Leadership Coaching Programs
for Leadership Teams and Individuals
Leadership Coaching Program
This highly interactive, human-centered program is designed to enable every participating leader and leadership team to lead into ambiguity and change with confidence. We explore the key challenges facing all leaders and through coaching help each participant build and put into practice the human-centered behaviours, characteristics, practices, frameworks and guidelines to lead their teams effectively with confidence. Delivered in 3 parts, with one-on-one coaching for all participants.
EXPLORE the foundational components of effective people-leadership that enables the leader to achieve the goals, empower and grow the team. We examine the internal disruptors that hinder leaders, as well as the intrinsic influence played by the power-imbalance between leaders and their team members. We explore the human-centered behaviours and characteristics that support each leader as they build the foundational components of a resilient team, and begin to build the framework that enables team clarity and accountability. This section can also be used to enable the new or middle leader.
EXPAND on the foundational components of EXPLORE and EXPAND the capacity and capabilities of the leader and team by developing the behaviours and environment that will support the creation of a Creative, Innovative and Resilient workplace. Recognizing that the external disruptors, such as Change, will provoke the internal disruptors and intrinsic influencers, we continue to strengthen the human-centered behaviours, characteristics and practices that enable resilience.
By the end of this section participants will understand the critical role of trust and psychological safety and have a personalized framework to create that creative, innovative and courageous space where the strengths of the entire team are enabled.
EXCEL. Build the capacity to lead into ambiguity and change. Utilize the Power tools of the transformative leader: Professional Candor, Professional Feedback and Productive Disagreement.
Throughout the program each participant develops their own individual and specific frameworks, guidelines and strategies to enable them to develop, with the team, the culture and practices of a Creative and Innovative team that to responds nimbly and Resiliently to disruption and change.
The goal is Leaders who confidently create and lead teams that are high-value, creative, innovative and resilient in change.
Program Delivery of the 3 Sections
Individual Modules: 24 weeks, 12 topic modules in total (5 EXPLORE, 4 EXPAND, and 3 EXCEL), alternating with with coaching to embed what is learned in a personal and practical manner. Each section can be taken separately, sequentially. Can be delivered to single participants or to small cohorts.
Workshops: Each section delivered in 2 half-day workshops with up to 3 one-on-one coaching sessions between and after the workshops to support embedding what has been learned and developed in the workshops in a personal manner that fits the participants situation and environment.
In my work, I need to build relationships and teams quickly. Margo's program has significantly improved my ability to quickly foster a productive and collaborative environment. She encouraged me to dig deeper and develop my own solutions based on new learnings, and I saw a direct line from her coaching to an increase in my team's curiosity and willingness to speak up.
- N. Wilkinson, Consultant, IT
Leadership Coaching Programs overview
I’ve long had this vision that I know many share - wouldn’t it be nice if the world was filled – stuffed - with amazing leaders?
People who inspire their teams to greatness; who raise their team members up beyond where they imagined they could be – because they saw a spark.
People who, with their teams, excel in achieving more, better faster – with enthusiasm (no burn out)!
People who inspire courage and brilliance and teams that are engaged, motivated, enthusiastic, resilient and dynamic.
Can you imagine what could be possible?
The programs explore the strengths, skills and behaviours required to create the environment to overcome the key reasons employees leave, and the primary common challenges leaders face (according to studies).
These Human-centered, Achievement-focused Leadership Coaching Programs leverage the work of key researchers & topical expertise, are threaded through with years of leadership experience and delivered through coaching. Participants tailor the information to their own strengths and circumstances, embed what they learn, try new approaches and behaviours, and through an iterative approach and coaching, develop frameworks that work for them, using their strengths in their environments.
We begin from the premise that strengthening our strengths is more effective than working on what we perceive as our weaknesses. Imagine a sports coach telling a top sprinter “we’ll concentrate on strengthening your shotput – your weakness!”. Or how about a coach putting together a competitive team, taking a top swimmer and having them focusing on becoming better at pole vault, and turning the top diver to work on their javelin in an effort to strengthen all the weaknesses? An effective team is built of key and unique strengths. Working on “weaknesses” fails to maximize the innate strengths of the individual and the team.
The goal is to help leaders achieve their objectives by utilizing and expanding their own individual strengths and develop the skills and behaviours that will create the team environment where team members want to stay and grow because they feel valued and valuable for their contributions; where they are encouraged to develop and employ their own strengths, skills and behaviours; where innovation and creativity thrive as the team embraces the challenges of change, resiliently finding ways to adjust, adapt or pivot.
The Objectives of this program are to develop leaders of impact where:
Goals and targets are achieved
Leader burnout is reduced
Team engagement and motivation are increased
Team resilience is solid in the face of change, ambiguity and other disruptive forces
Team members understand the value of their work contributions, and for which they are valued
Each individual team member and the team as an entity grow professionally
The team environment is Creative, Innovative and Resilient, able to anticipate challenges and nimbly pivot, shift, adapt and adopt with change.