CONCEPT


Emergent Method is excited to bring back the Next Wave program for a third year. This program aims to equip new and emerging leaders with the skill sets to navigate the tricky waters of leadership and become an inward and outward facing representative of any organization. 

 

SESSIONS


 

DEC 2018-JAN 2019

HOGAN ASSESSMENTS AND COACHING

 

Understanding capabilities, challenges, and motives is the first step in any true leadership development initiative. In an effort to explore and understand these nuances and create a common language around which leaders can build development plans, each participant will complete a Hogan Leadership Forecast Series. Hogan’s trademark, development-focused assessment reports offer information regarding how a leader approaches work, leadership, and interaction with others in the workplace.

  • The Potential Report provides insight regarding how others describe a leader’s day-to-day approach to work and leadership.
  • The Challenge Report highlights stress- or complacency-induced response tendencies capable of impeding a leader’s performance.
  • The Values Report helps a leader understand the work-related motivators and values that likely influence a leadership style.
  • The Coaching Report offers a high-level summary of a leader’s performance strengths, values, and performance challenges and provides a template for development planning.

Upon completion of the assessments included as part of the Hogan Leadership Forecast Series, we will conduct a one-on-one coaching session with each participant. The coaching session will feature a review of the aforementioned reports with an emphasis on having each participant focus on the following:

  • Understanding strengths and potential: The coaching session will begin by focusing on a discussion of each dimension addressed in the Potential Report and how they each impact a different component of leadership performance.
  • Preventing derailment: Failed leadership is often the product of flawed interpersonal behaviors that prevent leaders from maintaining a productive team. This portion of the coaching session will include a focus on dysfunctional tendencies that can be mitigated through awareness and coaching.
  • Planning for future success: The coaching session will conclude with the development of a coaching plan for each participant that he or she can measure progress against as they move forward and continue to grow as leaders.

FEB.19

SESSION I: WHY CAN’T YOU DO WHAT I’M THINKING?

 

Hogan Coaching

Under completion of the assessments included as part of the Hogan Leadership Forecast Series, we conduct a one-on-one coaching session with each participant. The coaching session will feature a review of the aforementioned reports with an emphasis on having each participant focus on the following:

  • Understanding strengths and potential: The coaching session will begin by focusing on the discussion of each dimension addressed in the Potential Report and how they each impact a different component of leadership performance.
  • Preventing derailment: Failed leadership is often the product of flawed interpersonal behaviors that prevent leaders from maintaining a productive team. This portion of the coaching session will include a focus on dysfunctional tendencies that can be mitigated through awareness and coaching.
  • Planning for future success: The coaching session will conclude with the development of a coaching plan for each participant that he or she can measure progress against as they move forward and continue to grow as leaders.

When Your Employees Need More

Your employees are craving individual, constructive feedback, but who has the time? Whether your team members are seriously struggling or simply falling short of their potential, they all want and need support from their supervisor to grow. Creating a plan and being purposeful about connecting in the right way with each of your reports can turn this daunting task into your best management tool. Workshop objectives include:

  • Appreciating the difference in formal and informal coaching and when to use each
  • Discovering tips on how to connect with direct reports with different personalities and/or skill sets
  • Learning positive language to use in any coaching situation
  • Practicing positive coaching

MAR.19

SESSION II: WORKING WITH HUMANS

 

Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Resolution

Building productive, reciprocal, professional relationships is essential to career and organizational growth. However, navigating relationships with others who have contrasting personality styles or backgrounds can be frustrating and potentially damaging. This session will provide the opportunity to discover your own personal best practices to help you emerge unscathed from conflict situations. Objectives and activities include:

  • Understanding emotional intelligence and tying self-awareness back to Hogan results while focusing on relationship management
  • Appreciating various conflict-handling modes using the Thomas Kilmann conflict resolution instrument
  • Assessing key contacts’ preferences and personality through their communication style
  • Using conflict situations as relationship builders and customer service opportunities

APR.16

SESSION III: SWEATY PALMS AND DEATH BY POWERPOINT

 

Presentation Skills and Being an Outward-Facing Organizational Representative

Serving as the face of an organization can be intimidating and exhausting. However, a little purposeful preparation can bring a comfort level when delivering formal presentations or the impromptu “presentations” that inevitably arise in large-group networking settings. In this workshop, participants will learn and practice the art of speaking with impact, making the best professional connections, as well as holding command of meetings. Objectives and activities include:

  • Using storytelling and industry expertise to connect with your audience
  • Preparing visual aids and handouts and assessing the presentation setting
  • Becoming aware of nervous habits or crutch words that detract from message delivery
  • Preparing for and facilitating meetings including creating successful agendas and achieving meeting objectives
  • Finding a comfort level with awkward networking situations and creating a plan for making and keeping the most beneficial professional contacts

MAY.21

SESSION IV: FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL

 

Strategic Planning That Makes Sense For You

In our perpetually over-scheduled work lives, looking ahead is often overlooked. We know we should be keeping up with regional and industry news and planning for the future, but time is precious and today takes precedence over tomorrow. This session will provide dedicated time for discussion on how to bring successful strategic planning to your company, organization, or team while also creating a culture of expecting the unexpected. Workshop objectives include:

  • Reviewing the philosophies of strategic planning
  • Understanding the people and process of successful strategic planning
  • Creating a framework for development of goals and action items related to strategic planning.

JUN.18

SESSION V: IS THERE EVER ENOUGH TIME OR MONEY

 

Financial Leadership and Productivity Management

Two of the most common detailers for new executives are time management and financial literacy. It is not uncommon for executives of non-profit organizations to come from the marketing or development or program departments, with only peripheral knowledge of the financial and business side of the organization. This session will review basics of financial statements and help participants begin to develop the skills needed to make assumptions and projections based on those statements. We will also discuss the philosophies of productivity and time management and develop personal best-practices for maximizing output. Objectives and activities include:

  • Report out on hot topics and industry trends
  • Review of philosophies of strategic planning
  • Create framework for development of goals and action items related to strategic planning
  • Series wrap-up and Graduation

 

APPLY

 

Applications open October 22, 2017. The deadline to apply is November 26, and the class roster will be announced on December 3. For a PDF of all application questions, please click here.