About membership
Find out what your membership will entail; the process, events, workshops, online and in-person meetings. Our membership structure is based on your need to address today’s operational challenges, while progressing tomorrow’s strategic direction.
How we do it
Engaging and learning with the community of leaders at a human level is at the heart of MD2MD, known as peer-to-peer learning. Through a blended approach of online and in-person sessions and events, your membership gives you access to a diverse range of expertise, real world knowledge and insights from other leaders who have been through or going through the same challenges as you are.
The Membership
An investment in becoming an even better leader positively impacts you and your business. A mix of online and in-person Peer Group Challenge Boards, provides you with a confidential platform to raise the issues you face and discuss solutions with your peers. Gain access to regular online events that are curated specifically for you and your senior team.
Events
Curated specifically for you, the events cover a range of topical, trending and relevant content to suit your needs. From expert-led interactive workshops where the subject-matter expert digs into a specific topic providing you with valuable bite sized takeaways, to special interest groups. These events are the perfect forum to include your management teams.
Our Community
Business leaders more often than not, face uncharted waters both internally and externally. Not having the answers is ok. The community allows you to tap into collective knowledge and experience in a constructive, collaborative and empathic way, whilst remaining adaptive to test ideas and opinions, gaining unbiased feedback from your peers in planning a way forward.
Real Challenges Our Members Have Faced
Partner Conflict Management
Relationships are critical to business success. Unfortunately in some instances they can turn negative and this conflict can be tricky to navigate. As it did with one member and his partner due to performance issues. Having the peer group as a sounding board, he worked out a strategy to tackle the elephant in the room and have the tough courageous conversation.Ultimately exiting him from the business for the good of the business.
In office, virtual or hybrid
The Covid pandemic changed the ways of working and expectations from both employers and employee’s. Members share a common challenge in handling the resistance in return to office policies, and in a particular instance one member stated this was due to performance concerns. Through the peer group session, listening and learning from each other on what worked and what didn’t across their own businesses, successful strategies were put in place with positive results.
A change of leadership
A member had his CEO retire with little notice, catching him off guard. As the MD he stepped into the position however felt isolated without a layer to lean on and validate his thinking with. This was compounded by some big decisions pending in the business with his leadership team and makeup of the employees. On joining MD2MD, he took his challenges to the peer group sessions and engaged with the community. The result was he became more stabilised within his thinking, gained more confidence and felt he had the support to make the tough decisions.
Chairmen dynamic and facing the board
One member had previously been part of a large corporation, before taking his first MD role at a medium enterprise. He found MD2MD supported him in how he adapted his leadership to being ‘part of the team, to leading the team’. In addition understanding and learning the relationship between himself and the chairmen, including navigating the board dynamics was all new territory to him which was supported by his tight knit peer group.
Take the next step
Become part of a collaborative community of business leaders that value peer to peer learning. Listening, supporting and sharing perspectives alongside access to leading industry expert speakers, helping you become a better leader to build a better business.
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