A recent study by Accenture found that only 17 percent of nearly 500 business leaders are very satisfied with the progress they have made. CFO.com 4/2/03. Compared with most traditional forms of leadership development, you will find that The Leader's Toolbox®...
Is significantly cheaper
Because the toolbox focuses on the leadership tools required by most leaders, it is easy to develop a single workshop experience with individual follow-up that is likely to meet the needs of most of your managers.
Provides a greater return on the investment
The tools can be immediately applied to even the most difficult organizational issues that call for resolution. Once applied, the tools simultaneously improve individual and team leader capabilities and organization performance.
Is more readily accepted
Resistance is minimized because individual strengths and weaknesses are not measured. Thus resistance is minimized. Participants quickly see how the tools can be used to further their professional effectiveness. As a consequence, they want to master them.
Is easier to implement
The Leader's Toolbox® typically requires three to six hours of design team time to plot the internal marketing campaign, select the tools, plan the follow-up, and design the measures. We provide all the training materials and the follow-up coaching. We train internal leaders to deliver the training to the degree desired…whether that is a single leadership tool or the entire leadership program.
Has a greater relationship to actual leadership work
The tools are designed to show people what to do, how to behave…not what they have to be. The tools cover a broad range of leadership work. The program will guide people to new, more effective behaviors and when to apply them. The program provides the specific step by step instructions for the use of each tool.
Incorporate previous leadership development programs
If you have favorite tools that have been successfully used, we will invite you to put them in the toolbox! Ours is an open architecture, and we encourage linking what we do with previously implemented leadership development approaches. Have the results of individual leadership development provided? competency feedback? It is easy to show which tools relate to each specific competency.
More readily spans organization boundaries
Most of the important leadership work that must be undertaken in your organization will cross functional and division boundaries. Yet, you are aware that most of your organizational processes, such as performance planning and budgeting, actually hinder cross-functional cooperation. The Leader's Toolbox® provides a common leadership language, processes, and tools that facilitate cross-organizational collaboration.
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