Are you ready to increase the leadership capability and capacity in your organization? We work with your Leadership Team, Leaders and Managers, as well as HR Professionals, focusing on building skills that can be immediately put to use to accelerate development in your organization.
Most leaders and managers overuse a directive style and most HR partners are trained to provide solutions. While these approaches can be useful at times, the complexity, ambiguity and rapid pace of change we face today calls for more collaborative approaches. Our approach is practical, combining a mix of large and small group work, leveraging how adults learn best – practice, practice, and more practice. Our workshops enable:
- HR Partners to build consultative skills to better serve internal clients, whether the situation calls for them to be consultative rather than directive or to have a coaching conversation or lay the foundation for a coaching culture.
- Leaders and managers to learn tools and techniques to turn everyday interactions into developmental and performance conversations.
- Organizations who are ready to create an internal coaching cadre to achieve that goal. Our modularized approach is tailored to your needs. We have extensive experience consulting to organizations wanting to build internal coaching capability and capacity, including the systems needed to support that goal.
A note about accelerating development through coaching skills:
It has been well known for many years that on-the-job lessons of experience contribute significantly more to the development of people than learning from others and classroom based learning. While the numbers have shifted somewhat in various studies, on-the-job learning accounts for about 70% of development. Unfortunately, most Leaders, Managers and HR Partners are not equipped to leverage the power of on-the-job learning to accelerate the development of their people. Helping people leverage on-the-job lessons of experience requires Managers, Leaders and HR Partners to have qualitatively different conversations with their people, helping them to slow down and engage in a reflective process. While faster often seems better, slowing down to speed up is critical in today’s increasingly fast paced, complex world. Anyone in a supervisory relationship can benefit from learning some basic skills that will equip them to “teach people to fish” rather than wearing the mantle of the heroic leader feeding hungry mouths.