Critical to your organization’s ongoing success is investment in building teams, supporting leaders, and providing the time and space for your high-potential employees to learn and thrive. When you empower your teams and key individuals, they act with more confidence, become more resourceful, achieve greater results, and create long-term impact for your organization.
Creating Impactful Leaders
Critical to your organization’s ongoing success is investment in building teams,
supporting leaders, and providing the time and space for your high-potential employees
to learn and thrive. When you empower your teams and key individuals,
they act with more confidence, become more resourceful, achieve greater results, and create
long-term impact for your organization.
Creating Impactful Leaders
Creating Impactful Leaders
Team Leadership Development
What is team leadership development?
Whether working with executive teams, departmental teams, or a cross-section of high-potential employees in an organization, formal leadership development requires the leaders to explore their strengths and challenges, to identify important behavior changes, to learn new tools and leadership skills, and to take action for greater success. Whether you call it management training, group coaching, leadership development, or something else, the point is to invest in building strong, engaged, successful leaders inside your organization. You will see a renewed focus from the leaders and fundamental behavior change that ranges from greater individual performance to improved organizational performance as a result.
Recommended if you have leaders who are well intentioned and working hard, and who need help working smarter, achieving more, motivating their teams, and working together more effectively.
What are the benefits?
- Clear focus and direction for each leader
- New leadership skills applied inside the organization
- Improved confidence, communications, conflict management, decision making, and time management
- Results-oriented attitudes and cohesive, energized teams
- Visibly improved client relationships, employee engagement, and organizational results
How do we work?
- Empower leaders to work smarter and achieve more through a formal leadership development process over several months
- Bring a tailored set of leadership best practices and materials to every engagement to allow leaders to add to their leadership toolkit
- As needed, integrate assessments that identify individual and team communication styles, values, and strengths
- Enable groups to learn and practice new skills that build throughout the program as the leaders discuss what worked and implement new actions each week
- Discuss real work challenges integrated throughout each session with the group
- Coordinate optional team projects to solve a specific organizational problem in real-time during the development process
- Hold leaders accountable for setting and taking action on specific goals, and taking action against commitments each session
A sampling of client success stories…
“[As a result of our work as a leadership team, we now have an] understanding of how group dynamics can play a stronger role and not a detrimental one. The process of getting to that set forth some ground rules that we didn’t have before. It elevated us to a different place. Operating principles of working with each other that helped our perspectives. Got out of our stereotypes of each other. Reshaping of a dynamic.”
– CEO of a national non-profit organization
Executive Coaching
What is executive coaching?
People use the word “coach” and mean a lot of different things. An executive coach serves as a catalyst to help individuals clarify what’s important, develop new skills, and then take action to maximize your potential. Whether you are an experienced leader, an eager new professional motivated to excel, a young person just out of school, or an individual in a career transition, executive coaching can provide the accountability, focus, and direction to achieve your desired outcomes – for your career as well as your personal life.
Recommended if you have high-potential and highly valuable employees who are invested in their own success, open to life-long development, and eager to enhance their skills and work performance.
What are the benefits?
- Greater clarity and focus
- Huge leaps in productivity, confidence, decision making, communication, and working with others
- More effective and efficient work habits that lead to better work performance
- Action against a set of written and specific goals
- An understanding of what balance means to you – and how to keep your work life and your personal life in balance
- An accountability partner who makes sure you do what you say you will; scheduled check points to provide feedback and focus
How do we work?
- Conduct coaching sessions over several months that include sharing best practices, self-directed activities, and thoughtful discussions that lead to clear next steps in each session
- Use a holistic approach to you as an individual, with both professional and personal priorities and challenges
- Integrate assessments that identify your communication style, values, and natural strengths
- Provide a tailored, structured process and set of materials that focus on key outcomes that matter to you individually, which could include delegation and time management, communication techniques, leadership styles, working with teams, managing others, leading vision and planning with teams, prioritization, and other critical skills
- Utilize a proven goal-setting and accountability structure that empowers you to move forward with optimism and make observable progress
- Offer a flexible process that has proven results for successful business people, young professionals, and middle managers
A sampling of client success stories…
A senior leader in a large consulting firm had moved up the career ladder for over 20 years. With all of her success, she was looking for clarity, honest feedback about her strengths and her challenges, and a third-party perspective to help her consider next steps, determine what changes she wanted to make, and establish a plan for her career going forward. >> Listen to her story.
Sales Effectiveness
What is sales effectiveness?
Maybe you have a great sales team that just needs to take it to the next level. Maybe your team is green and needs fundamental skill building. Investing in the continued development for your sales people and for the team provides the time and space for them to consider sales strengths and challenges, identify areas for growth, introduce or refresh on a proven sales process, practice applying new skills, and yield immediate sales and personal results.
Recommended if you have a sales team or an individual sales person who is motivated to be successful, but who lacks the sales tools, has become complacent, or needs a shot in the arm to re-energize and refocus on tried and true sales strategies.
What are the benefits?
- Immediate application to real-time sales challenges
- Pull potential clients through the sales funnel
- Improved sales results in all phases of the process – lead generation, sales calls and meetings, proposals writing/presentation, and closing sales
- Greater sales team motivation and collaboration
- Improved sales team investment and ownership of their individual success
How do we work?
- Facilitate a proven, action-oriented sales development process delivered over several months to sales teams (or a key sales person individually)
- Focus on applying sales best practices to your organization’s specific challenges
- Integrate role plays and scenarios to reinforce development and provide opportunities to practice new skills
- Leverage a goal-setting and accountability structure that empowers each individual to move forward with optimism and make observable progress
- Offer a flexible, tailored process with proven results for all levels of salespeople and teams
A sampling of client success stories…
>> Listen to this experienced sales manager describe her success with sales development and coaching for her team. The top salesperson hit 109% of his sales goals in that year.
>> George Mason University: Sales Development for Inside/Outside Sales Team
Youth Leadership
What is youth leadership?
“Rising Stars” is a youth leadership development process designed for the upcoming or recent high school graduate who needs to build independence, confidence, and the ability to make good decisions. This action-packed process enables young people to focus on themselves, get to clarity around their goals and attitudes, and implement new tools as they move forward into the young adult years and become positive contributors to their communities.
Recommended if your teenager is working really hard but perhaps not quite as effectively as they could be, or if they lack confidence or the ability to plan or problem solve and want to set themselves up for success as a young adult.
What are the benefits?
- Personal responsibility for decisions, attitudes, and interactions
- Clear goals and action steps to implement in your own life
- Gain knowledge and skills in communication, managing time, managing relationships, and learning from mistakes
- Build confidence and clarity for the future
- Practice making decisions, solving problems, and long-term planning
- Practical tips and lessons learned to equip the young person for everyday challenges and opportunities
How do we work?
- Offer flexibility – can either facilitate in groups or individually; either over several months in multiple sessions or in an intensive summer camp format; and we often work with schools and other organizations as a partner to provide this program to their students
- Integrate reading and action planning to allow for reflection, practice, and real-world discussions
- Leverage engaging, interactive activities designed to open youth minds to possibilities and unseen challenges
- Focus on taking action, empowering individuals, and making behavioral changes in each session; youth participants use a proven goal-setting structure and are held accountable for progress against goals
- Provide pre- and post-assessments to track important metrics on the success of the program
A sampling of client success stories…
>> Listen to this audio clip from a mom describing her son’s experience with a Springboard coach. She describes his experience, the results and changes in him as a result, and his career changes because of the coaching.
>> Chantilly High School: Student Personal Leadership Development
Team Leadership Development
What is team leadership development?
Whether working with executive teams, departmental teams, or a cross-section of high-potential employees in an organization, formal leadership development requires the leaders to explore their strengths and challenges, to identify important behavior changes, to learn new tools and leadership skills, and to take action for greater success. Whether you call it management training, group coaching, leadership development, or something else, the point is to invest in building strong, engaged, successful leaders inside your organization. You will see a renewed focus from the leaders and fundamental behavior change that ranges from greater individual performance to improved organizational performance as a result.
Recommended if you have leaders who are well intentioned and working hard, and who need help working smarter, achieving more, motivating their teams, and working together more effectively.
What are the benefits?
- Clear focus and direction for each leader
- New leadership skills applied inside the organization
- Improved confidence, communications, conflict management, decision making, and time management
- Results-oriented attitudes and cohesive, energized teams
- Visibly improved client relationships, employee engagement, and organizational results
How do we work?
- Empower leaders to work smarter and achieve more through a formal leadership development process over several months
- Bring a tailored set of leadership best practices and materials to every engagement to allow leaders to add to their leadership toolkit
- As needed, integrate assessments that identify individual and team communication styles, values, and strengths
- Enable groups to learn and practice new skills that build throughout the program as the leaders discuss what worked and implement new actions each week
- Discuss real work challenges integrated throughout each session with the group
- Coordinate optional team projects to solve a specific organizational problem in real-time during the development process
- Hold leaders accountable for setting and taking action on specific goals, and taking action against commitments each session
A sampling of client success stories…
“[As a result of our work as a leadership team, we now have an] understanding of how group dynamics can play a stronger role and not a detrimental one. The process of getting to that set forth some ground rules that we didn’t have before. It elevated us to a different place. Operating principles of working with each other that helped our perspectives. Got out of our stereotypes of each other. Reshaping of a dynamic.”
– CEO of a national non-profit organization
Executive Coaching
What is executive coaching?
People use the word “coach” and mean a lot of different things. An executive coach serves as a catalyst to help individuals clarify what’s important, develop new skills, and then take action to maximize your potential. Whether you are an experienced leader, an eager new professional motivated to excel, a young person just out of school, or an individual in a career transition, executive coaching can provide the accountability, focus, and direction to achieve your desired outcomes – for your career as well as your personal life.
Recommended if you have high-potential and highly valuable employees who are invested in their own success, open to life-long development, and eager to enhance their skills and work performance.
What are the benefits?
- Greater clarity and focus
- Huge leaps in productivity, confidence, decision making, communication, and working with others
- More effective and efficient work habits that lead to better work performance
- Action against a set of written and specific goals
- An understanding of what balance means to you – and how to keep your work life and your personal life in balance
- An accountability partner who makes sure you do what you say you will; scheduled check points to provide feedback and focus
How do we work?
- Conduct coaching sessions over several months that include sharing best practices, self-directed activities, and thoughtful discussions that lead to clear next steps in each session
- Use a holistic approach to you as an individual, with both professional and personal priorities and challenges
- Integrate assessments that identify your communication style, values, and natural strengths
- Provide a tailored, structured process and set of materials that focus on key outcomes that matter to you individually, which could include delegation and time management, communication techniques, leadership styles, working with teams, managing others, leading vision and planning with teams, prioritization, and other critical skills
- Utilize a proven goal-setting and accountability structure that empowers you to move forward with optimism and make observable progress
- Offer a flexible process that has proven results for successful business people, young professionals, and middle managers
A sampling of client success stories…
A senior leader in a large consulting firm had moved up the career ladder for over 20 years. With all of her success, she was looking for clarity, honest feedback about her strengths and her challenges, and a third-party perspective to help her consider next steps, determine what changes she wanted to make, and establish a plan for her career going forward. >> Listen to her story.
Sales Effectiveness
What is sales effectiveness?
Maybe you have a great sales team that just needs to take it to the next level. Maybe your team is green and needs fundamental skill building. Investing in the continued development for your sales people and for the team provides the time and space for them to consider sales strengths and challenges, identify areas for growth, introduce or refresh on a proven sales process, practice applying new skills, and yield immediate sales and personal results.
Recommended if you have a sales team or an individual sales person who is motivated to be successful, but who lacks the sales tools, has become complacent, or needs a shot in the arm to re-energize and refocus on tried and true sales strategies.
What are the benefits?
- Immediate application to real-time sales challenges
- Pull potential clients through the sales funnel
- Improved sales results in all phases of the process – lead generation, sales calls and meetings, proposals writing/presentation, and closing sales
- Greater sales team motivation and collaboration
- Improved sales team investment and ownership of their individual success
How do we work?
- Facilitate a proven, action-oriented sales development process delivered over several months to sales teams (or a key sales person individually)
- Focus on applying sales best practices to your organization’s specific challenges
- Integrate role plays and scenarios to reinforce development and provide opportunities to practice new skills
- Leverage a goal-setting and accountability structure that empowers each individual to move forward with optimism and make observable progress
- Offer a flexible, tailored process with proven results for all levels of salespeople and teams
A sampling of client success stories…
>> Listen to this experienced sales manager describe her success with sales development and coaching for her team. The top salesperson hit 109% of his sales goals in that year.
>> George Mason University: Sales Development for Inside/Outside Sales Team
Youth Leadership
What is youth leadership?
“Rising Stars” is a youth leadership development process designed for the upcoming or recent high school graduate who needs to build independence, confidence, and the ability to make good decisions. This action-packed process enables young people to focus on themselves, get to clarity around their goals and attitudes, and implement new tools as they move forward into the young adult years and become positive contributors to their communities.
Recommended if your teenager is working really hard but perhaps not quite as effectively as they could be, or if they lack confidence or the ability to plan or problem solve and want to set themselves up for success as a young adult.
What are the benefits?
- Personal responsibility for decisions, attitudes, and interactions
- Clear goals and action steps to implement in your own life
- Gain knowledge and skills in communication, managing time, managing relationships, and learning from mistakes
- Build confidence and clarity for the future
- Practice making decisions, solving problems, and long-term planning
- Practical tips and lessons learned to equip the young person for everyday challenges and opportunities
How do we work?
- Offer flexibility – can either facilitate in groups or individually; either over several months in multiple sessions or in an intensive summer camp format; and we often work with schools and other organizations as a partner to provide this program to their students
- Integrate reading and action planning to allow for reflection, practice, and real-world discussions
- Leverage engaging, interactive activities designed to open youth minds to possibilities and unseen challenges
- Focus on taking action, empowering individuals, and making behavioral changes in each session; youth participants use a proven goal-setting structure and are held accountable for progress against goals
- Provide pre- and post-assessments to track important metrics on the success of the program
A sampling of client success stories…
>> Listen to this audio clip from a mom describing her son’s experience with a Springboard coach. She describes his experience, the results and changes in him as a result, and his career changes because of the coaching.
>> Chantilly High School: Student Personal Leadership Development
Team Leadership Development
What is team leadership development?
Whether working with executive teams, departmental teams, or a cross-section of high-potential employees in an organization, formal leadership development requires the leaders to explore their strengths and challenges, to identify important behavior changes, to learn new tools and leadership skills, and to take action for greater success. Whether you call it management training, group coaching, leadership development, or something else, the point is to invest in building strong, engaged, successful leaders inside your organization. You will see a renewed focus from the leaders and fundamental behavior change that ranges from greater individual performance to improved organizational performance as a result.
Recommended if you have leaders who are well intentioned and working hard, and who need help working smarter, achieving more, motivating their teams, and working together more effectively.
What are the benefits?
- Clear focus and direction for each leader
- New leadership skills applied inside the organization
- Improved confidence, communications, conflict management, decision making, and time management
- Results-oriented attitudes and cohesive, energized teams
- Visibly improved client relationships, employee engagement, and organizational results
How do we work?
- Empower leaders to work smarter and achieve more through a formal leadership development process over several months
- Bring a tailored set of leadership best practices and materials to every engagement to allow leaders to add to their leadership toolkit
- As needed, integrate assessments that identify individual and team communication styles, values, and strengths
- Enable groups to learn and practice new skills that build throughout the program as the leaders discuss what worked and implement new actions each week
- Discuss real work challenges integrated throughout each session with the group
- Coordinate optional team projects to solve a specific organizational problem in real-time during the development process
- Hold leaders accountable for setting and taking action on specific goals, and taking action against commitments each session
A sampling of client success stories…
“[As a result of our work as a leadership team, we now have an] understanding of how group dynamics can play a stronger role and not a detrimental one. The process of getting to that set forth some ground rules that we didn’t have before. It elevated us to a different place. Operating principles of working with each other that helped our perspectives. Got out of our stereotypes of each other. Reshaping of a dynamic.”
– CEO of a national non-profit organization
Executive Coaching
What is executive coaching?
People use the word “coach” and mean a lot of different things. An executive coach serves as a catalyst to help individuals clarify what’s important, develop new skills, and then take action to maximize your potential. Whether you are an experienced leader, an eager new professional motivated to excel, a young person just out of school, or an individual in a career transition, executive coaching can provide the accountability, focus, and direction to achieve your desired outcomes – for your career as well as your personal life.
Recommended if you have high-potential and highly valuable employees who are invested in their own success, open to life-long development, and eager to enhance their skills and work performance.
What are the benefits?
- Greater clarity and focus
- Huge leaps in productivity, confidence, decision making, communication, and working with others
- More effective and efficient work habits that lead to better work performance
- Action against a set of written and specific goals
- An understanding of what balance means to you – and how to keep your work life and your personal life in balance
- An accountability partner who makes sure you do what you say you will; scheduled check points to provide feedback and focus
How do we work?
- Conduct coaching sessions over several months that include sharing best practices, self-directed activities, and thoughtful discussions that lead to clear next steps in each session
- Use a holistic approach to you as an individual, with both professional and personal priorities and challenges
- Integrate assessments that identify your communication style, values, and natural strengths
- Provide a tailored, structured process and set of materials that focus on key outcomes that matter to you individually, which could include delegation and time management, communication techniques, leadership styles, working with teams, managing others, leading vision and planning with teams, prioritization, and other critical skills
- Utilize a proven goal-setting and accountability structure that empowers you to move forward with optimism and make observable progress
- Offer a flexible process that has proven results for successful business people, young professionals, and middle managers
A sampling of client success stories…
A senior leader in a large consulting firm had moved up the career ladder for over 20 years. With all of her success, she was looking for clarity, honest feedback about her strengths and her challenges, and a third-party perspective to help her consider next steps, determine what changes she wanted to make, and establish a plan for her career going forward. >> Listen to her story.
Sales Effectiveness
What is sales effectiveness?
Maybe you have a great sales team that just needs to take it to the next level. Maybe your team is green and needs fundamental skill building. Investing in the continued development for your sales people and for the team provides the time and space for them to consider sales strengths and challenges, identify areas for growth, introduce or refresh on a proven sales process, practice applying new skills, and yield immediate sales and personal results.
Recommended if you have a sales team or an individual sales person who is motivated to be successful, but who lacks the sales tools, has become complacent, or needs a shot in the arm to re-energize and refocus on tried and true sales strategies.
What are the benefits?
- Immediate application to real-time sales challenges
- Pull potential clients through the sales funnel
- Improved sales results in all phases of the process – lead generation, sales calls and meetings, proposals writing/presentation, and closing sales
- Greater sales team motivation and collaboration
- Improved sales team investment and ownership of their individual success
How do we work?
- Facilitate a proven, action-oriented sales development process delivered over several months to sales teams (or a key sales person individually)
- Focus on applying sales best practices to your organization’s specific challenges
- Integrate role plays and scenarios to reinforce development and provide opportunities to practice new skills
- Leverage a goal-setting and accountability structure that empowers each individual to move forward with optimism and make observable progress
- Offer a flexible, tailored process with proven results for all levels of salespeople and teams
A sampling of client success stories…
>> Listen to this experienced sales manager describe her success with sales development and coaching for her team. The top salesperson hit 109% of his sales goals in that year.
>> George Mason University: Sales Development for Inside/Outside Sales Team
Youth Leadership
What is youth leadership?
“Rising Stars” is a youth leadership development process designed for the upcoming or recent high school graduate who needs to build independence, confidence, and the ability to make good decisions. This action-packed process enables young people to focus on themselves, get to clarity around their goals and attitudes, and implement new tools as they move forward into the young adult years and become positive contributors to their communities.
Recommended if your teenager is working really hard but perhaps not quite as effectively as they could be, or if they lack confidence or the ability to plan or problem solve and want to set themselves up for success as a young adult.
What are the benefits?
- Personal responsibility for decisions, attitudes, and interactions
- Clear goals and action steps to implement in your own life
- Gain knowledge and skills in communication, managing time, managing relationships, and learning from mistakes
- Build confidence and clarity for the future
- Practice making decisions, solving problems, and long-term planning
- Practical tips and lessons learned to equip the young person for everyday challenges and opportunities
How do we work?
- Offer flexibility – can either facilitate in groups or individually; either over several months in multiple sessions or in an intensive summer camp format; and we often work with schools and other organizations as a partner to provide this program to their students
- Integrate reading and action planning to allow for reflection, practice, and real-world discussions
- Leverage engaging, interactive activities designed to open youth minds to possibilities and unseen challenges
- Focus on taking action, empowering individuals, and making behavioral changes in each session; youth participants use a proven goal-setting structure and are held accountable for progress against goals
- Provide pre- and post-assessments to track important metrics on the success of the program
A sampling of client success stories…
>> Listen to this audio clip from a mom describing her son’s experience with a Springboard coach. She describes his experience, the results and changes in him as a result, and his career changes because of the coaching.
>> Chantilly High School: Student Personal Leadership Development