Improve Leadership In Custom Programs Yet, scientists, researchers, engineers and IT professionals must lead and communicate at high levels of effectiveness in order to translate their technical intelligence into actions and results their organizations can fully use. Who Should Participate
In Your Company Or Our Own Leaders Circle
Our custom programs improve leadership on site in your organization. Our Leaders Circle programs build skills and perspective in external, small, strategically mixed groups. Both consistently earn 90% Excellent ratings. Both address R&D, IT and Engineering leaders' issues and opportunities.
"If I'm The Expert, Why Don't People Listen To Me?"
Scientists, researchers, engineers and IT professionals often fall short, even fail when it comes to leading and communicating with others. They find that being right does not always help (and often hinders) their ability to influence, consult, motivate and lead. Though expert in their own field, they often lack the experience and understanding to work as effectively with others as they work alone.
Technical Leadership Problems and Opportunities
Our leadership training recognizes the special problems scientists, researcher, IT and engineer leaders face:
- The people they work with tend to question authority
- The orgnizations they work in are complex, ambiguous,
- The concepts they must communicate are complicated
- They themselves lack experience, role models, training and blueprints for effective leadership
At the same time, technical leaders also often benefit from significant resources and opportunities:
- Organizations reward people who can get things done
- Small improvements in leadership often results in significant tangible gains in outcomes
- Technical leaders improve leadership skills quickly using their intelligence and focus
- Improving leadership and communications increases not only job performance but also job satisfaction and morale
Any manager individual contributor with a strong technical background will benefit from participating. People who achieve outstanding results include those who:
- Have reached a plateau in their own development
- Have, or are anticipating, new roles and responsibilities
- Want to add more value to their organization
- Are willing to try new approaches and methods
We provide leadership training both in custom programs in your organization and in our own Leaders Circle programs. To enhance program outcomes, both feature:
Participant Comments
"Technology is easy, understanding people is the hard part! These leadership programs gave me the tools to keep my interactions constructive."
I now have the tools to be effective.” James Martin, IT Director, TROJungBrannen
“The program helped me become a better leader, colleague, father … I really enjoyed the atmosphere that allowed for personal attention.” Douglas Noonan, Director, Global Corporate Real Estate, Adidas-Reebok
“Participating in these leadership programs has been extremely valuable – to me personally, and in bringing highly effective collaborative consulting skills to other statisticians, clinicians and other scientists.” Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Ph.D., Clinical Statistics, Pfizer Corporation
“The group is so powerful that you apply the data immediately.” Brad Keyes, Director, Business Development, Keyes North Atlantic
Our leadership program content draws from these core competencies. We customize each program to reflect participants' needs and interests.
1. Taking Stock
Developing an objective, comprehensive assessment of your leadership and communications strengths and weaknesses. Our confidential 360-degree surveys and other tools provide accurate, complete perspective.
2. Increasing Awareness
Increasing your awareness of how others perceive you, when others are agreeing, supporting or resisting your ideas. Our confidential 360-degree surveys and personality profiles provide accurate, complete perspective.
3. Clarifying Goals and Priorities
Formulating clear goals to provide focus for your leadership work. Updating, clarifying your job description to reflect current, real goals and priorities. Formulating goals for your learning, development and growth.
4. Clarifying Personal Vision
Identifying core preferences and shadow. What constitutes the in-depth you? What are the deepest sources of your motivation? Translating vision into everyday priorities and increased focus. Aligning personal and professional vision.
5. Managing Change
Taking your next steps means managing change in your organization, your work day, your goals, your personal life. Must change be traumatic? Understanding why change is difficult. Learning what you can do to embrace change.
6. Improving One-On-One Communications Skills
Much leadership does not occur in formal speaking engagements but rather in the everyday one-on-one communications leaders have with peers, partners, senior management, direct reports. How to give and receive feedback, deliver constructive criticism, motivate and inspire, collaborate and brainstorm, coach and counsel. Increasing skill with collaborative, win-win approaches to communications.
7. Improving Group Communications Skills
Beyond Presentations 101: How to present your ideas with comfort, skill, full conviction, energy and passion. How to lead meetings for full, even engagement. Why and how to increase productivity and follow-through of any team. How to turn your group into a high-performing team.
8. Improving Presentation Skills
Do your presentations do full justice to your ideas? We help you improve clarity and focus, and develop more compelling "stories" for your content. We help you facilitate and engage participants fully, positively, to discuss and further develop your ideas.
9. Increasing Partnering Effectiveness
How partnering determines your overall performance and success. Improving partnering results with clients, users, peers, other organizations, other departments. What partnering is and is not. Understanding, applying partnering methods in your own situation.
10. Strategic Thinking, Strategic Planning
How to think more strategically. Why and how you can do strategic planning for your team, group, department, organization. How and why to use survey data effectively. Developing effective goals. Fully implementing your plan. Linking strategic planning and organizational learning.
11. Group Peer Feedback, Coaching
Your leadership group provides unique understanding of and ability to help you solve problems and explore opportunities. Group members provide each other with insight, feedback and input on their business cases.
12. Planning Long-Term Learning And Development
Building structures and processes to ensure your own learning, development and growth. Challengng yourself to continuous improvement. Learning to learn. Finding,
working with your own mentors. Mentoring others.