SUCCESSION PLANNING

100, 000 Baby Boomers will retire annually through 2020. If your talent management process was pushed into the background during the current recession, your next generation of leaders may not be prepared to fill the talent gap.

I can help your organization develop a systematic approach to succession planning and talent management. I will consult with your senior executives to review your current approach in order to design and implement a thorough, simple succession process.

This process may include:

  • An integrated competency model aligned with strategic business goals
  • Focused talent identification
  • Developmental planning
  • A disciplined follow up processes

ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMS

What is action learning?

An approach to leadership development to build a strong cross-functional network of organizational leaders and essential leadership skills through focused teamwork on actual business challenges.

What does it involve?

I will consult with senior executives to select a small team of diverse executives who will work simultaneously in three key areas:

  • Complex cross-functional strategic issues
  • Individual leadership development objectives
  • Actual existing problems aligned with strategic goals of the organization

Who should participate?

  • High potential executives open to learning and personal growth
  • Individuals seen as successor to current leaders
  • Current leaders tasked with or interested in succession management

What does the program look like?

  • 1-2 days of consultation senior executives
  • 1 day of orientation
  • Developmental planning
  • Ongoing individual and team coaching
  • Follow up and evaluation

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS

A woman’s gender influences her attitude toward her career, her approach to learning and her willingness to take on leadership responsibility. My programs provide thoughtful, interactive opportunities for growth and learning in a safe yet challenging learning environment.

Based on solid empirical research, these programs are designed to:

  • acknowledge the uniqueness of a women’s experience
  • honor and manage the perceptions that may arise in a women-only setting
  • neither elevate nor diminish a woman’s role as leader.

Program goals:

  • Build vibrant women’s networks
  • Increase self awareness and interpersonal attunement
  • Stimulate personal and organizational transformation

Who should participate?

  • External women’s networks
  • Internal women’s networks
  • Women focused on specific professional outcomes
  • Diverse groups of executives interested in learning how gender may influence career outcomes

EXECUTIVE COACHING

Executive coaching can reveal how your behavior and approach affect your ability to meet strategic business goals and objectives. It is a unique learning relationship that can:

  • capture your inherent knowledge
  • trigger your passions and dreams
  • help you deliver on business results
  • align your vision for yourself with the reality of your actions.

My approach:

Combining principles of adult learning with business dilemmas and real work experiences, I will collaborate with you and your organization to craft a strategic and focused development plan. A successful outcome requires your active engaged participation and a system of ongoing support and feedback from within your organization.

What does the program look like?

  • 6-8 month duration
  • 1-to-1 confidential coaching sessions
  • Individual and organizational assessments
  • Multi-rater surveys and psychological inventories
  • Shadowing and interviewing
  • Follow up on development assignments and learning challenges

CAREER CONSULTATION

Action-oriented dialogue with a professional consultant can help you manage challenges in your career. If you want to change organizations, advance in your current organization, or move in a completely new direction, a trusted advisor can help you:

  • explore your options
  • stimulate your thinking
  • view your challenges in useful ways.

My approach:

My organizing principle is a commitment to helping you see your challenges and opportunities as a pragmatic process that spurs action. My approach is based on:

  • expertise in adult learning and leadership development
  • an understanding of the complexities of mature decision making
  • respect for your experience.

What does the program look like?

  • 1-to-1 confidential counseling sessions
  • simultaneous focus on short term goals and long term ambitions
  • structured follow up to support your continued efforts to learn