Henley High Performance Leadership Programme (live-online)
Discover your leadership capability, understand when to lead and when to allow your team to take the reins with the Henley High Performance Leadership Programme.
At a glance
- Understand how to make the most of the leadership skills in your team
- Develop self-awareness of your leadership style and its impact
- Explore how to develop leadership in others
- Increase your understanding of resilience and how to sustain it
- Learn via short live-online sessions, supported by in-depth 360 feedback, psychometrics and one-to-one coaching
- Subject area(s)
- Leadership
- Attendance
- Online
Short course
- Fee
- £2,750 + VAT, £2,950 + VAT for cohorts starting after 1st January 2026
- Course length
- 6 weeks total, including 1 x 2.5 hour live-online facilitated session (11.30-14.00) and 3 x 2 hour live-online facilitated sessions (12.00 - 14.00), 2 x personal coaching sessions, 1 x personal psychologist feedback session
- Suitable for
- Middle and senior level managers and leaders
- Delivery
- Live-online
Start dates
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Talk to our teamNOTE
Specific dates for NEO psychometric feedback and coaching sessions will be arranged after the start of the programme.
All programmes are subject to limited availability. We recommend booking a minimum of 6 weeks before the programme start date, to guarantee sufficient time for your enrolment and on-boarding.
Overview
During the Henley High Performance Leadership Programme you will discover that to be a complete leader, you need to be aware of your limitations and draw on the diversity of your team.
The programme explores how no one individual has the complete set of leadership skills. It enables you to identify and reflect on your natural leadership style, personality and behaviours. Then, with the support of a professional coach and a psychologist, you will agree on areas for development where your leadership shows potential or is fragile.
The programme is built around the Primary Colours® model of leadership, developed over 25 years of research. This simple, memorable model helps clarify which leadership roles suit you and the tasks you need to perform to meet your specific leadership challenges.
Key benefits
Develop confidence in your capabilities as a leader and know when to draw from others.
Gain a clear and coherent understanding of your leadership strengths and limitations.
Learn how to align strategic, operational and interpersonal leadership.
Programme Director Jon Cowell is a researcher, writer, teacher and practitioner in leadership. His core expertise lies in assessing and developing leaders and leadership teams, executive coaching and organisational change. His most recent publication is Leadership: No More Heroes (third edition), written with Professor David Pendleton and Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL).
The Henley High Performance Leadership Programme is delivered through a mix of live-online learning and self study. It includes three one-to-one coaching/feedback sessions to help you understand your leadership style as well as how you can use your capabilities to make your workplace more agile and collaborative.
Modules 1-4 are delivered live-online by the Programme Director, requiring a commitment to key points during the programme. These interactive sessions allow participant discussion and encourage you to share your leadership experience and challenges.
The study requirements prior to and between modules are completed in your own time, with the coaching sessions arranged at a mutually convenient time.
The Primary Colours® model of leadership
The programme is built around the Primary Colours® model of leadership, developed over 25 years of research.
This simple, memorable model maps out the three overlapping domains in which leaders work - the strategic, operational, and interpersonal domains. It helps to clarify which leadership roles suit you and enables you to balance leadership capabilities across your team and organisation.
It is also task-focused, helping you define what you need to do as a leader to meet your specific challenges.
Programme content
The programme runs over six weeks:
HPL: Pre-ProgrammeBefore the course begins, you will:
*The NEO personality assessment gives leaders an evidence-based view of the five key personality factors: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. It identifies strengths, clarifies behaviours, and supports effective leadership, team development, and talent decisions. |
HPL: Module 1In this module you will:
Before the next module begins, you will:
Academic authors
Jon Cowell
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HPL: Module 2In this module you will explore:
Before the next module begins you will take part in a personal coaching session with an accredited coach where you will use your 360 to understand your current leadership impact and clarify the focus of your development plan. Academic authors
Jon Cowell
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HPL: Module 3In this module you will learn how to adopt a team-based approach to leadership, with a focus on how to promote collaboration and to handle the conflicts that commonly arise in leadership teams. Before the next module begins, you will:
Academic authors
Jon Cowell
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HPL: Module 4In this module you will:
Academic authors
Jon Cowell
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Modules or course content marked as optional are indicative and may be subject to change. Please note, constraints in timetable scheduling may mean you are unable to take some optional modules at the same time as others.
Why choose Henley?
(Financial Times Executive Education 2025)
For 80 years, Henley Business School has developed confident and resilient business leaders. Executive Education at Henley is:
- Practical: we combine academic rigour with a strong practical focus, so you can immediately apply what you have learned back in your organisation.
- Relevant: Henley faculty are experienced practitioners who can support you in exploring solutions to your organisation’s challenges.
- Collaborative: Open programmes enable you to expand your network, gain new perspectives and share ideas with peers from a range of backgrounds and sectors.
- Personal: deliberately small learning groups allow you to benefit from individual attention and a confidential environment. We encourage you to understand your unique strengths, leadership style, and areas for development.
Contact us
Open Programmes
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the programme, please contact our programme advisors.
Email: exec@henley.ac.ukTelephone: 01491 418767
