| Creating a leadership culture and individual and group supports for growing talent within an organization is a common consulting engagement for Schoonover Associates. These interventions can range from one-on-one coaching for executives to the design and implementation of a leadership curriculum and continuous learning tools across career bands.
The most frequently requested leadership interventions include:
- Executive Coaching - focusing on one-on-one advice and feedback for improving personal, team and organizational performance.
- Leadership Training - focusing on leadership best practices using a research-based leadership framework. Sessions range from half-day overview modules to complete courses involving a range of leadership topics.
- Leadership Program Development - focusing on the design and implementation of multi-dimensional programs, including a range of elements such as:
- Talent pipelining
- Hiring and selection
- Curriculum development and rollout
- Creation of organization learning capabilities (e.g., web portals, developmental assignments, on-the-job learning, etc.)
- Integration with performance management and pay
In addition, Acme delivers the following customizable, competency-based leadership curriculum organized into 4 hours modules. These modules can be delivered in various formats (e.g., single module, a short course using selected modules, or a whole leadership curriculum).
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Interpersonal Skills and Coaching
Assesses the leader's interpersonal and communication skills and how his/her behavior influences others. Specific topics include feedback, empowerment, influence, and effective listening. Participants have the opportunity to apply the skills in simulated coaching situations.
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Coaching Fundamentals
Focuses the coach's role on improving direct report's performance. Participants apply a model for effective coaching-tools to help conduct coaching sessions. Each participant has an opportunity to practice coaching skills using case vignettes and typical coaching problems.
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Leading Your Team
Helps the leader develop his/her team to improve the effectiveness of the organization, through the clarification of key criteria required for excellent teamwork. This workshop uses a competency-based team-building tool to clarify team roles and to assess and develop team members.
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Managing Diversity
Teaches how to develop the full potential of every individual through a greater understanding of diversity and difference. This module uses typical problems around bias and cultural barriers to diversity to explore for practical steps for bridging differences.
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Strategic Influence
This module is designed to strengthen a leader's ability to build collaborative relationships. This module provides an overview of key principles and practices for diagnosing how to influence individuals and for building influence strategies that produce high levels of buy-in and ownership for key initiatives.
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Cross-Team Integration
Helps leaders improve the performance of multiple teams in complex, fast moving, global and diverse work settings. This module presents the best practices for working on multi-team activities and uses a simulation exercise to teach skills for better inter-team understanding, communication, and use of resources.
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Customer-Driven Organization
Focuses on the attitudes and practices that develop a customer-driven organization. This course explores topics such as customer needs analysis; adding value to customer core processes; leading the customer to an understanding of new needs; and integrating company and customer processes. This module seeks to generate a total team mindset focused on consistently delivering value to customers.
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Leading in a Complex Organization
Helps participants understand how to lead more effectively in faster paced, global, change-oriented settings. This module explores key concepts, such as span of control, delegation of authority, empowerment, and the virtual organization.
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Organization Structuring
Explores the concepts of delayering, matrix management, boundaries, cross-team integration, core processes and applies them in an organization structuring exercise. Case studies are used to learn how vision and strategy drive structure and how core processes can be defined to streamline and organize work.
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Networking and Partnership
Presents key principles for using internal networks and external partnerships to improve work effectiveness. This course focuses on the concept of 'virtual' organizations, emphasizing how to use the least amount of internal resources to the best effect. Participants will explore concepts such as vendor selection criteria, distribution channels, and make vs. buy criteria.
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Principles of Large Scale Change
This module focuses on how to implement significant change initiatives. A Change Competency Model focuses participants on the success factors required for excellent change management, as well as the major stages of a change process and how they can be applied in their own work setting.
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