eXceptional Talent Development
Are you getting the return you expect for your investment in human capital development?
Did you know that a high percentage of employees don’t feel they’re getting the coaching and development they need for success?
Organizations that develop, effectively manage and provide growth opportunities for top performers will be the “winners” in retaining top performing talent in an increasingly competitive marketplace. To remain competitive you will want your employees to be continuously enhancing their competency and capacity to deliver greater results more effectively. But it’s not training or development for training sake but focused, targeted, effective development that aligns with the organizations objectives and needs. The evidence is clear that employees who respect their manager, enjoy challenging, interesting work and have opportunities to grow professionally and personally are less likely to be drawn away by a promise from an unknown situation. Furthermore, in crisis or dysfunctional situations organizations that take action to intervene early have a far better chance of turning the situation around and retaining any top talent who may be involved.
Finally, organizations who develop “A” players and “A” potentials build solid bench strength for filling future vacancies whether due to growth or retirement. A few of our key talent development programs are summarized below.
Executive and High Potential Coaching. Our approach to coaching is designed is to get you practical results quickly and to facilitate real behavior modification. Through the use of assessments and dialog we help individuals overcome limiting behaviors and increase their success so you get the business results you want. We can help whether the individual is a strong performer whose interpersonal skills are a limitation or an individual who has the skills but not the will or an individual who has been accused of sexual harassment, hostile behavior, negative attitude or other limiting behaviors. During our process we: Identify underlying causes for behaviors, Identify strength of motivation to change, Develop practical action plan for achieving success, Reinforce positive changes.
Effective Team Development. This process helps work teams focus on and commit to getting results and achieving the objectives of the team and organization. We have special expertise in working with teams in crisis – teams comprised of talented individuals who have gotten off track and become dysfunctional when they come together to try and achieve results. Our customized team development process gets at the real issues and focuses the team on taking practical actions to get back on track and get real results. Modules may range, for example, from increasing communication effectiveness to working effectively together to building trust to developing effective processes that get real results.
Executive Leadership Development. This process designed specifically for executives gives them the opportunity to enhance their competency to succeed and thrive in today’s challenging environment. Whether it be dealing with the “brand” of employee entering the workforce today, working more effectively together or rejuvenating a team that’s been running so fast to achieve results that they’ve gotten off track as leaders. The program also helps executives take their talents to the next level to further enhance their effectiveness as leaders, or to work more effectively as a leadership team to achieve organization strategic objectives. This process uses a multi-dimensional approach integrating team development, leadership skills and one-on-one coaching.
Meeting the Management Challenge. This practical course uses experiences and problems regularly faced by managers to help them build a solid foundation of management practices and skills to deal with the myriad of people opportunities and challenges they face on a daily basis. This program is designed to enhance an individual managers ability to provide direction and feedback and manage more effectively in today’s dynamic work environment. It is also modular in nature so you can pick and choose the modules needed within your organization for increased management effectiveness. We also customize the program specifically for your industry and organization. Representative modules that organizations have used include: Introduction to Supervisor/ Management Responsibilities, Management Responsibilities under the Law including Sexual Harassment, Talent Selection including Creating the Job Benchmark, Interviewing and Candidate Evaluation, Performance Management, Management “Theory” including Situational Leadership and Motivating Employees, Planning and Goal Setting, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Orienting New Employees, Managing Conflict, Understanding Supervisory and Management Styles, Communicating with Impact to Get Results, Delegation, Prioritizing and Time Management, Building and Maintaining Trust, Accountability for Self and Others, Being a Manager/ Coach.
Dynamic Communication. This program focuses on the most effective ways to open the doorway to increased communication. A practical approach is used that participants have found helpful in increasing communication and understanding among coworkers, dealing effectively with “difficult” employees, increasing sales and improving customer service.
eXceptional Customer Service. This program addresses such topics as the following: new rules of customer satisfaction, defining your customer service culture, the internal customer, laying the groundwork for customer interactions, exceptional customer attitudes, customer friendly systems, handling tough customer situations.
Performance Excellence. Personal accountability and self management are key to successful performance. Unfortunately, they are two areas in which individuals tend to rate the lowest on both self-scoring and organizational surveys. This course provides the understanding, practical tools and techniques for individuals to increase their effectiveness and results, enhance their professionalism and take their self-management and personal accountability competencies to new levels.
Achieve Your Summit. This motivational course is designed to help individuals identify the full potential that they have and to implement a plan for taking practical steps to fully achieve their potential. This program helps individual understand why working hard and having subject matter knowledge and expertise aren't enough. Individuals learn the reasons people become road blocked in achieving their personal and professional objectives and the characteristics of successful people. Powerful strategies are identified to help individuals enhance their effectiveness and achieve theirs and their organizations objectives. Individuals walk away with a concrete action plan for achieving higher levels of performance and increased practical results.
Selling Skills for the Non-Sales Professional. Everyone is in “sales” in one way or another yet for most people sales is an evil word that causes them to run in the opposite direction. This course helps people look “sales” differently and understand the power of “sales” in getting buy in for ideas and programs that will accomplish team and organizational goals and objectives. Whether an individual is a manager having to influence their staff members; in a staff department having to work effectively with line employees or having to influence volunteers to engage with the organization and get results this program can change limiting mindsets and give them the practical tools and techniques to get better results with and through others.
Mastering the Power: of Behaviors, Motivators, Values and Competencies. This is the course for increasing understanding and becoming certified in four powerful assessment tools used in talent selection, coaching, training, developing and leading people. The course provides a unique, integrated process to put together all the pieces of the puzzle to obtain clear understanding and focus at a level not commonly found. The course is interactive in nature using a number of real life case studies so that participants can accurately and effectively interpret the results, beyond just the written text, of the following assessments: TTI Success Insights DISC reports, TTI Workplace Motivators and PIAV reports, PTSI and TriMetrix™ assessments.
Contact us at (703) 242-2898 or info@strategicalignmentpartners.com for more information on how these powerful programs can help you take individuals in your organization to the next level.
