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Leaders have always needed to motivate, inspire, and engage teams to achieve high performance. Now, their efforts are complicated by diminished workforce well-being, poor employee engagement, and a competitive global talent pool where top talent can choose to work anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

At the same time, organizations are asking more from team leaders. As the workforce becomes more distributed, people managers are the most critical connectors to employee productivity. Companies rely on a leader\u2019s strong relationships with their team to help the company adapt to customer needs, drive innovation, deliver efficiencies, enter new markets, and more.<\/p>\n

Especially when an organization is dispersed across locations, leaders must adapt their leadership mindset, skills, and routines, because the visual cues and spontaneous moments that presented opportunities to coach their people aren’t as plentiful today.<\/p>\n

To fully unlock the potential of their employees, organizations need their leaders to make the following shifts in their approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Move from this:<\/strong><\/th>\nTo this:<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Gathering insights about team members through observation<\/strong><\/td>\nGathering insights about team members through inquiry<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seizing<\/strong> informal moments to connect and coach<\/td>\nCreating<\/strong> moments to connect and coach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Creating communications to align, direct, and inform<\/strong><\/td>\nCreating thoughtful communications to connect, coach, and create culture<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Driving engagement through promotion and compensation<\/strong><\/td>\nDriving engagement through personalization<\/strong> of the work experience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Connecting the team to work<\/strong><\/td>\nConnecting work to the team\u2019s values<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Organizations need to invest in developing leaders so they have the tools they need to connect, coach, and create an inclusive culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This program helps leaders better understand, build, and master the skills needed to thrive alongside their team in this new way of working. The goal is to enhance learner effectiveness in the three C\u2019s of connecting, coaching, and creating an inclusive culture regardless of the setting.<\/p>\n

Contact sales to enroll leaders at your organization<\/a><\/p>\n

Informed by research, built by practitioners<\/h3>\n

The Invested Leader program guides formal learning and practice of today\u2019s essential leadership capabilities identified and validated by the Conference Board, Professor Dave Ulrich at the University of Michigan Ross School, and the ROI Institute. The program features a proven approach for guiding successful behavior change, and an award-winning ROI, measured by the ROI Institute.<\/p>\n

Program features<\/h3>\n

The Invested Leader program consists of three weeks of formal, virtual learning, and three weeks of applied learning where learners use toolkits to practice new behaviors, and then debrief and share success practices in group coaching sessions.<\/p>\n

The program was developed in partnership with the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and the consulting firms The RBL Group and Virtual Work Insider.<\/p>\n

WEEK 1: Connect<\/h4>\n
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  • Understand the new requirements for leaders to connect and build trust with their teams<\/li>\n
  • Discover why leaders must personalize work and care for people<\/li>\n
  • Enable employees to find meaning by helping them believe, become, and belong<\/li>\n
  • Learn techniques for connecting across distances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    WEEK 2: Connect \u2013 Application Projects<\/h4>\n
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    • Use a four-step framework to demonstrate empathy<\/li>\n
    • Create micro moments for check-in conversations to develop relationships and build trust<\/li>\n
    • Use stay interviews to tailor employee experiences and retain talent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      WEEK 3: Coach<\/h4>\n
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      • Define and develop skills team members need now and in the future<\/li>\n
      • Develop the mindset of a leader coach<\/li>\n
      • Use new approaches to establish and manage team accountability<\/li>\n
      • Learn to check priorities and monitor work overload<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        WEEK 4: Coach \u2013 Application Projects<\/h4>\n
          \n
        • Conduct a communication audit to check information flow<\/li>\n
        • Create an assignment brief to set accountability<\/li>\n
        • Use a stoplight exercise to detect employee burnout<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          WEEK 5: Create Culture<\/h4>\n
            \n
          • Improve workplace communication<\/li>\n
          • Retain the right people<\/li>\n
          • Improve employee engagement<\/li>\n
          • Deliver a positive employee experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            WEEK 6: Create Culture \u2013 Application Projects<\/h4>\n
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            • Connect company values to team behaviors<\/li>\n
            • Facilitate team member belonging using the life experiences exercise<\/li>\n
            • Conduct a calendar cleanse and meeting audit to create better meetings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
              \n

              Duration:<\/strong> 6 weeks following Kickoff Event and welcome activities<\/p>\n

              Total Weekly Time Commitment:<\/strong> 3 hours per week (2 hours async + 1 hour live)<\/p>\n

              Total Daily Time Commitment:<\/strong> 30-45 minutes on async days and 60 minutes on live-virtual days<\/p>\n

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