eEssence Adventure runs leadership training in Malaysia for companies in Kuala Lumpur and nationwide, delivered in-house at your premises. Programmes run from first-time team leaders through to senior management, and are HRD Corp claimable for eligible employers. Leadership development here means a programme with a sequence to it, not a one-off motivational day.
We are a corporate training consultancy rather than a course catalogue. Every leadership programme is built around the competencies your leaders actually need, which is why the sections below describe what the training covers rather than a fixed syllabus and a date.
Our Leadership Training Programs
“Everything rises and falls on leadership”
Dr. John Maxwell
This quote by Dr. John Maxwell, is so true for doing business in the 21st Century.
Things change all time.
The only one thing that remains constant is Change.
We can never assume that our business will not change, or that the demands of our customers don’t change. We have seen that through the rise and fall of large organisations where they failed to recognise these changes and disappeared.
Some companies, however, have taken the right steps and did not only improve their performance, but even became market leaders in their respective industries.
“Leadership is not about position, it’s a disposition”
Dr Bill Daggett
A true leader needs two main characteristics:
- Vision: This is where the leaders will be able to steer the organisation to the right pathway; leading and guiding the team thru each and every step.
- Being Heartful: A true charismatic, artful leader who has a heart for the team. These are leaders who takes a holistic approach in managing their teams. These are leaders that will always have their loyal team mates to watch their back in whatever endeavour that they are in.
The eEssence leadership workshops will be specifically crafted to meet your organisation’s needs based on the key competencies of leaders
Learning Outcomes:
The eEssence Leadership programme will allow you to:
- Understand the Psychology of the Leader’s Personality
- Building & Multiplying Leaders
- Grow Humility and Courageous Leadership
- Explore Personal Emotional Intelligence
- Manage Soft Skills and Communication
- Establish the Virtues of Character
Who the training is for
The same material lands differently depending on who is in the room, so the depth is set by the group rather than by the brochure. Three groups make up most of what we run:
- Newly appointed team leads and supervisors — people promoted for being good at the job, now responsible for other people doing it. The gap here is almost always delegation and the shift from doing to directing.
- Middle managers — managing sideways and upwards as much as downwards, usually with responsibility but limited authority. Communication, influence and conflict handling carry the weight.
- Senior managers and leadership teams — setting direction, developing other leaders, and modelling the culture. This group needs less technique and more challenge.
Mixed-level groups work, and are sometimes the point — putting a leadership team through the same programme gives everyone a shared vocabulary. Tell us who will be in the room and we will set the level accordingly.
Key Training Modules
Six modules make up the core leadership programme. They can be delivered as a full sequence or selected from, depending on the group and the time available.
1. The Heart of the Leader
Establishes what leadership is for before it covers any technique — the premise being that your people are your results.
- The 21st century leader: your people = your success
- Dilts Logical Levels
- The NLP Communication Model, and ensuring effective communication by confirmation
2. Know Thyself and Others
Behavioural profiling, so a leader can stop managing everyone the way they themselves prefer to be managed.
- Recognising different behavioural styles, using DISC Personality Profiling
- Knowing what makes a person tick
- Leveraging each person’s strengths
- Strategies for minimising conflict
3. Building Relationships With Your People
The practical mechanics of rapport — how trust is built in the ordinary daily exchanges rather than in the annual review.
- Rapport building using NLP matching skills: tone, words, body
- Communication styles: delivering messages with impact using VAKAd
- Choice of words
- Building trust and relationship with your people
4. Effective Coaching Methodology
Coaching as a management skill: getting the answer out of the person who has it rather than supplying it yourself.
- Coaching and supporting via value elicitation, using effective questioning methods
- Overcoming challenges with the SCORE pattern
- The questions = answers methodology
- Listening for word stressors
5. Reading People and Avoiding Conflict
Conflict is usually visible before it is spoken. This module covers catching it early, and managing the signals you send yourself.
- Reading body language
- Managing your own body language
6. Application
The judgement call that separates a trained manager from a competent one: knowing which mode a situation actually calls for.
- When to counsel, when to coach, and when to teach directly
- Knowing when to manage closely, when to step back, and when to delegate
Several modules draw on NLP techniques — the communication model, matching, VAKAd and the SCORE pattern. No prior NLP training is needed to take part.
Target Audience
Our programmes are crafted to best suit your needs. Our leadership programme is suitable for a newly appointed team lead to that of a seasoned manager; the depths of the topic will be adjusted to the right audience
The off the shelf programmes are:
- The New Wave Leaders — for newly appointed and emerging leaders making the move from individual contributor to leading a team.
- CEO Mindset — for senior leaders and owners, focused on thinking at the level of the whole organisation rather than the department.
- High EQ Leaders — built around emotional intelligence: self-awareness, reading a room, and leading people through pressure and change.
Kindly contact us for more details or to further customise the programme.
Corporate training in Malaysia
Leadership is the largest part of what we do, but not all of it. eEssence works as a corporate training consultancy across the wider development agenda, and most engagements combine more than one strand.
- Leadership development and management training — the programme described on this page
- Communication and interpersonal skills — including DISC profiling and NLP-based communication
- Coaching skills for managers — module 4 above, run as a programme in its own right
- Team development — experiential team building that does real work rather than filling a day
- Sales and negotiation — see sales training
- Employee wellbeing — see corporate wellness
Training is delivered in-house at your premises or at a venue, in Kuala Lumpur and across Malaysia. Where you already have a competency framework or a training calendar, we build into it rather than around it.
Executive and leadership coaching
Training works on a group. Coaching works on one person, and for senior people it is often the more honest format — the questions a managing director needs to be asked are rarely ones they will raise in front of their own team.
We offer one-to-one executive coaching and small-group leadership coaching alongside the programmes above. It suits a newly promoted senior leader finding their footing, an experienced manager working through a specific situation, or a leadership team that wants the training reinforced rather than left to fade.
Coaching is frequently the follow-on from a programme: the workshop establishes the vocabulary and the coaching makes it stick in the particular circumstances each leader actually faces.
Delivery, format and group size
Programmes are delivered in-house, at your premises or a venue near it, anywhere in Malaysia — most of our work is in Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley. Formats run from a single-day workshop to a modular programme spread over several weeks, and the modules can be split to suit shift patterns or operational cover.
Group size is set by the format. Workshop delivery works for most corporate group sizes; coaching is one-to-one or small group. If you are unsure which of the two you need, describe the problem rather than the format and we will tell you.
HRD Corp claimable
Our leadership and corporate training programmes are HRD Corp claimable, so eligible Malaysian employers can draw the cost against existing levy contributions rather than finding a new budget line. We provide the documentation required for the claim.
Worth establishing eligibility early — it is usually the difference between a programme being approved this quarter and being deferred to next year.
Common questions
How long is a leadership training programme?
Anything from a one-day workshop to a modular programme across several weeks. The six modules above are the full sequence; shorter engagements select from them. We will tell you honestly if what you are asking for is too much to cover in the time available.
Do you deliver at our office?
Yes, and it is usually the more practical option for corporate groups. We deliver across Malaysia, with most work in Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley.
Is this suitable for first-time managers?
Yes. The New Wave Leaders programme exists for exactly that group, and the depth of every module is adjusted to the audience in the room.
What is the difference between the training and the coaching?
Training works on a group and builds shared capability and vocabulary. Coaching works with one person or a small group on their specific situation. Many organisations use both, with coaching following the programme.
Can you work to our existing competency framework?
Yes. Where you have one, we map the programme onto it rather than asking you to adopt ours.
Is DISC profiling included?
DISC personality profiling sits inside module 2 and is part of the standard programme. It can also be run as a standalone session for a team that needs the common language more than the full leadership sequence.
