LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS IS ESSENTIAL TO YOUR BOTTOM LINE

We partner with you to build your competitive advantage through effective leadership. We will equip leaders with the knowledge, skills, and wisdom to create an environment where…

Top performers are given the autonomy and resources to do their best work

Middle performers grow towards more independence and higher impact

Low performers turn their performance around or find a place to excel

Your customers return because of your high performing teams

Good employees stay and attract more talent

Your BOTTOM LINE goes up

“We chose Talent Matters to lead our inaugural Leadership Development Program, aimed at accelerating the growth of our emerging leaders. Collin and Luke are not only knowledgeable but also highly engaging with our staff and responsive to our questions, making the experience exceptionally effective. The program is well-structured and transitions seamlessly between in-person and virtual environments. We are delighted with Talent Matters’ services and have already observed significant improvements as we implement their strategies both internally and externally. We look forward to continuing the program with our future leaders.”

– Derek J. Thomas, PE, Vice President at WHKS

Identify and develop your next generation of leaders

Our leadership development process is not flashy or trendy, nor is it a great event that gets quickly forgotten. Instead, our process acknowledges the timeless truths of effective leadership which must first be understood, then practiced, and finally implemented. Leadership development takes time, hard work, discipline, and accountability. Our leadership development process rests on a framework of 4 leadership workshops (Balancing the Paradoxes of Leadership, Permission to Manage, Coaching for Performance, Coaching Communication Skills) and other important milestones sprinkled in to ensure individual and collective milestones are achieved. We begin our leadership program through a journey of self-understanding because leaders who can’t manage themselves have no business managing others. This culminates with very specific behavioral developmental priorities that are integrated into development dialogues with an internal mentor that we equip. We use multi-rater assessments to allow program participants to get real-time feedback from subordinates and peers. Finally, our programs culminates with team stretch assignments which provide an opportunity for leaders to solve a real business problem and practice the concepts that they have learned throughout the program. Typically, our programs are a minimum of 6 months long from kickoff to graduation, however our design is flexible and can be easily adapted to meet your needs and objectives.

“Before leaders start tinkering with the behavior of others, they must first take a hard look at themselves.”

– Rick Tate, nationally recognized leadership development author and expert

Grow Down with Harrison Assessments and Coaching

With the Harrison Assessment, you can measure 175 behavioral tendencies and work preferences in your team, including identifying the behaviors that matter for specific roles in your organization. Beyond the standard set of leadership skills, Harrison helps you understand the impact of specific behavioral tendencies to help you leverage strengths and fill gaps.

Talent Matters can help you transform your data into an action plan with coaching to help your team understand how to leverage your data and what it takes to build a successful development program.

Grow Up with Performance Advantage Workshops

Our four interactive workshops on the practice of leadership will help you build your team’s leadership capacity and strategies. The Performance Advantage Leadership curriculum is comprised of 4 workshops. Each interactive workshop is 6-8 hours in length, delivered in-person or virtually and each comes with a Participant Workbook. Sessions focus on understanding key concepts, discussing lessons-learned, and practicing key skills. Explore the workshop topics below.

Put Behaviors and Training into Action with Stretch Assignment Projects

In partnership with executive leadership, the stretch assignment process facilitates initial implementation of personal development plans, established in your individual development planning, and practice of the concepts learned in the leadership workshops.

Workshop 1: Balancing the Paradoxes of LeadershipTM – 1 Day

Leadership begins with self-reflection and personal insight. In many ways, leadership is about who you are— not who ‘they’ are. The Balancing the Paradoxes of Performance Leadership workshop focuses on developing leadership influence by increasing self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-management of specific behaviors that relate to effective leadership practices. Using the behavior preference data from the Harrison AssessmentTM and Paradox Theory, participants will begin to develop personalized improvement steps for increasing their leadership potential in a very interactive workshop session.

Workshop 2: Permission to ManageTM – 1 Day

Effective leadership is not passive—nor is it reactive. Effective leadership is intentional with a bias for proactive action— providing front-forward direction for the organization. The first step is to give yourself permission to manage! Then, creating a routine operating rhythm for deploying one’s leadership practices is characteristic of leadership excellence. Managing performance and fostering discretionary effort and loyalty in employees is significantly dependent on specific leadership and management skills. Today, many employees suffer from giving unclear or vague expectations, performance standards, priorities, and inconsistent feedback and accountability. Often, with good intentions, people are being ‘under-led.’ With the popular, yet misguided, approach of avoiding micromanagement and seeking to be an ‘empowering’ manager, employees often receive significantly less leadership than is appropriate. In this workshop an effective leadership operating rhythm is introduced, grounded in 7 timeless and essential principles of leadership.

Workshop 3: Performance Based Coaching – Coaching for PerformanceTM – 1 Day

“One-Size Fits All”—fits no one well and everyone poorly! And one-size performance coaching (relying on one coaching style) fits employees worse. Coaching is the most critical leadership activity for managers to get a high return on the investment of their time and influence potential—the two resources they have for managing the performance of others. The quality of a leader’s influence is dependent on the ability of the leader to adapt to the wide variety of performance situations you may face. Adaptability relies on accurately diagnosing the performance of others before delivering the message or feedback. Without accurate performance diagnosis, the prescription (the ‘delivery’) routinely misses the intended mark. This highly engaging workshop includes a personal performance coaching assessment, case studies, coaching simulations, and performance diagnostic skill building. Coaching for PerformanceTM is a process that organizes behavioral choices into a tactical model for effective performance coaching. It provides a framework that recognizes employee performance differences and instructs you on how best to adapt your behavior accordingly.

Workshop 4: Performance Based Coaching – Coaching Communication SkillsTM – 1 Day

Not every aspect of business is tangible. Meaningful dialogue is one example. That said, dialogue is where work gets done. It is the place where objectives are set, feedback is given, problems are resolved, praise is received, support is offered, and where trust and relationships are maintained or restored. In a very real sense, a business is the sum many everyday leadership and coaching conversations. Productivity, discretionary effort, loyalty, and employee satisfaction are all enhanced by the quality of workplace conversations. Handling performance difficulties effectively requires a specific skill set in order to increase the probability that performance will be corrected effectively and appropriately. This workshop engages leaders in an activity- based session that will develop their interpersonal communication skills and provide a framework for holding effective coaching and workplace conversations. In addition, it will provide you with a practical framework for coaching performance difficulties or problems.

Personalize the development process with Talent Matters

With Talent Matters’ dynamic development solutions, you will see where your team and organization have skill gaps and how to fill those holes. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to developing an organization, so Talent Matters will work with you to curate the solution that fits your goals.

Let’s explore how we can take your development program to the next level.