Custom leadership training

Most organizations intent on growing future leaders from within or attracting high-potential talent for a start-up have the best intentions.

The best performers want to advance their careers, grow their influence, have more impact and make more money. For most of these people, a focus on career growth and advancement is what makes them high performers in the first place.

The solution?

Make them a manager!  Hire a great individual contributor and put them in charge!

Career advancement? Check.

Raise? Check.

Grow their influence and have more impact?

Well, that depends on what comes next.

Many of the same organizations that view promotion to a leadership position as a way to reward high performers do them an incredible disservice; in some cases, that promotion or first hire into a leadership role may even derail their careers completely.

That’s because the traits that made them a highly successful individual contributor are not necessarily the same traits that make a highly successful leader of other people.

The transition from individual contributor to manager — often, managing their former peers on the same team —  is the most challenging step on the leadership ladder.

Emerging Leaders was founded on the premise that those rising to new levels of responsibility and authority need and deserve support at every career transition.

When we say every transition, we mean it. We often encounter leaders who have spent years being responsible for the results of others who have had no formal management or leadership skills training. For them, the stakes for the organization and the teams they lead grow with each and every promotion. They deserve to be positioned for success as well.

Assessing your organizational culture

Emerging Leaders’ custom leadership training services rely on research-based fundamentals grounded in what people in today’s increasingly competitive business and organizational environments expect from their leaders.

Rather than bring you off-the-shelf solutions, our leadership training process begins with an assessment of your organizational culture and operating environment. That understanding enables us to bring learning and leadership development programs to your new leaders that are relevant and grounded in their day-to-day challenges. 

We then draw from an extensive library of topics to develop your custom program, including: