AVANT, Australia's largest Medical Defence Organisation
Avant engaged Steps Leaders at a critical time for our business. Having just completed a merger to form Australia's largest Medical Defence Organisation with a combined history of 250 years, it was a time of great change. Accordingly, it was imperative for us to build a leadership culture that reflected and supported the company's newly formed values. We have now been working with Steps for over 18 months and we have enjoyed experiencing the terrific progress our people, teams and business has made in key priority areas.
Some of the benefits reported by Avant's people were:
- Community-building - simply getting to know each other in meaningful ways through the leadership program and breaking down actual or perceived barriers for the betterment of everyone and the whole business.
- We have people who are more self-aware, and have an appetite to lead and inspire. The blinkers are off and people are more willing to change.
- We have increased the feeling of accountability of participants for their own actions, and for taking a leadership role in accomplishing the strategic plan of Avant to take the business forward.
- Our people appreciate the investment of time and money in their development and have a renewed motivation and drive, achieved through participation in best practice leadership development programs.
- Our people consider Avant to be the putting a priority on developing the skills and capabilities of our people and thereby developing their careers and especially building their leadership skills.
Steps has provided a range of customised in-house programs for our people from frontline manager levels up to the Executive Team. The programs Steps have developed for Avant have allowed our people to go on a journey and enabled them to develop an appreciation for different styles of leadership and how to behave as a leader in different situations. Fundamentally, our people understand themselves more, understand each other more, and now perform at a higher and more constructive level.
It has been a pleasure working with Steps - their relaxed yet highly professional approach has made this journey an enjoyable one and they have brought to Avant what we consider to be an absolutely first class solution.
