THE GROWTH LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT
Elevating Leadership to Optimally Deal with Rapid Change and Unpredictability
How can you assure that your leaders possess both the fundamentals and the new capabilities for dealing with change and uncertainty?
The program for ensuring your managers possess the leadership mindsets, habits and behaviors to optimally deal with change, unpredictability and complexity.
“The GLA360 helped me understand my hidden strengths and uncovered blind spots in how I lead my team and I interact with others. The tools available to create a development plan make it easy to follow through on action items. Feedback from senior leaders in a development program that I facilitate indicate this is one of the best parts of their cohort experience in that it improves self-awareness, accountability, and ultimately, their leadership skills.”
— Executive, USA Fortune 200 Insurance Corporation
Effective Leadership - Insight for Leverage
Behavioral Science tells us that our preferences and values drive behavior and adaption to stress. Key to understanding our own human nature is understanding paradox and the role it plays and our natural tendencies.
How do you get the focus on the “Right Stuff” and provide the insight for focused follow-through?
By using the power of the paradox, we can understand…
Where our natural tendencies lie and which ones are enablers and which ones are derailers?
Our true strengths, not just what we score high in.
How to use a strength rather than a weak behavior.
Costly impacts of stress on our behaviors
How to deal with stress more effectively.
What is a typical scenario leading the implementation of the GLA?
Managers in Organizations are having to deal with rapid change and unpredictability like never before and finding that their leaders are not prepared. They don’t have the mindsets that promote learning and growth, and they often lack both the agility and the interpersonal savvy to deal with what comes at them.
As illustrated in the video scenario, finding true strengths and relevant challenges is a foundational step and then using that self-awareness to build more effective mindsets and winning habits and behaviors is the key.
“The assessment itself is very powerful because it’s very real, it’s very personal, it’s very relevant. And if you combine that with some structured learning, we believe that you can get a big impact in terms of really directing these behavioral shifts. Coaching and feedback is extremely important to our organization as relates to our people managers.”
-- CLO, MasterCard
By adopting the GLA, you have a proven capabilities development process, which includes a Comprehensive Behavioral Assessment, a 360 Feedback Assessment, and an Online Action Planning Toolbox.
With it, leaders and leadership teams create greater self-awareness and team awareness and complete an effective improvement program.
Effective Leadership - The Focus for Success
Develop Leaders who are demonstrably agile, grow themselves and others and navigate change and paradox by using the 4 macro-competencies
What is the Focus?
Many fundamentals remain but the rapid pace of change coupled with greater unpredictability and complexity require a new set of capabilities centered around growth and agility. Effective managers are agile, constantly learning, leaders of growth in others, and change-makers.
They possess a consistent learning attitude, demonstrate continual thinking agility, lead others in growth and learning
And get results through their agile decision making and collaboration.
Effective Leadership - The Focus for Success
Self-awareness is much like sailing, you have to internalize an understanding of basic physics (human nature), but it is not nearly sufficient. Knowing how to operate the rudder and the sails especially in stormy disruptive conditions, is also required. There are the mindsets, habits and behaviors required to be effective. And doing this naturally and instinctively is the ideal. One without the other, is insufficient and problematic.
When managers increase their self-knowledge effectively, they identify specific gaps in their leadership capabilities. By using the optimal tools, you not only have the information to greatly increase self-knowledge, you also have the insight to change habits, behaviors and mindsets. Once done, this improved self-awareness, helps leaders be more situational in featuring their strengths, improves decision making, improves stress management and increase self-motivation and pro-activity.
What led to the development of Growth Leadership Assessment and Program?
During the last couple of years, in our work with organizations, we’ve seen many struggling with key management challenges adapting to more rapid change, unpredictability and the realities of complex decision-making. Managers need to be continually learning, growing others, facilitating complex decision making and dealing with changing values and changing interpersonal requirements. Some of these clients got to work with us and helped pilot this process as a superior way to create a high-performance culture.
What are the components?
Validated 360
A validated comprehensive behavioral assessment
A focus on 4-key macro-competencies
An overall competency model focused on leading in disruptive unpredictable times (Agility, growing self and other mindset, complex decision making)