Overview
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch
Developing the next generation of leaders is a top concern of CEOs today. Having a strong bench to fill leadership roles is a crucial indicator of an organization’s talent health and strongly correlates with revenue and profit growth. High-potential leaders are vital value generators in the organization, exerting significant effort and contributing almost twice the value to the organization. Research consistently shows that investing in high potentials is critical for the organization’s current success and future outlook.
However, research also reveals that a large percentage of newly promoted leaders struggle to meet their business objectives and that many organizations lack a systematic approach to identifying and consistently & successfully developing their key leadership talent.
To ensure success, it’s crucial to effectively address the distinct needs of two groups. The ‘vital many’ manager population require performance-driven in-role development,helping them develop the mindset and skillset needed for effective performance in their current roles.
The ‘select few’ high-potential development should support their current performance as leaders while accelerating their capability to succeed in more complex leadership roles and increase their organizational impact. It is a much more encompassing organizational intervention.
Our Accelerate Program targets this need. It is a comprehensive program for high-potential leaders at different organizational levels, offering an immersive organizational experience that integrates key components that research has indicated to be key success factors of high-potential development. These include: individual components looking at individual value proposition and development, group learning components, networking and leader-led sessions, business impact and organizational sponsorship and support.
Payoffs
Organizational Gains
- Accelerates readiness for future challenges and prepares leaders for next-level roles
- Enhances leadership bench strength and pipeline in key positions.
- Drives improved performance through higher leadership capabilities
- Strengthens retention of key talent and attracts skilled and valuable leaders
- Aligns high-potential leaders with their responsibilities as role models for performance and leadership
- Establishes a network and community of strong leaders across silos who collaborate to create significant organizational shifts, influencing culture and performance
Personal Gains
- Accelerates the ability to successfully navigate complex challenges at higher levels
- Facilitates inclusion in a community of high-potential leaders
- Provides access and exposure to macro-level business issues, enhancing systemic influence
- Expands leadership capacities and challenges personal comfort zones
- Deepens awareness of personal leadership core, identifying a unique path and purpose, and amplifying the passion to lead and make a difference
- Strengthens the ability to initiate and lead change, innovation, and disruption
Lean & Mean: Formats Tailored at Your Choice
In-Person/Hybrid
- The Accelerate program adopts a holistic approach to successfully prepare high-potential leaders for more complex future roles
- This program can be adapted to each organization’s specific needs, considering the context, current and future roles, key leadership success factors and group characteristics
- Each program begins with a diagnostic phase to ensure it is well-designed and suited to the organization. Accordingly, there may be adaptations to various program components and flow
Program components include:
- Individual components: Leadership assessments, personalized coaching, and development plans tailored to personal and organizational contexts
- Group learning components: Research and practice-based group learning sessions, both online and face-to-face, that are diverse, innovative, experiential, and deep, allowing participants to experience leadership in varied group settings, adapted to their current and future leadership challenges
- Networking and leader-led sessions: High involvement of executive sponsors in formal networking and leader-led sessions, integrated into the program, with mentorship as an optional component
- Business impact: Strengthening business acumen through business simulations and acceleration teams, tasked with advancing key organizational projects, to drive participant and organizational value
- Organizational framework: Supervision and training for HR/talent, direct managers, and sponsors to ensure implementation in everyday organizational life and to maximize the program’s long-term impact
Learning Journey
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