YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSETS DEVELOPED™
Our Services
Our research indicates that company performance, workforce engagement, performance, and retention are all highly correlated to available professional development program. And the absence of an effective and structured professional development program is one of the highest cited, and most preventable, reasons for voluntary turnover. Yet, most individuals and leaders don’t know how to approach the topic of creation and execution of EXECUTABLE Individual Development Plans. We aim to fix that with our 9-step process, delivered through a comprehensive set of solutions, consisting of webinars, workshops, keynotes, coaching, consulting, and management.
Workshops
What is it?
Our workshops are 1-day intensive events, where our team works closely with your workforce across the 9-step EIDP Process (EXECUTABLE Individual Development Plan). Each workshop involves roughly 30/70 split of lecture and practice, where we spend about 30% of the time educating your team on the EIDP process, and the remaining 70% of time of hand-on practice and interactive Q&A. These workshops are very fluid and are customized based on the needs of your organization. We work with small groups of 10-20, and large events up to 300 attendees.
Who is it for?
We offer workshops with 2 distinct objectives based on the audience:
For Team Members – Our most popular workshop focuses on guiding your workforce through the EIDP process. Based on the mix of the attendees, we offer individualize tips and tricks for team members of each career track: Subject Matter Experts, Program Managers, and People Leaders.
For Leaders – We can also work with your leaders to give the tools to help coach their team through their EIDPs. In many cases leaders want to support their team’s development, but don’t have the tools or know-how to be an effective partner.
What do you get?
Jump-start creating/improving EXECUTABLE professional development plan.
Intensive 1-day intensive event tailored for your organization’s needs. • Team members leave with a road-map for creating and executing their EIDPs.
Leaders are armed with tools and know-how for being an effective partner for their team’s professional development.
Highly interactive event where we share best practices, tips, and suggestions, and also help address barriers the attendees are facing.
Builds community and improves camaraderie among the attendees.
Drives inclusion, engagement and improves performance.
Applicable EIDP books are included for each attendee.
Available in-person and virtually.
Coaching
What is it?
Our coaching inspires intentional, focused and structured professional development. It is tailored for your individual goals, aspirations, and challenges. Coaching is our most individualized service: it’s all about getting you one-on-one access with someone whose “been there, done that”, so that you can overcome obstacles and achieve your career ambitions quicker. For example, most of our coachees are looking for guidance along the 9-step process of EIDP, while others are simply looking for an accountabody partner. There’s no standard session: our coaches are experienced, certified, flexible and highly motivated to help you create and execute your own EXECUTABLE professional development plan.
Who is it for?
We pride ourselves in providing personalized, immediately relevant, and actionable advice in each of our coaching sessions. To do so, we cap individual coaching to 1-3 individuals. For those that prefer team coaching, we offer one-to-many and many-to-many sessions for up to 20 team members. For larger groups, we recommend checking out our webinars or workshops.
What do you get?
Getting Started – Our coaches start the process with getting to know your needs and your aspirations. We “begin with the end in mind”. This is a critical first step in understanding how we can best partner with you so that you can reach your full potential and achieve your career objectives.
Session – Every session is customized based on your needs and aspirations. If you’re stuck on a particular step, we’ll provide specific tools and feedback so you can navigate obstacles quickly and efficiently. Or if you are looking to accelerate your progress and career growth, our team of coaches will provide guidance to do that.
Logistics – Coaching sessions typically span 20 or 50 min per session, can be scheduled as-needed basis or on a regular cadence, and are available virtually or in-person.
Speaking
What is it?
Inspiration without action is just a dream. In our keynotes, we strive to meaningfully impact the entire audience through inspiring action. Our keynotes are highly engaging and thoughtfully combine motivational stories around career growth, research in the field of professional development, and concrete tips and tricks. This blend of inspiration, research, and tools is our recipe for driving action. Our keynotes can be customized for more intimate department meetings of 10-20 people, but also for large corporate events of 300+ attendees.
Who is it for?
Our passionate speakers tailor every talk for the audience and the event. Anyone who has a passion for professional development, either for their own personal growth or for supporting the growth of others, can benefit from our talks. What do you get? Our speakers are currently giving talks around 3 topics:
“READY vs PREPARED: Which one you should focus on and why?”
“Create your professional development plan. No one else should!” This talk is designed to provide inspiration and tools for professionals that strive to create their own EXECUTABLE Individual Professional Development plan (EIDP), so that they can reach their full potential and achieve their career objectives. It helps to jumpstart their own professional development. The talk is based on our book “It Starts and Ends with EIDP” and covers our proven 9-step EIDP process:
Differences between being ready and being prepared
Why having an EIDP matters?
Why most individuals don’t have an EIDP?
The 9 steps of creating and executing and EIDP.
Concrete tools, tips, and tricks for each step.
Ample Q&A time for guidance and discussions.
“LEADERS DEVELOP FIRST: Self and Others.”
You’ve been asked to lead/coach a team, mentor a high-potential employee, or simply have the interest to help someone with their professional development … now what? This talk is designed with that in mind. This talk offers a proven method and structure for effectively coaching anyone through the 9-step process of creating and executing their EXECUTABLE Individual Professional Development Plan (EIDP). The talk is based on our book, “Leaders Develop First” and, among other beneficial content, includes tools and guidance how to best coach and navigate the 9-step EIDP Process:
Benefits and satisfaction achieved with coaching EIDP.
How to use the 9-step EIDP Process to help others with their professional development.
Once you start, how to keep momentum going and growing.
Struggles and opportunities of coaching.
Becoming a better people leader, coach, mentor for your team and high-potential employees.
“GROW your workforce. ACCELERATE your business.”
What happens when your strategy is too successful, and your business outgrows your workforce? People are the most important assets in any organization. That means accelerating the growth of your workforce leads to accelerating business growth. This talk is designed to inspire your leaders, and workforce in general, to accelerate their professional development so that they can accelerate your business. At the end of the talk, you will be on your way to have YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSETS DEVELOPED™:
Why workforce professional development is an offensive strategic pillar for driving business growth.
Cautionary tales of businesses outgrowing their people.
How having a formal professional development program for your workforce can prevent organizational problems.
The 3 key areas where a formal professional development program helps your organization achieve its objectives.
Your leaders and workforce will hear and experience true engagement of pathos, logos, and ethos.
Content is full of data, statistic, stories, examples, and based on most recently published research, books, and articles .
Consulting
What is it?
It’s very tough to effectively initiate and implement a professional development program across an organization. Let us help you out. Our consulting solution is designed to help you build up or improve your internal capabilities for developing your workforce. We will guide you through the entire process of establishing and managing an organization-wide professional development program.
Who is it for?
Our consulting services revolve around solving business-level strategy and execution challenges with the launch of an effective structured professional development program. As a result, our consulting services are intended to serve business or HR leaders. If you are looking for help navigating the 9-step EIDP process, or other topics related to professional development, we recommend checking out our services – webinars, keynotes, workshops and coaching.
What do you get?
Our consulting service is generally executed over 4 phases (with customization for each organization on as-needed basis):
Building the Business Case – It starts with the business strategy. We’ll help you align your professional development initiative with business objectives, so that making the investment is a no brainier.
Designing the Program – Secondly, we’ll tailor and integrate our proven 9-step EIDP process (EXECUTABLE Individual Development Plan) into your existing L&D / Workforce Management infrastructure. During this stage, we make sure there is alignment between your professional development program and your company’s existing processes (e.g. annual performance reviews, rotation programs, job descriptions, leveling guides).
Kick-off and Training – Third, we’ll launch the program with you. This step involves a number of training events, including: keynotes at your all employee meetings, workshop(s) for leaders and managers (to effectively coach their team members), workshops for team members (on creating and executing their EIDP), and other training as necessary (e.g. webinar on special considerations for high potential employees).
On-going Monitoring – Lastly, we make sure that you’re successful after the launch. We recognize that a structured and effective professional development program is not a 1-time effort – it’s ongoing. That means, we’re here to check up with you regularly to provide guidance, webinars, and refresher training to ensure your success. We are your Partners in Professional Development®
Webinar
What is it?
Our webinars are quick, topic-based, online sessions customized for your specific needs. Webinars are perfect if there is a specific topic that your team needs guidance on, or if you’re not ready to commit to a full 1-day intensive workshop. Depending on the topic, webinars typically range from 30 to 90 minutes. Some of the topics we cover through webinars are:
How to successfully complete each of the 9 steps on creating and executing my EXECUTABLE individual development plan?
How do I serve as a better partner for my team’s professional development?
How can my workforce accelerate their professional development?
How do I build my professional support network?
What are the differences and roles of being a Manager? Coach? Mentor? Personal Board of Directors?
How do I thoroughly perform research necessary to create an EXECUTABLE Individual Professional Development Plan?
How do I become a better manager-coach for my teams’ professional development?
How do I increase engagement and encourage my workforce to work on their individual professional development?
How do I jump-start my professional development program?
Who is it for?
Since webinars are customized and topic-based, we’ve seen our clients benefit from different themes depending on their roles:
HR and Business Leaders – topics and discussions tend be revolve around solving challenges at the program-level, business-level, and around strategy and execution (e.g. retention, performance, business growth).
Department Leaders – topics and discussions commonly revolve around improving as a people leader, and tools for coaching and mentoring more effectively.
Team Members – topics and discussion are more focused on learning about the EIDP process and tips for how to address common pitfalls throughout the process.
What do you get?
The process starts with a phone call to understand your current challenges and areas of need.
We’ll design a custom presentation or discussion to address your specific challenges.
Webinars are typically 30-90 minutes in duration depending on topic, and include ample time for Q&A.
Webinars are available in live and pre-recorded (on-demand / self-paced) format.
Management
What is it?
Developing the internal capability to effectively run a large-scale professional development program requires substantial upfront investment in time, money and headcount. Our management service let’s you concentrate on your core business by offloading that burden onto our team. You’ll enjoy the benefits of developing your workforce (increased workforce performance, improved retention, and better engagement) while we administer the whole program for you from A to Z.
Who is it for?
Our management service is a high-value, high-commitment solution. It is designed to serve business leaders that prioritize workforce development as a critical strategic pillar for improving business results. If your organization is not ready for this level of commitment, we can work with you to create a customized package (e.g. workshops, keynotes, coaching) that is appropriate for your current needs.
What do you get?
This service is designed to be a comprehensive solution for your workforce development initiatives. To best serve your organization, we have structured our management service around 4 key pillars:
Strategy Alignment – It has to make business sense. The first step in this service is aligning your professional development initiative with your business strategy and objectives. This is a big investment, so we want to make sure it’s a no brainier.
Education – We provide all the necessary training at every stage of implementation. During the kick-off phase, we’ll deliver a 1-day intensive workshop/s that gets your workforce started on the 9-step EIDP process (EXECUTABLE Individual Development Plan). Once the program has launched, we’ll monitor and administer refresher training, workshops for new hires, or focused sessions/webinars, as needed.
On-going Coaching – The most critical element for a successful EIDP for an individual is having a coach or mentor that can guide you along the way. Our coaches ensure that each member of your workforce is assigned a coach that meets regularly, provides tips at each step of the EIDP process, and also helps with navigating obstacles effectively.
Integration – To maximize the success of your professional development initiative, our team will work closely to integrate with your existing L&D / Workforce Management infrastructure. During this stage, we make sure there is alignment between your professional development program and your company’s existing processes (e.g. annual performance reviews, rotation programs, job descriptions, leveling guides).
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