HOW DOES LEaD WORK?
LEaD is a ready-to-implement ongoing leadership program executed by our trained staff of leadership facilitators and coaches. The LEaD program uses a combination of assessments and a structured twelve-month leadership program that takes leaders from concerned to capable using measurable trackable steps, monthly cohorts, and facilitated accountability structures.
Our measurable data in combination with the human-centric approach meets the needs of leadership for metrics and the needs of the management teams for real actionable tools to help them get better in their roles.
WHAT ASSETS DOES LEAD PROVIDE MY ORGANIZATION WITH?
You get the following when you purchase the LEaD program:
- A dedicated [your organization].goleadon.com landing page with your custom branding and contact information
- A team of implementation specialists to facilitate the cohorts
- Metrics you can brand and present to your clients’ company owners and C-Suite
- An offering that requires no additional staff or investment but provides a graduate-level leadership development program to augment your introductory and high-level offering
HOW DO I SHARE THE PROGRAM WITH MY CLIENTS?
Our team provides your contact with the link to your dedicated LEaD landing page. In addition, we share the one-page overview of the program that is a welcome pack to LEaD.
We like to frame it like this:
- Lunch and learns are like high school
- Four-day leadership seminars are like undergrad
- LEaD, our program, is the grad school level of training for leaders
- 1:1 C-Suite coaching is like a PhD
You need all four levels to achieve the highest level of leadership and EQ.
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF THE LEaD PROGRAM
Retention: investing in your leadership team usually means they will invest back in you. Don’t lose people to higher salaries. Growth, personal development, and the feeling of being valued have more value than additional 401(k) matching, a Christmas bonus, or a title increase. This is the kind of investment that makes managers recognize the opportunity to progress in your company
Attraction: growth, the opportunity to progress, and leadership training are listed among the many perks employees want more of. Especially for the younger generation, the emotional intelligence and soft skills of leadership training are as important as the flexibility to work in a hybrid environment.
THE LEaD PROCESS
BASELINE
Assessment Phase
We grow what we know. LEaD’s Assessment Phase sets the baseline of each participant’s leadership, creating a solid foundation for future growth.
The heart of LEaD’s Assessment Phase is the completion and debrief of our core suite of assessments. Participants will select their LEaD process raters, complete the EQ-360 and Time Analysis assessments, and participate in a 1:1 debrief session with a LEaD practitioner.
The output of these debriefs is a baseline Actual Effective Influence Score identifying a participant’s capability and capacity for transformational leadership. This AEI serves as the baseline for tracking growth trends in the Growth Phase.
BUILD
Growth Phase
We have the baseline, now we build.
LEaD’s Growth Phase operates on the principals that you cannot grow what is not measured, and people develop more effectively in an environment of relational accountability than they do in a vacuum.
Every LEaD participant is assigned a cohort that meets monthly for the twelve-month Growth Phase. Participants are given SMART goals based on their AEI baseline. These goals are tracked and assessed over time for growth trends. As goals are reached, new goals are assigned to prevent stalled growth.
Additionally, participants report their leadership Win, loss, and Draw (current obstacle) from the previous month. Organic, real-time dialog amongst the cohort increases the perspective and knowledge of the participant to help them overcome this obstacle.
BEYOND
Application
Leadership does not happen just in LEaD, it happens beyond in the participant’s everyday reality.
To account for this, every cohort meeting ends with specific action steps for each participant based on their reported Leadership Draw. These action steps are intended to solve the participant’s current leadership obstacle while instilling new behaviors and processes to increase leadership competencies.
Action steps are reviewed for success and accountability at the next cohort meeting.