The
LIM Approach To Leadership Development
Our
ARL process is a results-oriented
leadership development process in which managers receive coaching while
they work to solve their organization's strategic business challenges.
LIM's programs
help answer specific challenges, such as:
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How can we develop
proactive change leaders across our company?
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How do we devise a global business strategy that is sensitive
to regional, functional and cultural differences?
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How can our company manage the complexity of becoming a global
enterprise?
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How do we learn to work effectively in multi-cultural
teams?
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How do we break through barriers to promote communication and
cooperation?
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How can we solve current business challenges?
LIM's international expertise and global network have helped
many companies address these questions and activate change by developing
a method that is practical, profitable and ensures that learning
lasts: Earning While Learning™.
The most powerful learning comes from working on current challenges
linked to an organization's business strategy. In ARL leadership
development programs, executives work in teams on real business
problems to produce solutions that frequently result in increased
revenues and reduced costs. Individual, team and organizational
development successes add dividends to the balance sheet.
Developing Effective Global
Organizations
When becoming global is the goal, participants work on cross-functional,
cross-cultural, cross-divisional and cross-geographical teams. Managers
develop the necessary global mindset to reduce nationalistic and
cultural prejudice, and to break down divisional walls and turf
competition. LIM Learning Coaches develop leaders with the
skills to manage projects that have multiple objectives and multiple
stakeholders.
Learning That Creates Real
Behavioral Change
For any organization to compete effectively, it must institutionalize
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.
Co-Designing 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.
LIM helps companies who are involved with critical change
issues - cultural, global, organizational, strategic, and personal
change. In today's changing global market, it is not "business as
usual." There are changes in relationships, work ethics, leadership
styles, structure, procedures and customer requirements. Global
leaders require skills and experience to effectively manage the
transition process at many levels. We have helped many of our clients
develop and implement transitions that enable them to:
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Solve critical business issues
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Realize desired business synergies
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Leverage cultural differences to build high performing teams
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Adapt business strategies to the global economy
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Improve the bottom line
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Capture and institutionalize the learning from the process
LIM's Leadership
For Results Program develops your leaders
so that they help your organization better serve your global customers.
LIM's
Business Model
LIM's
Business Model is designed to develop high performing
organizations by focusing on the internal capabilities that bring
sustained performance. To do this we focus on leadership development
processes utilizing our Action Reflection Learning methodology that
produces results on five levels: Personal; Professional; Team; Organizational;
Business.
LIM's Business Model
Earning While Learning™
Together we develop your people while they develop
your business
Leadership Development Goals:
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To develop high performing leaders who are fully competent to
lead your organization through global expansion, cultural challenges,
change, and transition;
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To provide immediate return on investment for the organization
and the individual;
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To achieve sustained performance through our 'Earning While
Learning' model.
Earning While Learning™
Our approach is like no other; we work with you to develop a leadership
development program that meets your needs. During a
LIM Leadership
For Results Program, participants work together and learn to experience
the growth of high performance teams while working on real time
projects 'owned' by an internal client. Each team determines its
roles, norms, learning needs and work plan. A
LIM Learning
Coach is assigned to each team for observation and feedback providing
just in time concepts and tools.
Learning Outcomes
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Assess individual leadership competencies needed to lead the
organization to global effectiveness and create a personal action
plan for improvement
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Recognize cultural challenges impacting your organization and
determine successful outcomes
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Identify a process that enables key individuals to transfer global
management skills and action plans throughout the organization
LIM'S Leadership
For Results Program Elements
Key elements of
LIM's
Leadership For Results Program
includes:
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Personalized 360°-Feedback
Assessment
We use a 360°-degree feedback assessment tool built on a company's
competency model or co-design one. The report provides insight to
their strengths and weaknesses. This multi-rater feedback is collected,
analyzed and summarized in a personal and confidential report. Other
self-assessment instruments may be used as requested.
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One-on-One Coaching Sessions
One-on-one coaching sessions help individuals interpret their assessment
results and create a personalized development plan. The coach helps
individuals identify development needs to work on throughout the
program. Coaching is available between sessions via phone or e-LIM,
our electronic platform where confidentiality is guaranteed and
access to tools and concepts is available.
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Just in Time Learning
New concepts and tools are provided just in time. It is our belief
most learning occurs when it is recognized as a need. We tailor
learning interventions to fit diverse learning styles and use lectures,
videos, role plays, fish bowls, simulations, case studies, reflection,
writing, dialog, skits and field trips. However, the majority of
our learning is experiential occurring during the project work.
Internal or external professional experts may be asked to provide
pre-planned workshops that address critical business challenges
of senior leaders when needed. Based upon an initial needs assessment
and program design, topics are selected and scheduled as appropriate.
Possible Topics:
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Change Management - Implementing Change
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Globalization - Understanding Organizational Strategy to Achieve
High Performance
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Power Planning
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Building High Performing Teams
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Project Management
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Running Effective Meetings
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Leadership Styles and Learning Styles
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Effective Decision Making
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Feedback for Process Improvement and Skill Development
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Influencing Others
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Managing Conflict
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Having Difficult Conversations
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Systems Thinking
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Organizational Learning
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Teamwork
Participants work as team members and learn how to lead and work
as members of a high performing team while solving corporate business
challenges. Approximately half of the program time is allocated
to project work. As a result there are many opportunities for the
teams to learn about meeting management, project management, consulting,
decision-making, conflict management, negotiations, contracting,
cultural differences, functional differences as well as the project
they are working on and the part of the organization they are working
with. Since we maximize the differences for every team and ensure
that there are no experts on any team who have prior experience
or expertise with their project challenge, the team frequently comes
up with very innovative solutions - simply because they are not
'stuck' in tradition.
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Learning Coaches
While the project teams are working on their business challenges
their Learning Coaches are looking for opportunities to reinforce
effective teamwork or raise awareness for exploring new horizons
at a variety of levels depending upon the team's readiness.
LIM's
Learning Coaches have received extensive training for coaching individuals
and teams.
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Cultural Awareness
All of our global programs build in a cultural awareness component
to leverage the cultural diversity of the participants. This occurs
in several ways. First the teams are as diverse as possible. Our
staff as well is culturally diverse. Each session is usually held
in a different geographic location so that the participants can
experience a taste of several different cultures. As part of the
design during each program 'week' the project teams are given a
cultural question that they have to find the answer to by going
out into the local community. Then they present their findings to
the larger group in an entertaining and educational fashion and
then explore the theory and implications behind each of the questions.
We also use the Cultural Orientation Instrument (COI).
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Client Sponsored Projects
Each project team works with an internal client, the project owner
who is responsible for results. Clients are aware that project teams
have a dual focus: 1) working with their client's system to find
a solution and 2) learning about teamwork and leadership along the
way.
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Reflection & Self-Discovery
Through coaching, team feedback, personal reflection, peer coaching,
journal writing and dialogue participants gain insights into their
behavior and performance. This self-discovery is the beginning of
the change process. Reflection time is built into the program design.
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Networking
Participants consider developing a network with peers as one of
the most valuable benefits of a Leadership Development Program.
Often business agreements are made and referrals result that grease
the organizational wheels so that 'things happen' quickly.
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Program Design
LIM Leadership Development Programs generally have 3-4
sessions and are spread over a period of several months. They are
held wherever the client does business. Roughly 50% of the time
is allocated to project work and 50% to programmed learning opportunities.
Partial Client List:
LIM brings special insights and skills based on our track
record working with major organizational change. Here is a partial
client list:
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