Leadership capabilities have evolved over time. While traditional leadership traits like strong decision-making, communication skills, and strategic thinking are still essential, modern leadership also requires a more nuanced set of capabilities.
Modern leadership capabilities require leaders who are HQ. HQ leaders understand human behavior and recognize that a sense of purpose and shared values can inspire individuals to do great work and achieve remarkable outcomes.
HQ leaders are also digitally fluent and know how to leverage technology and humans for the creative and innovative beings that we are. Digital fluency refers to the ability to leverage technology and human creativity to drive innovation and growth.
Modern leaders must understand how to harness the power of technology to enhance productivity, collaboration, and communication while also recognizing the importance of human skills like creativity, empathy, and critical thinking.
Key Components
Customizable Learning Paths
We'll help you define your team's capabilities and fully customize the program to fit your company, team, and culture.
Actionable and Applicable
Participants can apply what they learn, create connections, and uncover their best leadership style through hands-on learning with collaborative exercises, post-work and pre-work, and capstone projects.
HQ Modern Leadership Programming
Determine if leveraging one of our assessment tools or your own would be a positive place to start for participant self or team discovery.
Conduct a learning needs analysis or gather insights from key stakeholders based on business information, strategic and operational priorities, and culture considerations to determine which modules will build your team's capabilities to execute strategic priorities.
Customize modules to incorporate relevant exercises that apply to your organization.
Draft an outline of a capstone project, incorporating all learning principles as identified, tying to a true business need.
Pre + post work provided for all modules.
Approximately 90 minutes per workshop, with a recommended 15 – 20 participants per session but configurable based on complexity, size, and need.
Program Content + Topics:
Foundation: The Groundwork
Influence + High-Functioning Teams
Self-reflection on leadership style
Steps to creating a high-functioning team
Identifying signs/knowing what to do when the team isn't high-functioning
Foundational Leadership skills and modern skills all leaders need, including empathy, collaboration, authenticity, and communications
Why leadership roles matter
Understanding influence
Fixed vs. Growth mindset
Culture + Brand Stand
Defining culture and brand stand, and the impact of success of each
Understanding your role as a leader in culture
Identifying the levers and inputs of a culture of belonging
Understanding and defining culture
Leadership roles in culture
Belonging and Inclusion
Brand and Talent Brand Alignment
Spotting signs of toxic cultures
Strategy + Planning
Aligning business strategy with people strategy
Become a more agile and adaptable leader
Learning how to leverage technology to become a better leader
Creating HQ focused business strategy
Bringing company vision to life
Making purposeful business decisions
Scaling and maintaining HQ leadership culture
Adaptable and agile leadership
Defining and building OKRs
Trust + Transparency
Building skills for trust and transparency development
How to maintain trust with your team (especially in difficult times)
Recognizing signs of mistrust and its impact
Defining trust + transparency, and how they're connected
Trust-building skills + toolkits
Knowing your role in trust and transparency
Human psychology of trust
What gets in the way of trust
Words matter: knowing when and how to communicate transparently
Conflict
Guiding leaders to be able to help the team work through conflict
Tools to handle conflict in reality
Embracing the good that can come from conflict and personal growth
Roles in conflict
Toxic vs. positive conflict
Conflict real-play exercises
Conflict approach tools
Approaching conflict virtually
Ownership + Decision-Making for Humans
Understanding types of decision making
Guiding leaders to empower team in decision making
Applying decision making skills to larger scale + decision making toolkit
Ownership vs. Accountability
Understanding Empowerment
Types of decision-making by level and complexity
Communication skills for decision making
Humanize The Work
Inclusion + Voice
Labeling vs Intersectionality
Inclusion + Bias
Belonging
Amplify Voice + Allyship + Advocacy
Culture Competence
Macro and Micro-aggressions
Opportunity, Reward, Equity
Hiring opportunities
Access to Opportunity
Access to Equity + Reward
Meaning
Valuing Time and Talent
Intentionality and Personalization
Defining your purpose
Corporate Social Responsibility
Developing and communicating brand stand
Wellbeing
Whole-person wellbeing in the workplace
Spotting signs of burnout, in-person and remotely
Burnout prevention + hidden cues
Leader to Employee Conversations for Wellbeing, including exercise
Recovering from burnout
Feedback + Appreciation
Know Thy Person
Act as a Personalized Coach
Access to opportunity + development
Appreciation
Feedback
Development Dialogues (virtual vs. in-person)
Ownership + Decision-Making for Humans
Understanding types of decision making
Guiding leaders to empower team in decision making
Applying decision-making skills to larger scale + decision-making toolkit
Ownership vs. Accountability
Understanding Empowerment
Types of decision-making by level and complexity
Communication skills for decision making
Mindset + Skillset
Embrace Humility + Authenticity
Bringing your whole self to work
Why authenticity matters + how to build for yourself and others
Why humility is a superpower
Growth Mindset
Embracing feedback
How to coach for a growth mindset
Building a foundation of trust
Resilient + Adaptable
Characteristics of resilient + adaptable leaders
Fostering Individual Resilience for Organizational Resilience
Appling resiliency + adaptability in crisis, change management, and scenario planning
Realistic resilience
Human-Centered Thinking
Empathy + Metaperceptions
Emotional Self-awareness
Social awareness + hierarchy of needs
Relationship building
Applying to a complex + digital work
Innovation and Creativity
Avoiding “groupthink"
Encouraging and supporting your team in challenging the status quo
Ways to drive innovation within team
Creating environment that foster innovation + creativity
Cross functional collaboration, project teams, etc.
Preventing silos + fostering communication
Build muscle to increase creativity to become easier to access and use over time
The Business
Making decisions as an HQ leader
Aligning business strategy with people strategy
Become a more agile and adaptable leader
Learn how to leverage technology to become a better leader
Digital Fluency
Embracing technology to elevate the team/individual
Impact on diversity (i.e., gender equality, ablism, agism)
Understanding how technology impacts the workplace (efficiency, saving time and money)
User interface design –makes things human centered
Impact on business bottom line
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