#LeadUp: Strengthen and Improve Leadership Skills
July 29, 2021
Improve Leadership Skills
A major automobile company collaborated with PeopleNorth to build a strong pipeline of leaders & successors to key roles in the organization.
LeadUp was proposed after an extensive discussion with the stakeholders of the organization. LeadUp, a learning intervention, was designed to confront the roadblocks the Talent struggled with within their roles as managers & leaders. Following this, a blended approach of conceptualization & contextualization of solutions were crafted to ensure a seamless transition of the participants.
Our Approach
Observation of Challenges
- Participants were passionate about their work, but often failed to inspire the team to go beyond defined tasks & roles
- Managing ambiguity & conflict, especially when it came to quickly changing management expectations as well as decisions viz-a-viz team’s reaction
Limited understanding of delegation, feedback, and coaching, not as concepts but in application
Focus of Intervention
- Each session engaged the participants in an experiential learning format with focus on introspection & self-discovery, to acknowledge driving and limiting behaviors as leaders
- Contextualization of concepts such as communication, performance-based feedback, delegation, and conflict management through a range of simulations and activities
- Case studies, assessments, and on-the-job assignments to gain a deeper understanding of team dynamics in relation to leaders’ action and reaction
Impact and Outcome
- Leaders crafted their own vision and developed a clear sense of direction, which went beyond deliverables & functional goals
- A higher engagement & ownership was observed in most of the leaders’ teams, which resulted in increased productivity.
- Leaders started appreciating their team’s efforts and had better command over-sharing feedback, not just problem statements and disappointments. They saw a shift in the team’s morale & accountability.
Relationships with vendors improved, wherein conflicts were not only resolved but month-long pending issues were brought to a conclusion and timely deliveries were visible