Progressive Leaders ask themselves:

• Do I exhibit an intentional and authentic leadership style?
• Have I mastered the fundamentals – mindset, skills and behaviors – to fulfill my leadership mandate?
• Do you engage key stakeholders around the company vision and strategy?
• Have you inspired your people to be the best they can be?
• Do you drive performance up, down and across the organization?
• Am I building the career equity required to get to the next level?

Leadership Smarts Program; Purpose and Objectives:

This practical and inspiring three-day program is structured around the three classic leadership domains:

• Leading Self
• Leading Others: Individuals and Teams
• Leading the Organization

Participants complete a 360 degree assessment tool and a psychometric instrument prior to attending the program and are supported by a powerful Individualized Development Plan co-developed over the course of the program.

An optimal blend of self-reflection and planning, group discussions, expert presentations, case studies and role plays and highly focused skill-building modules underpins the program. Peer and expert coaching supports the learning process and enables participants to build an action plan for immediate success back at the workplace.

Workshop Objectives: 

• Develop an intentional and authentic leadership style
• Build a compelling leadership vision and career legacy
• Accelerating personal readiness for the leadership role
• Personal effectiveness – effective time and energy management
• Build leadership capability by completing targeted skill-building modules:
  • Driving performance
  • Communicating for impact
  • Coaching for performance gains
  • Setting a high performance culture
  • Difficult conversations
  • Influencing with integrity
  • High-impact talent management
  • Managing up
  • Lateral leadership
• Develop a powerful Individualized Development Plan to drive continuous improvement

Accomplished and ambitious leaders ask themselves:

• Have I rounded-out my CV and track record sufficient to defend it and position it as CEO-ready?
• Am I ready in myself to make the investments, trade-offs and take the decisions and actions required of a world-class CEO?
• Are my Emotional and Social Intelligence and Executive Presence where they needs to be to convince world-class professionals from the world of business and the media that I look, sound and act like an authoritative executive.
• Can I play the myriad of roles and serve the multiple stakeholders involved in the executives life
• Can I build the relationships and networks required for success in an executive role?
• Are my problem-solving skills – business, commercial, political, operational and leadership – where they need to be?
• Have I built a robust development plan that will enable me to transition to and excel in an executive position?

Executive Readiness Development Center Workshop Overview:

This workshop is one of a kind – supportive, feedback-intensive, dynamic and highly practical. We bring circa ten executives who are genuine C-level candidates and challenge them through multiple assessment and development activities.

The program requires the participants to become the acting CEO of a CASE STUDY company created by OLE Consulting – an Investment Company with major interests in the Healthcare space. In a turbulent day for the company, including an insider trading case, the resignation of the CFO and a patient death at one of the hospital assets, the CEO faces numerous problem-solving scenarios and media interviews. The participant is also interviewed for the permanent CEO position by a high-powered selection committee.

The candidate receives both preparation support and comprehensive feedback for all activities. Key events and processes are also video-taped and debriefed with the participant and an experienced executive coach.

Discussion groups, a video case study, a psychometric tool and a targeted speech by a notable CEO brings this program alive and ensures that the development plan set for each individual is robust, objective and practical.

Workshop Objectives:

• Enhance self-awareness and self-mastery skills within the context of an executive role
• Understand the nature, challenges, imperatives and demands of the executive role
• Self-assess against a robust executive success profile and against the powerful participant peer group
• Sharpen executive-level communications skills across multiple activities and with multiple stakeholders – media interviews with real-life practitioners, actors playing C-level colleagues, and real players from the world of business
• Identify the personal behavioral risks that could weaken your reputation, credibility or performance at the executive level
• Build the character and competencies required to handle pivotal and complex executive interactions
• Build a robust development plan to inform, drive and cement your Executive Readiness

Due to the cost and logistics of this workshop, we run it three times per year – Dubai (UAE), London (UK) and Atlanta (USA).

Ambitious and reflective leaders ask themselves:

• Do I present myself with gravitas? As confident and composed, as polished and poised?
• Do I command immediate respect? Do people listen when I speak?
• Do I own the room, fill it? Light it up?
• Does my personal brand say “Respect me, trust me, empower me”?
• Do I possess an influential and charismatic leadership style?

Executive Presence Workshop Purpose and Objectives:

This workshop provides a unique opportunity to assess, explore and grow your Executive Presence in ways that fit your organizational context, leadership mandate and your career goals. Experience an engaging, dynamic and practical workshop that will help you build the Executive Presence mindset, skills and behaviors required for success.

You will receive a highly usable and useful personalized report on your behavioural style, a self- assessment and an individualized development plan against OLE Consulting’s proprietary Executive Presence model. We will ensure that you have the roadmap and know-how to implement your action plan in order to realize your desired Executive Presence.

Best practice reviews, engaging and entertaining video clips, role-plays and group work and a video-taped montage of you in action (in group exercises and when presenting) bring the program alive.

Workshop Objectives:

• Develop an understanding of what Executive Presence is and how to get it
• Leverage your personalized behaviorist style report to establish your baseline Executive Presence and build an action plan to get to the next level
• Augment your professional impact, power and influence by completing targeted modules on the six key dimensions of Executive Presence, specifically:
  • Developing a compelling personal brand
  • Positioning yourself as a thought leader
  • Building a powerful network – inside and outside of your organization
  • Building your power and influence base and skill-sets
  • Developing personal agility and adaptability
  • Communicating and presenting with impact and style
  • Commit to a personalized action plan to take your Executive Presence to the next level

Ambitious and reflective Leaders ask themselves:

• Do I understand my organizational culture and climate sufficient to plan and target my communications?
• Do my leadership communications come across as effective? Authentic? Engaging? Inspirational?
• Do my leadership communications translate the company vision and strategy for my employees? Align action? Enable employees to connect what they think, feel and do with the bigger picture?

High-Impact Leadership Communication Skills Purpose and Objectives:

This workshop provides a unique opportunity to assess, explore and grow your Leadership Communication skills in ways that fit your organizational context, leadership mandate and your career goals. Experience an engaging, dynamic and practical workshop that will help you plan to deliver high-impact leadership communication.

You will receive a highly usable and useful personalized report on your communication style, a self- assessment and an individualized development plan against OLE Consulting’s proprietary High-Impact Leadership Communications model. We will ensure that you have the roadmap and know-how to implement your action plan in order to help you take your leadership communications to the next level.

A personalized report and development plan, engaging and entertaining video clips, role-plays and group work and a video-taped montage of you in action (in group exercises and when presenting) during the program bring the program alive.

Workshop Objectives:

• Review the role of organizational and leadership communications in the high-performing organization
• Understand the leadership competencies and behaviors most critical for high-impact communications
• Understand your personal leadership communication style
• Learn how to use a powerful communication planning and strategy design toolkit
• Learn how to produce “killer” presentations – and “stand and deliver” them
• Broaden your persuasion and influencing skill-set and toolkit
• Have more effective dialogues up, down and across the organization
• Become more aware of the power of non verbal communication and intentional in how you use non-verbal communications to enliven your communications and connect with others
• Learn the art of listening, inquiry and effective questioning
• Commit to a personalized action plan to take your Leadership Communications to the next level

Transitioning and new leaders ask themselves: 

• Do I understand my behavioral style at work?
• Do I know how my behavioral style impacts my personal brand and reputation? My credibility? The impact it has on others?
• Can I flex my style to adapt to changing contexts, cultures and circumstances?
• Does my behavioral style enable me to influence others?

Workshop Purpose and Objectives:

This progressive workshop leverages a powerful personalized assessment tool to profile your personal motivations, behavioral hierarchy (how deep-rooted personal preferences affect the behaviors you use most at work and how they shape your strengths and weaknesses) and behavioral style. You’ll experience a series of case study and role play activities to build your ability to flex your natural behavioral style and adapt to changing scenarios and desired goals. Video excerpts from the world of politics, business and sport enliven this workshop and the drive for improved leadership performance keeps it practical, relevant and immediate.

Workshop Objectives:

• Develop a deep understanding of personal behavioral style
• Build the capacity and skills necessary to flex your style and adapt to changing people, contexts and circumstances
• Understand how context shapes human interactions, connectivity and outcomes
• Sharpen your ability to read and understand others – their motivations and behavioral style
• Leverage Behavioral Intelligence to hone critical leadership competencies:
  • Empathic maturity and agility
  • Communication skills
  • Influencing skills
  • Relationship management
  • Emotional coaching
• Leverage these skills to improve your performance in these leadership scenarios:
  • Change leadership
  • Talent management
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Team building
  • Managing conflict
  • Presentation, negotiating and selling skills
• Structure the aesthetic and non-verbal “you” to grow your presence, gravitas and impact

Progressive leaders ask themselves:

• Do I understand how my emotions impact my behaviors at work?
• Am I able to maintain confidence, composure, motivation and poise in pressurized times?
• Can I read others sufficient to build reciprocity, empathy, trust and respect?
• Am I seen as a balanced, reliable, intuitive and empathetic manager?

Emotional Intelligence Workshop Purpose and Objectives:

This highly practical workshop leverages a powerful model of Emotional Intelligence and a corresponding assessment tool to enable leaders to establish a baseline of emotional intelligence and build the specific skills, behaviors and habits required to grow their competence in this key area.

You will receive a personalized report that benchmarks your proficiency in the five competencies of Emotional Intelligence against global normative data. We will help you build a road map and action plan to develop your overall Emotional Intelligence and equip you with the know-how to put that into practice.

A personalized assessment report and action plan, customized case studies, role plays and group exercises bring this workshop to life. Real-life video-clips from the world of sport, politics and movies educate and entertain, and dynamic presentation and facilitation keeps the energy, focus and pragmatism high.

Workshop Objectives:

• Build an understanding of Emotional Intelligence – its origins, application and potential
• Describe the emotional and behavioral competencies that drive optimal leadership performance
• Leverage a powerful personal assessment tool to grow self awareness within the context of Emotional Intelligence
• Understand your motives and the drivers of your workplace engagement and satisfaction
• Build the skill set to manage and mobilize personal impulses, moods and energy levels
• Build a powerful “reading others” skill-set and toolkit sufficient to meet people where they are, build empathy and deep connections with critical others
• Learn how to use emotional intelligence to provide performance and corrective feedback
• Bolster your persuasion and influencing skills and toolkit
• Learn how to use Emotional Intelligence to build cohesive and productive teams
• Plan to enhance the quality of your relationships and networks at work
• Commit to a personalized action plan to take your Emotional Intelligence to the next level

OLE Consulting provides a dynamic, intensive and highly practical five-day program entitled “The Leadership Academy” that focuses on the imperatives of Leading Self, Leading Others and Leading the Organization.

The program is offered three times per year, twice in the Region and once in the USA (Atlanta, Georgia). The program is also offered as a highly-customized offering for new and existing clients interested in a turbo-charge to the development of between 10-14 of their High Potential Leaders.

The Leadership Academy is a feedback-intensive program leveraging a powerful psychometric battery and both expert and peer coaching. Over the course of the program, the participants build highly actionable Individualized Development Plans and leave the program with a roadmap and increased vigor for their Leadership and Career Development and for the delivery of optimal performance at work.