Leadership Development

The difference between good and great leaders often lies in the willingness executives have to intentionally grow into their capacity – investing the time needed to explore who they are as leaders, and who they know they can become.  The difference is extraordinary.

The Leadership Development process is demanding, exploratory, reflective and informing, while designed to increase your impact and influence within your organization.  Your experience of this process will impact your leadership effectiveness in numerous ways:

·        Understand your impact on others (versus how you think others perceive you)

·        Experience greater insight into your own leadership and managerial behaviors through a process of self discovery, and use that awareness to broaden the scope of your leadership influence

·        Recognize twenty-two different leadership behaviors, how you draw on those behaviors, and which ones help you perform at your best

·        Create a personalized leadership development plan focused on increasing your impact as an executive

·        Develop a leadership agenda worthy of your legacy as you transition into other leadership roles

Executive Coaching

What process serves as a reality check on your performance?  How do you know if you are having the greatest positive impact on your organization?  Who in your organization challenges your decisions or offers you constructive feedback?  Most executives don’t have someone who challenges their thinking or encourages them to stretch.  Yet these are the very activities that can propel executives to their highest level of performance.  

The executive coaching relationship is tailored to meet the specific goals and objectives of the individual, althoug there are a number of key developmental areas that most executives want to focus on:

• Leadership Agenda, strategy and execution
• Personal Leadership Effectiveness
• Career Management for the Senior Executive
• Communicating So You Are Heard And Understood
• Developing Leadership Within Your Team
• Set Expectations ........Ensure They Will Be Met
• Internal Networking For Career Success

Change Management

We are living at a time of great complexity, in which our organizations are challenged on many fronts.  Change is constant, competition is fierce and global, and there is increased pressure to contain costs while still growing market share. What do leaders need to do in order to engage their organizations, set direction, and align and inspire others? 

The role of change management has taken on increased importance to leaders and managers, as they are more and more frequently charged with creating and executing changes in direction, strategy, and organization priorities.  Those skilled in change management principles and engaging others in the change management process will be much more successful in introducing and sustaining organization change initiatives.

The people side of change management gives leaders (one day program overview) and managers (two day deeper learning and practice) the level of understanding necessary to engage and align their employees in the change process.  Key focus areas include:

• The role of communication in change initiatives
• Underlying drivers of behavior and resistance
• Overcoming resistance
• Coaching conversations / gaining alignment
• Where do you stand?  The role of self-managing during change 
• William Bridges - Transition
• The role of Sponsorship
• Building your critical collaborators

 This workshop is highly interactive, and allows participants to experience what is being taught.  They use current situations they are dealing with to assess how they are doing, what they are doing well, and what they need to do differently. 

How effectively are you impacting the organization?  As you reflect on your communication, professional relationships, career progress, contribution and outcomes - are  you where you think you should be at this point in your life? 

It may be helpful to take the time to assess how far you've come,  where exactly you are headed, and how you are going to get there.  Far too often our careers occur on automatic pilot.  Too little time is spent on constructive self evaluation, and we continue to perform at sub optimal levels. 

Every individual has the potential to perform extraordinarily, rising to his or her own level of competence and capability.  Take the time to learn what that is for yourself, so you can perform at your best and open your world to new possibilities.

Career Development

Each of us is responsible for creating our own career success.  But do employees know how to do that within the organizations they work in?  What is the process employee's should follow in order to pursue or even gain clarity around their career aspirations? 

Oftentimes, employees want Human Resources to "make it happen" for them, when in fact, the employee needs to take the intiative in uncovering what direction they want their career to take.  Let the Paideia Institute work with your employees to help them come to grips with how to grow in their career.  What steps should they take, who are their critical collaborators, what needs to happen in order to keep them moving down the pathway of professional growth and satisfaction?