Develop Leaders Who Build High Performing Teams

STAR^® Leader combines the multi-award-winning and scientifically validated leadership development programme, STAR^® Manager, with 1-to-1 Executive Coaching.

Working with their Executive Coach, leaders will achieve their career or organisational goals faster, whilst improving their overall management capability, coaching behaviour and team performance. This programme elevates the current STAR^® Manager programme with an extra layer of personal support, by the addition of up to 9 hours of 1-to-1 Coaching.

Whilst this webpage is designed to share how the STAR^® Leader programme works within organisations, individuals can buy it too. If you’re interested for yourself, schedule a consultation with us to learn more.

STAR^® Leader Is For:

Supporting their career development with 1-to-1 support as they prepare to step up

Who would enjoy the personal support of a dedicated Coach whilst embedding the core STAR^® skills

Who need tactical support to solve a live business bottleneck, deliver a critical project, or hit a specific milestone

The time spent with my coach and in completing the STAR^® programme has been immensely valuable from a professional development perspective. My coach brought great insight, focus and challenge to our coaching sessions, and I was able to identify and articulate clearly the development steps needed to progress in my career.

Davi Olsson

Audit Director, RSM

"If you believe that you have all of the experience and skills needed to manage and coach effectively, think again! This provides practical techniques to empower your team to find solutions independently. This not only boosts their confidence and preparation but also frees up your time to focus on higher-value tasks. I highly recommend the STAR^® program to managers at all levels, especially those in senior positions, looking to elevate their leadership impact."

Focused Solutions Group Senior Director

Cyncly

Working with my coach has had a massive impact on my work and personal life - the change has been really significant. It's dramatically improved my personal productivity, my influence and relationships with people. The knock on effect to my team has also been clear both in terms of engagement and personal stretch for them. I don’t often give 10 out of 10, but on this occasion I am more than happy to do so.

Jeff Uden

Iceland Foods

Programme Objectives

The STAR^® Manager programme is fantastic for building core Operational Coaching^® skills and broader ‘people management’ capability. However, we often hear from clients that they’d love to give their senior or high-potential leaders a bit of extra “bespoke” support to really accelerate their impact.

That’s exactly why we’ve created STAR^® Leader.

Now your leaders can enjoy working directly with a dedicated Executive Coach whilst progressing through their chosen STAR^® programme.

We have a 25-year track record of delivering outstanding coaching services for our clients, and our team of world-class Executive Coaches have a raft of experience working across all sectors and all levels… from C-suite to Senior Managers:

The coaching has been a very positive and transformational experience for me. My CEO has described my transformation as “phenomenal” and in truth, I must agree. I have become much more self-aware and I struggle to believe at times that it has only been four months since this programme began.

Peter Buffoni

Partner, Gatenby Sanderson

The programme has completely transformed how I support and lead my team. I've learned how to shift from giving answers to empowering growth, which has had a noticeable impact on both individual performance and team dynamics. If someone was considering this programme, I would absolutely encourage them to go for it. It truly makes a difference in how you show up as a leader.

Simina Alaci

Virgin Atlantic

Following a successful pilot, we’ve seen our managers develop the confidence and ability to encourage performance improvement in their direct reports, provide constructive feedback, hold challenging conversations with positive outcomes, listen effectively and reclaim time to spend on more impactful activities – all by learning to incorporate coaching-related behaviours into their day-to-day management style.

Anna Chapman

Head of Leadership Development, University of Warwick

STAR^® Leader - Programme Overview

Choose Your STAR^® Pathway

Select either the STAR^® Coach Practitioner or STAR^® Manager Practitioner development track

Add Bespoke 1-to-1 Support

Pair it with 3, 6, or 9 hours of virtual 1-to-1 Executive Coaching

The Result

The comprehensive STAR^® Leader programme

Choose Your STAR^® Programme Pathway

Leaders can join either STAR^® Coach Practitioner or STAR^® Manager Practitioner. There’s no right or wrong choice here; both will elevate leadership skills and move leaders towards using a coaching mindset in all conversations.

STAR^® Coach Practitioner

Duration: 3-6 Months

Time Commitment: 1 hour per week, scheduled when convenient

Who: Any leader or manager

STAR^® Coach Practitioner focuses on developing leaders’ personal leadership style to incorporate coaching-related behaviours into all their everyday conversations.

Over the course of the programme, leaders will:

Learn and embed the STAR^® Model so that Operational Coaching^® becomes their default leadership style
Develop the ability to ask effective, thought-provoking questions that encourage ownership and insight
Practice active listening and understand its role in high-quality conversations
Empower and enable direct reports to take greater ownership and responsibility
Attend one 'Practitioner Session' with an expert tutor to practice skills and get real time feedback

Or...

STAR^® Manager Practitioner

Duration: 6-9 Months

Time Commitment: 1 hour per week, scheduled when convenient for you

Who: Any leader or manager with direct responsibility for the development of their team

STAR^® Manager Practitioner develops leaders’ personal leadership style to incorporate coaching-related behaviours into all their everyday conversations, then continues the learning to enable them to proactively develop their team… during 1-to-1s and via direct feedback.

Over the course of the programme, leaders will:

Learn and embed the STAR^® Model so that Operational Coaching^® becomes their default leadership style
Develop the ability to ask effective, thought-provoking questions that encourage ownership and insight
Practice active listening and understand its role in high-quality conversations
Empower and enable direct reports to take greater ownership and responsibility
Deliver feedback in a way that supports learning, motivation, and improvement
Approach challenging conversations with greater confidence and structure
Hold more productive one-to-one conversations using a coaching approach to set clear, meaningful goals
Understand how beliefs and values influence behaviour and performance at work
Attend two 'Practitioner Sessions with an expert tutor to practice skills and get real time feedback

Include 1-to-1 Executive Coaching

3 – 9 hours of 1-to-1 support included

We’ve been delivering world-class Executive Coaching and Mentoring programmes since 2000, and we have an outstanding track record, having worked with thousands of managers and leaders across all sectors and all levels, from Board Level to Senior Managers across the public and private sectors.

Our Zero Admin Promise: Our dedicated Mission Control team handles 100% of the logistics—including onboarding, coach-matching, scheduling, and progress tracking. You and your team don’t have to lift a finger.

10 Ways Leaders Could Use Their 1-to-1 Executive Coaching

Develop clear career goals and plans
Develop key leadership competencies
Gain an objective sounding board for decisions
Improve emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
Boost confidence and motivation

The primary goal and focus of the Executive Coaching will be determined between the Leader, the Coach and any other relevant stakeholders prior to the programme starting.

“Notion's coaching has enabled me to challenge myself and operate as an executive by developing my personal brand, my influencing skills and by empowering the leaders within my team to extend their focus to the longer-term vision. I can highly recommend coaching to those who are open to improvement.”

Engineering Director

Dennis Eagle

“A truly invaluable experience. My coach challenged me to tackle preconceptions – personally and professionally. The impact has been recognised and appreciated in all aspects of my work, how I lead and manage the team, and the change to the output that I now create. I would not hesitate to recommend Notion.”

Head of Technical Services

Biffa

Working with my coach has materially improved my ability to empower, develop and challenge my team, my time management and my ‘personal brand’ – in short, to become a better leader. The results have been evident both to myself, my team and colleagues.

Operations Director

Flogas

How We Support Organisations Every Step Of The Way...

Notion’s Mission Control are a team dedicated to your learner’s success. Their only objective is to meet or exceed your organisation’s strategic objectives and deliver a successful programme for every participating manager. Their mantra is ‘no learner left behind’.

Our Zero Admin Promise: Our dedicated Mission Control team handles 100% of the logistics—including programme onboarding, coach-matching, scheduling of all 1-to-1 sessions, and progress tracking. You and your team don’t have to lift a finger.

5 Stages to Success

We have a proven 5-stage blueprint to maximise your programme outcomes, which includes two pre-launch stages to ensure your programme is set up for success, followed by three post-launch stages to maintain engagement and momentum.

We’ll share our success playbook and the resources you can use as part of your pre-launch communications to ensure a smooth launch with engaged and excited learners. Our highly interactive launch sequence includes two live learner events for all learners, followed by ongoing learner support throughout.

Capturing RoI, Reporting, Reviews & Support

The STAR^® Manager programme has 7 built-in methods of capturing success and return on investment. Notion provides monthly collated reports, sharing this data as it’s captured, alongside regular learner progress trackers, which you’ll receive more frequently.

The Mission Control Team proactively use these trackers to reach out and support individual learners as they work through the programme.

Whilst the 1-to-1 Executive Coaching is bespoke and fully confidential, we have a tried-and-tested reporting process in place that ensures that at the end of every coaching assignment, you’ll receive a separate report, per Leader, detailing the programme results.

Don't Let Unanswered Questions Hold You Back

We’ve included below responses to some of the questions we get asked the most. Just click on the ‘+’ to find out the answer.

We recommend leaders spend approximately 1-hour per week on the programme (for example, this could be 2 x 30-minute extended coffee breaks) with the aim of completing a module a week.

Working at this pace, STAR^® Coach Practitioner can be completed in approximately 3-6 months, and STAR^® Manager Practitioner can be completed in 6-9 months.

They will also need to allow time for their 1-to-1 Executive Coaching session

You can choose between 3 hours, 6 hours or 9 hours of virtual 1-to-1 coaching for leaders on the STAR^® Leader programme.

We also offer strategic Executive Coaching for boards and senior leaders. This is a separate service, and we’re happy to talk to you about our corporate Executive Coaching packages if you’re looking for more formal, deep-dive strategic Executive Coaching.

We take all this admin away from you.

We’ll schedule a briefing call directly with the Leader, where we’ll deep dive into their objectives for the coaching, their current role and their preferred learning style. We’ll then use this to match them to the best-fit coach within our expert team.

We’ll schedule for them to meet their coach for an introductory call to agree on the programme objectives and check they’ll enjoy working together, and then the programme will commence.

If the Leader is unhappy after the intro call (this rarely happens), then we will match with another coach.

Internal stakeholders can also be involved in setting programme goals and objectives if required.

The programme includes everything listed, and there are never any additional costs:

1-to-1 Executive Coaching with a world-class coach
Live launch and booster sessions with Mission Control
Fortnightly (optional) live masterclasses with a Notion Tutor
The STAR^® pack of additional resources
All online programme modules (10 for STAR® Coach and 20 for Certified STAR® Manager)
Full Mission Control support via Zoom, email and phone
Programme assessment and referral support
Final globally recognised certification, including a certificate and digital badge on completion

STAR^® Leader has been designed for:

High-Potential Employees supporting their career development with 1-to-1 support as they prepare to step up
Senior Leadership Teams who would enjoy the personal support of a dedicated Coach whilst embedding the core STAR® skills
Other Leaders & Managers who need tactical support to solve a live business bottleneck, deliver a critical project, or hit a specific milestone

Both STAR^® Coach Practitioner and STAR^® Manager Practitioner are certified by APMG International, who are one of the largest certification bodies in the world. They were the original certifiers of the Prince2 project management certification and Agile PM. They certify and globally support a wide range of professional training programmes.

Learn more about APMG International here.

The programme is designed to capture a range of metrics and assessments naturally as you work through the programme, eliminating the need for any formal end-of-programme exams.

Throughout the programme, leaders will be invited to organically create evidence logs that demonstrate their application of the skills they’re learning and complete knowledge quizzes, which require a 70% pass rate. They are always given opportunities to re-review and re-take these quizzes if they don’t achieve these scores the first time.

As long as they diligently complete all modules and provide a minimum of three successes in your success tracker, they’ll automatically gain their Management Accreditation at the end.

Leaders can start their programme almost immediately. As soon as we receive their contact details, we will:

Onboard them onto their chosen STAR^® programme so they can log in to their programme dashboard and sign up to their STAR^® launch event (run every week)
Schedule a briefing call to discuss their Executive Coaching goals and objectives, and begin the coach matching process

The standard license length is 6 months for STAR^® Coach Practitioner and 12 months for Certified STAR^® Manager, from the date of onboarding.

Yes. We have a simple upgrade process whereby leaders can continue their journey from STAR^® Coach Practitioner to STAR^® Manager Practitioner if they wish.

Operational Coaching^®, ELA^®, Quest-Gen^®, and the STAR^® model and its graphical representations are all registered trademarks of Notion Holdings Limited and are used under licence by Notion Limited. All rights reserved. This workbook is the copyright of Notion Limited. You are granted a free and non-exclusive, personal licence to use these licensed trademarks and copyrighted materials within the confines of 1-to-1 / group coaching situations only. Use of Notion’s trademarks or copyrighted materials for wider training purposes is prohibited under this personal licence and would be subject to a separate licensing arrangement.

Please contact enquiries@notionltd.com to discuss your needs in this instance.

Next Steps

Schedule a 15-minute consultation with us.

On this short call, we will look at your organisation’s goals and initiatives, and share our custom ROI mapping tool to show you exactly how STAR^® Leader translates into commercial impact.

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