Action Learning Leadership Development Programs

Action Learning Leadership Development Programs

How to fast track your leaders using action learning

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“We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver an action learning leadership development program to help drive performance for our leaders and managers.

They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing an approach that fits our culture, and delivering a first class leadership solution.”
Sally Buchannan | VP Human Resources | Sony

“You exceeded our expectations.  The customized facilitative leadership session was fantastic.  Thank you for making such an impact with our leaders.

Vice President, Product & Portfolio Development | Global Biotech Company

“Through the use of dynamic, actionable frameworks and exercises, the Leadership Academy helped me dedicate time to leadership development on a routine basis and prompted some extremely worthwhile personal reflection.

An excellent starting point for building up leadership capabilities in a consistent way.”

Halle Yungmeyer | Manager, Clinical Packaging Operations | BioMarin Pharmaceutical

Action Learning Leadership Development Programs

Recent research has confirmed what our clients have been telling us for decades — high-performing organizations are three times more likely than lower performers to use experiential learning for both the front-line and executive-level leaders.  Leaders feel more accountable to their peers and feel positive social pressure to learn and perform from leadership action learning.

The good news is that action learning for leaders does not need to be complex.

Like most pursuits, the mastery of the fundamentals combined with a high level of relevancy, practice, peer learning, feedback, and accountability make the greatest impact.

In the case of leadership development, the most frequent skill gaps identified by senior leaders are fundamental business execution skills. A recent survey published in Chief Learning Officer Magazine identified the most pressing leadership skill gaps to be:

The leadership knowledge, tools, and abilities needed to effectively execute on the above leadership skill gaps are also fairly straight forward. What can be tricky is designing and managing the action learning leadership development process to strengthen core leadership skills while getting real work done.

Most organizations struggle with how to develop leaders. Though leadership as a discipline can be abstract, inconsistent, and vague, expectations of leaders are more clear.

We expect leaders to think systemically and make decisions from an enterprise perspective that add value to the top and bottom lines while inspiring employees to perform at their peak.

Our customized Leadership Action Learning programs are typically six-to-twelve month engagements.  A small group of 12-16 high potential leaders and managers work in teams to think strategically, create a clear vision and compelling business case for change, present and sell to senior executives and board members, and implement important projects that can significantly increase revenue, decrease costs, or improve performance.

Our highly experiential leadership programs ask leaders and managers to think, to take action, to maintain momentum, to learn, and to drive high performance from themselves and those around them.

Leaders learn through highly relevant and immediately practical application using real projects to:

Individuals receive targeted training, mentoring, supervision, and real-time coaching to develop critical and timely leadership skills as they work through the process of initiating and implementing a significant initiative in their organization.

Often combined with our leadership simulation assessments, representative leadership programs focused on having a C-level perspective, acting strategically, and leading change include:

  1. Driving the Bottom Line with Experiential Leadership
  2. Strategic Decision Making Simulation

Please contact us to explore how we can help your organization successfully turn leadership into a strategic advantage.

Ask us about Leadership Development Pay-for-Performance options and how to move the leadership metrics that you care most about.  Typical metrics that we move in our leadership programs include:

  • Sales revenue, margin, win rate, portfolio mix, deal size, and cycle time
  • Customer acquisition, loyalty, growth, and satisfaction
  • Leadership execution effectiveness of key corporate strategies
  • Employee attraction, development, performance, engagement and retention
  • Project cost, quality, and time

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We contacted LSA to help us design and deliver customized management development programs. LSA worked with us to meet our exact needs. We started at the top with our executive team.  It was such a great success that we rolled it out company-wide. We look forward to a long-term partnership with LSA Global and their team of experts.

Barry L. Byrd, SPHR
Human Resources Manager

As a high growth agency with cutting edge talent, we hired LSA Global to help clarify our strategy and work with our executive leadership team to help implement strategic changes in a way that made sense for our unique culture.

The work was so successful that we also hired them to coach our key leaders. LSA has been instrumental in helping us transition to a new leadership team and triple revenue.  In this age of useless consultants, I highly recommend their practical and business-oriented approach to strategy, culture, and talent.

David Bentley
General Manager

AKQA

We reviewed the top Leadership Development offerings and selected LSA’s 12-month Leadership Program based upon the value and systemic approach.

The feedback on the program, approach, and results was phenomenal. While other programs may be better known, the other options were more theoretical and did not compare in terms of LSA’s practicality, quality, and results.

We could not be happier.

Stacey Porter
Senior Manager Learning and Development

Roche

LSA consistently delivers for me and my team.  Recently they demonstrated the criticality for executives to look beyond current ethics topics and focus on applying fundamental values in everything they do to demonstrate true leadership. They successfully delivered in two hours what most leadership development facilitators would spend an entire day trying to communicate.

Nick Voyvodich, SPHR
HR Manager

Fujitsu

We consider LSA Global the top outsourced learning and development partner.

We work closely with LSA to customize leadership and management development programs to meet our growing business needs.

I would highly recommend LSA to any company wanting to deliver high quality and practical learning solutions for their leaders and managers.

Terri Wright-Scheer
Vice President Human Resources

Great job in designing the Mergers and Acquisition strategy session for our global leadership team. The session was excellent.

I gained additional insight on the importance of the role of HR regarding strategy, culture, and people in Mergers and Acquisitions and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to align strategies and cultures.

Gloria Veon
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Fujitsu

The quality of LSA’s Leadership Training Programs and facilitators is always top notch. We recognize and appreciate the hard work LSA always goes through to align to our unique culture and meet our specific requirements. Thank you for regularly going above and beyond. Your support and dedication, both on the strategic and tactical side, have been outstanding!

Anna Meyer
Leadership Development

Intuit

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant.  The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

AKQA

LSA is an excellent sales and leadership outsource partner! They listen to our needs, are responsive, and work at a pace that keeps up with our rapid speed.

We have found LSA to bring strategic, innovative, and practical solutions to meet our business priorities by partnering effectively with our key staff. I consider them to be an important external extension of our team.

Thank you!

Wendy Chinn
Sr. Director, Global Sales Enablement

It was a challenge to find a consultant with an approach to performance improvement that fit our unique performance culture and style. We were pleasantly surprised to discover LSA’s depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management, and measurement.

LSA seamlessly integrated those components without our folks feeling like the intervention was forced. They understood what we were trying to accomplish, helped us clarify our objectives, and created a solid, refreshing approach that quickly got us moving and engaged at all levels across the organization.

Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a true strategy and implementation partner in LSA.

Doug Hansen
President and Director

Redwood Trust

We partnered with LSA Global to help us invest in our people. LSA custom designed an impactful management curriculum to help upskill our key managers and leaders.

We consider LSA to be our trusted learning and development partner and a valued extension of our team as we rapidly scale.  Thank you LSA!

Lisa Bruun
SVP Human Resources

Ellie Mae

We greatly value our relationship with LSA Global.

They focused on understanding our unique culture and helping us to move our strategic priorities forward.

LSA continues to deliver top quality executive coaching, consulting, and leadership development solutions that are highly customized for our unique situation.

I highly recommend LSA Global to anyone looking to greatly improve their leadership, management, and project capabilities.

Bonnie S. Olson
Vice President of Human Resources

LSS

After a difficult search to find a partner that could address a very specific leadership development need, we chose LSA Global. They were responsive to our needs and created a highly customized solution that we continue to see results from. It is nice to know we have access to their expertise with a simple phone call.

Valerie Blackburn
Director of Business Operations

LSA exceeded all my expectations.

We interviewed 7 potential training and consulting partners and selected LSA due to their expertise, flexibility, and breadth and depth of leadership solutions.

We were able to design a highly focused and relevant management training course that fit our unique needs.

Our leaders and managers galvanized as a team and are better prepared for the rigors of a leading their teams in a very competitive and fast-changing market.

Mitch Mandich
CEO

Edify

I continue to be impressed by the depth and breadth of LSA’s expertise in leadership development, and management development.

What a smart and client-centric group of great people who really know how to help leaders attract, engage, develop and retain top talent in a practical and results-driven manner.

Thank you LSA!

Tracy Esposito
Director, HR Business Partner

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