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Personal Leadership Style & Managerial Effectiveness Program

How to Create Leaders and Support Succession Plans

"We reviewed the top Leadership offerings for one of our Senior Research Scientists and selected LSA's Leadership Program based upon the value and systemic approach.  The feedback on the program, approach, and results was phenomenal.  While the other programs may be better known, they were more theoretical and did not compare in terms of practicality, quality, and results.” Stacy Porter, Senior Manager Learning and Development, Roche Palo Alto LLC

"I have sent many managers to the leadership seminars with consistently good results. I found that with several people it was the most effective method for having them hear the problems they had interfacing with people at work – their manager, subordinates, and peers alike.” Howard Smith, President - Clarity Software

Description:
Since 1981, over 4,000 leaders have attended our open-enrollment management seminars and rated them a “9.2” average on a 10-point scale.

With a proven track record of nearly 30 years of real-world executive development experience, the Personal Leadership Style & Managerial Effectiveness Program was created to fill the gap between ineffective standalone leadership workshops and costly executive coaching contracts.  The purpose of the program is to significantly increase the leadership abilities of directors, team leaders, and managers to build personal mastery, effective leadership styles, and lead high-performance teams.

The 6-month Leadership Program is an intense, engaging, and highly participative process that includes an initial 360 feedback, a three-day action learning seminar, targeted coaching, and a follow-up 360 to review progress.  The insights, coupled with practical tools, 360 feedback, and peer coaching result in powerful action strategies that transfer directly back to the work environment.

The 6-month Leadership Program is uniquely effective because of its follow-up processes. Unlike other programs lasting only a few days and quickly forgotten, the Program mentors and encourages participants using tools and practices that easily integrate into any existing HR development system. Organizations such as Roche, Specialized, Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, the US Navy, Sun, Exxon, and Wal-Mart chose this program above all others to give their managers the edge in management and leadership skills.

6-Step Methodology

1. Initial 360° Leadership Effectiveness Survey and Report
   The 360° feedback report is compiled through the use of an online survey, completed by eight-to-ten co-workers (direct reports, three-to-four peers, and one’s direct supervisor), and covers the following eight areas:
    
   • Goals/Standards
   • Communications/Influence
   • Structure/Process
   • Decisions/Buy-in
   • Management/Motivation
   • Responsibility
   • Leadership/Climate Setting
   • Business and Change Acumen

    

2. Pre-workshop Data Analysis
   LSA analyzes the 360° feedback report and identifies common threads associated with strengths and areas for improvement. These are then reviewed in the seminar and become the basis for the Leadership Action Plan.
    
3. Three-day Workshop
   While at the seminar, participants learn-by-doing in teams of six to seven peers led by a facilitator-coach. Each person has an opportunity to lead the team and to identify “learnings” that apply back at work. These insights, coupled with practical tools, 360 feedback, and peer coaching result in powerful action strategies that transfer directly back to the work environment. 
   
   Each day begins with emotional intelligence practice, followed by short presentations, small group discussions around case studies of real time situations at work, peer coaching, feedback and advice from our world class facilitator-coaches. Our “deep learning” methodology combines intellectual understanding with personal insight, and “practice, practice, practice” to build one’s leadership repertoire.
    
4. Coaching
   We believe that learning is a process. Participants are scheduled into team teleconferences two weeks and two months after the seminar to discuss insights and implementation of their action plans. For additional support, they are invited to call in on an individual basis for a period of six-months following the seminar event.
    
5. Resurvey and Coaching
   Eight to ten months after the seminar, participants are invited to resurvey their initial survey respondents to get feedback on their perceived efforts to improve their leadership impact. The Follow-Up report that results is then reviewed with the same coach who led the team at the seminar in order to reinforce improvements and further development.
    
6. Action Plan
   A rigorous and actionable plan is developed and reviewed at the end of the seminar and becomes the basis for the follow-up coaching. Each participant walks away with goals and a detailed Action Plan that:

• Has been tested with organizational peers and the executive facilitator
• Helps to develop personal mastery and leadership style
• Has a high probability of success
• Gets them and their team to the next level

Target Audience:
Middle and upper level-managers who have a minimum of 3-5 years experience supervising people and who have had basic communications and performance management training. Typical titles are Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, Senior Directors and Vice Presidents.

Course Cost:
$3,675 per person
Hotel and meals are an additional $975 per person

Dates / Location:
Directions will be sent with your confirmation. Programs are held in Saratoga, CA.  

• March 6-8, 2012
• June 5-7, 2012
• September 4-6, 2012

LSA Public Classes can be customized and delivered onsite at your company. To speak with an LSA Global Expert about your customized on-site options, please contact us.