The Learn Grow Lead (LGL) Development Programme has been a cornerstone of leadership development at Clear Channel since 2012. This enhanced programme equips new managers with essential leadership, resilience, and people management skills, all aligned with the company’s core values.
Through workshops on leadership, communication, and team performance, participants gained self-awareness, confidence, and a stronger leadership presence. Tools like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) provided a shared understanding across the organization. The programme received highly positive feedback, with participants noting significant improvements in their leadership abilities and a lasting impact on their effectiveness.
The Learn Grow Lead (LGL) Development Programme has been delivering results for Clear Channel’s managers since 2012. This enhanced programme built upon the original, ensuring a consistent and effective approach for new managers in the business.
Our purpose was to empower leaders with the skills and behaviours necessary to lead their teams and achieve outstanding outcomes. We introduced practical models and diverse learning approaches to equip individuals with the essential skills for their roles. The programme focus was on personal leadership, resilience building, and effective people management, all firmly rooted in Clear Channel’s core values and behaviours.
Central to the programme was the focus on achieving results through people and understanding your impact on others. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was used to provide a shared language with previous cohorts. This is a highly effective tool for understanding personality types and individual preferences.
The aims of the programme were to increase self-awareness to encourage personal growth and confidence, enhance ability to manage and work with a wide range of people, improve flexibility and decision-making in delivering solutions to difficult problems, build a stronger presence and personal impact on organisational performance, increase leadership and management capacity and increase organisational knowledge regarding the challenges and issues facing Clear Channel and their role in addressing these challenges.
Workshops included:
- Leadership 1 – Explore what makes a great leader and the leadership skills and behaviours that are required at Clear Channel UK.
- Understanding Ourselves – Understand personal style and resilience and the impact this has on communication, collaboration and delivery. Participants set personal challenges for the programme.
- Leadership 2 – Focus on delivery: understanding the future requirements of Clear Channel and the participants’ role in making that happen.
- Communicating and Influencing – Identify the skills of powerful communication and effective influencing to engage others.
- Leading High-Performing Teams – Supporting participants to understand the principles behind high-performing teams and the leadership skills required to build a team.
- Managing Performance – Managing performance through effective feedback, necessary conversations and coaching.
- Coaching/Feedback Practice – An interactive workshop to allow participants to build their personal management ‘toolkit’ and put into practice learnings from the programme.
- Strategy and Personal Learning Journey Exhibition – An interactive half-day session focusing on developing and implementing business strategies to deliver results, followed by an exhibition of individual development journeys and reflections on personal learning.
The programme was very successful and proved to have lasting impact on the participants:
“Thank you – I have taken so much away from this course and it’s given me a confidence I didn’t think I would find. Before this course I questioned if I could be a leader… now I know I can!”
“I loved it. Was one of the best things that happened to me this year and really helped me to know myself better and learn new tools.”
“I really enjoyed the process on the whole, and it has definitely made me more conscious of my own leadership style, which is really helpful. I also really appreciated getting the opportunity to meet people from other areas of the business that I wouldn’t usually get to meet.”