As a starting point you will want to know which of your team have the most potential and how to support them to develop; to know their strengths and talents and have a development plan to help them grow.
This type of leadership development assessment is potentially sensitive so it is often best facilitated by experts who are not part of ‘the system’ and can give unbiased support.
Or it may be that you are individually wanting to understand your capability and potential career direction.
First we have a briefing with you to discover what you want to achieve from this analysis. This will help select the most appropriate leadership framework from a selection of tried and tested approaches including:
Tailored 360 degree feedback through internet based questionnaires or telephone interviews
Everything DISC profiling to give insight on behavioural style and motivation
Values in Action to give insight on your personal character strengths
Leadership Practices Inventory to benchmark your capability against a worldwide leadership community
Strengthsfinder to help identify your innate talents
We then hold individual face to face meetings to debrief each person on their personal feedback and to gain insights. Our style is honest, supportive and encouraging, making sure we have a healthy balance between strengths and areas for development. We will support and challenge each leader to maximise their potential. From this we develop a framework for individual learning and action plans for leadership development training.
This type of initial assessment and feedback accelerates the development process by giving the individual a clear idea of where to develop, it builds the coaches understanding of the person and their challenges, and develops a deeper more supportive relationship more quickly. The feedback can also be used as the basis for team building across the leadership team, helping the leaders understand and make best use of each other’s strengths and covering for each other’s weaker points.
This assessment is most effective when followed by a team leadership development programme and/or individual executive coaching and mentoring as appropriate.
Information on Everything DISC
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Orbit can help you and your team rise to this challenge with our leadership development training.
What our clients are saying
“Current numbers show volume sales for Consumer Finance will be up by at least 20% by for the financial year. At the final celebration workshop the team quoted numerous examples of where the change facilitated by this programme has made a huge impact, i.e. examples of new accounts opened, struggling relationships revived and significant growth in accounts.”
“Gill has been acting as my coach for the past 6 months since my promotion to the CEO role. This step-up has happened at a time of significant change and challenge for the organisation. She has been instrumental in my development of a stronger and authentic ‘voice’ to better manage the diversity of my stakeholder community, be that internal, my Board or the broader, external market. Between our face-to-face sessions, Gill is always available to offer advice and support, and regularly sends over articles, models and insights to further my leadership and strategic development.”
“We wanted something tailored to really help those Senior Managers step up to that next level, as we are very keen to promote fantastic talent from within. Orbit took the time to understand Alpha, what we stand for, our core values and what drives us as a business. This has been absolutely key to tailoring the programme, and the great results we have seen.”
