Building Leadership Capacity
Building leadership capacity through skills development, coaching, and alignment ensures sustainable success and shared purpose.
Quick takeaways
Leadership capacity fosters confidence, collaboration, and accountability across all staff.
Tailored leadership training and executive coaching unlock leaders' potential and drive sustained success.
Whole-staff alignment ensures consistency, purpose, and direction throughout the organization.
Leading requires building leadership capacity by developing leadership skills and dispositions in all staff. The most valuable resource in any organization are its people. Building distributed leadership creates sustainability where people work together towards a shared purpose. They are confident, safe and comfortable to express ideas. Every voice is heard and valued. People take collective responsibility to demonstrate and promote high standards and hold themselves accountable. Learning to live this way requires deliberate acts of leadership and takes time.
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Leadership Training
Most organizations are over-managed and under-led (Kotter 1980). Organizations sustain success through leadership. We work with clients to deeply understand their context. Together we draw out the leadership skills and dispositions to build leadership capacity across the organization. We design, facilitate, and teach the identified skills and dispositions in leadership training workshops.
Executive Coaching
Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance; helping them to learn rather than teaching them. We provide Personal Coaching to organization executives. Executives develop a Personal Vision. We collaborate with the executive to design a future focused Action Learning Plan to move toward the vision. Coaching sessions with each leader are designed and implemented at the site of their area of responsibility to support their continued implementation of Personal Action Plans. We act as personal coaches to Executives throughout the year. In addition to the face-to-face personal coaching sessions at the worksite we communicate on a regular basis by telephone, virtual meetings, and e-mail.
Whole-Staff Alignment
Leadership capacity flourishes when an organization’s core values, and systems and structures work in alignment. Alignment is of benefit to all people associated with the organization. It means people can plan what they do, knowing the direction will not change. Knowing that there is sureness of purpose is a great gift. We are expert at collaborating with clients to deeply understand the mental models (values, beliefs, and assumptions) that drive behavior in the organization. We bring respected, high-quality models, tools, and processes to identify those core values leading to sustained success. Together, we design and facilitate whole staff workshops that utilize systems thinking tools to ensure all of the organizations systems and structures are aligned to support living out the core behaviors.