Ascending Leaders
Becoming a Leader in the Business
A career-changing experience that transforms you from manager to business leader while gaining sponsorship from senior leaders.
Purpose
A transformative opportunity for managers to take their leadership to the next level, expand their influence, and earn sponsorship from senior leaders.
Your Takeaways
- Leverage insights from coaching sessions, assessments, and multi-rater feedback to enhance your sense of self-awareness.
- Create a leadership mandate that articulates business needs, communicates a clear and compelling vision, and describes the actions you will take to support your company.
- Understand the value of interpersonal influence and discover high-integrity tactics that you can use to navigate organizational politics.
- Stake out a position in your industry that is aligned with your company and prepared to withstand attacks from competitors.
- Assemble a toolkit of strategies that you can use to lead teams through periods of upheaval and uncertainty.
- Develop skills you can use to understand and resolve interpersonal conflict in face-to-face and virtual settings.
- Learn how to create and support a culture that maximizes engagement and effectiveness.
- Illuminate your authentic self by discerning your core values, purpose, and priorities.
- Work with peers to understand a real-world problem facing your company, design a solution, draft an implementation plan, and present your ideas to senior leaders.
- Establish a network of trusted confidants and peer coaches that you will rely on for years to come.
Highlights
- 6-Month Program
- Hands-On Business Challenge Projects
- Online Courses & Learning Portal
- Collaborative Application Exercises
- Direct Manager Involvement
Audience
- Ascending High-Potential Leaders
Coaching Sessions
- 3 Leadership Coaching Sessions
Assessments
- Stellar Leader-360 Feedback
- TKI Conflict Modes
Transformational Results
“Despite the challenges of balancing the program with day to day demands, the ALP experience now looking back was both professionally and personally life changing. I have a new view on myself both as an individual and as a leader and I know that new understanding is impacting the way I am building relationships in my life both here at work and at home.” – Director, Hospitality
Program Agenda
Each course includes a pre-work assignment, virtual classroom session, and an application exercise.
- Emerging as a Leader in the Business
- Establishing Your Leadership Mandate
- Managing Organizational Politics
- Leading & Acting Strategically
- Leading in Uncertain & Volatile Times
- Managing Interpersonal Conflict & Virtual Collaboration
- Forming Culture in Your Organization
- Being an Authentic Leader