The focus of our foundational leadership development program is on learning "how" to apply the lessons and best practices modeled in the book It's Your Ship.
The success story of USS Benfold creates a powerful example of what is possible and the impact leaders can have on results. The lessons learned aboard USS Benfold combined with the best practices that we have found in studying high performance leaders have been distilled into five simple milestones, what we call, "The Leadership Roadmap." The Roadmap is practical and simple at heart, and works because it focuses on how leaders get results, not just what leaders aspire to become. At the center of Benfold's success was a model that Captain Abrashoff used to turn around one of the worst ships in the Pacific Fleet into the best ship in just 12 months.
Leadership matters. At GLS, we believe leadership is the most critical factor in determining your organization's success. Companies that thrive and prosper do so because of strong leaders. But leadership effectiveness cannot happen overnight; individuals must continually challenge themselves to "reimagine" their leadership mindset and construct. Leadership is a continuous process of learning, development, and feedback.
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How can The Leadership Journey help you produce results within your organization?
GLS' foundational leadership development program will help you create a leadership culture that can engages your team members, drives change within your organization and helps you develop a winning culture. These components include:
World-Class Leadership Development
Practical learning to build capabilities and behaviors critical to leader, team, and organizational success.
Target Audience Development
We specialize in programs to develop leaders of any level, especially whose development has been identified as critical to the future of the organization.
- Executive Development
- Director Challenge
- Managers and Supervisors Leadership
- Journey Series
- Emerging High Potential Leaders
- Front-Line Introduction to Leadership
Touch Points Over Time
Leadership is a journey, not a destination. To achieve long-term learning and adopt new behaviors it is important for participants to have time between sessions to apply the learning on the job. Learning events offer opportunity to debrief, problem-solve, gain feedback, and ensure accountability for action plans developed. Results include greater accountability, application of learning and sustained results.
Flexible Delivery Options
To make delivery convenient and scalable, we work closely with your organization to identify delivery options that meet the specific needs of the group. Each can be delivered live or via technology-enabled blended learning methods to be highly executable. We also offer Train-the-Trainer programs allowing clients to deliver the leadership program internally.
Reinforcement Programs
To complement and build-on the journey series programs, we provide numerous sustainment programs, including video series, guidebooks, newsletters and e-town halls.
Business Challenge
Session and action learning project teams apply learning by focusing effort on real-life business challenges. Participants are expected to identify and execute on a project goal that can be applied to their business unit to demonstrate leadership skills and apply course learning from the program.
Executive and Leadership Commitment
The senior leadership team or executives are involved throughout the process to ensure critical organizational buy-in. Results include higher creditability for senior leaders and alignment is build vertically and horizontally among leadership ranks and peers to the front-line.
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Leaders Teaching Leaders
Key leaders are involved in leading interactive sessions to core concepts and critical business topics. -
Executive Champions
Senior leaders support participants learning and involvement in action-learning teams to provide guidance, remove barriers, and help problem-solve.
Enterprise Leadership
Peers collaborate cross-functionally in programs, and action learning teams building solidarity and learning networks across the organization to offer best practices, new ideas, advice, feedback, information, and resources to evaluate the entire organization leadership capability.
Applied Learning
Program is filled with practical tools and exercises designed to reinforce behavior change and help participants apply the learning to their day-to-day work.
Best Practice Sharing
Activities encourage participants to share expertise and learn from best-in-class historical and emerging leaders.
Sustained Results
The combination of all the program components are designed to achieve lasting behavioral change to transform leaders, teams, and the organization to achieve a competitive advantage and become a market trendsetter. This objective requires touch points over time, pre-session activities to enrich the learning event, post-program practice activities, all tying results to business performance ensuring development objectives are achieved and continual improvement becomes the norm.
Highly Interactive
Thought-provoking discussions, simulations, case studies, role-playing, and action planning based on real-life business challenges.
Customized Solutions
Components are structured to be customized and internally branded to speak the organization language, support key business objectives, and build upon leadership and talent management processes and programs to deliver maximum strategic value for the organization.
Assessment Instruments
Tangible feedback for the participants and the organization that leads to insight, direction, focused action, and measurable improvement. We offer individual and organizational assessments and surveys.
Executive and Peer Coaching
Feedback from expert coaches and/or peers provide self awareness to achieve real, accelerated, and measurable improvement in focused leadership capabilities and behaviors.
Development Objectives
Participants document personal development objectives grounded in data from assessments, feedback, and course action plans to leverage strengths and improve their overall leadership capabilities. The personal development objectives are approved and progress reviewed in one-on-one meetings with their managers.
