Leadership System Consulting
It is a commonplace that one should not leave leadership to chance. However, once an organization has committed to leadership development, it faces a bewildering array of theories about how individuals grow into leaders and little practical clarity about how to create a results-focused system. Frank works closely with the organization’s human resource professionals and other leadership architects. As a team they ensure your leadership program embraces the realities of adult learning, pragmatically advances the organization’s business mission and strategy, and delivers long-term leadership impact.
The Granek 4D Leadership Development Program
The Granek 4D Leadership Development Program helps organizations differentiate from the competition by creating leaders who differentiate along four dimensions: Leadership Competencies, Leadership Performance, Leadership Brand, and Leadership Wellness. Alongside the focus on this holistic, four-dimensional growth, these four principles distinguish this leadership development process:
Principle 1: Clarity First. A key to the system is the rigorous clarification of your organization’s Leadership Critical Success Factors – based on core values, strategy and objectives – and flowing from those a streamlined set of Key Leadership Competencies that truly address the competitive realities. These become foci for all Leadership T&D in the short term and long term.
Principle 2: Embracing Diversity. This system embraces – and capitalizes on – the enormous diversity among leaders in learning style, communication, culture, and goals. Frank applies best practices to leverage that diversity at the level of teams, divisions, and the organization.
Principle 3: Integrative T&D. The program weaves together best practices from the multiple disciplines of human performance, from leadership psychology to adult learning to instructional systems design. Among the training elements it incorporates are competency-based workshops, targeted coaching, mentoring, leadership projects and action learning groups.
Principle 4: High ROI. Measurable high value in leadership development means that the ROI (return on investment) Methodology should run through every stage of the Leadership T&D process – from initial strategic analysis and needs assessment through selection of training solutions, execution of training modules, and program evaluation.
Targeted Leadership Program Consulting
Many leadership programs fail to deliver on their full potential. Some key training principles may be applied well, while others are overlooked. One module may electrify participants, only to have momentum lost during another that might not “click” with participants or even conflicts with other trainings.
Frank can help you make the most of an emerging leadership development program. He may help you bring disparate training components into a cohesive system, or boost the effectiveness of a targeted module. The Granek 4D Leadership Development principles are applied on a more focused basis to your existing leadership program and materials. Targeted initiatives include:
- Optimization of Organizational Leadership Strategy
- Leadership Competency Modeling
- Needs Analysis Improvement
- New Workshop Development
- Refinement of Handbooks and Learning Materials
- 360 Feedback Assessment Tools and Processes
- Leadership Program ROI Optimization
The Wider Game: Leadership HR Consulting
Making leadership a deep source of competitive advantage goes beyond training and development. Frank’s Leadership HR Consulting services ensure that the organization’s leadership system is optimized in five additional areas, ones that are often neglected in ostensibly “leadership savvy” organizations.
Smart Hiring Processes: Optimizing and integrating the full range of hiring tools, including resume analysis, structured interviewing, assignments, assessment centers, and reference analysis.
Orientation Programs: Ensuring that new leaders are socialized into culture, interpersonal dynamics, and processes in a way that avoids pitfalls and motivates them to have positive impact.
90-Day Impact Support: Targeted coaching, training, and/or mentoring to ensure that new leaders quickly close competency gaps, create coalitions, and mobilize organizational resources.
Leadership Pipeline Strategy: Creating a strategic roadmap to develop talented leaders – and retain them – as they move through multiple stages of leadership within the organization.
Leadership Networks: Drawing on the full capacity of executives and peers to help leaders navigate challenges and build leadership bench strength – through managerial coaching, networking, and communities of practice.
