IGNITING LEADERSHIP
IN MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS
BUILDING ON SUCCESS
Our Building On Success (BOS) leadership training and coaching initiative is designed to help the key leaders and teams of businesses and organizations establish the strongest possible personal foundation for effective leadership, so they can perform at the highest possible level, not only succeeding but flourishing.
“The “Building On Success” training and coaching work you did with us has been life-changing for many of our key leaders and transformative for our organization. For one quarter the price of what we have paid others for supposedly similar trainings, you created results that were four times as significant. You did it much more quickly and effectively – and it was fun and inspiring. We cannot thank you enough.”
– Senior Leader, Vermont State Government
BOS is ideally suited to emerging and existing leaders who are, have been, or seem like they could be, high performers. This includes people who are just coming into their own as a leader, seeking support in a transition, or open to getting the enthusiasm back for their work that they once had. We prefer to work with individuals who have a genuine spark and an ability to inspire, even if they are feeling burned out now. This work is aimed at helping people get clearer, more energized and more adept at making decisions consistent with their top work priorities and personal commitments.
Here are the fifty most recent answers we have received to our question “If you could share one to three words that describe your experience participating in “Building On Success”what would they be?”
94 out of the most recent 100 participants in our “Building On Success” sessions wrote “Strongly Agree” in answer to ALL three of the questions on our evaluation:
“Building On Success helped me clarify my vision of success for my life and work.”
“I learned practical tools that I believe can help me in my life.”
“I learned practical tools that I believe can help me in my work.”
How It Works
BOS is a multi-day session, carried out over two months, tailored to the needs of each client, with extensive coaching and peer support in between the sessions. We work with 10-14 leaders at a time.
The BOS initiative includes:
- Three day-long retreats
- Skill-building, particularly around time/energy management, goal-setting and prioritization (see content details in “Session Descriptions” below)
- Both one-on-one and group leadership coaching
- A facilitated weekly writing forum
- Facilitated peer support processes within the full cohort and with a partner
- Follow up coaching support for participants
The three sessions — “Feed Your Spark,” “Think Big, Start Small,” and “Moving Effectively From Vision to Action” – are typically spaced four weeks apart to give participants the opportunity to reflect and apply what they have learned in a real world setting, so we can discuss what comes up for them and how to meet those challenges.
Building On Success involves identifying what is already working and then supporting participants to get clear about:
- What they are really aiming at in their work life for themselves.
- Their notion of personal success in their life outside of work and how they would answer the questions “what is truly important and what is enough?” in order to develop a healthy work-life balance, making their work as productive and satisfying as possible for the long haul.
- What they regard as their top work priority for the coming three months and for the year and how they will know success when they see it.
- Which activities and conditions energizes them most, what drains them and how they might make changes in their work accordingly to make sure that within six months they will be able to spend most of their time focused on their greatest priorities and the activities that bring them the most joy, meaning and sense of impact.
- Which attribute they want to aim at practicing more consistently over the coming two months as the focus for their leadership growth.
- What changes to the organizational culture they are most keen to see come to fruition and what steps they will take to help bring about such change.
- What the “Islands Of Success” are on which they can build.
We help all participants identify real world challenges they face and we support them to craft an action plan that brings together the core pieces of content from all three “Building On Success” sessions.
Investing in Effective Leadership
All of us who have been involved with foundations and not for profits know that you can provide significant financial support to an organization, yet if the top management of the organization is not energized and working effectively, you will not likely see the impact you might have hoped for and your money might not be getting well spent. For a relatively modest amount of money, we can work with a dozen or so of your grantees at a time and help them go from “promising” or “strong” to “outstanding” and be able to increase their impact and the sustainability of their efforts.
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