Leadership Development
Formal leadership development is the most effective way to increase your organizational productivity. Karen Main specializes in creating custom leadership development programs that develop skills and strengths among your employees and help your employees work more collaboratively and effectively together. As an organizational sociologist, Karen understands that one of the real benefits of formal educational programming is the development of a sense of community. Internal leadership development programs are not only a great way to build internal leadership capacity, but they also produce more collaborative and productive organizations. Karen’s leadership programs are built around the competencies your organization needs from your leaders. Karen will design a custom program and manage all aspects of program delivery. Or, she can train your staff to deliver the program.
Karen’s services include:
- Advisement on design of program competencies
- Custom curriculum design
- Curriculum includes interactive, experiential components combined with group learning, lectures and guest speakers.
- Design of custom experiential activities, typically utilizing resources local to your organization
- All promotional materials needed to promote the program to your employees
- Design and management of special events such as graduation ceremony and orientation
- Creation and analysis of session evaluations and program assessments
Please contact Karen for a free consultation on creating a Leadership Development program for your organization.
The most effective programs:
- Are at least 1-year in duration
- Include an action-learning component, ideally addressing a real-life organizational problem
- Utilize as many internal resources as possible
- Include an application process (customized to your organization’s culture)
- Expose employees to many different locations and departments in the organization
“The most effective
employee development approach is a comprehensive approach.
Please don’t keep spending your money sending individual
employees to isolated training classes.
While there is a place for these sorts or workshops, if you
truly need to create a cohesive workforce who can work together to
create innovative solutions to solve your organization’s problems,
it is imperative that you build internal cohorts of employees who
know themselves and know one another.
A formal leadership development program is the best way to
build this internal bench strength and get the most bang for your
training dollars.” Karen
Main
Typically, there are some common outcomes that occur among Leadership Development program participants, including:
- Increased commitment to organizational
values and buy-in to organizational goals
- Participants have a better understanding of the interdependencies within the organization and their contributions to the organization’s values & goals
- Increased collaboration among program
participants
- Program participants are likely to sustain relationships with colleagues in other departments after participating in leadership development programming
- Increased participation by employees in
organizational activities
- Especially if participants are allowed to follow-through on their action-learning projects, participants are more likely to articulate support for organizational programs and initiatives
- Increased innovation
- Participants are more likely to attempt to solve problems through approaches typically not used by the organization
- Increased skill development by program
participants
- Participants are more likely to secure additional learning opportunities after participating in formal leadership development programming
Recent Clients
City and County of Denver, Colorado
City of Englewood, Colorado
"By creating a vibrant and diverse curriculum and arranging the participation of a wide variety of talented external professionals, The Englewood Leadership Institute (ELI) has gone far beyond what an organization of Englewood’s resource base should have been able to attain." Don Ingle, Director of IT, City of Boulder
Time Warner Corporation, Englewood, Colorado
Town of Breckenridge, Colorado