THE AGILE GROWTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Elevating Leadership to Optimally Deal with
Rapid Change and Unpredictability
* Data-driven by the Growth Leadership Assessment (GLA)
How can you assure that your leaders possess both the fundamentals and the new capabilities for dealing with change and uncertainty?
The program for ensuring your managers possess the leadership mindsets, habits and behaviors to optimally deal with change, unpredictability and complexity.
“The GLA360 helped me understand my hidden strengths and uncovered blind spots in how I lead my team and I interact with others. The tools available to create a development plan make it easy to follow through on action items. Feedback from senior leaders in a development program that I facilitate indicate this is one of the best parts of their cohort experience in that it improves self-awareness, accountability, and ultimately, their leadership skills.”
— Executive, USA Fortune 200 Insurance Corporation
By adopting the GLA, you have a proven leadership capabilities development process, which includes a Comprehensive Behavioral Assessment, a 360 Feedback Assessment, and an Online Action Planning Toolbox.
With it, leaders and leadership teams create greater self-awareness and team awareness and complete an effective improvement program.
Effective Leadership - The Focus for Success
Develop Leaders who are demonstrably agile, grow themselves and others and navigate change and paradox by using the 4 macro-competencies
What is the Focus?
Many fundamentals remain but the rapid pace of change coupled with greater unpredictability and complexity require a new set of capabilities centered around growth and agility. Effective managers are agile, constantly learning, leaders of growth in others, and change-makers.
They possess a consistent learning attitude, demonstrate continual thinking agility, lead others in growth and learning
And get results through their agile decision making and collaboration.
Effective Leadership - Insight for Leverage
Behavioral science tells us that our preferences and values drive behavior and adaption to stress. Key to understanding our own human nature is understanding paradox and the role it and our natural tendencies play.
How do you get the focus on the “Right Stuff” and provide the insight for focused follow-through?
By using the power of the paradox, we can understand…
Where our natural tendencies lie and which ones are enablers and which ones are derailers?
Our true strengths, not just what we score high in.
How to use a strength rather than a weak behavior.
Costly impacts of stress on our behaviors
How to deal with stress more effectively.
Effective Leadership - Understanding and Insight
How do you understand where each LEADER is at and where they need to go?
When managers increase their self-knowledge effectively, they identify specific gaps in their leadership capabilities. By using the optimal tools, you not only have the information to greatly increase self-knowledge, you also have the insight to change habits, behaviors and mindsets. Once done, this improved self-awareness, helps leaders be more situational in featuring their strengths, improves decision making, improves stress management and increase self-motivation and pro-activity.
“The GLA360 helped me understand my hidden strengths and uncovered blind spots in how I lead my team and I interact with others. The tools available to create a development plan make it easy to follow through on action items. Feedback from senior leaders in a development program that I facilitate indicate this is one of the best parts of their cohort experience in that it improves self-awareness, accountability, and ultimately, their leadership skills.”
— Executive, USA Fortune 200 Insurance Corporation
Effective Leadership - It’s always Inclusive Leadership!
An agile growth leader leads inclusively and uses an understanding backed up by facts to create a high performance inclusive culture.
As we progress through the 2020's, it's clear that conventional leadership mindsets and habits are not working effectively. This is due to the 3 dimensions of change
increasingly rapid rate of change,
The breadth and pervasiveness of the change (values, technology, people-diversity)
The increasing unpredictability of the change (globalization, complex interactions…)
The Agile Growth Leadership Program with the GLA uses a unique and comprehensive data driven approach to individualize the approach to each leader but also uses the data to determine what areas need to be addressed as team. In addition, for organizational programs, we can pull in employee data on diversity and inclusion either from our own validated tool (Building Inclusive Workplace Survey) or we can pull from current existing data you may have. This typically proves to be a rich area to focus on as the participating leaders work on their leadership behaviors and mindsets. It also provides another means of assessing progress and results.
What is a typical scenario leading to the implementation of the Agile Growth Leadership Program?
Managers in Organizations are having to deal with rapid change and unpredictability like never before and finding that their leaders are not prepared. They don’t have the mindsets that promote learning and growth, and they often lack both the agility and the interpersonal savvy to deal with what comes at them.
As illustrated in the video scenario, finding true strengths and relevant challenges is a foundational step and then using that self-awareness to build more effective mindsets and winning habits and behaviors is the key.
“The assessment itself is very powerful because it’s very real, it’s very personal, it’s very relevant. And if you combine that with some structured learning, we believe that you can get a big impact in terms of really directing these behavioral shifts. Coaching and feedback is extremely important to our organization as relates to our people managers.”
-- CLO, MasterCard
What are some of the key advantages of your approach over others available?
Managers in Organizations are having to deal with rapid change and unpredictability like never before and finding that their leaders are not prepared. They don’t have the mindsets that promote learning and growth, and they often lack both the agility and the interpersonal savvy to deal with what comes at them.
As illustrated in the video scenario, finding true strengths and relevant challenges is a foundational step and then using that self-awareness to build more effective mindsets and winning habits and behaviors is the key.
We have several advantages over other approaches:
The internal and external assessments which provide not only self awareness early in the process but the insight of how and where to focus
Our Validated Agile Growth Leader Competency to measure each participant against
Our online Resource Development System
Our post-assessment to measure progress and continue the improvement process