Innovative Development to Empower and Accelerate Leaders
ideal is a leadership program designed to accelerate your high potentials’ confidence and success in their first managerial position. Designed with a foundational Strengths-based approach, this program offers a four pronged process to cultivating first time managers, building their confidence and ability to lead their teams. ideal is targeted to forward-thinking companies who are keen to optimize the impact their new leaders have on both the work environment and team results. In the fast-moving corporate and entrepreneurial world of today, it is critical that new leaders have the skills to work effectively and creatively across changing platforms and with all generations.
With a customized program tailored to your corporate team, we will jump start your new manager development with a multi-layered, integrated program.
Leadership Competencies
While every session is custom-designed to meet your organization’s specific needs, most of our programs address some combination of the following critical capabilities for all new leaders:
- Emotional Intelligence – becoming more aware of our own, and others, emotions as well as strategies for managing emotions more effectively in the workplace
- Critical conversations – offering a framework, tools, and role plays to help participants practice effectively conducting the many challenging conversations managers must have including: addressing poor performance, holding staff accountable, delegating work, and pitching ideas to gain agreement
- Employee motivation and development – understanding the neuroscience behind employee motivation and development helps participants create customized plans for their own teams
“Coaching and developing others, engaging and inspiring others,and having emotional intelligence are the most valuable skills and competencies for first-time people managers”
– International Coaching Federation, 2017 study
Our Four Pronged Approach
- Pre-Assessment – We use the CliftonStrengths assessment tool to help participants identify and authenticate their existing leadership capabilities and, with their manager, identify their individual development goals.
- Facilitated Training – Up to eight hours of training, provides a powerful coaching platform to learn critical leadership frameworks, practice new skills through customized role plays, and receive real-time feedback.
- Group Coaching – In small cohorts, participants will receive up to six hours of virtual group coaching providing the opportunity to practice with each other and our experienced coaches.
- Online Support – Additional touchpoints via e-mail and Slack, create a sense of community and accountability as participants evaluate their progress toward their personal development goals.
“Employees are loyal to companies who provide career growth – 86% of millennials said that providing training and development would keep them from leaving their current position”
– www.instructure.com, 2019