Consulting | Coaching | Training | Assessments

Developing Talent, Teams and Potential Leaders

At Progressive Leadership, Inc. we understand that in today's business environment you are required to do more, better and faster with a limited set of resources. As a result, the ability of your employees to do their jobs effectively and efficiently is crucial.

We offer a complete line of services that enable you and your teams to implement solutions that fit your organizational culture and needs and most importantly produce immediate outcomes. All our services are customized, innovative and designed to accelerate learning and professional development in a busy demanding world. As a result, you achieve key objectives such as increased productivity and greater return on your investment.

Progressive Leadership, Inc. offers a wide range of services, including:

• Consulting to help you turn around a struggling team, a derailed program conduct creative strategic planning, keep your best performers and utilize all your knowledge assets...
• Executive coaching  to help you achieve business results through relational resiliency...
• Training in the areas of organizational change, emotional intelligence, effective communication...
• Assessments to help you gain greater insight about your strengths, weaknesses and maximum potential...

If your business relies on finding, training and retaining top quality people then
we would like to partner with you!

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Consulting Services That Drive Organizational Excellence

Progressive Leadership offers uniquely tailored consulting services in the areas of

Change Management   Leadership Development   Program Management
Knowledge Management  &  IT Strategies Facilitation

Change Management - Succeeding In An Ever-Changing World

The winds of change keep building. Blowing harder. Hitting more people, reshaping all kinds of organizations and altering how they operate. Business, government, educational institutions, not-for-profit organizations, the military- you name it. Change it as far-reaching as it is rapid, cutting across all sectors of the economy.

Nevertheless, organizations spend endless hours planning the details of a large-scale implementation project but often overlook the human dynamics of change. As a result, well-intentioned projects often fail because the people were not appropriately involved and informed. Do you know that cultural issues are responsible for 60% - 85% of the failures of mergers and internal implementations?

The trials of organizational change management can be overcome with our unique change management services.

People support what they help create. For this simple, yet effective reason, we use a flexible client-partnered consulting approach. Our approach helps managers and leaders understand what it takes to lead change. It provides critical change leadership practices, a rock-solid change methodology approach, and smart tools, which prevent common detailers and realize the benefits of real change. To find out how Progressive Leadership can help you with your Organizational Change Management programs, please contact us, or call us at 614-284-3479.

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Leadership Development - Training Effective Leaders In A High Tech World

Leadership Development from Progressive Leadership help today's and tomorrow's leaders articulate their vision, meet new challenges & master personal and professional excellence.

Being an effective leader is not about tweaking personality or learning a few new techniques. Rather, it is about the challenging task of building a solid base of personal character.

Together, we constantly invent new creative solutions for addressing matters that waste time, decrease productivity at work and strengthening your "self awareness" and "compassion" towards yourself and those around you; without these two qualities you are prone to fail as a leader. Business Leaders become experts at identifying potential problems and learn to develop a wider repertoire of practical and appropriate responses.

If you are seriously considering in implementing leadership development programs across your organization, we invite you to take advantage of a complimentary consultation. Contact us today or call us at 614-284-3479 for the answers to any questions you may have, or to arrange leadership services for you or your managers. Together we can increase the value top leadership provides during organizational and strategic changes.

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Program Management - Effectively Lead Large-Scale Business Initiatives

The role of project management in today organization has grown significantly. The effective management of project portfolios that include numerous short-terms projects, large multi-project programs or both has become a growing challenge for any industry. Many organizations have identified the need to formalize the practice of project management and develop centers of project management excellence in their organizations. The Program Management Offices serve as a guide to satisfying the need for improved coordination, standardization, optimization, and management of the practice of project management.

Progressive Leadership supports organizations in setting up or improving their project management offices by selecting the right PMO leaders, the right tools and the right projects that support the overall corporate business strategy. Built upon deep knowledge and expertise, our tools and methodologies help you grow your project managers into true program managers. They will become program leaders who are able to act as change agents, think strategically and develop a refined set of business and leadership skills. To get more information about our Program Management services, please contact us or call us at 614-284-3479.

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Your firm may employ people who hold a wealth of knowledge. However, if that knowledge is not harnessed, managed and directed properly it might as well not exist. Yet, the greatest challenge is to create an environment that can share knowledge and information through technology and people, and remove the stumbling blocks that hinder true corporate unity.

If you can't, the results are lost opportunities, risk to market position, increased costs and confusion!

We assist you in identifying and implementing the framework for a successful Knowledge Management (KM) program. One that moves your organization from a “company” to a “collaborative community." Once you reach that level; knowledge is shared, the lines for creativity are opened and a spirit of participation for corporate growth replaces the individual agenda.

If you are a leader who is motivated by discovering the very essence of united communication, team collaboration and knowledge leveraging at its fullest, then creating a knowledge management program is right up your ally.

End duplicated efforts, miscommunications and the waste of talents starting today!

We can show you how to use every ounce of information within your corporation in order to gain maximum results. To get more information about our Knowledge Management services, please contact us or call us at 614-284-3479.

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IT Strategies Facilitation - Bridging The Gap Between Technology and People

The Information Technology departments in an organization can be so concerned and overwhelmed with tactical issues that they often do not have time to focus on their core objectives- effective and seamless implementation by their technical professionals along with satisfied business customers.

Companies require a new breed of technical employees - partly someone who comprehends the business side and has a solid understanding of how technology works, and partly someone who can create a smooth flow of technology between employees and the customer. It is hard to separate a business strategy that meets customer needs and the technology that allows it to happen.

While most businesses understand the people issues as well as the technical issues, they don't understand how to create cooperation between the two.

Our consultants can help you bridge this gap. We can ensure the IT strategy you choose can in fact be implemented with little trauma to your people or your customers. To get more information on implementing seamless IT strategies for your corporation, please contact us or call us at 614-284-3479.

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Accelerate Learning and Success With Coaching

Just as top athletes need coaches to improve their performance, managers, team leaders and executives also benefit by having a coach focus their efforts, identify barriers and hone their leadership skills. The old cliché, "lead, follow or get out of the way" has never been more applicable. In our ever-changing, fast-paced corporate world, constant personal development and vision alignment on every level are crucial. If you hesitate… if you are indecisive… you lose.

If you are looking for objective and confidential feedback, a sounding board for business decisions and personal issues, and a strategic partner with whom you will never have to compete for advancement, coaching from Progressive Leadership, Inc. might be your answer. We use unique tools and resources, including assessments to explore your unique talents and strengths concentrate on where you are and what you must do to get where you want to be.

If success is what you're striving for, it's time to break out of the pack and collaborate with a coach!

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Executive Coaching- Achieve Your Maximum Potential

Executive coaching is vital to unlocking each executive's natural strengths, creativity, and resourcefulness. We provide executives with unbiased and candid feedback and an objective perspective that they can use to produce organizational results. Top leadership and management professionals benefit from our executive coaching when they are starting new assignments, re-evaluating professional or life choices, or feeling the need for personal or professional breakthroughs.

Below are some of the outcomes you can expect:

• Clarified long-term vision for your role within your organization
• Increased performance and satisfaction
• Improved planning and time management skills
• Stronger influence over the direction of your organization
• Higher satisfaction and morale for those under your leadership
• Increased employee retention and productivity
• Improved decision-making and greater productivity
• Greater leverage of your unique strengths, value and skills
• Less stress and more satisfaction for you, personally and professional

For those serious about discovering the amazing benefits of coaching, we offer a complimentary coaching session. There is nothing to loose and so much to gain!

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Team Leader Coaching - Because Your Team Looks To You

Simply putting people together does not make them a team. And the actions and inactions of dysfunctional teams often has negative impacts on the rest of the organization, and the bottom line. Progressive Leadership, Inc. has developed a unique coaching approach that helps teams focus on the things that matter the most and moves them from compliance to a commitment mode.

Our approach is very simple. We coach the team-leader, to become the best that he or she can be and then make sure that he/she passes that knowledge onto each member of the team.

Whether you've become the leader of a new team, an integrated team resulting from a merger, or a team that seems to have lost its drive and direction, coaching offers invaluable insight and assistance. The entire team focuses on and looks to you for direction, motivation and support. An executive coach helps you to elevate this all-important position.

For those who are seriously considering improving teamwork, we invite you to take advantage of a complementary coaching session. Contact us today for the answers to any questions you may have, or to arrange team leader coaching for your organization.

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Transitional- Career Coaching - Master The Transformations In Your Career

One of the most rewarding, exciting and terrifying times in an employee's life lies in the transition from employee to manager. This momentous occasion is certainly cause for celebration, but is often also cause for concern. Adjusting to a new rank can be quite unsettling at times - especially if no formal management training has been offered. Other times assuming the managerial responsibilities of a new department or a team, being transferred to a new region, being repositioned after a merger can also challenge you.

People are challenged by transitions. While no one likes to admit they're uncomfortable with change, everyone is. Master the transformations in your career with ease by partnering with one of our professional coaches.

For those who are seriously considering transitional/career coaching, we invite you to take advantage of a complimentary coaching session. Contact us today for the answers to any questions you may have or to arrange transitional coaching services for you or your managers.

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Customized Training- Improve Performance With Our Customized Workshops

The essence of Progressive Leadership is that it partners with leaders and their companies to produce sustainable results. Our workshops are conducted the same way; everything is customized to meet your needs!

Why Our Approach?

Statistics show that the typical training experience has been shown to increase employee productivity only by 20-25%. A study conducted and published by Public Personnel Management suggests that customized training increased productivity by 88%.

The success of your organization comes from your people. In order to promote growth and expansion, your people will require continual development. We'll be glad to discuss your needs and create an on-site workshop or off-site workshop that will address key issues facing your company!

Emotional Intelligence: Employee Satisfaction and Personal Effectiveness

Every good leader must have the ability to work with employees on an emotional level. Today' s leaders need more than technical ability and IQ to effectively lead and inspire others. Emotional Intelligence has become a measure of success both professionally and personally. Increase the level of your employees' satisfaction as well as their workplace effectiveness by improving your ability to connect and relate with them. Through this intensive skill-building workshop you will learn how to enhance your self-awareness, built trust, rediscover the power of empathy, control emotions, and build team loyalty in no time.

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Develop The Leader That Lies Within You: The Art and Practice of Personal Leadership™

The pressures to perform flawlessly as a leader have never been so great. To succeed in today's competitive environment you need both immediate results and outstanding leadership performance. You need to move beyond "command and control" toward a collaborative progressive style that starts with YOU. This course is designed to help you maximize your results and reputation as a leader. You will receive tools and resources that help you develop the vision, value, influence and motivation required of today's progressive leaders.

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Coaching Skills For Today's Leaders: Transform Executives and Managers Into Great Leadership Coaches

Business success, now more than ever, hinges on your ability to grow good leaders at all levels of the organization. Coaching has always been one of the most effective ways of bringing out the best in people. In this one-day workshop you will learn powerful strategies that will help you become an exceptional leadership coach and make a difference in peoples' lives. You will learn how to effectively coach your team members, build trust and encourage self- motivation. Your people will be able to perform better now and in the future when you coach them as well as manage them.

Join us and learn more about coaching and how it can make you a more effective leader. Whether you already have a coaching style or not, this workshop will further your knowledge and development in this area. We’ll look at practical, interactive ways to develop your coaching skills.

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Management Communication Skills: Communicate Effectively By Listening And Understanding To Peoples' Communication Styles

This one-day workshop is designed to help your managers communicate using the common behavioral model language as a way of understanding themselves and their associates. Learning this behavioral model will allow your employees to enhance their professional relationships and interpersonal communications style.

Your managers will discover why their employees do what they do, their preferred ways of being managed, how they respond under stress, and the best way to motivate them to performance.

With this innovative workshop, you’ll learn to observe your employees’ behavior, and use the information you receive for their own good, and the good of the team. By determining which behavioral type each of your employees aligns to, you’ll be able to create effective plans-of-action that will increase performance, open communication, and instill a greater sense of team participation.

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Knowledge Management Foundation: Discover and Leverage the Hidden Knowledge of Your People & Resources

What if you had access to the entire storehouse of knowledge locked within your people and your information technology programs? The power you would have would be amazing! There is a way.

Knowledge Enabling Organizations implement knowledge management programs that enhance innovation, reduce time-to-market, increase efficiencies, increase customer loyalty and open the lines of communication on every level.

This one-day workshop provides a thorough introduction to knowledge management theories as well as practical information on the strategic, structural, and cultural issues that your organization should address.

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Communities of Practice: Create A Healthy Collaborative Culture That Dissolves The Individual Agenda & Expands Your Scope

How much growth do you think your company would experience if everyone truly worked together in collaborative communities? You would be able to easily identify experts within and outside your organizations. You would have a business filled with those who are encouraged by the common pursuit of solutions. The end result would be tremendous growth due to the willingness of your people to share all they have.

In this one-day workshop you will learn how to implement and sustain your communities of practices in order to see voluntary involvement, increased participation, improved morale and a renewed sense of corporate vision.

We offer our unique workshops on an ongoing basis! If you would like to learn more about our workshops, or need a customized on-site workshop, feel free to send us an email at info@progressiveleadership.com.

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Assessments Help You Discover Your Strengths,Values, Motivational
Factors & More

Assessments are focused on increasing knowledge and self-awareness. People learn more about themselves, their blind spots, their developmental gaps, their strengths and their learning styles. They also learn how they are perceived by others and since perception is reality - this is an important milestone!

In today's complex work environment, where there are often cross-functional teams working on a variety of projects, our assessments provide you and your leaders the visibility into complex issues that may or may not be apparent on a surface level.

Bottom line our assessments will allow you to identify your strengths and weaknesses in areas such as your communication patterns, leadership style, and personality profile.

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Below is a list of several of the assessment tools we use:

• Behavior Style Assessment (DISC): Understand your own behavioral style, recognize and utilize the differences in co-workers’ styles without changing them, deliver what others need to do their best work and create win-win outcomes. This assessment tool is tailored to Executives, Teams, Sales Professionals and Managers/Employees.
• Personal Interest, Attitudes & Values Assessment: Beyond your skills and experience, understand what really motivates you, your passions and attitudes. You will begin to recognize others core attitudes and see the word through their eyes, determine if you hire the right employees for the right job. The assessment cuts across titles and role to the heart of the individual and what they truly value and care about most.
• Discovery 360º Feedback Assessment: Customizable to the issues the organization wishes to measure: Performance Management Coaching Skills, Leadership, Empowerment, Teamwork, Quality, Customer Service and other factors. It highlights the gap between current performance and desired performance. At the end we suggest a professional coaching plan that tracks results over time.
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most widely used and scientifically validates personality profile in the world. Because it explains basic patterns in human functioning, the MBTI® Instrument is used for a wide variety of purposes including the following:

• Self-understanding and developments
• Career development and exploration
• Organization development
• Team building
• Management and leadership training
• Problem solving
• Education and curriculum development
• Academic counseling
• Diversity and multicultural training

For learning more about our assessments and how we can help your organization, please contact us or call us at 614-284-3479.

Most of our assessments are on-line based. An added benefit for you!

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