LSA Global Delivers Experienced Manager Training for County Education Leaders

Redwood Shores, CA –  LSA Global, a leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast-growth life sciences, technology, and services companies align culture and talent with strategy, announced strong results for a highly customized Management Training Program for county education leaders focused on providing value-added educational leadership, resources, and customized services to assist school districts . The Experienced Manager Training results were:

• 100% Job Relevance
• 100% Satisfaction
• 129% Knowledge Gain
• 99.3% Net Promoter Score

Why Experienced Managers Need a Different Approach
The capabilities that help someone become a successful manager are not necessarily the capabilities required to become an exceptional senior manager.

As responsibility expands, county education leaders must shift from primarily managing individual performance and operational execution to leading systems, stakeholders, priorities, and change.

For experienced county education managers, development should therefore move beyond foundational skills toward the difficult leadership situations that come with broader responsibility.

Experienced Manager Training for County Education Leaders

In order to help promote student achievement and accountability, serve the County’s most vulnerable students, and strive to create an environment in which every student, regardless of circumstances, has an opportunity for a quality education, this highly experiential and customized Experienced Manager Training Program was based upon feedback from new manager training participants, people manager assessment center data, and 360-degree boss, participant, and direct report interviews.

The Experienced Manager Training took an action learning leadership development approach in the following areas:

• Accountability Agreements and Conversations
  When leaders and managers define, communicate, and align expectations, they can establish agreements that drive cultural accountability through objective conversations designed to collaboratively inspect and evaluate successes and failures. 
  
  Making accountable conversations that incorporate feedback, feed-thru, and feedforward a habitual leadership practice requires leaders to consistently and visibly lead by example, create psychological team safety, set clear expectations, normalize real-time feedback, encourage a growth mindset, and follow-up on promises.
• Collaborative Partnerships
  We know from advanced development for experienced managers data that the most influential leaders speak and act authentically, deliver great work consistently, and invest in building trusted relationships. Leaders must know who is invested in whatever it is they are trying to do and why.
• Communicate for Impact
  At the heart of any successful interaction lies the recognition that people are the central focus. By placing people at the core of your interactions, people managers can establish a solid foundation of trust, foster genuine connections, and ultimately achieve the desired outcomes.
  
  
• Decision Making
  Leaders and managers are responsible for building decision-making capability throughout the organization. Being exceptional role models of quality decision-making is the first step. Thoughtful rigor in decision making processes allows leaders and their teams to cut through the complexity and ensures that critical decisions are made timely, result in effective action, and have the desired outcome and impact.
• Line of Sight
  The concept of a clear line of sight for people to contribute their best at work is relatively simple; however, consistently calibrating it as a team leader to ensure you and your team focus on the most important work isn’t always easy. Sustaining line of sight in an increasingly complex and changing environment takes judgment and courage, relentless commitment to the bigger picture, and consistently engaging the hearts, minds, and hands of those you need to deliver results.

The Bottom Line
The best experienced manager training for county education leaders should not reteach Management 101. It should challenge accomplished managers to operate at a higher level — thinking more strategically, navigating organizational complexity, influencing across boundaries, leading change, developing talent, and creating alignment around what matters most.

When development is customized around real county education challenges and reinforced through application, coaching, feedback, and accountability, experienced managers can expand their leadership impact where it counts most — on the job.

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About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a trusted performance consulting and training firm that helps high-growth technology, services, and life sciences companies turn strategy into measurable results. We partner with executive teams to build a powerful competitive advantage by aligning culture and talent with strategy — so individuals, teams, and organizations perform at their peak. Learn more about how organizational alignment drives performance.

by Tristam Brown: CEO

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.