“You have been an effective business partner in terms of pushing the coaching agenda in the Philippines. And your leadership development program — it was truly an amazing experience partnering with you on global programs!”
“Although I have only known you for about 15 months, I have to say that you have made a profound impact on my life (personally and professionally). What I learned about myself through your leadership development program (and your guidance with us) has helped me grow in ways that I didn’t expect. For that, I am eternally grateful.”
Leadership Development Strategy
In today’s uncertain and volatile environment, vision and agility are key to thriving and surviving. With the rapid and continuous changes occurring across the world today, organizations require an enhancement to and shift in leadership capabilities to meet the demands of the future. The evolving context requires a whole new mindset and set of skills, and organizations need to ensure that they have the right people in critical positions to lead the way. While sourcing talent from outside of the organization for critical positions can be a solid strategy at times, it can also yield mixed results, often leading to turnover. In addition, organizations who institute a culture of leadership development consistently outperform their competitors and attract the best and the brightest. To fill the need for leadership capabilities, organizations really require a broader, sustainable leadership development engine that firmly establishes a culture of leadership development.
Inner Sound will take your organization’s mission and strategy and help you to translate it into a development strategy for leadership. We will conduct a full diagnostic of your organization’s current leadership development capabilities relative to research and best practices of high-performing organizations, identifying your stand-out strengths to build on and gaps to close. Then, we will partner with you to envision an end state that aims to fulfill your organization’s unique leadership purpose. Finally, we will translate that purpose and vision into a tangible strategic plan with focus areas, goals, and glide path. All throughout this we will be applying our signature team coaching approach aimed at building self-sustaining practices on the team responsible for owning the strategy. At the end of the engagement, you can expect a robust Leadership Development Strategy fully owned by key internal stakeholders.
Leadership Development Needs Assessment & Curriculum
With many decades of experience in learning curriculum design, we are deeply skilled in conducting high-level organizational needs assessments and translating into a robust curriculum for developing leaders at all levels. What makes Inner Sound’s approach unique is a consideration of the whole system in curriculum building. We will not only assess needs for building knowledge, skills, and abilities (the mental aspects of leadership) - we will also conduct assessments of the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of leaders at both the individual and organizational levels. This approach enables us to design a development curriculum that takes the whole person and the organizational culture in consideration. This is where deep learning and transformation occurs in leadership development. In addition, we will conduct a full audit of existing delivery vehicles and offer recommendations on blended learning approaches that work for your organization, ensuring that you have the right mix of live, virtual, online, and self-guided learning experiences for your leadership population. You can expect the delivery of a robust Leadership Development Curriculum that fits the unique needs of the leaders in your organization.
Program Design, Development, Delivery, and Evaluation
We are equipped to fully create and bring to life a Leadership Development Program tailored to your organization’s unique needs. With decades of experience in the full end-to-end development cycle, we can partner with you to custom-tailor a program focused on amplifying the purpose and potential of leaders at any level. We have worked with front-line supervisors up to senior executives, and can focus on any and all targeted populations - with a particular specialty in developing hi-potentials.
Leaders as Coaches and Facilitators
We know from decades of experience, backed by research, that there is more power in leadership development when the leaders of the organization themselves are facilitating the learning process. When leaders are equipped with the skills to coach and facilitate learning, some kind of magic happens in the organization’s culture. No longer does it feel like a chore to go to training, nor does it feel like it is wasted time away from productive days. Rather, leadership development becomes much more real and relevant to participants, and the leaders who coach and facilitate take great ownership for the growth and development of people. Also, it builds a more sustainable leadership development engine that controls quality, cost, and speed. It is a win for individuals who participate and a win for the organization overall.
We will help you to build your strategy, plan, and sustainable operation for managing internal cadres of leadership coaches and content facilitators. We will partner in the selection, development, and reinforcing support of the highest quality caliber of individuals to drive your leadership development agenda. And, we will work with you to embed this into your organization’s culture and systems, ensuring that the right incentives are in place to attract and sustain a world-class leadership development engine.