Intense & highly practical leadership development programs for Leaders and Executives
Excellence You Will Love
Leaders drive change and make extraordinary things happen in organizations. There are many factors that impact what leadership skills and how they want to further develop. Our programs are designed to meet diversified needs of leaders as per the content, scope, learning method.
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Some leaders seek to acquire new skills in the classroom learning environment where they could meet leaders / executive peers to share their experiences. Others would rather prefer to work individually via coaching and/or mentoring sessions ensuring they shape their learning experience themselves and a coach/mentor helps them to unleash the potential they have not managed to discover until now.
More often leaders seek for more complex programs which usually start with an individual diagnosis usually with a use of the instrument customized by the consultant, go through one-point-lesson program, followed by coaching or mentoring sessions and at the end assisted by the emergency call center advices.
The program content, its scope, form, delivery channel and instruments are always adjusted and designed after the introductory consulting session which usually takes place at the beginning of the program.
Mastering successful Leadership Practices
Companies need leaders who make organizations stronger, more agile, more innovative, and more responsive which particularly matters in the era of BANI. We believe that leadership is about how leaders mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done in organizations. A transformational leadership which fosters a culture of empowerment and inclusion, engages employees and builds high performing teams is more important for the companies to succeed more than ever.
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Throughout our programs we ensure leaders build new capabilities every single day and adapt their behaviors within the context of daily routines. We focus on mastering these behaviors that are required to drive change in organization.
We identified, based on scientifically-based models, practices that make certain leaders excel while others languish. Exemplary leadership practices, once incorporated into the flow of daily work, foster inclusive leadership and consequently lead to an intense business growth. Our approach to a leadership development is highly operational and tightly linked to the concept of creating value for the organization.
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Our programs may range from simple development initiatives to more complex programs. Organizations may want us to conduct some specific development initiatives such as e.g.: individual / team personality assessment, LPI, leadership shadow empowerment, learning & educational interventions (workshops, lectures) on predefined topics e.g.: exemplary leadership practices, change management, building & leading High Performing Teams, multicultural management, providing feedback, leading successful meetings, manager as a coach, manager as a mentor etc.
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Most of our programs however consists of a logical sequence of four repetitive steps for continuous improvement and learning: Plan, Do, Check, Act. We recommend scenarios that normally include the following basic steps:
Key leadership capabilities
We start by identifying capabilities leaders need (existing data provided by the organizations or we conduct data-driven assessments based on globally recognized assessment instruments). These might be capabilities required to fundamentally change the performance trajectory of the organization, excel team performance, navigate challenges and crises etc.
Instruments and solutions
Next, we leverage instruments and solutions that can be incorporated into leaders’ daily and weekly routines. We diligently select the accurate tools that change how people show up and lead every day at work. Some exemplar leadership development interventions are always tailored and may include coaching, mentoring, one-point-lessons, "CEO Shadow Program", workshops and facilitations, etc.
Context
Finally, we help to shape the context in which leaders operate. This may include but is not limited to navigating the org chart, establishing effective governance, reconsidering which metrics are tracked and rewarded to ensure that the organizational culture and the leadership behaviors are mutually reinforcing.
Developing High Performing Teams
​High performing teams” is a timeless dilemma of every organization. Whereas there are many definitions of the high performing teams, a few aspects have always been reoccurring. Organizations want highly committed, accountable, trust-based and open-minded teams that deliver the results. Thus, it is good to know where the leverage areas lay and nurture the healthy ambiance before it gets sick.
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Throughout our programs we help organizations to make leaders and people work as a team which results in high morale, employees engagement, work enthusiasm, and generally high performance.
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Based on scientifically proven models, we identified characteristics of high performing teams who celebrate successes but also dysfunctions that make them languish. High Performing Teams are labelled with: clarity, capability, collaboration, commitment, communication, CI, creativity. They are also free of dysfunctions such as: lack of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
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Our approach to High Performance Teams development is highly operational and addresses specific challenges of our customers.
Our programs may range from simple team development initiatives to more complex programs. Organizations may want us to conduct a team assessment and / or workshops on such topics as: effective team communication, conflict resolution, new team integration.
Most of our programs however consists of a logical sequence of four repetitive steps for continuous improvement and learning: Plan, Do, Check, Act. We recommend scenarios that normally include the following basic steps:
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Team dysfunctions and weaknesses
We start by identifying team weaknesses, team dysfunctions and their root causes employing globally recognized assessment instruments. Team feedback and focus group discussions help to define critical challenges around which further actions are taken.
Instruments and solutions
Next, we leverage instruments and solutions that can be incorporated into teams’ daily and weekly routines. We diligently select the accurate tools that change how teams show up and operate every day at work to increase their performance. The interventions may be addressed at the particular team members or teams as a whole. They may range from individual coaching and /or mentoring sessions through focused meetings to team projects and workshops.
Context
Finally, we help to shape the context in which teams operate. This may include but is not limited to navigating the org chart, establishing effective governance, reconsidering which metrics are tracked and rewarded to ensure that the organizational culture and the team members' behaviors are mutually reinforcing
Enhancing an engaging organisational culture
Organizational culture is usually defined as shared motives, values, beliefs, identities, and interpretations or meanings of significant events that result from common experiences of members of collectives that are transmitted across generations (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, Gupta, Culture, Leadership, and Organizations, 2014, s. 15)
This is important that an organizational culture is known, accepted and practiced by members of collectives. Strong organizations have transparent, constantly enhanced and engaging organizational cultures to foster growth and alignment. Cultural dimensions are usually measured in terms of two manifestations: modal practices (common behaviors) and modal values of collectives (beliefs).
Moreover, a concept of an organizational culture has a unique significance in the global and multicultural organizations in which an organizational culture intertwines with national cultures of its stakeholders. As a result, some organizational processes such as e.g. leadership are culturally contingent. This fact complicates even further a way of developing a fundament al framework of organizational culture that works for the global and multicultural enterprises.
Our disciplined and data driven approach helps to organize the overall organizational culture development and / or enhancement.
Organizational culture framework
We start by identifying prevailing dimensions of existing organizational culture and see how they incorporate strategic imperatives. In case an organizational culture framework is in place and does not need any modifications, we define gaps between a required and existing cultures. In case we are expected to develop an organizational culture framework, the process is more complex and starts with a clarification of the organizational strategic imperatives. This is a critical moment for defining values, beliefs, key interpretations and symbols, expected behaviors around concepts that are considered as enhancing a business growth.
Instruments and solutions
Next, we leverage instruments and solutions that will help to implement and finally settle “a new culture”. We appoint “agents” and “ambassadors” whose job is to facilitate a proper understanding of what is expected from people with regard to organizational culture requirements and to make it finally work.
Context
Finally, we help to shape the context in which people align with the organizational culture framework. This may include but is not limited to navigating the org chart, establishing effective governance, reconsidering which metrics are tracked and rewarded to ensure that the organizational culture and the team members behaviors are mutually reinforcing.
Ensuring well-being for Yourself and Your Team
In today’s BANI world, well-being initiatives are no longer a luxury that companies offer to their employees but a must to foster a business growth. Many people experience high levels of distress in today’s workplace. We believe that emotional and mental well-being of the employees impacts the way they work and consequently the results they achieve. Employees reporting poor mental and behavioral health are more likely to experience poor workplace relationships, demonstrate insufficient productivity, account for higher workplace healthcare expenditures and present low workplace morale.
We provide data driven and scientifically acknowledged tools to help organizations quickly and accurately assess the behavioral health of their employees. Comprehensive assessment tools measure social, behavioral, and psychological strengths known to contribute to a positive performance at workplace. In addition, the assessment tools provide transparent data on examined levels of distress and risk behaviors.
Employees who possess key strengths (resiliency factors) and lack significant distress (risk factors) demonstrate optimal functioning at the workplace. On contrary, employees who do not possess strengths and / or report high distress are more likely to experience poor performance at the workplace. Individual assessment results allow to develop a resilience / risk workplace map which helps to understand organization strengths and development areas. We recommend and conduct interventions on the individual level and organizational level.
Resiliency and risk factors
We start by identifying resiliency and risk indicators that work for the particular workplace. The both sets of indicators are agreed with the employer and specifically customized to match the requirements of the organizations. Resiliency indicators may include e.g.: overall feelings and attitudes about one’s life, motivations to work around barriers and hinder goal attainment, specific leadership competences and expectations about own personal capabilities. Whereas risk indicators may refer to e.g.: workplace ostracism, anxiety, depression symptoms, self-criticism, past severe distress, addictions.
Instruments and solutions
Next, we leverage instruments and solutions that can help to identify and measure resiliency and risk areas on both individual and organization levels. We utilize globally acknowledged assessment methods and techniques that outcome with valid and reliable data. We come up with a proposal of specifically tailored individual, group, team initiatives and conduct some of them. The recommended interventions may be e.g.: psychological support for individuals and teams, information campaigns on discrimination, individual development programs; advocate, mentor, peer, buddy programs; sport programs
Context
Finally, we help to shape the context in which resilience and risk factors should be addressed individually and organizationally.