Business Leaders / Senior Managers

Home – Business Leaders / Senior Managers

What We Offer

Leadership & Talent Development Enhancing Every Role

Manages a business, business segment, region, business unit or a plant. Responsible for profit and loss, strategy and initiating change. Titles may include: Director, Plant Manager, Vice President, President.

Business people in a meeting

Foundation Programs

Developmental Offerings

Executive Coaching

Duration: One day "quick-coach" and/or six-month engagements

​ Coaching is a personal and professional learning process that is tailored to results of the senior leader. We use a number of assessment techniques and work with the leader to craft a detailed Leadership Development & Action Plan (LDAP). A coaching engagement usually incorporates the following phases: Intake & Initialization, Assessment, Feedback & Immersion, Monthly Support. The LDAP is developed during the Feedback & Immersion session.

DiSC Work of Leaders: Alignment. Vision. Execution.

Duration: One or two days

​ This powerful suite helps participating managers discover how DiSC affects management style including: creating a motivating environment, directing, delegating, developing others, decision making and problem solving.

Strategic & Systems Thinking

Duration: Full and half-day

​ The focus of this session is to build participants' skills and capability in the five key components required for Strategic Thinking, Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Thinking in Time, and Introspective Thinking. Participants learn by analyzing data, recognizing and accounting for cognitive bias and intuition, prioritizing the most important information and making decisions based on sound judgement.

Strategic Planning: Engagement, Alignment & Execution

Duration: Full and half-day

​ Effective strategic planning and strategic thinking drives engagement, alignment and accountability to take action. This workshop covers all the steps of the strategic planning process with strategic documents supporting each step of the process and ending with a defined strategy for execution. Participants review and examine the pros and cons of the three most common strategic planning approaches: Customer Intimacy/Partnership Strategy, Product & Service Leadership Strategy and Total Low Cost/Value Strategy.

Creativity & Innovation

Duration: One or two days

​ This workshop engages participants in examining key elements of innovative organizations; overcome many of the myths and misconceptions about creativity; and learn effective strategies to unleash the potential creativity and innovation within themselves and their organizations. Understand the nine dimensions of a "Climate for Innovation," do an assessment of their work unit's climate for innovation and develop action plans to enhance key climate dimensions.

Being a Mentor

Duration: Half-day kickoff training, multi-month program

​ This half day training pairs and prepares "mentors" and protégés as they begin a productive cycle of "guided" self directed learning and development. Mentors and protégés explore their roles together and establish a strong foundation. Learning topics are defined, a learning plan is developed and a cadence of contact is established in this fast paced half day kick-off training.