Corporate Coaching
Our Leadership and Personal Development programs are tailored to the current needs of our corporate clients and go well beyond any outdated traditional core training and development programs. We utilize cutting edge knowledge and process and we are building excellence, mastery and advocacy among today’s extraordinary leaders to have the breadth of vision and external mindset to embrace, develop and engage in responsible leadership. Our programs not only provide intellectual knowledge based solutions, we also incorporate in our workshops and seminars methodologies and processes whereby we can assist leaders to integrate this knowledge experientially actually producing measurable and sustainable results.
Our programs aim at developing appropriate leadership and management core behaviors to be inclusive of and yet move beyond an examination of management culture and organizational capabilities (transformational leadership) and concentrate on how leaders and managers operationally integrate responsible business practice into day-to-day decision making (transactional management) and thus operate effectively in this new environment. This is the heart of transformational change and shows up in the character of our leaders, organizations and corporate responsibility.
The benefits of our leadership programs helps to build a strong framework that enables a decision making process that takes into account a wide range of criteria relating to integrating personal growth strategies and conscious awareness and the implications of this on the organization.
We believe that “New Leadership” is contagious, expansive, happening in the NOW bringing with it waves of exhilaration, fulfillment and potential. Realizing and optimizing success requires a delicate balance of dialogue and action within groups and individuals inside and outside the organization. Leadership is also now about balancing our talent segments and leadership succession pools.
For example our “Leadership and Leadership Mobility” program is designed for two reasons: the aging population of leaders and management executives are moving into retirement and the recent economic downturn has forced many corporations to make huge cuts to their middle management level as a way to reduce overhead. These two factors have had a high-impact on organizations that are now rapidly focusing on even higher-value solutions; such as:
* identifying critical high-value talent segments
* creating succession and leadership pools
* implementing high-volume talent mobility solutions
* looking at engagement in a far more strategic way
Another example is our “Hard Disciplines” program …
Innovation, Engagement and Diversity
It is generally believed that the whole area surrounding succession management is already occurring, to include “leadership mobility”. The recession of the last few years has forced companies to make tremendous shifts in their workforces – and the research shows that many organizations do not have well-developed processes to move people from role to role, identify low performers rapidly (i.e., during a layoff) and implement organization wide career management strategies.
A high potential manager or leader is one who has been identified as having the potential, ability and aspiration for successive leadership positions within the organization. Often, these employees are provided with focused development as part of a succession plan and this is where we can assist.
Engagement is an old term that often means “employee satisfaction” to many people. Of course the best definitions of engagement go much further, discussing how employees value their company benefits, their relationship with their manager and more. Today, as a result of the recent recession, the topic is even more important. Many employees are engaged because they are afraid of losing their jobs. This of course, does not lead to high levels of participation and innovation.
Innovation is becoming important again. During a downturn, companies naturally focus on employee performance, productivity and cost-reduction. However, this energy rapidly goes away as markets grow. Now that the economic recovery is well underway; CEO’s and business leaders are moving their attention back to market share growth, competitive positioning and product leadership again. All businesses thrive through continuous innovation. The difficult issue for these companies is not whether innovation is important but, rather, how they can build talent programs, cultures, leadership and systems that encourage and drive innovation.
Diversity is another new topic for the current business climate. While many organizations have treated diversity and inclusion as an HR-driven compliance program over the years, its time for this to change. Today more and more organizations are reporting that diversity (i.e., gender, generational, cultural, and educational) is actually a part of their business strategies. Our Leadership and Personal Development programs focus on the attitudes and beliefs that drive responsible leadership and management practices. This training focuses how to develop responsible leaders manages and staff with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required operating effectively in today’s complex business environment.