Leadership DevelopmentFor executive teams and cohorts
Leadership development
that holds under pressure.
A programme for a cohort of leaders over weeks or months. Your team leaves with a one-page culture charter and the habits that make it hold.
Organisations I've worked with: MINDEF, SAF, TTSH, NUS and Unilever
Developing one or two leaders, not a cohort? See sponsored coaching.
At a glance
- Length
- A single team session is a half-day to a full day. Cohort programmes run across multiple sessions over weeks or months.
- Who it is for
- Executive teams and leadership cohorts.
- Methods
- CliftonStrengths, the Values Navigator, LEGO® Serious Play™ and scenario-based decision work.
- Led by
- Paul Prathap leads every session. Groups above 30 add co-facilitators. ICF PCC, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, former SAF Battalion Commander.
- Where
- At your venue, or a venue Men-Kind sources. In Singapore and overseas.
- Notice
- Book at least six weeks ahead.
- Fee includes
- Materials, a design call beforehand and a written debrief afterwards. Venue and catering are excluded.
- Your team leaves with
- A one-page culture charter, a debrief and the habits that make it hold.
- Quote
- Written, fee included, within two working days of your brief.
“We already worked well together. After the offsite we understood each other far better. Prathap ran it with a military precision you rarely see in corporate facilitation, yet it never felt rigid; it felt real. We enjoyed ourselves too, which doesn't always happen at a leadership offsite.”
Management Team, Unilever Singapore, Facilitation Client
The Argument
Most leadership development works on the surface.
Lasting change starts at the core.
Standard programmes train behaviour. Under pressure, people revert to who they are. The Three Layers of Leadership™ works at the core: identity and values.
One Core, Four Altitudes
We develop the leadership
inside your organisation.
One core: the whole leader, pressure-tested and anchored in command. Built at four altitudes: self, team, organisation and the field beyond.
The Men-Kind System™: three instruments form one whole leader, anchored in command. Hover or tap any element to see how it works.
Three instruments · one whole leader
The Men-Kind System™
WHO & WHY
Values Navigator
HOW
CliftonStrengths
WHAT
LEGO® Serious Play™
- The whole leader:
- being and doing.
- The performance cycle:
- clarity, opportunity, learning and standards, each reinforcing the next.
- Held against:
- crisis and threat.
- Outcomes over outputs:
- results that hold, stronger teams, trust and reputation, mission accomplished.
- The anchor:
- mission command, values and warrior ethos, with doctoral research in crisis leadership at Cranfield.
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Self
Strengths, values and identity made conscious, so the leader leads from who they are.
Team
Values turned into habits: how the team decides, aligns and holds its standards under pressure.
Organisation
A culture charter that outlasts any one leader.
The Field Beyond
Partners, clients and the wider sector, where your intent has to hold without direct control.
A one-page charter: your team's three to five values, the behaviours that show each one, and the decision rules you hold to under pressure. We make it visible and test it through scenarios and LEGO® Serious Play™ models.
The C4 Loop™
How leadership
compounds.
Competence built from within earns confidence. Confidence lets a team cohere. Cohesion deepens commitment. Commitment reinvests in competence. Under pressure, this loop is what holds.
Four C's · one reinforcing loop
The C4 Loop™
- 01Competencefrom within: strengths, values, mastery
- 02Confidenceearned under pressure
- 03Cohesionsure footing, held together
- 04Commitmentmeaning beyond the self
Commitment reinvests in competence, so the loop compounds.
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The Programme
Multi-session.
Built for your cohort.
A cohort programme across months, built on the Men-Kind System™.
Strengths-based
CliftonStrengths: build from what is already wired in.
Values-led
Values Navigator: the why before the what.
Made tangible
LEGO® Serious Play™: the real picture, built by hand.
Engagements
What this looks like
in practice.
A composite from real engagements, with details adjusted for client confidentiality.
Defence-Technology Scale-Up
Founder-led, twelve to ninety people in eighteen months.
The Situation
Decisions stuck. Onboarding inconsistent. The founder had become the bottleneck.
The Intervention
A three-month programme for the senior seven, plus a retreat for the broader cohort. Scenario plays rehearsed the decisions the founder would no longer be making.
The Outcome
A documented culture charter, a leadership operating system owned by the senior team, and a founder who shifted from operator to strategist.
“Prathap ran a Gallup Strengths session for my team, and we came away with insights into our own talents and each other's. He facilitated in a very interactive way, and his warm, friendly approach made us comfortable enough to open up about team dynamics. The Gallup cards and his constructive feedback gave each of us something to work on. I'd recommend it for any team.”
Amanda, Google review
Organisations I've worked with
How an Engagement Starts
Three steps.
No mystery.
Your Brief
Send the cohort, the situation and what a real outcome looks like. A call is optional.
Written Quote
Within two working days, you'll have either my questions or a written quote. The quote includes the fee.
The Programme and Debrief
Multi-session delivery, then a debrief and the habits that make it hold.
Questions Worth Asking
Asked before
every engagement.
What does a leadership development programme cost in Singapore?
Every workshop, retreat and multi-session programme is scoped to the cohort and the outcome. Send a brief through the proposal form. Within two working days, you'll have either my questions or a written quote. The quote includes the fee.
How long does a programme run?
As long as the outcome needs and no longer. A single team session is a half-day to a full day. Cohort programmes typically run across multiple sessions over weeks or months, so the work becomes habit rather than memory.
How far ahead should we book?
Book at least six weeks ahead.
What does the fee include?
Materials, a design call beforehand and a written debrief afterwards. For example LEGO® bricks, CliftonStrengths codes and cards, or printed materials, as fits the format. Venue and catering are excluded: your own, or quoted separately when Men-Kind sources the venue.
Is this SFEC or SkillsFuture claimable?
No. Men-Kind's programmes are designed for one team and are not SkillsFuture-listed courses, so they can't be claimed against the SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit. Fees are scoped to your budget instead. Send a brief through the proposal form. Within two working days, you'll have either my questions or a written quote. A call is optional.
What methods does the programme use?
Four. CliftonStrengths, the Values Navigator and LEGO® Serious Play™ form the Men-Kind System™. Scenario-based decision work then rehearses judgement before it is needed.
What is the difference between leadership development and executive coaching?
Leadership development builds capability across a team or an organisation. Executive coaching works one-to-one with a single leader. Sponsored coaching costs SGD 1,500 per leader for three sessions or SGD 3,000 for six. It starts with a sit-down with HR on the goals the company wants and closes with a review with the sponsor. Full detail: menkind.life/for-organisations/sponsored-coaching. Strong programmes use both: coaching for the leaders who carry the weight, and development for the teams who carry it out.
Can a programme include team coaching?
Yes. Team coaching develops the leadership team as one unit. It often runs between workshops, so the new habits hold once the room empties.
Who has Men-Kind worked with?
Prathap has delivered leadership and facilitation work for leaders and teams from organisations including MINDEF, the National University of Singapore, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Unilever, and Foundation Healthcare Holdings.
Next Step
Develop the leaders
the next decade will ask for.
Tell me about the cohort and the situation. Within two working days, you'll have either my questions or a written quote.