Leadership Development

LD-Personal Coaching Systems

  • Is there someone in your organization that is targeted for an expanded leadership role?
  • Is there someone is your organization that adds value technically, but struggles with emotional intelligence?
  • Do you have associates who could benefit from greater accountabilities in some area of performance or growth?

Leader-Works can provide executive coaching for leaders and managers who are poised for increased responsibility in the near future with our Targeted Coaching TM system.  This system can also be used to assist those who are performing well in most areas yet have growth opportunities in one or more key leadership components.

LD-Business Finances for Leaders

  • Do your leaders struggle with “the math of management” ?
  • Are your leaders able to apply “industry formulas” to real life workplace situations?
  • Do you have a daily dashboard to manage your metrics?

Leader-Works helps your leadership team identify the critical financial formulas and key metrics aligned with your strategic goals and objectives and then design a “daily dashboard” to inform and manage results.

LD-Employee Engagement Processes

  • Do your associates demonstrate real engagement to the mission, vision and values of your organization?
  • Do you have system in place to measure “employee engagement” or does your system measure “job satisfaction”?
  • Can you identify your organizational progress towards engagement enhancements?

Leader-Works can help you establish a measurement system for employee engagement, measure survey results and design organizational changes to enhance your engagement outcomes. Your improved employee engagement results can impact your bottom line in terms of repeat business, customer referrals and business reputation.

LD Associate Accountabilities

  • Do you have measurable accountabilities for each of your associates?
  • Do you have regular “check-in meetings” to review accountability progress?
  • Are your associate accountabilities aligned with your strategic goals?
  • Are the accountabilities part of your performance management system?

Leader-Works can help you design both leadership and associate accountabilities that are measurable, aligned with your strategic goals and easy to fit into weekly check-in meetings to foster organizational accomplishments.

LD-Emotional Intelligence

  • Do your internal technical experts struggle with workplace relationships?
  • Do you have leaders who are often misunderstood?
  • Do your associates feel understood and valued at work?
  • Is your Employee Relations department busier than normal?

Leader-Works can help you measure your overall organizational “EI” as well provide tools to help individual contributors develop their “EI” skills. Enhancing the emotional intelligence in the workplace can make project teams more effective, enhance employee engagement and impact client relationships in a positive manner.

LD-Turnaround Leadership Strategies

  • Have you struggled to achieve strategic goals for more than one year?
  • Do your leaders seem stuck in their abilities to implement cultural change?
  • Do you have pending leadership vacancies than offer transition opportunities?
  • Do your leaders and associates embrace new programs and options enthusiastically?

Leader-Works can help you prepare for and implement significant organizational transition when new strategies or cultural growth is warranted. Whether you need additional leadership strength or just need help with a turnaround project, Leader-Works can help your organization achieve the new outcomes you need.

LD-Leadership Effectiveness

  • Does your organization measure leadership effectiveness?
  • Are your leadership effectiveness metrics aligned with organizational strategies?
  • Do your leaders have the tools and systems to inspire followers towards desired accomplishments?

Leader-Works can help you establish relevant leadership measurements and metrics, measure your current leadership effectiveness quotient and develop tools to monitor leadership influence and competencies.

LD-Team Development and Management

  • Do your teams really work well together?
  • Do you have a strengths based team design tool?
  • Do your teams accomplish their goals on time and on budget?
  • Do your leaders and associates enjoy working on team projects?

Leader-Works can help you develop team process models that work in today’s organizations. These models recognize individual member strengths and contributions as well as foster enthusiasm for the accomplishment of top notch and challenging objectives.

LD-Performance Evaluations  Management

  • Are your performance evaluations meaningful to both associates and managers in your organization?
  • Are performance evaluations completed on time at your facility?
  • Do your managers find the evaluation completion process simple to use?
  • Is your performance management system utilized as a helpful tool all year?

Leader-Works can provide a custom solution to performance management using the ReflectionsTM performance management system which recognizes associate accomplishments from a 360 degree perspective based on pre-agreed outcomes and metrics. Both associates and managers find the ReflectionsTM system meaningful and look forward to quarterly updates and the annual summation meeting.

LD- Workplace Safety Processes

  • Does your organization have a relational tracking system between safety education, your IIPP and your workplace injuries?
  • Does your organization have a need to reduce the incidence of workplace injuries or “near-miss” events?
  • Are your leaders skilled in workplace safety training and IIPP?

Leader-Works can help you design an IIPP and establish training systems and metrics to achieve a safety awareness culture. Body mechanics, chemical safety, right to know, equipment operations and accident prevention education tools are all part of the Leader-Works toolbox.

LD-Regulatory Readiness

  • Is your organization responsible to regulatory agencies or governing bodies?
  • Do your leaders and associates need to be ready for unannounced inspections?
  • Do you need to ensure compliance with governing or regulatory standards on a regular basis?

Leader-Works can help ensure regulatory readiness with our Pre-Tend TM Mock Survey Program ensuring that adequate “tending” or attention occurs before the inspection or survey event so that leaders and staff members feel “rehearsed for the real thing”. Mock surveys are designed to measure governing or regulatory standards objectively and dashboard scorecards are developed to communicate progress towards full compliance.

LD-Records Management for Leaders

  • Are your leaders able to locate management documents easily and quickly?
  • Do your leaders have an effective records management system for electronic documents?
  • Do your leaders have an organized literature library system for books, files, forms, products information and associate files?

Leader-Works can help leaders establish an orderly system for their office setup to manage the variety of media in today’s organizations. From paper files, books, and binders to the multiple electronic media formats, leaders can save precious time and eliminate frustrations when there is “order in the house”.