How Do You Create an Excellent Organisation?
Every leader reaches a moment when they want to ….
- Understand what excellence really looks and feels like.
- Know how to shape an environment where people consistently perform at their best.
- Find proven ways to make excellence real, not theoretical.
- Play a part in developing leaders of the future
- Ensure their leadership has a positive impact.
This masterclass exists for that moment, because Excellence Is an Inside Job
It isn’t a framework.
And it isn’t something you roll out.
“For me personally, it’s the best leadership training program I have been on, and if we achieve only a fraction of what we have set out to we will save our organisation millions.”
Why Attend?
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Align belief and behaviour
Turn what you value as a leader into actions others can see and follow. -
Design systems that sustain excellence
Embed principles into strategy deployment, daily management, improvement, and leadership development. - Understand the Enterprise Excellence Model and how it can support individuals and organisations achieve sustainable results.
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Accelerate meaningful change
Leave with a clear roadmap and shared commitment to shift both culture and performance. -
Learn from proven thinking
Grounded in extensive leadership methodology (Schein, Covey, Ackoff, Drucker, Deming, the Shingo philosophy, and the Deep Excellence and Essence of Excellence frameworks); delivered through practical, inspirational learning, allowing you to make a real change to how you lead. -
Discover a powerful truth
Excellence already exists inside your organisation.
Your role is to find it, nurture it, and sustain it.
What previous Delegates have said…
“For me personally, its the best training programme I have been on – its been invaluable and if we use what we have been taught well collectively it completely optimise our business.”
“S A Partners is a dedicated partner, who delivers a relevant and fun way of training and supporting our team. S A Partners strength is that they take time to focus on each individuals learning styles ensuring they make everyone involved & feeling comfortable”
“Great workshop which was engaging and relevant. A lot of help and guidance from the facilitators which helped us to target areas and identify how best to tackle leadership within our organisation”
What You’ll Experience Over 2 Days
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Clarify what excellence means to you as a leader
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Craft a Leadership Manifesto grounded in values and observable behaviours
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Create a shared leadership story your organisation can believe in
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Identify the system gaps that block excellence
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Design a focused 90-day Excellence Roadmap to turn intent into action
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Build a collective Excellence Pledge your organisation can rally around
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Discover how leadership coaching can inspire yourself and your teams.
How It’s Delivered
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Onsite Training: Two immersive days (2 × 7-hour sessions) hosted at Scottish Water, combining case studies, interactive activities, and practical exercises.
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1:1 Coaching: Every participant will receive personalised coaching from an experienced coach to support real-world application.
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Experiential Learning: Define and adopt your own Leadership Manifesto as part of the course
Your Takeaways
By the end of this masterclass, you will:
✔ Define Personal Excellence – craft a personal leadership manifesto aligned to your core values & observable behaviours
✔ Diagnose systemic gaps – evaluate how strategy, daily management, improvement and leadership development support (or block) excellence
✔ Connect Behaviour to Systems – link leader behaviours with system effectiveness and frontline performance.
✔ Design a Strategic Action Plan – build a practical 90 day roadmap to deploy your manifesto through organisational systems.
✔ Lead Systemic Change – Use tools and cadences to embed excellence in both culture and operations.
Who Should Attend?
Senior Executives shaping culture and strategy – C-Suite, Operations Directors, Senior Management ready to lead measurable change across their enterprise.
Why Now?
About the Host Site: Scottish Water
Based on the Award-Winning Publications
Deep Excellence: Seeing & Hearing a Culture of Deep Excellence by John Quirke et al; and
The Essence of Excellence by Peter Hines & Chris Butterworth
Find out more about the thinking behind Deep Excellence
Secure your place today and lead the change towards world-class leadership