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 sessions were fantastic.  Thank you for making such a meaningful impact with our leaders.
Tara Condon | Vice President, Product & Portfolio Development | BioMarin Pharmaceutical

“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 ATD and i4cp 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 positive social pressure helps to promote learning and performance 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 team and business execution skills. A recent survey published in Chief Learning Officer Magazine identified the most pressing leadership skill gaps to be:

The leadership mindsets, knowledge, tools, and capabilities needed to effectively execute on the above leadership skill gaps are also fairly straight forward. What can be tricky is getting the context right.  The key 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. According to a recent Fortune survey:

  • Only 7% of CEOs believe their companies are developing effective leaders
  • Only 10% of CEOs think their leadership development initiatives are having a business impact.

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.  Small groups of high potential leaders and managers work in teams to think strategically, create a clear vision, build a 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 — all while learning what it takes to be a high performing leader in their unique industry and culture.

Our highly experiential leadership programs ask leaders and managers to think, take action, maintain momentum, learn, and 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, microlearning, supervision, AI enablement, 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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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 customized, focused, and relevant management training program 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.

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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.

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Vice President Human Resources

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

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.

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Director of Software Development

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.

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Vice President of Human Resources

LSS

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!

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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.

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General Manager

AKQA

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!

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CEO

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LSA helped us with leadership development by designing a solution to match our unique needs and culture.

It was a huge success. I would highly recommend LSA to help take leaders and managers to the next level.

Karen King, SPHR
Manager, Human Resources

Alliance Data

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

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 to LSA Global for their partnership and support in helping us to design and roll-out highly needed and valuable leadership and management development programs that fit our unique situation.

I personally have partnered with LSA Global at four of my previous companies. It continues to be a delight.

We look forward to partnering with them for a long time to develop our managers and leaders.

Suzanne Kinner
VP Human Resources

Blackhawk Network

At the onset of our engagement with LSA, I was skeptical that an outside firm would be able to understand and dissect our organization’s highly complex and technical business challenges.

However, through the leadership team interview and strategy retreat processes that LSA utilized, they provided a fresh, innovative, and practical perspective that created tremendous strategic value and focus for our executive leadership team.

As a result, I would highly recommend LSA Global to any leader struggling with building the strategic alignment and high performance teams necessary to generate sales growth, in a way that fits their unique corporate culture.

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LSA’s approach and ability to bring the right leadership and management expertise and approach to eBay has been a great asset.

They really focus on helping us succeed in any way they can and definitely lifted up our leadership and management development capabilities.

Mike Normant
Learning & Development

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