Leadership
Development
Begin The Path to Achieving Your Mission
Great work gets done through human connection. More often than not, organizations approach us because, while they have strong, technical leaders, they lack the people skills necessary to effect true change or create climates that will get results. For those seeking to connect the organization’s mission, purpose and leadership behaviors, we can help inspire and create meaningful interactions at work. Change begins with development, and our Leadership programs are designed to do just that. From new people leaders to mid-level managers to the C-suite, we co-create powerful leadership development programs for your team of leaders.
The Teleos Approach to Leadership
The Teleos Approach to Leadership
Domains of Learning & Outcomes
We see the learning in our leadership programs as falling into the following “domains.”
Resonant Leadership & Emotional Intelligence
Deep Empathy & Inclusion
Coaching & Mentoring Skills
Emotionally Intelligent Model of Leadership
Our leadership development process is based on the research described in Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee (Harvard Business Review Press, 2001), the research and work of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and over twenty years of experience. A wealth of evidence from years of study on the importance of emotions to learning, help make the compelling case for exactly how critical emotions are to the work of leaders and the business performance of organizations of all kinds. In most organizations, the tendency has been to appoint business leaders or managers on the basis of technical expertise and knowledge. The higher an individual moves up in the organization the more they require people leading skills so that technical expertise and knowledge alone is not enough. They also need social and relational skills, which are the basic grounding of Emotional Intelligence.
Combining expertise with people-skills results in a much more effective leader or manager who is able to:
• Listen effectively
• Show adaptability
• Show empathy
• Offer constructive feedback
• Influence/persuade others
• Motivate followers
• Work collaboratively
• Help the team to create a clear, shared vision
• Get teams working well together (i.e., sensitive to emotions within the team that might interfere with or increase team performance)
Leadership Development Program Principles
In addition to drawing on the Emotional Intelligence model in our design of programs, several other principals on adult learning guide us in the design and delivery of programs. All of our programs are:
Social
Research shows that adults learn best in the company of other people, through dialogue, discovery and relational support. All of our programs are designed to leverage participant interaction using a range of configurations including pair discussion, small group breakouts and large group discussions.
Highly Experiential
We believe adults learn best when they engage emotionally with the content and draw on their past experience to understand the concepts being shared. While all of our content is research-based, our facilitation is not didactic but instead engages the heart and body, as well as the mind.
Cohort-based
We believe adults learn best when psychological safety and trust is high. For this reason, we prioritize learning in a cohort model. We use Teleos facilitators to demonstrate how safe environments are created and build time into the program design for building the learning community.
Practical and Relevant
Our programs are relevant and grounded in the participant’s real-world experience and life back at work. We build time into the programs for practice and planning for application following the session.
Virtual Delivery
Over the past few years, we at Teleos have been working towards taking our highly experiential program content online for a more impactful, scalable and integrated learning experience. Through our SurePeople online learning platform and Zoom technology, we have been able to provide our relational leadership content virtually and then use the learning platform to integrate the learning through the intersession work and provide additional content and continual facilitator-student contact.
Virtual Delivery
Over the past few years, we at Teleos have been working towards taking our highly experiential program content online for a more impactful, scalable and integrated learning experience. Through our SurePeople online learning platform and Zoom technology, we have been able to provide our relational leadership content virtually and then use the learning platform to integrate the learning through the intersession work and provide additional content and continual facilitator-student contact.
Why Choose Teleos
“As the director of an operation that has a strong mission and culture that is doubling in size, it is important to have a partner like Teleos that can assist the “enterprise” go through the cultural changes that often take place with so many new staff.”
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