by A-Speakers, clients reported by client organisations include:

  • The successful retention of £8.2 million worth of customer accounts the client had resigned itself to losing to competitors.
  • Team sales performance improving by 40%.
  • Personal productivity increasing by 30%.
  • Significantly enhanced levels of employee engagement.
  • The seamless transition from financially costly silo working to more cost effective collaborative working

I focus on how to create a significant and positive change in how leaders and teams perform within their organisation. This is done by combining verifiable case studies with proven, time-tested and easy to apply tools, techniques and principles which will enable positive changes to happen. Even though corporate leadership and people management are serious subjects, audiences enjoy my collaborative, thought provoking and entertaining presentation style. It has been likened to ‘a good chat with a good friend’, and this approach is partly responsible for audience members proactively applying what they learn with me and realising genuine value long after our time together.

Do you have a favourite experience from your professional speaking career?

I absolutely love enabling audience members to be open to thinking differently, to exploring different and new ways of thinking, communicating and delivering even more value for their organisation, and actually enjoy their journey more too. Knowing that clients can laugh while learning and then hearing that they are achieving measurable positive changes in their operational performance is very humbling for me.

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5 out of 5 stars

"Lloyds Banking Group had the pleasure in having Scott Watson talk to nearly 200 colleagues about how each of us can proactively manage uncertainty and change. Not just in a fast changing business environment, but also in our personal lives too. Scott's talk wasn't focused just on the 'How' but more importantly the 'What' we can do to make the journey less challenging, and even more enjoyable...yes enjoyable. The session was really interactive, thought provoking and enjoyable. There are so many parallels between Emotional Intelligence and Mental Wellbeing which can add great value to any organisations greatest asset...it's workforce! It is clear that there are many benefits for any organisation in developing a greater understanding of the value of healthy Emotional intelligence amongst the workforce. I highly recommend Scott Watson to your organisation for expert input on this fascinating subject."

Martin Roborts, Lloyds Banking Group See all references

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