LIM is dedicated to developing global business leaders. Globalization is a fact, and the rapidly changing global business environment requires leaders with new mindsets, behaviors and competencies.

To support the professional development of these new leaders, LIM uses a special process called Action Reflection Learning - ARL, a unique lever for change that combines personal, professional, team, organization and business development. The ARL process is specifically designed to meet the business needs of organizations that want to be truly global in their reach, performance and skills.

The ARL process puts senior managers to work solving their own organization 's strategic and business issues while providing them with coaching in teamwork, leadership and personal development. LIM's programs help answer specific concerns, such as:

• How can we develop proactive change leaders across our company?

• How do we devise a global business strategy that is sensitive to regional and cultural issues?

• How can we simultaneously learn and solve strategic business problems?

• How does our organization reinforce its competitive position?

• How can our company manage the complexity of becoming a global enterprise?

• How do we learn to work effectively in multi-cultural teams?

• How do we make this merger work?

LIM's international expertise and global network have helped many companies address these issues and activate change by developing a method that focuses on these key areas:

Earning While Learning™

The most powerful learning comes from working on problems linked to an organization's business strategy. In ARL programs, executive teams work on real business problems to produce solutions that frequently result in enhanced revenues and reduced costs. Individual, team and organizational development success adds dividends to the balance sheet.

Developing Effective Global Organizations

When becoming global is the goal, participants work in cross-functional, cross-cultural, cross- divisional and cross-geographical teams. Managers develop the necessary global mindset to reduce nationalism and cultural prejudice, and to break down divisional walls and turf competition. LIM services develop leaders with the skills to manage projects which have multiple objectives and multiple stakeholders.

Learning That Creates Real Behavioral Change

For any organization to compete effectively, it must initiate substantial behavioral change at all levels. The ARL process helps integrate techniques, such as reflection and critical thinking, into everyday business activity. Intensive feedback, coaching and individual support, produce visible change in the leadership and management style of participants. An integral part of each program is to have participants practice and receive feedback on new skills and behaviors that produce individual, team, organization and business changes.

Designing Custom Programs and Services

ARL programs reflect the unique and evolving needs of each client. LIM forms a partnership with an organization to design appropriate interventions together, ensuring that LIM professionals understand the client and the context before the work begins.

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