Leadership Development

“The most important job a supervisor, manager or executive has is developing new leaders within the organization.” 

Leadership isn’t about the title but it is about influence, empowerment, and trust. At Leading2Leadership (L2L) we work with the organization to help them gain clarity and consistency in their leadership culture, style, and model. This winning formula will yield more high performing teams, more innovation, more job satisfaction, more clarity on roles and create a great launching platform for an organization-wide succession plan and process.

The L2L Leadership Alignment Process

Step One - Discovery

The purpose of Discovery is to learn the organization from the outside in. These Discovery interviews will allow Leading2Leadership LLC to understand what is working with the company’s leadership culture and identify the variety of leadership styles present in the organization. Discovery will also reveal the dominant leadership tendencies that exist.

Executive, leadership, and employee interviews – These conversations are designed to identify and validate the organizations:

  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Purpose
  • Promise
  • Values

Leadership styles that are represented across the organization
Current leadership screening practices during hiring and promotion
Existing leadership development, mentoring, and coaching programs
Identify the leadership inconsistencies and gaps between business units, teams, and departments

Step Two –Leadership Overview

This is a document that details the key learnings from the Discovery interviews. It will identify the leadership gaps and inconsistencies that persist in the organization. This document will also determine the various leadership styles presented across the organization. This document is a great starting point for building a leadership improvement plan.

Step Three – Set the Leadership Preferences and Priorities

Using the Leadership Overview as a working document, Leading2Leadership LLC will facilitate a strategic conversation with the leadership team to identify the preferred leadership styles to be developed, craft a leadership mantra, to identify opportunities to improve the coaching and mentoring practices across the organization and to set critical objectives that will direct actions and projects designed to be an organization recognized for their ability to develop new leaders.

Step Four – Leadership Development Plan

Taking the decisions from the Leadership Preferences and Priorities meeting, Leading2Leadership LLC will prepare a working document to lead the organization through the projects and efforts necessary to achieve the agreed-upon objectives. This document will include:

1.   The leadership objectives

2.   A tangible description of what this Leadership Alignment will look like upon completion

3.   The leadership anchors clarified:

  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Purpose
  • Promise
  • Values

4.   Identifying the Strategic Owner

  • Responsible for communicating progress toward the objectives to the organization and the Board of Directors
  • Oversight of budget and resource needs for projects identified
  • Identifying the Tactical Owner
  • Oversight of Leadership Alignment projects
  • Communicating goal accomplishment for each project and milestone attainment
  • Identifying project gaps and needs

6.   A glossary of definitions for keywords, phrases, and measurements

7.   Project list with approximate milestones and completion dates

Step Five – The Leadership Guidebook

This guidebook will be the primary resource document for all employees and will include:

1.   The leadership objectives

2.   A tangible description of what this Leadership Alignment will look like upon completion

3.   The Leadership Anchors clarified:

  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Purpose
  • Promise
  • Values

4.   Tactics on using the Leadership Anchors in hiring and promoting

5.   Suggestions on how to reward employees that have demonstrated the Leadership Anchors with fellow employees, customers, vendors, or partners.

6.   A model for creating a culture of coaching as the key to performance management and creating and sustaining a mentoring program to develop new and aspiring leaders

To define and develop a leadership model for your team, contact Rich at 720.256.4936 or Rich@l2ldev.flywheelsites.com