Why Effective Leadership Matters
Most professional service providers, executives, business owners and entrepreneurs instinctively know that strong leadership is essential for overall organizational success. In most organizations, however, there is a lack of urgency to improve leadership skills. That lack of urgency is driven by a belief that an organization’s current leadership capacity—and subsequent performance—is good enough. But is it really good enough? Research and analysis conducted by The Ken Blanchard Companies show that the average business organization is forfeiting over $1 million per year in untapped potential because of less-than-optimal leadership practices.
Rick Petry trains some of the world’s most effective business leaders and managers and provides them with the world’s most widely used leadership development programs and services that deliver real ROI on your training dollars.
If your organization is operating with a lack of urgency to improve leadership skills and less-than-optimal leadership practices, we can help.
SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP II CONCEPTS
Situational Leadership® II (SLII®) is a proven, time-tested leadership model that has been used to train over 5 million managers in the world’s most respected organizations. Situational Leadership II Concepts (“SLII Concepts”) introduces your leaders to the theory of SLII® in an engaging and informative way. The new training design is fast-paced, content-rich and provides a meaningful overview of SLII® to prime your leaders for a new way of thinking, behaving, and leading effectively.
SERVANT LEADERSHIP
At a time when the world is in desperate need of more enlightened leadership, Servant Leadership provides an extraordinary perspective on an ancient leadership idea that is perpetually new. Leaders should serve their people, not the other way around. Indeed, servant leadership is not just a moral imperative. Instead, it’s a far more effective way to lead. The challenge is most people don’t understand leadership — much less servant leadership. They think you can’t lead and serve at the same time. The truth is you can, if you know how.
VALUES BASED LEADERSHIP
The real role of a leader is to lead and inspire your people and manage the values of your organization. Values-driven organizations are the most successful organizations on the planet. If this sounds like a bold claim, it is a bold claim! It is also true… and we can prove it beyond a shadow of doubt! Who you are as a leader — the values you embrace and the beliefs you hold — are automatically transmitted to the group you are responsible for leading. Are your leaders, values based leaders?
FULL SPECTRUM LEADERSHIP
A Full Spectrum Leader® is an authentic leader who understands and masters his/her personal dynamics, along with the dynamics of the organization, team, business unit or division they lead. Leading yourself and leading others is not the same thing. They require different types of skills and different levels of understanding. Leading an organization is also more demanding than leading yourself and leading an organization requires an additional set of competencies and skills. Are you a full spectrum leader?
TEAM BUILDING
Situational Leadership® II (SLII®) is a proven, time-tested leadership model that has been used to train over 5 million managers in the world’s most respected organizations. Situational Leadership II Concepts (“SLII Concepts”) introduces your leaders to the theory of SLII® in an engaging and informative way. The new training design is fast-paced, content-rich and provides a meaningful overview of SLII® to prime your leaders for a new way of thinking, behaving, and leading effectively.
CHANGE MANAGMENT
Situational Leadership® II (SLII®) is a proven, time-tested leadership model that has been used to train over 5 million managers in the world’s most respected organizations. Situational Leadership II Concepts (“SLII Concepts”) introduces your leaders to the theory of SLII® in an engaging and informative way. The new training design is fast-paced, content-rich and provides a meaningful overview of SLII® to prime your leaders for a new way of thinking, behaving, and leading effectively.
FIRST TIME MANAGERS
Train your new managers to develop the leadership skills they need to become effective managers right from the start. First Time Manager is a program specifically designed to help new managers successfully transition from being an individual contributor to an effective leader of others. This unique program is exclusively based on content from one of the most important leadership books of our time, The New One Minute Manager® by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.
BUILDING TRUST
Is Your team or organization suffering from a lack of trust? If so, that is a serious problem. We can help your leaders learn how to build trust or re-establish trust if it’s been broken. The Building Trust program is built on the ABCD Trust Model—a simple yet powerful tool that teaches the four elements of trust that are critical to creating and sustaining trustful relationships. Participants gain awareness of and sensitivity to the behaviors that influence trust and learn how to build and sustain trust effectively.
COACHING ESSENTIALS
In today’s world, great coaching is critical to the development, growth, and performance of the most valuable part of your business, your people. Unfortunately, most managers are not great coaches. We help managers become great coaches. Coaching Essentials helps leaders to integrate coaching into their leadership style by developing coaching skills and applying new behaviors to help employees reach higher levels of performance and professional development.
CONVERSATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
“In the new business environment, results are achieved not through command, authority and control, but by facilitating the highest and best contributions of people throughout the organization. To this end, an entirely new approach to leadership is required – one that is grounded in strong relationships, conscious influence, targeted enrollment, keen perception, comfort with risk taking, and facilitation of conversations.” – Judith E. Glaser
Leadership Development Training incorporating Conversational Intelligence (“C-IQ”) is proven effective in helping leaders and organizations accelerate results in the face of emerging business challenges.” The C-IQ methodology and comprehensive tools align team and individual aspirations to the most advanced part of their brain. This science-based methodology helps make the invisible visible and produces a fast track to extraordinary results.
If your organization needs to improve the quality of its leadership or improve its culture, we offer a comprehensive suite of Executive and Leadership Coaching services that support your leaders in accelerating their personal growth and contribution to the achievement of your organization’s goals.
“To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of relationships, which depends on the quality of conversations. Everything happens through conversations.” – Judith E. Glaser
Even More Reasons Why Effective Leadership Matters
Two critically important parts of an effective leader’s responsibility are to facilitate in employees a more optimally motivational mindset and to use cutting-edge best practices for creating a workplace culture where high-quality motivation — and people — flourish.
The lack of employee engagement is a serious problem for most organizations. Indeed, here’s what the research shows:
- Only 20% of all employees feel very passionate about their jobs;
- 69% believe that their employer does not inspire the best from them; and
- 33% of all workers feel like they have reached a dead-end at their job.
- Only 33% of all US employees are engaged in their job,
- Only about half of all employees believe that their boss values their opinion.
- Only about one-third (35%) feel inspired by their bosses.
- A quarter of employees think they can do a better job than their boss does.
- Almost 1 in 5 workers say their boss takes credit for their work.
- Slightly more than half of all employees report that they are actively looking for a new job or watching for openings (Gallup 2017)
Worse yet, according to a 2017 Gallup poll, actively disengaged employees cost US companies up to $65 Billion in lost productivity annually.
Many top-level executives responsible for measuring and improving employee engagement have no idea how people become engaged or disengaged in the first place.
Despite all of these alarming facts, few companies make effective leadership a top priority. Fewer still have a program in place to train their leaders, although most top-level executives know effective leadership is essential to a inspired, productive and successful workplace culture and the overall success of their organization.
Our goal is to help you make sure you and your organization do not fall prey to these disturbing workplace conditions, and instead, you have well-trained leaders, inspired employees, and improved bottom lines.
BRING YOUR LEADERS, TEAMS, AND ORGANIZATION TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF GREATNESS WITH OUR WORLD CLASS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.
