Our Partnership Process

Who knows better what your needs and goals are than you?

A proven process for designing and developing your Customized Leadership Development Solution

Step 1 – Inquiry, Inquiry, and Inquiry – understanding your organization and your goals

  • Meet in-person with key people who are driving the learning initiative
  • Ask lots of questions: what is the current situation and audience, what do you want the audience to be able to do differently or better after the learning experience, what are the challenges and issues facing the audience, and what are your desired learning outcomes
  • Listen carefully and document your answers

Step 2 – Suggest a "Strawman" Design Outline and Incorporate Your Feedback – clarifying your current situation, your desired situation, and learning outcomes

  • Did we understand your needs and goals?
  • Do the suggested content topics meet your learning objectives?
  • Do the possible workshop activities reinforce your learning objectives?
  • Do you have any feedback on the content and types of activities that could enhance the program?

Step 3 – Develop an Initial Program Design – what is your investment going to look like?

  • Final content outline with workshop activities
  • Target dates for design and development completion as well as possible delivery time frames
  • Determination of the content, length of program and pricing to fit your budget

Step 4 – Facilitate Follow-up Interviews – does the design meet the needs of your audience and organization?

  • Interview key senior managers – what is their perspective?
  • Interview members of the target audience – what are they seeing as challenges?
  • Incorporate information provided back to you about possible content changes and outcomes

Step 5 – Finalize Design and Scope of Work – did we hit the mark with our proposed solution?

  • Internal review or presentation by our team
  • Discussion as needed
  • Execution of a letter of agreement

Step 6 – Tailor the Program Content – crafting the nuts and bolts of your customized solution

  • Partner with your Subject Matter Experts to shape the content to your organization’s processes, language, and culture
  • Design content flow – where should we start and where should we end?
  • Design workshop activities relevant to your audience and industry
  • Develop instructor and participant materials
  • Match instructors or consultants with real world experience to the content

Step 7 – Deliver the Customized Leadership Development Solution

  • Coordinate completion of any pre-training assessments
  • Create a highly interactive workshop environment – learn and apply – learn concepts, techniques and tools then apply them in workshop activities

Step 8 – Execution for Impact

  • Follow up with your participants to ensure your objectives were accomplished
  • Design tools and processes to extend the impact of the customized leadership development solution over time