Developing Leaders
- What is the current leadership culture in your organization and how effective is it?
- What are the skills and attributes that underlie effective leadership? Are they part of your culture?
- What styles of leadership are being called for at this time?
We believe these are vital questions. We know effective leadership is happening when organizations are aligned from top to bottom with their values and purpose—with that clarity comes a sense of what is needed (skills and attributes) by leaders and decision makers at every level.
GLI knows how to help organizations discover and create collective understanding of their leadership needs. Our partnership with you continues as we co-create the training, ongoing support, reinforcement practices, and metrics that will elevate performance and evaluate leadership success.
We are experts in creating high-trust, accelerated adult learning environments. We understand the core elements to developing adept leadership habits. We help participants collectively highlight the wisdom, expertise and strategies needed to be successful. They are guided to understand their own strengths, limitations, style preferences and biases that can support or interfere with their leadership. Our clients create personal practices to apply their learning to their work while GLI and/or fellow participants provide coaching and support. Our cost effective programs always include either group or individual follow up to cement learning, identify challenges, and make needed adjustments.
Below are examples of leadership development programs we have co-created with organizations. Please contact us to learn more.
Leader-as-Convener Workshop: This practical, hands-on, three-day workshop is designed for leaders and influencers who want to learn collaborative leadership tools designed to engage and activate diverse stakeholders—both internal and external. Despite the complex, adaptive and economic challenges in workplace environments, the ‘work’ still needs to get done. Convening tools enable more fulfilling, concerted and sustainable performance under these conditions. Bringing their ‘live’ issues into the workshop, participants experience and practice adaptable methodologies for facilitating group cohesion, leveraging knowledge from the field, and easing conflict and overwhelm—all ultimately leading to wiser decision-making in service of the whole. Participants explore a new leadership mode well suited to addressing the adaptive challenges facing many organizations today, and begin to lay the strategic steppingstones for a more satisfying and enduring way of working together in the future.
Leadership Laboratory®: This program is designed to help senior and mid-level managers elevate and refine their leadership practices. The program helps leaders to:
- Increase their competence, confidence and courage in these challenging and complex times
- Amplify personal strengths, peer networking, and team collaboration opportunities to tackle difficult and imminent organizational challenges
- Promote sustainable leadership through self-care and personal mastery
- Cultivate higher levels of thinking and wiser decision-making at every level of the organization
Path to Leadership Lab℠: This program is for emerging leaders within the organization. As a cohort, participants have the opportunity to share, reflect upon and internalize what they are learning about leadership in their organization or industry from various assignments, projects, executive interviews, and/or mentor relationships.
Leadership Mentoring from Within: This program connects leaders (and emerging leaders) from diverse generations/levels of experience within the organization. It helps organizations identify strategic partnerships, 2-way learning opportunities, and organizational improvements—from within. We apply our expertise in generational diversity, knowledge sharing, participatory learning practices, and tested leadership training methodology to assist organizations in the development of systemic strategies that will allow the organization to access and maximize the wisdom, skills and abilities of all its leaders, present and future.