LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

 Let's be honest:
It's important that managers don't suck.

Leaders have a tremendous impact on your organization...for better or worse. Effectively equipped, they engage employees and set the stage for greater morale, collaboration, creativity, and productivity. In fact, decades of research show that skilled management is essential to the overall health and vitality of an organization.

Part of our mission is to develop highly skilled, authentic, compassionate, effective leaders who know how to build morale, provide accountability, get stuff done, and build effective relationships with their people based on trust and respect.

Our leadership and management development practices have produced high-quality, sustainable outcomes for over two decades. Just ask our clients.

We hear things like that all the time, but we don’t let it go to our heads. We know there’s a lot we don’t know, so we’re constantly learning new ways to help organizations achieve greatness through our leadership development work.

How do we do it? Primarily in four ways: one-on-one coaching, our signature Managing with Mind & Heart workshop series, executive team Common Commitments, and leadership retreats. Keep scrolling for more information about each.

Managing With Mind & Heart Workshop Series

For over two decades our signature workshop series, “Managing with Mind and Heart,” and the sustainability efforts both before and after, have been instrumental in helping leadership teams and organizations achieve sustained improvement through the consistent practice of best-practice management skills. (“The Top 15 Management Skills”)

Even more, we bring the workshops to you, whether in-person or through a remote platform. Our workshops are interactive, engaging, extremely practical, and customizable for your organization's specific needs, including the nuances of on-site, remote and hybrid work environments. Your leaders and managers will walk away with dozens of ready-to-use sustainable management skills. We promise.

And to help ensure sustainability, we often return to organizations 12-24 months following our Managing with Mind and Heart series with our Phase 2 workshop series, in which we creatively review and deep dive into the most important skills and concepts from the initial workshop series, learn some new best-practice management skills, engage in some troubleshooting and fine-tuning, and review and reimagine sustainability, all custom-fit to your organization.

See our Workshops page for a closer look at the content of our “Managing with Mind and Heart” leadership development series.

And another thing: Combining this workshop series with executive team development, one-on-one coaching, and employee engagement workshops is a fantastic way to create positive, systemic, sustained culture change!

*We are happy to tailor our workshops to fit your needs, budget, and time frame. We can offer the entire range of workshops to manager groups over several months or deliver them a la carte in a combination and quantity that best suits your needs.  

One-on-One Coaching

Whether one-on-one or group coaching, we collaborate with leaders to help them achieve their goals, become more skilled managers/leaders, find specific workplace-related solutions, increase their effectiveness, build greater trust and respect with others, and avoid burnout, stagnation, and boredom. And, of course, as leaders become more centered, confident, and skilled, they bring to their organizations higher morale, greater health and vibrancy, and more sustainable positive change.

Executive Team Development

Organizations that invest in the overall health and cohesiveness of their executive team reap long-term benefits in terms of workplace morale, sustainability, effectiveness, employee engagement, and much more. 

Nash Consulting’s work with executive teams is highly customizable in terms of length of engagement and content, based on each organization’s specific needs. 

A typical engagement might be organized around an initial round of interviews (data collection), then an introductory day or two of work together as a group (analyzing the data and setting goals), followed by six months to a year of periodic sessions (maybe two consecutive days per quarter or one day per month – whatever cadence best meets the team’s needs.)

Possible stages for Nash Consulting's executive team development might include: 

Individual self-awareness and group dynamic awareness. This phase may include individual assessments, one-on-one coaching, and group discussion.

Trust-building. Here we walk the team through a series of discussions and activities that will increase the executive team’s ability to show up authentically, create psychological safety, embrace positive change, support one another with both grace and accountability, and more. 

Team skill-building. It’s important that executive teams are adept at a variety of team skills, including decision-making, managing conflict, effective meetings, holding one another accountable, focusing on results, consensus building, and more.

And speaking of meetings. One of the most underrated skills for executive teams is the ability to hold effective executive team meetings. Here we will explore (and make commitments to) the nuts and bolts of creating highly effective (and enjoyable) exec meetings, including the use of agendas, actually making decisions (instead of spinning around and never landing), making sure everyone gets a voice, managing disagreement well (and making it work for you), becoming committed to commitment, facilitation skills, and more.

Leadership skill development. An effective executive team must provide effective leadership throughout the organization in terms of change management, sponsorship, communication, motivation, morale building, accountability, and much more.

Understanding people. We will take a deep dive into Behavior Styles, in which the team would gain valuable knowledge regarding each member’s way of showing up, reactions, impact on others, processing style, and much more, culminating in each team member choosing three custom-designed growth opportunities. 

Common commitments. One of our strategies for building a healthy leadership team includes a “Common Commitments” exercise - a process resulting in a set of guidelines that support the practices of accountability, decision-making, teamwork, respect, attention to results, cohesiveness, and more. The focus and content of these days will be determined by the data collection results and through a collaborative process before the actual workshop. This process culminates in a group consensus decision around a shared set of team commitments and a discussion about sustainability - avoiding the “flavor of the year syndrome.”   
  
Sustainability. As in all our work, Nash Consulting believes that a focus on and training in sustainability will empower the group to retain all the benefits of this important work long into the future and avoid any hint of the "flavor of the year syndrome." Nash Consulting would work with your team to create action plans and help with the creation of specific sustainability practices and processes to ensure the work is sustained into the future.

“Great teams don’t hold back with one another. They’re unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”

PATRICK LENCIONI

Leadership Retreats

Retreat settings offer a much-needed break from the day-to-day work environment and can allow a group to focus much more of their attention and energy on the task at hand, whether that be learning best-practice management skills, creating common commitments, engaging in team-building, revising a mission statement and creating a set of organizational values, or dealing with a particular organizational roadblock.

We collaborate with you to create a retreat experience for your group that precisely fits your needs, your culture, and your goals.

Check out some of our workshop options to get an idea of what we can offer at your next retreat.

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