Finding Your Leadership “A” Game

You are:
 A leader in your organization with at least 3 years’ experience of managing a team.

You want:

• To move from being a good leader to being an extraordinary leader.
  
• To have a broader impact throughout the organization.
  
• To prepare a successor for your own role.
  
• To build a legacy of excellence within your own team.
  
• Bringing your “A” game to all that you do as a leader

We focus on:

• Identifying and building on your leadership strengths and passions.
  
• Leveraging your leadership distinctiveness to add additional value to the organization.
  
• Build your range of leadership capability beyond one or two default styles to adapt to any team in any situation.
  
• Identifying your personal aspiration, career next step and action plan to achieve it.

The package consists of:

• Detailed 360 report based on The Extraordinary Leader survey
  
• Your Personal Success Plan highlighting your personal vision,values,passions and strengths as well as a number of specific measureable development activities.
  
• A total of nine 2 hour coaching sessions for a total of 9 months. The first two sessions are face to face and all remaining sessions can be either face to face or by phone.
  

     Discussion of key leadership research including;

• “The Extraordinary Leader” by Zenger & Folkman.
  
•  “Leadership that Gets Results” by Daniel Goleman.
  
• “Discovering your Authentic Leadership” by George, Sims, McLean and Mayer.

Case Study:
Bob is a senior manager, based in Europe, in a large global  IT company, looking to step up his leadership impact and get promoted to director.

Coaching themes:
We debriefed Bob’s Extraordinary Leader 360 survey – the comments were very positive, especially from high profile internal customers, but the actual scores he received highlighted that while he was seen as good at many leadership competencies, there were no perceived strengths. Some form of fog existed that prevented people scoring Bob as a great leader.

In creating his Personal Success Plan, Bob became aware that since his promotion to senior manager, three years previously, he had continued to see himself as “the new kid on the block” which had resulted in him holding back at leadership meetings. This was the fog that hung over how others perceived him.

We created a vision of Bob being a “Big Hitter” and from that, leveraging his strong scores in ‘Builds Relationships’ and ‘Takes Initiative, we build an action plan for Bob to leave a bigger footprint on the organisation as well as positioning himself for promotion to director.

Results:
Through the coaching Bob became more aware of the value he could provide as a “big hitter” and where his value proposition is. He has built stronger relationships with key people in the US and Asia so that is global profile is higher. He also has set up regular meetings with the global VP of his organisation (something he was very reluctant to do initially) and has received clarity on the fact that he is seen as director material. Bob has taken on a more global role recently and has recently been nominated onto a global leadership high potential programme.