200-level Leaders

The 200 to 300 journey

The 200-level leader is a reliable, trustworthy producer. The expectation of a 200-level leader on their way to 300-level is subject-matter expertise in their area of the business, as well as the ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously, effectively manage competing priorities, and accurately quantify tradeoffs to senior management to enable decision-making. Furthermore, leading at this level includes the development of a strong team and the individual talent on it (to maintain a pipeline of talent and ensure succession) and continuous improvement in their area of the business.

Common pinch point: 300-level thinking requires a 30,000-foot perspective, yet the Manager/Senior Manager is stuck in the operational weeds of the day-to-day.

Solutions for 200-level leaders

Individual and Cohort

Executive Coaching

The ground truth is that the more effective your leaders are, the better your business performs. Adaptation is learn/unlearn/relearn in motion, and it is so much easier, faster, and more fun with our coaches.

Leadership Lab

Positive Leadership

Equip your team with the transformative tools of positive leadership. Our Lab offers your leaders an exploration into enhancing their effectiveness, adopting powerful mindsets, and mastering engagement techniques. Empower them to meet their goals while uplifting their teams, fostering a workplace environment that’s as productive as it is positive.

Courses

Creative Leadership • Leadership and Identity • Values in Action • Strength-based Leadership • Delegation • Feedback • Leading with Trust

Optional follow-on module: Leadership Style Guide (self-directed)

Impacts

Self-awareness • Professional Courage • Authenticity • Outcome-focused leadership • Values-driven leadership • Development of a well-rounded team • Proactive feedback • Decision-making • Effective Communication

Time Investment

Standard Lab – 4 months/5 hours per month (Learning Lab, Integration Session, and prework)
Extended Lab – 6 months/3.5 hours per month (single-topic Learning Lab, Integration Session, and prework)

For new leaders

Leadership Quickstart

Foundational leadership skills for new managers.

Preparing for a difficult conversation, centering mind/body/spirit for the best possible outcome, practice the 60-second opening of a hard conversation
OARS with emphasis on Affirmations & Reflections (affirm, validate, reflect) and some insight or element that makes the practice uniquely pLink
List out limiting beliefs (practice); familiarize with best practices of delegation

Perspective Building for Leaders of Leaders

Leveling Up Leadership

Transitioning to higher level systems thinking

Zoom in/zoom out; taking the whole into consideration; one foot in day-to-day operations and one foot in future minded (strategic) thinking.
Practice 2.0 (vision and purpose for the team)
Trust through the lens of stakeholders involved in mutli-function initiatives who may have zero experience of you and your team. Double click on intentionality. Map Stakeholders. Look at Teaming Trust Practice.
Creating a prioritization practice and use delegation to ensure you are focused on creating the outcomes that matter the most
Preparing to pitch up (perspective, resistance, framing up)

Thriving Leader

The Thriving Leader workshop is designed to increase a leader’s ability to flourish and develop in a healthy way while successfully navigating the significant demands of the current work environment. Leaders will learn an evidence-based framework for optimal well-being, and the mindsets and competencies needed to turn overwhelm into focused and productive action.

This program delivers insights, provides coaching, and creates opportunities for individual gains in:

Resilience and a sense of well-being.
Focus and prioritization.
Effective leadership in the face of multiple demands.

And collective (team) gains in:

Prioritization and accountability.
Productive relationships with others.
Leading effectively through collective leadership.

Duration – 1 day (in person) or multiple session (virtual).

Time investment – varies by format.

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Inclusive Leadership

Workshop

Leader as Coach

In our experience, leaders who understand, and utilize, the fundamental skills of coaching are better, more effective leaders. They are the kind of humans that others aspire to be like, and the way in which they lead creates positive culture and improves all kinds of organizational outcomes.

Our Leader as Coach program is an inspiration that comes from being positive psychology practitioners, who are also skilled coaches with deep business acumen. Why not equip leaders with foundational coaching skills that they can “learn today and apply tomorrow?” Most of the leaders we interact with love supporting the growth of other people, what they crave is more know-how. Participants, who actively engage in the workshop, will learn how to listen more deeply, ask powerful questions, resist solving problems for others, and gain a new perspective on how they add value as leader and coach.

Format:

In Person – 2 days
Virtual – four ½ days

Course Framework:

Creating a Culture of Coaching
Mindset & Stance of a Coach
The 6 Coaching Skills that every Leader Needs
pLink’s Coaching Cascade
Practice. Practice.
Putting it all together

Optional add-on:

Coaching Circles (series of 8, 6 or 4 practice sessions to fully integrate the skills). Our Coaching Circles are like the after party – no one wants them to end.

Learning Outcomes

Individual

Apply six foundational coaching skillsets to improve leadership effectiveness and business performance.
Clearly articulate the value of coaching and how it is different from other developmental techniques.
Apply ICF ethical standards to coaching conversations.

Organizational

Facilitate the transformation of managers to leaders.
Free up mindshare and minutes to increase creativity and innovation.
Cultivate the intersection of organizational priorities and personal development, resulting in better conversations, deeper insights, and greater employee satisfaction.