Improve Leading Situationally at Healthcare Company

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Client Case Study

Situation — Improve Leading Situationally at Healthcare

Delta Dental of California and its affiliated companies are dedicated to advancing oral health by providing dental  insurance to nearly one third of the U.S. population. Internally, the organization is dedicated to increasing the skills of its leaders by offering leadership development training to support their desired corporate culture.

After an intensive search, they selected a Situational Approach to Leadership as the foundation of their leadership development program.  The goal was to have the entire company buy into the need to Improve Leading Situationally at Healthcare across the company.

Complications — Improve Leading Situationally at Healthcare

Implications — Improve Leading Situationally at Healthcare

  • If the company does not define what they expect from leaders and equip them with the skills and tools to lead an engaged workforce, they risk not performing at their peak.

Approach

  1. Kickoff
    Agree upon success metrics and get leadership buy-in.
  2. Communications
    Develop and implement communications plan to ensure everyone understand the “why” and the importance of the leadership initiative to the organization.
  3. Pilot & Learn
    Pilot the program with key business leaders, learn, make adjustments, and agree upon rollout plan to ensure leaders adopted the key leadership practices.
  4. Deliver & Reinforce
    Train-the-trainer so that Delta Dental could facilitate 250 leaders through the program.  Provided job aids, tools, and resources for one-on-one meetings, conversation starters, worksheets, articles, videos, and 1×1 executive coaching.
  5. Measurement
    Level 1 through 5 Training measurement and suggested next steps.

Results

  • Level 1 Satisfaction Survey
    93% of participants were engaged and 97% would recommend the training.
  • Level 2 Learning Survey Multi-rater Survey
    98% of participants learned new skills.
  • Level 3  On-the-job Improvement Performance Data from Participants and Direct Reports
    87% of participants applied new skills on the job. 76% of direct reports saw their leaders apply new skills.
  • Level 4 Business Impact
    87% of participants saw an improvement in team performance of 27%.  90% of direct reports saw an improvement in team performance of 25%.  60% of direct reports saw an improvement in their own performance.
  • Level 5 ROI
    11% increase in overall team performance resulting in an ROI of 156%.  Participants who received high support from their leaders saw 87% improvement in leader behaviors and 35% improvement in team performance.

LSA helped us design and deliver blended leadership solutions for our key leaders to help drive our growth plans in a way that aligned with our unique culture and values.

LSA understood our business, had deep expertise in the content areas, customized the leadership development programs to fit our specific needs, and delivered great results in alignment with our strategic priorities, culture, and performance management systems.

I highly recommend them to anyone looking to take their leaders and the performance of their teams to the next level.

Beth A. Taylor
Vice President of Human Resources

Thoratec

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

We have had a very beneficial partnership with LSA. Their recent Leadership Development Program helped us to identify, develop, and retain top leaders. It was instrumental in helping take our company and our key people to the next level. I would recommend them to anyone looking to truly develop and retain top talent.

Steve Janowsky
Vice President of Operations

Proxicom

The customized leadership program was very practical and achieved our goals. LSA adapted very well to our group and the situation and helped us build trust and awareness of successful leadership styles. We look forward to the next steps.

Erik Okholm
Director of Software Development

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

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

Over the years, both at 3Com and now at Redback, I’ve found LSA Global to be a valuable partner. The recent management programs that they delivered for Redback’s executive and management teams was the right solution, of the highest of quality, and customized to fit our unique business and culture. I would highly recommend LSA to any company looking for top quality solutions.

Gina Fulton
Vice President of Human Resources

Having tripled in size and recently merged, LSA helped our executive team to increase our level of strategic alignment, to solidify our new direction, and to push our agency forward.

As we look to rapidly scale, the clear, actionable, and critical few strategic moves combined with how we differentiate ourselves to our top accounts and target clients has really set us on a great path to success.

This is exactly what we needed to get to the next level. Thank you LSA!

Matt Britton
CEO

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I continue to be impressed by the level of leadership development training and management expertise and quality of advice and facilitation that LSA has to offer.

What a smart and client-centric group of great people who really know how to help assess and develop high performing leaders.

Tracy Esposito
Director

zynga LSA Global gaming client

Your team was amazing.   Facilitative Leadership was one of the best leadership and change workshops my team has ever attended.  Thank you!

Diane White
Executive Director, Head of Product Development

BioMarin LSA Global Biotech Client

Thank you so much for being the right person with the right experience and expertise to lead our Executive Team in re-examining our approach to change leadership.

I’m grateful for how you engaged and challenged us with so many “holy crap!” insights and realizations that we needed.

Jeff Nally
Chief Coaching Officer & CHRO

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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

The customized leadership styles and coaching program was the best training that I have ever attended. The facilitators were phenomenal. They have a wealth of experience and knowledge coupled with compassionate and caring styles. I’d highly recommend this leadership training program to any manager, director, or executive looking for a life changing leadership program.

Shoaleh Ghaffari
Director, HR

Cutera

LSA has a tremendous ability to distil complex, multilayered challenges into meaningful, impactful, and clear strategies and action plans.

The time we invested as a leadership team to get aligned was well spent in gaining laser focus and identifying ways to prioritize what was meaningful individually and as a team. The facilitation and leadership style was direct, firm, and compassionate.

LSA provided the high level thinking and support for our team to co-create in a rapidly scaling business.

Bindu Garapaty, PsyD
VP, Talent and Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity

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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

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