Logos: Leadership and the Missing Conversations
Leadership is all about the conversation.
Leaders do not make widgets, take cash, transport goods or provide customer services. Or if they do, they are taking a break from leadership. Leaders attend meetings, make calls and email people. They communicate, and the principal device in their tool kit is the conversation.
Mastering the five Leadership Conversations is crucial for cohesion, and high performance within an organisation. When these conversations are absent, dysfunction and disorder prevail. When leaders courageously engage, particularly with the difficult conversations that others avoid, they can hold their teams together through providing shared meaning. Focused, intentional conversations pave the way for collaboration and successful delivery.
The five conversations are:
1. Enrolment
Inspiring others to invest discretionary effort in your agenda and commit to supporting your vision.
2. The Disclosive Conversation
Connecting meaningfully with your collaborators’ passions and concerns, building trust and mutual understanding.
3. Closure
Resolving unfinished business and addressing lingering distractions, allowing the team to move forward unencumbered and able to leave the past behind.
4. The Revealing Conversation
Bringing hidden agendas and unproductive behaviours (sometimes called “rackets”) into the open, enabling integration and honest dialogue.
5. Agreements
Structuring shared commitments to actions and relationships, and establishing a common understanding of issues.
These conversations form a virtuous cycle, where the effective delivery of one naturally facilitates another. For example, achieving true closure on a disappointment creates the space for a more open and productive disclosive conversation. Similarly, enrolling someone in a compelling vision makes it easier to form agreements about future actions.
By mastering the Leadership Conversations Cycle, leaders can create an environment where teams thrive, adapt, and achieve their potential.
In addition to the Leadership Conversations, bridging models about trust, responsibility, framing and shadow will also be discussed and explored.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:
Present a compelling future: Describe a vision that can enrol others in a shared vision, eliciting genuine commitment and discretionary effort.
Strengthen work relationships: Frame a conversation that can connect them to people in a more resilient, authentic and human way.
Build and sustain trust: Understand the different kinds of trust and how to focus on strengths while bolstering the more vulnerable aspects of the relationship.
Encourage future focus: Structure meetings to bring closure to unresolved issues and enable teams to move forward with clarity and focus.
Reveal hidden resistance: Identify and address underlying engagement blocks or “rackets” that impede collaboration, creating a more conducive space for openness and growth.
Forge dependable agreements: Develop precise, actionable commitments that can strengthen accountability and teamwork.
Take responsibility: Encourage personal and collective empowerment, by role modelling proactivity in any situation, retaining a choice of action.
Frame conversations effectively: Contextualise conversations to support productive interactions and increase the potential for successful outcomes.
Cost: £795 (+VAT) per person. Groups of 5 cost £3250 (+VAT).
Refreshments and lunch included.
Contact: Email Peter or Jim at office@neish.co to book on or find out more.
This is the second time we have run this as an open programme at Neish. Here is a sample of the feedback from the first Logos event run in December 2025:
“… throughout the two full days, I was immersed in learning and practicing skills that are not only crucial for today's workplace but also invaluable for life in general … It was an engaging and enriching experience that I believe will significantly benefit any leader looking to enhance their leadership capabilities.”
Juliette Regisford-Montague, Global Vice President, People and Culture, BP.
…”Logos provides you with the time and importantly the headspace to explore what i originally thought as conscious/unconscious bias but its more than that, the programme explores who you are, why you are here and how collectively as leaders we can make a real difference to our people, our communities and our partnerships.”
Roy Davidson, Waste Water Business Improvement Manager, Scottish Water.
“A great course to attend if you want to understand how to have meaningful conversations, which will have a profound impact on you and others.
Highly recommend.”
Sandie Sibra, Senior Area Manager, Caffé Nero
“A massively thought provoking programme delivered in an engaging manner…”
John Gittens, Managing Director, Maincor Ltd.
“This is a course with extremely broad potential application for both personal development and delivery of commercial outcomes. I would recommend if for either teams or individuals who are looking to maximise their potential.”
Jemma Richardson, Partner, Anderson Strathern