Business Need:
- Standardise and encourage best practice to reduce the gap between current leadership practice and the leadership framework.
- Foster an open and receptive response to leadership development feedback.
- Raise the level of trust shared between the leadership group.
Our Approach
- Data collection: In-depth 1-2-1 interviews and assessments with c-suite executives.
- Design: C-created with the client to ensure the comprehensive learning journey was anchored in their vision, as well as guiding their fundamental values.
- Refinement: Built out a leadership structure and leadership pipeline based on data collection and design feedback.
- Delivery: Collaborative and strategic sessions with top 50 leaders, focussing on addressing leadership gap analysis, through SWOT and barriers analysis, action planning embedded with leadership capabilities and principles.
- Individual action plan: Throughout the process, candidates were supported by our coaches, as well as their assigned Development Adviser to design their own clear 24-month personal action plan to guide them through their journey.
Results
1. Directly after the programme, candidates left with a personal vision and mission statement, a personal 30-day action plan of how to attain this vision and how it fits in with the wider organisation’s mission.
2. Four months later, a 360-survey was conducted. The results showed that:
- Teams were actively and continuously working towards their vision
- There was increase in clarity of their roles and responsibilities.
- Teams felt supported from all levels of the business to ensure the success of their learning journey.
- The leadership development framework was clearly understood.
- Teams felt the gap closing between the stated leadership framework and the leadership practice.
- A noticeable increase in individual commitment and motivation for their own personal growth.
- The level trust has increase between teams in the same level.