Leadership Development | Programs
The programs described below are core services frequently requested by our clients. However, the delivery of every program is always highly customized for the organization, individual or team. We also work with our clients to design programs to address unique circumstances. Kensington International welcomes the opportunity to learn more about how we can best work with you and your company.
Talent Strategy
Strategic Planning and Executive Offsite Meeting Facilitation
Often it is a good idea to have a facilitator for strategic planning and other important leadership offsite meetings. Having a facilitator allows all members of the team to participate equally. Let us help your executives and senior managers organize the agenda, develop the list of desired outcomes and facilitate the necessary discussions/debates to reach optimal decisions around strategic directions or critical issues. We can provide a strategic template and lead your executive team through a step-by-step process to develop a winning strategy.
Leadership Competency Development
In order to focus and align leadership development with organizational needs and strategy, the first step is to define leadership requirements. These leadership requirements set the standard for objective performance expectations within your specific culture. Through our unique assessment based approach, we work with your executive team to identify and communicate the strategic leadership competencies and behaviors needed to be demonstrated by all leaders in order to carry out your strategy. We can help you accelerate your organization’s achievement of an evolving or new business strategy by assuring that competencies are properly aligned.
Talent Assessment
Succession Planning and Talent Review
Our approach to Succession Planning and Talent Review Meetings is designed to cover both replacement needs and growth aspirations to maintain business continuity now and in the future. We can help you assess the talent that you have and examine succession readiness and developmental gaps, and then facilitate a process for your leadership team to objectively review and share the data.
Strategic Direction and Role Expectations Assessments
We engage leaders in an objective, assessment-based process that analyzes which leadership behaviors are most important to success in an organization, role or situation. This process develops a profile that describes the ideal leadership practices required to fulfill the leadership aspects of roles and to achieve your organization’s objectives. This profile aids in leadership selection and development.
Culture Assessment
Leadership behaviors drive the culture of the organization. Through an assessment-based process, we can uncover employee perceptions of current leadership behaviors and the culture that is created. We can compare this data driven information with the desired culture in order to uncover gaps that are priority areas for investment in leadership development.
Selection Assessment
Skills and experiences are easy to evaluate but behaviors are not. We can support your executive recruitment process by highlighting behavioral areas that align and misalign with the expectations we help you establish for the role. Our process will enable you to make the best hiring decisions and successfully integrate them into the organizational culture.
360 Degree Assessments
We are experts in assessing leadership behaviors to establish a baseline for individual leader development. The assessments we use are statistically valid, provide comparative data, are uniquely designed to make it extremely difficult to skew results, and can be globally applied.
Team assessments
To help teams become more productive, we assess team effectiveness across five critical dimensions. Each member of the team completes a confidential assessment and our experts develop and deliver the interpretive reports. The team assessments are an integral part of our Team Development Program.
M & A - Leadership Assessments
Whether you are acquiring companies or simply considering it, the M&A statistics on failure rates likely have your attention. Let us assist with assessing leaders and predicting or helping to manage positive outcomes and avoid becoming an unfortunate statistic. Our leadership insights process leverages assessments to gather objective data on leadership behaviors and motivation. The knowledge gained can be used pre-deal to “get to know” the leader or post deal to drive action and accountability.
Sales Performance Assessments
Our practical, result-oriented solutions for increasing sales effectiveness provide the critical insight into the sales behaviors and motivators of the individual sales professional and the sales team. This tool will allow you to identify specific behaviors and practices needed to achieve your organization’s sales goals. The results can be used to clarify developmental priorities for the sales professionals, as well as identify action steps the senior team can complete to develop an organizational culture and reward system that will foster the desired sales behaviors.
Talent Development
High Potential Leadership Development
Let us help you identify and develop your high potentials to meet current and future organization needs. We will work with your organization to define the expectations at a strategic, organization and role level. We employ an assessment process to examine behaviors, motivations and emotional intelligence to give us insights into development opportunities. In addition to individual executive coaching, we provide group/programmatic curriculum in core leadership education areas. These programs introduce concepts that are immediately actionable and link to specific goals and objectives.
Team Development
The sum of the parts can be greater than the whole. How effective do you feel your executive team is? Our Executive Team Development Program provides a process to diagnose areas for improving team effectiveness and adopts a practical hands on approach to strengthen a team’s functionality. As part of the process, we use our team model to work though team decisions, reinforcing the discipline of continuous commitment to teamwork. Our goal is to enable the senior leader and their direct reports to continue the process beyond our involvement.
Individual Coaching Programs for Development
Let us help executives and senior managers recognize their leadership strengths and development opportunities. Our executive coaching programs are rigorous and highly effective in aligning the development of your leaders with organizational strategy and role expectations. Our best practices coaching process involves appropriate stakeholders and incorporates assessment data. We work with the executive to develop an actionable plan in the context of the individual’s unique business challenges to enable measurable results and ensure ongoing success.
Individual Coaching Programs for Performance Improvement
Organizations, roles and situations are constantly changing and can cause a historically high performing executive to become less effective. When a leader needs development in one specific area, we design a coaching program to rigorously address that area. Common areas include presentation skills, leading meetings, effective organization, delivering feedback, anger management, etc. Our program includes meeting with the manager, observing the individual, equipping them with information and techniques to build skills to operate in new ways, and coaching to build confidence and success as quickly as possible.
E-learning Courses, Books, Summaries and Reports
As a stand-alone capability or incorporated into leadership development programs, we can help our clients and the leaders we coach to increase their effectiveness through e-learning and access to other on-line resources.