Leadership Development

Successful organizations know that leadership performance is a major contributor to organizational success. They also recognize that even high-performing and high-potential leaders can benefit from targeted training and individualized skill development to help them achieve greater results.

Through IRI’s Leadership Development services, leaders at any level of the organization learn how to:

  • Assess personal strengths and limitations to engage in continuous self-improvement
  • Manage and inspire the performance of their employees
  • Balance strategic focus, operating objectives and interpersonal relationships
  • Target and identify opportunities for innovation and change
  • Create or reinforce the mission, vision and values of the organization while achieving organizational objectives

IRI offers a complete array of Leadership Development services that meet the cultural and operational needs of any organization. These include:

Leadership Academy or Specific Leadership Training Modules

IRI provides a comprehensive curriculum of training modules to strengthen the competencies and skills leaders need. These can be delivered to individuals or to a group of leaders in a classroom setting through IRI’s Leadership Academy. Academies typically sequence a series of half-day sessions that address specific needs of the client organization. Academy titles include:

  • Principles of Leadership (Manager as Leader)
  • Performance Managing
  • Building and Leading Effective
  • Understanding Individual Teams Differences
  • Planning and Running Effective
  • Principles of Leadership Team Meetings Communication
  • Making Conflict Productive
  • Coaching Employees to Higher
  • Organizing Time, Work and Performance Priorities
  • Leading Change
  • Behavioral Interviewing
  • Writing for Business
  • Win-Win Negotiating
  • Finance for the Non-Financial
  • Solving Problems Manager
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Leading a Diverse Population
  • Improving Process Performance

360° Feedback

The 360° Feedback Process incorporates input from a leader’s peers, direct reports and managers to create a behavior profile that is compared with the leader’s self-perspective. The assessment can be customized to reflect a client’s existing benchmark leadership competencies and skills. Alternatively, clients may select specific skills they want measured from our reference materials of more than 3,000 behavioral descriptors.

Our process includes a detailed feedback report, self-development templates and leadership coaching suggestions. IRI’s leadership coaches often provide individualized follow-up to ensure that the reports are properly understood, and that self-development is appropriately launched and continued.

Self-Assessment Tools

These market-proven tools provide leaders with specific information about topics related to their personal and professional development. Topics include Leading Change, Managing Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Behavioral Preferences, Learning Style and Relationship Building.

Leadership Coaching

After establishing coaching objectives, IRI employs various behavioral and psychometric instruments to help the individual understand their existing preferences and tendencies. Through face-to-face or phone conversations, IRI coaches help leaders identify and tackle on-the-job developmental assignments. By analyzing decisions made in completing assignments, as well as the consequences of their decisions, leaders are able to reinforce behaviors that are productive and change behaviors that are not.

Format Options

Clients may choose from several ways to implement IRI’s Leadership Development programs, including:

  • Individual Training and Leadership Academy
    Experienced facilitators can deliver either customized or off-the-shelf modules. Additionally, we have the capability to train and certify client facilitators to teach the content, and can either provide materials or negotiate a licensing agreement.
  • 360° Feedback Process and Self-Assessment Instruments
    We work with the client’s project team to establish and administer the selected self-assessment instruments or the 360° Feedback instrument. Our coaches then review results and debrief participants about how to interpret and incorporate them into a self-improvement program. Alternatively, because many self-assessment and psychometric instruments require specialized training or certification, IRI can train and certify client coaches to perform this work.
  • Leadership Coaching
    Our coaches are carefully selected to match the various factors that can influence a successful outcome for each client. Working with clients, we help to identify consultants whom we believe are the best coaching candidates; clients retain the right to make the final selection.

For more information about Leadership Development, contact IRI Consultants at info@iriconsultants.com or by calling (313) 965-0350.

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