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 return on investment.
The Granek 3-D Leadership Development Program
The Granek 3-D Leadership Development Program can boost performance of leaders throughout a department, a division or an entire organization. The program builds on your company’s unique core values – in fact it often clarifies them. It ensures leadership development concretely advances your competitive strategy. It helps organizations differentiate from the competition by creating leaders who differentiate along three dimensions: Leadership Competencies, Leadership Performance, and Leadership Brand.
This system embraces – and capitalizes on – the enormous diversity among leaders in learning style, communication, culture, and goals. At the same time it establishes a consistently empowering and productive leadership experience.
A key to the system is the rigorous clarification of your organization’s Leadership Critical Success Factors, and flowing from those a streamlined set of Key Leadership Competencies that truly support competitive strategy. These become the developmental areas on which all leaders focus their energy in the short term and long term.
Within a given Key Leadership Competency, leaders advance not only in knowledge and skill. They also build the underlying attitudes and workplace behavior patterns that have demonstrable, positive impact on the organization, day by day and quarter by quarter. The leaders’ competency progress is entwined with their professional aspirations, fueling ambition. Their progress is measured carefully and fairly, sustaining commitment.
The Granek 3-D Leadership Development Program applies best practices from the multiple disciplines of human performance technology, from leadership psychology to adult learning to instructional systems design and organizational behavior. This is blended learning without fads or fluff. Among the training elements it integrates are:
- Competency-Based Workshops
- Targeted Intensive Coaching
- Organizational Mentoring
- Leadership Projects
- Action Learning Groups
- Self-Directed Learning
To learn more about each of these elements of the Granek 3-D Leadership Development Program, please contact Frank Granek.
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 3-D 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.
