Many leadership development programs fail because they don’t focus on delivering tangible business results. TB: At advayaa, we create solutions that solve business problems and build internal capability to transform buisnesses. Such solutions have consistently delivered successfully.
Besides, we also have deep expertise in transforming the family owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures at various stages of its’ life cycle.
”Leaders are clock builders not time tellers
Jim Collins
- 5 Practices of Exemplary Leadership
- Strategic Innovation
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Excellence through Achievement Motivation (BEAM)
- Lead Others
- Leader as a Coach
- Beyond Gender Diversity
”The Leadership Challenge is about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into reality, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity and risks into rewards
James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Program Context
- This program is an outcome of a 25 year research project to identify qualities of the most admired leaders by two American university professors
- It’s a framework that has universal application; a wide range of leaders from CEOs to junior managers can use it albeit with difference in application
- A program that always delivers business results
For Whom
- Leaders at strategic levels to clarify Leverage, Vision and Values
- Level 2 leaders such as function/ unit heads
- Middle level managers to improve their overall leadership quotient
Program Deliverables
- Enhanced alignment with company vision
- Delivers a paradigm shift to build ability to inspire
- Leaders will think out of the box and deliver significant improvement in results
Duration – 3 days
”Strategy is about leadership in the future. What you do today will determine your leadership in the future. Therefore I say, the future is NOW.
Dr Vijay Govindarajan
Program Context
- Strategy should deliver leadership in the future which requires strategic innovation
- Most companies are busy managing the present and only 5-10% time is spent on maintaining leadership position in the long term
- Letting go of what’s working well is a roadblock to future success
For Whom
- Leaders at strategic levels such as CXOs
- Function / Unit heads
Program Deliverables
- Leaders will actively drive strategy conversations within the company
- Leaders will learn to identify weak signals, drive proactive innovation in their areas of product/ service, value or the value delivery architecture
- Leaders will identify strategic areas of strain and build plans to eliminate the same
Duration – 2 days
”If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems
Michael Porter
Program Context
- Our finding indicates that there is rarely one mind about business strategy
- Strategic thinking is a critical skill for all levels of leadership. Usually it is misunderstood as operations efficiency
- Alignment on strategy is essential for excellence in strategy execution
For Whom
- Leaders at strategic levels, function/ unit heads
Program Deliverables
- Program will help leaders understand pillars of strategy, draw out strategic activity maps.
- Leaders will learn relevant strategy frameworks
- There will be renewed rigor in executing company strategy
Duration – 2 days
”27% economic progress of America is attributable to achievement motivation
David McLleland
Program Context
- Ability to deliver consistent high performance can be cultivated
- Achievement motivation is related to the economic progress of any organization
- Intrapreneurship development is one of the big areas of focus for large organizations
For Whom
- Intact teams with high targets such as Sales, R&D etc
- High performers to make them more consistent or high potential-average performers to enhance their performance levels
Program Deliverables
- Develop achievement orientation and build a network of achievement skills
- Systematically build the pool of consistent high performers
- Build focus in achieving extra-ordinary results within intact teams
Duration – 3 days
”Of the modes of persuasion there are three kinds. The first depends upon the personal character; second on putting the audience into certain mind frame and the third on the proofs provided by the speaker
Aristotle
Program Context
- 80% time of leaders is spent influencing key stakeholders
- It is impossible to maintain credibility without an excellence in leading others
- Only 9% workforce is fully engaged as per Gallop survey and leaders have a role to play in changing that
For Whom
- All middle level leaders, function/ unit heads
Program Deliverables
- Leaders will develop an ability to engage stakeholders
- They will develop persuasion and influencing skills using simple yet powerful frameworks
- Their presence will become impactful
Duration – 3 days
”Through coaching, people are able to find their own solutions, build skills and change their attitude and behaviors. Manager acting as a coach is an excellent way to build capability
Jenny Rogers
Program Context
- Most leaders work significant amount of time, two levels below their designated levels owing to upward delegation
- Problem solving style of leadership does not build internal capability
- Successful future leaders are going to be great coaches
For Whom
- Leaders at strategic levels, function/ unit heads
Program Deliverables
- Initiate the process of transforming boss-subordinate relationship with deep dialogue
- Leaders will learn coaching principles and skills. They will practice them with their peers
- Significant management time will be saved which used to be earlier spent in problem solving
Duration – 3.5 days
”Androgyny is not about managing the relationship between opposite genders, it is about flowing between them by both
June Singer
Program Context
- Organizations and business activity is largely a masculine phenomenon
- Build androgynous Leadership style
- Organizations are seeking to be more feminine, operating in alignment with priorities of profit, purpose and people
For Whom
- Function / Unit heads. Each program will have people from both genders
Program Deliverables
- Leaders will become mindful of their unconscious gender bias
- They will work towards integrating both gender energies within themselves in balance
- Leaders from both genders will practice deep listening for each other, develop equality and respect