Mid – Level Leadership Development Solutions
G-PULSE: GrowthSqapes - Program For Unique Leadership & Strategic Excellence
To combat, win-over or adapt to the changing business situations to remain profitable, middle-level organizational leaders irrespective of their functions must have the wherewithal to change themselves, change people, change processes, thereby changing the whole organization, either incrementally or by means and methods of radical change. This not only calls for periodic middle management training but also extended mid level leadership programs.
Being “transformative” refers to having the capability to transform. This leadership training program for managers does internal programming and rewiring of the incumbent leader so as to develop the courage of envisioning a positive future, to embark upon the task of aligning the change in the business processes and to inspire and motivate people to shape the future business success of the organization. The aim of this leadership competency development program is to arouse the “transformative being” in the participant who starts believing in a compelling positive future.
We at GrowthSqapes have very sensitively and carefully designed the middle managers program in such a way that it develops the key competencies that are required to play the role of a transformative middle manager effectively. Our solution equips the middle manager to have pulse feel of the business and the organization and enhances her readiness for the role of transformative middle-manger. G-PULSE is our patented solution that has transformed many.
Objectives
- To develop the necessary competence in the middle manager to play the role of an effective manager of managers.
- Develop the key functional and managerial capabilities required in the new role.
- Equip the middle managers in totality – in the context of thinking, feeling and strategic decision-making for the business.
- Enable the creation and application of individual plans to create business impact.
Who Should Attend?
This corporate leadership development solution is a must for middle-level managers who have the experience and motivation to excel in their roles and be more effective as a manager of managers.
Key Learning for Participants
- Awareness and adoption of characteristic critical behaviours that lead to the exhibition of highly effective leadership competencies.
- Understand business process management as well as people management proficiencies towards higher leadership and managerial effectiveness.
- Emotional Intelligence training, Personal Leadership & Managerial Style awareness and adoption for better team and business unit climate.
- Learn to navigate the complex internally as well external organizational ecosystem of shareholders, leaders, peers and managers by wearing different hats.
Business Impact for Organization
- Builds a pipeline of visionary leaders for tomorrow.
- Give the organization a sustained competitive edge built on its people.
- Succession planning becomes an institutionalized process than an ad hoc reactionary practice.
- Creation of effective organizational climate that augers well for business sustainability.
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Manager As A Coach
Organisations that have an active coaching culture are seen to have more engaged employees and higher levels of team and individual performance. Wherever large-scale organization change has been most successful, the role of a middle manager or a middle level leader in having coaching conversations with the team members regarding their development have been abundantly visible. Hence it is established that coaching conversations by middle leaders are an essential component of successful performance management and can really help organisations drive business impact. The responsibility to have coaching conversations falls on these middle leaders many of whom are not trained in the difficult art of making a coaching conversation that enables real performance.
GrowthSqapes’ highly pragmatic Manager As Coach programme provides the structure to engage and leverage your middle managers and mid-level as coaches and role models to firmly enhance business performance.
Objectives
- Build an understanding of the role of the middle manager in enabling higher levels of performance.
- Drive a culture of coaching in the organisation.
- Learn and understand a new coaching approach.
- Utilize and role model a coaching style with greater confidence.
Who Should Attend?
Business Heads, Unit Heads and Function Heads in an organization.
Key Learning for Participants
- Develop higher-order skills pertaining to coaching to drive performance.
- Learn to promulgate a coaching culture within the organisation.
- Help team members to create strategies and actions to achieve various goals.
- Learning to motivate team members towards attainment of goals.
Business Impact for Organization
- Improved role effectiveness of the managers.
- Improved productivity and predictability of business results.
- Reduced attrition and a higher level of engagement.
- Creation of a coaching culture in the organisation.
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Women in leadership
Forbes research shows that among the 25 firms with the highest percentage of women CXOs and board members, the median returns on assets and equity were at least 74% higher than other companies. Additionally, the leadership development India data shows that 11% of leadership roles are presently taken by women (The Global Leadership Forecast 2018, DDI). This is across the nature of the industry. With the growing number of women in our workforce, more and more organizations are seeking to build women leaders as a competitive advantage by developing the key women managers at their critical career transition points to become effective future leaders.
We at GrowthSqapes help to diagnose at self-level, domestic support level, psychodynamic level, group level and systems-level to recommend interventions at these levels so as to ensure that the women managers’ career is durable and not derailed.
Objectives
- Support the creation of a more gender-diverse workforce.
- Groom high potential women employees to take higher-order roles.
- Create a women leadership pipeline.
- Encourage diverse values and perspectives in business.
Who Should Attend?
Mid to senior-level Women Executives in managerial roles.
Key Learning for Participants
- Develop a strategic vision and sharper decision-making skill in complex business situations.
- Learn to use a variety of leadership styles that are effective for individuals, teams and business situations.
- Learn to develop an executive presence as a woman to lead growth, manage the crisis, drive innovation and assertive decision making.
- Learn to create and manage your career strategy that balances business-life and work-life.
Business Impact for the Organization
- This leadership training gives a competitive advantage to the organization through the development of key women managers.
- More balanced gender diversity in the organization.
- Extension of the executive leadership talent pool’s presence and influence in the organization.
- Generation of unique entrepreneurial thinking, beliefs and actions of women towards harnessing fresh opportunities and new horizons for the organization.
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Specific Competency Development
Members of the middle leadership team shoulder the responsibility of executing business strategy, leading organizations with confidence during change and inspiring stakeholders continuously. In most organizations, the mid-managers transition to senior leadership with the existing functional expertise, but the new responsibilities demand them to hold a macro view of the organization and its operating environment.
We understand the complexities and challenges of the middle-level leadership role. Our competency framework-based leadership development program/workshop is researched and developed through experience and insights over years of work across client industries.
In our competency development training programs, we customize global content to the local context that helps organizations to equip their middle-level leaders with high performing leadership behaviours required to achieve business impact.
Managing Change
Effective managers in the role of managing business and people processes often needed not only to manage change but lead change as well. They need to influence large workgroups for high-quality and schedule-adhered action deliveries. Influencing others’ thinking positively to take up tasks happily, managing emotions, inspiring others and delivering on time is the leadership act of leading change. Middle management leaders are expected to initiate leading others through change so as to fast-track the organizational change initiative in the fast-changing external business environment. The above conclusively points to the importance of change management training within the umbrella of middle manager training and the ability of the middle manager to not only manage change but also lead change.
Through this leadership development training program, GrowthSqapes enables organizations to fast-track the development of leadership capability to lead change thereby driving leadership and organisation effectiveness.
Objectives
- Identifying, acknowledging and relating to forces of change internal and external to the organization.
- Identify the levels and location of change to intervene with confidence-building actions for mass appreciation.
- Develop hope, optimism, resilience and personal efficacy at self-level to help, coach, guide and support people resistant to change.
- Develop the ability to communicate radical change in large groups.
Who should Attend?
This change management training is for Leaders, Strategic Business Unit Heads (SBU Heads), Managers, Process Owners, Plant Managers, Line Supervisors.
Key learning for Participants
- Role awareness and effectiveness in the context of leading change and managing change.
- Know how people react to change with their defences and insecurities.
- Learn the skills at self-level to understand, adapt and lead the change to envision and forecast the business future.
- Understand the models and process to enable the change and change management tools.
Business impact for the Organisation
- Development of organization-wide leadership competencies to lead change.
- Gain higher levels of readiness in managing either sudden or planned change.
- Keep the organization agile and sustainable through leadership training.
- Improved employee morale and motivation.
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Strategic Thinking
Today, with the emergence of increasing complexity in the business environment, disruption, rapid pace of change and ever increasing competition, in order to enable the organisation to survive and prosper in a global market place, business leaders have to not only create the right strategy, but also ensure seamless execution for the achievement of business results. Towards the same middle managers and middle level leaders need to develop and sharpen their strategic thinking abilities.
Based on our competency framework, GrowthSqapes’ leadership development program pertaining to having a strategic mindset to enable strategic thinking guides the middle- level leaders to develop the critical competence of creation and execution of various strategies in an organization focussed on growth mindset.
Objectives
- To develop the importance of strategy creation in a middle-level leadership role.
- Establish the linkage between organisation’s vision and strategic initiatives in the middle managers.
- Encourage the application the principles of strategic thinking to the departments/functions.
- Promote skills to create business strategy and monitor its execution.
Who should attend?
Business Leaders, middle managers and middle-level executives at the corporate, business, or functional level in an organization.
Key learning for participants
- Develop strategic thinking abilities to balance core business and new initiatives.
- Understand and use analytical tools to identify and evaluate a business’s strategy and its position in the industry.
- Design winning strategies that align with organization culture and sustain competitive advantage.
- Learn to essential components of strategy creation and strategy execution.
Business impact for Organization
- Build the strategic abilities of the middle- level leadership team.
- Enhance ability to capitalize on the market opportunities by leveraging organizational strengths.
- Improve the implementation of organizational strategies.
- Create competitive advantage through application of strategic thinking and a strategic mindset.
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Design Thinking
In today’s VUCA and fast-paced business environment, innovation is key to staying competitive. Design Thinking comes to help by offering a powerful methodology for business leaders to develop products, services, and processes that create business impact. This is because Design Thinking has a human-centred core which encourages organizations to focus on the people they’re creating for, which leads to better products, services, and processes. By focusing on human needs, Design Thinking ensures that solutions are not only technologically feasible and economically viable but also deeply relevant to the people they are meant for.
Growthsqapes solution on Design Thinking is an experiential-learning laboratory to develop business leaders to think like designers to transform the way they develop products, deliver services, lead processes—and formulate strategies. We pull together what’s desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable. Our Design Thinking program also allows those who aren’t trained as designers to use creative techniques, methods, and mindsets to address a vast range of challenges.
Objectives
- Foster Critical Thinking and creative problem-solving skills in leaders
- Cultivate Empathy and User-Centricity that encourages empathy and collaboration
- Develop Iterative and Interdisciplinary Thinking that leads to a prototype-driven approach
- Enhance Communication and Presentation Skills by fostering a Mindset of Continuous Learning.
Who should attend?
- Designers & Developers.
- Business Analysts.
- C-level executives.
- Product management team members.
- Sales, customer services leaders.
- Business managers
Key learning for participants
- Understand design thinking as a human-centred process focusing on customers and their needs
- Learn how design thinking leads to problem solving, and value creation.
- Learn the three main overlapping phases: inspiration, ideation, and implementation.
- Learn to observe and convert observation data to valuable insights.
Business impact for organization
- Increased customer satisfaction by deeper understanding of customer needs
- Revenue growth driven by agile creativity and innovation
- Competitive advantage and differentiation through cost reduction and profitability
- Process improvement through collaborative approach
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Building Emotional Intelligence
The challenges faced by today’s mid-level leaders are more complex than faced by their predecessors. Hence in today’s VUCAD world mid-level leaders experience monumental challenges pertaining to work life balance, stress, productivity demands, engagement, burnout and attrition. As a recently researched subject, it has been seen that Emotional Intelligence plays a central role in realizing success in both personal and professional life of the leader.
GrowthSqapes’ solution “Building Emotional Intelligence” is built on the fundamentals of Emotional Intelligence and it’s applications that prepares mid-level leaders to overcome the above-mentioned challenges by developing potencies in areas of self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, empathy, social skills among other relevant emotionally intelligent behaviours.
Objectives
- Build a more self- aware leadership team across the organization.
- To ensures a strong bench of emotionally intelligent middle level leaders
- To build organisational capability at the middle management level pertaining to people management.
- To promote and foster a diversity, psychological safety and empathy focussed organizational climate.
Who should attend?
- Middle level leaders who have the ability, experience, intellectual agility, motivation, and self-regulation to rise to and succeed in the next level of leadership in the organization.
Key learning for participants
- Understand the role of emotional intelligence in the leadership role
- Understand self- awareness and strengthen emotional intelligence for better regulation of self
- Apply the learnings in a real time basis to actual business/personal challenges faced in the leadership role
- Improve skills to maximize productivity and manage conflicts with people better.
Business impact for organization
- Achieve sustainable business results driven by emotionally intelligent leadership.
- Make the organisation more adaptive, agile and motivated in terms of change readiness.
- Build a high performing and collaborative middle level leadership team.
- Enhanced level of thoughtful decision-making and problem-solving.
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Impactful Business Presentations
Being an outstanding communicator is one of the most important and critical skills a leader/professional can work to achieve. An effective communicator can not only help sort out the deluge of information the average person is surrounded with but also impart the same to lead, influence, and inspire others.
Delivering an impactful and effective presentation can be the key differentiator that provides the competitive edge for any business leader. Any program that attempts to demystify the stress and nerves surrounding a presentation and provides a structured methodology for the participants to prepare to deliver an effective, high impact presentation is ergo most welcome.
Great presenters are not born. They learn the relevant skills and take the time and the commitment to practice them and make them their own.
Growthsqapes’ Impactful Presentations solution focuses on skilling the business leader to structure and deliver an effective presentation that builds credibility and engages their audience while clearly and persuasively conveying the message.
Objectives
- Build an understanding of various presentation structures and styles.
- Determine and develop personal presentation style.
- Learn both functional and behavioural skills pertaining to presentations.
- Acquire and practice the skills necessary to deliver an impactful presentation.
Who should attend
- Sales professionals
- Team managers
- Project/ Business managers
- Support function professionals
- Marketing/Brand Managers
- HR Professionals
Key learning for participants
- Understand the elements needed for making presentations that leave a lasting impact.
- Connect with stakeholders at a logical and emotional level.
- Map the mind of the audience and learn to tell a story.
- Make compelling arguments to present one’s case over various media.
Business impact for organization
- Improved organizational skill base pertaining to a crucial ability in today’s context.
- Better presentation of organization’s corporate image.
- Creation of a pool of leaders who can market, persuade, motivate, energize and influence.
- Enhanced showcasing of value proposition to various stakeholders.
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Leadership With Finance
In the competitive business landscape of today, effective business leadership requires a lot more than just visionary thinking, strategic acumen and people management. Today’s business leaders and non-finance executives must possess a comprehensive understanding of finance in order to make informed decisions, drive growth, and ensure the financial success of their organizations. This is because financial training encompasses the ability to understand and apply various financial concepts and skills like financial management, budgeting, and investing. Additionally, it also extends to interpreting financial statements, cash flow management and making strategic financial decisions.
Improving financial knowledge is a continuous process that involves staying updated with the latest financial trends and practices.
Growthsqapes’ program on Leadership With Finance trains and equips business leaders with the tools to navigate the intricacies of the financial world, unlocking the potential for long-term financial success and sustainable growth for their organizations.
Objectives
- Learning to make informed financial decisions for better business results.
- Strategic financial planning and goal setting.
- Develop effective resource allocation that manages and mitigates risk.
- Enhance communication and collaboration by fostering a mindset of continuous learning.
Who should attend
VPs /GMs / Managers in
- Operations
- Marketing
- HR
- Quality control
- Design
- Supply chain & logistics
Key learning for participants
- Discerning how a leader’s actions impact stakeholders’ value.
- Making most business activities financially measurable and viable.
- Chasing the cost of doing business systematically and time value of money for delayed actions.
- Creating an ecosystem within the organization that will be money-sensitive.
Business impact for organization
- Improved cost leadership, cost management and revenue realization.
- Rise in EPS (earnings per share) and market capitalisation.
- Enhanced reputation of the organization in the market
- Better employer branding and stakeholder value addition
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Execution Excellence
In today’s VUCAD and fast-paced business environment top-performing organizations around the world are focused on executing excellence in all areas of the business. Execution excellence refers to the capability to effectively carry out a strategy, that results in superior, tangible outputs, outcomes and results. The reason is simple: a great strategy with poor execution yields nothing. A moderate strategy with great execution creates superior value. Execution is at the core of leadership performance. If absent, any strategic planning will fail to deliver the expected results. An effective execution proactively identifies challenges faced by the organization and teams and resolves them actively.
To fully realize these benefits, companies must identify and educate leaders who can learn the concepts and tools of value stream management and value creation through execution. Leaders, who acquire the above skills become the lean leaders that their organizations need to help drive change, improve processes, build customer satisfaction, and enhance the company’s competitive position.
GrowthSqapes solution on Execution Excellence is an experiential-learning laboratory to develop business leaders to create a strategic plan to respond to risks that derail strategy execution and transform the way they lead processes, deliver results and create value.
Objectives
- Enhance execution capability and creative problem-solving skills in leaders.
- Improve quality and accuracy of results.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement in the organization.
- Develop leadership skills pertaining to delivering results.
Who should attend
- Middle level managers
- SBU heads
- Functional heads
- Project Managers
- Planning leads
- Service delivery leaders
Key learning for participants
- Understand Execution Excellence as a human-centred process focusing on results.
- Learn to link strategy to execution for creating value.
- Understand the principles and practices of execution towards value creation.
- Learn the three main aspects of execution: output, outcome and result.
Business impact for organization
- Improved strategy implementation through focus on execution gaps.
- Enhanced individual and team performance towards delivery.
- Competitive advantage and differentiation through improved productivity and efficiency.
- Better customer experiences through better product or service delivery.
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High-Potential Development
It is a universally accepted phenomenon that an organisation’s future success depends upon the right leadership and hence nothing can be more vital to a company’s long-term health than the choice and cultivation of its future leaders especially those who are at the top 5% of the performance pyramid. These are the people who we refer to as Top Talent or High Potentials (Hi-Pots) and their capability development can improve the organizational performance substantially.
With a globally researched and benchmarked approach design GrowthSqapes enables organizations to fast-track leadership capability development of high potentials thereby driving leadership effectiveness and performance.
Objectives
- To build the leadership reserves across the organization.
- To ensures a strong bench of next-generation leaders.
- To build longer-term organisational capability.
- To sustain and promote organisational growth.
Who Should Attend?
Top 3% to 5% of the organisation’s talent who have the ability, experience, intellectual agility, motivation, and self-regulation to rise to and succeed in senior positions in the organization.
Key Learning for Participants
- Understand Leadership role in facilitating organisational growth.
- Innovative ideas and big picture thinking for significant improvement in decision making.
- Strengthen emotional intelligence for greater influence, stronger relationships, and higher levels of productivity from the team.
- Improve negotiation skills and understand how communication style influences leadership outcomes.
Business Impact for Organization
- Measurably grow leaders to lead the organization in the future.
- Achieve sustainable results driven by strengthened leadership capabilities.
- Implement a comprehensive and highly effective framework for managing change.
- Build a more collaborative and productive leadership team.
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