Strategic Leadership Program
Customizable program designed for mid-level leaders.Design your own program or include all 8 modules for a comprehensive leadership development strategy.
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Strategic Thinking
Stimulating insights and applying imagination to drive organizational alignment. Learn more
Execution Essentials
Leveraging operational excellence to transform business results. Learn more
Transition Management
Influencing others to embrace change even when they don't want to. Learn more
Employee Engagement
Creating an environment that energizes people's heads, hands and hearts. Learn more
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Leadership Mindset
Developing attitudes and behaviours that can transform organizational culture. Learn more
Personality Patterns
Understanding, predicting and leveraging differences in attitudes and behaviours. Learn more
Performance Potential
Motivating people to do their best and inspiring them to be their best. Learn more
Diversity Drivers
Harnessing differences to encourage inclusion and generate business value. Learn more
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Strategic Thinking
Stimulating insights and applying imagination to drive organizational alignmentTo some, strategic thinking is a natural talent. To everyone else it's a process that can be learned. Essential to the process are core tools and methods that are dynamic and flexible, and that can adapt to the constantly changing times. Yet these tools must also promote future focused thinking and creativity that ensures a competitive edge. Based on Balanced Scorecard fundamentals. Leaders will learn:
- Competitive landscape, SWOT, Strategy maps, communication plans
- How a unique look at your competitors can help you leap forward and avoid catastrophic disasters
- How to avoid missing important cues that can crush results
- How to develop a strategic mindset that helps you predict business success
Execution Essentials
Leveraging operational excellence to transform business resultsIf you can't execute the strategy, there's no sense having one. The ability to achieve key objectives consistently, over time, will be your competitive advantage. Leaders will learn:
- 6 major reasons that execution fails
- common challenges and obstacles to successful execution
- Why accountability is the key to everything and how to make sure it happens
- Why the language used to write goals can make or break execution
- How the wrong language can stop you from achieving your goals
- Why mapping your process is imperative to achieving alignment
- How to achieve alignment between departments that have seemingly conflicting goals
- How to communicate execution progress and keep everyone engaged and committed to success
Transition Management
Influencing others to embrace change even when they don't want toIf there is one thing that everyone agrees on it's that change is occurring faster than ever and those unable to keep up will be history in their marketplace. Companies need people who can adapt, be creative, and resilient if they ever hope to be truly innovative. Leaders will learn:
- How to help people become more resilient and open to change, especially the most resistant
- How to deal with the inevitable disruptions and get things back on track, FAST
- How to tame the communication tiger when information inevitably gets out of the bag
- How to manage the transition so they build trust instead of destroy it
- How to avoid the problem of creating disengaged employees because isn't handled well
Employee Engagement
Creating an environment that energizes people's heads, hands and heartsYou can buy people's heads and hands with a paycheque but you cannot buy their heart; it must be earned. Successful companies know that when employees are emotionally connected to the work they do and the people they do it for, productivity and profitability soar. Leaders will learn:
- How much money disengagement is costing them
- The connection between employee engagement and customer loyalty
- What contributes to engagement and what causes it to erode
- How to motivate people to move up the levels of initiative so they can become more engaged
Leadership Mindset
Developing attitudes and behaviours that can transform organizational cultureWe all know bad leadership when we see it, but what does it take to be a great leader? Understanding core elements of a leadership mindset can help shift the culture and positively impact the bottom line. Leaders will learn:
- How building trust contributes to the bottom line and how can you do it FAST!
- How to focus attention in a world of ambiguity and uncertainty
- How the ability to lead leaders can change everything
- Why alignment of personal values to company values can build credibility and trust
- How attitudes and beliefs and inspire peak performance in you and in others
Personality Patterns
Understanding, predicting and leveraging difference in attitudes and behavioursUnderstanding human nature and the predictable parts of people's behaviour can help leaders and teams to significantly improve, collaboration, communication and cooperation. Leaders will learn:
- How different personality patters can explain why people think and act the way they do
- How personality conflicts can be resolved in a way that builds trust
- How to recognize when communication styles are causing misunderstands so you can fix them or avoid them altogether
- How personality differences deplete energy and negatively impact morale
- Why people get into decision deadlock and how to break through
Performance Potential
Motivating people to do their best and inspiring them to be their bestDeveloping leaders and getting them ready to take on new challenges is a key part of your role and imperative to the success of your organization. How can you help people develop the competence, confidence and motivation and attitude that drives peak performance? Leaders will learn:
- 2 critical questions you must answer if you have any hope of managing performance
- What you need to do to ensure your team is capable of doing the job
- How feedforward will rescue you from your feedback deficit
- What impacts people's confidence and motivation and stops them from wanting to do a good job
- How can you get people to self-manage so you no longer need to be a babysitter
- How can you build accountability into the team so you don't need to be the referee
Diversity Drivers
Harnessing differences to encourage inclusion and generate business valueOrganizations that have figured out how to leverage diversity are reaping the benefits. Creativity and innovation rely on different perspectives to ensure the best ideas and solutions shine through. Leaders will learn:
- how and why it makes good business sense to have a diverse team
- what it means to embrace diversity and why it's so hard
- show stoppers that kill your efforts to leverage diversity
- how unconscious bias is getting in the way and why you aren't even aware it's happening
- key differences that make gender and generation differences worth exploring
- what you're doing to perpetuate the problem
