Dear Corporate Leader:

What is the best way to move a high potential employee from their instinctive behaviors to more appropriate and effective ways of interacting?

How can a talented young employee adopt a stronger presence and be taken seriously by those older and more established?

As an executive resonsponsible for human capital management, your ONE challenge inlcudes finding coaching and development programs to meet the needs of a diverse, multigenerational workforce---one that operates in an environment impacted by technical advances and bottom-line realities.

My speciality is working with “Cs-to-Be™”---high potential employees with ambition and intelligence to reach senior and C-level positions. These talented managers and administrators with advanced degrees---maybe even earned online---need practical information about the ways their leadership abilities will be tested.

During my seminars, workshops, and coaching sessions, I offer compelling insights on what business needs from leaders, the effects of changing societal and cultural expectations on the roles of leaders, the core traits a leader needs to effectively engage followers, and more. Drawing on my experiences working to be a leader, I present practical ways to navigate workplace landmines and collaborate with Walking on Water, Women's Auxiliary, and other types of leaders.

My programs also explore the fabric of what makes successful leaders, the textures of competing commitments, and the threads that comprise how leaders show up in the world.

(If your mind is preoccupied with thoughts of your own development, see Individual Clients.)

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Below in Training, Coaching, and Retreats are some of the ways in which I can assist your organization to meet and resolve its ONE challenge---and many others!

Lead with your best,
Leigh.

Training

Sample topics of training workshops and seminars include:

Working to be a Leader to Earn Respect, Trust, and Advancement. Learn or improve upon six basic traits to level the playing field of professional and personal competing commitments.

Leading from Your Core for Greater Impact. Develop authenticity by finding out what keeps others from experiencing your essential skills and an empowered presence.

Does Leadership Have a Gender? A Race? A review of media, messages, and myths that hinder recognition of commonalities among leaders and universal capabilities.

All trainining is customized around educating participants on ways to develp effective perspective and improve workplace intelligence.

Workplace intelligence is more than your IQ. Your intelligence quotient makes up only a percentage of your abilities to perform and succeed in the workplace. Being highly skilled or earning advanced degress doesn't guarantee high workplace intelligence. These are ingredients that factor into your overall performance at work. The rest of the effectiveness of your performance is made up of the three areas of workplace intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence
The ability to perceive and manage your emotions — and that of your colleagues.
Social Intelligence
An understanding of how a group of individuals interacts and behaves within an environment.
Cultural Awarenss
Appreciation for the diverse backgrounds of colleagues and knowledge of the distinct atmosphere of the workplace.

To design a LTR program that fits your specific needs, please contact Leigh@LTR-NYC.com.

Coaching

Playing to win means that you give yourself every opportunity to be successful. You use what you can control to change your behavior and achieve positive results.

Playing not to lose is an approach that allows you to avoid risk in order to keep the status quo. This behavior is often rooted in a fear of failure.

My leadership coaching clients learn how to play to win. They express relief to finally find someone who can speak their language and who understands the landscape of the workplace.

Who can benefit from coaching?

A leader new to the job can benefit from working with a coach to understand the nuances and responsibilities of being a leader.
A woman with her eye on the top spot can benefit from support dealing with the challenges she faces to level her playing field.
A two-strike leader for whom coaching is the last resort can learn how to maximize the value of his expertise and modify behaviors to keep his job.

Leadership coaching is a process that can be delivered in different formats:

Executive — A senior vice president needs to tone down her alpha behavior to get greater buy-in from her followers and grow her organizational effectiveness.
Dyad — Two executives need objective feedback on how to air and resolve the conflicts keeping them from collaborating and communicating honestly.
Team — A collection of individuals need to step up to their next level of collective functioning as a cohesive unit.

To find out more about how LTR’s coaching process can clear the barriers keeping valuable talent from top-level performance, please contact Leigh@LTR-NYC.com.

Retreats

Retreats are valuable opportunities for leaders to focus on topics in a stimulating environment that fosters creative brainstorming and interacting with individuals committed to a common goal.

The mission of a retreat can be to plan for an upcoming corporate milestone, develop a strategic organizational plan for the next six months, or establish guidelines for the top performance of a team.

LTR’s retreat services include:

Collaboration on design of program.
Location selection and coordination of details.
Development of materials to be used at retreat.
Communications with participants.
Facilitation of the retreat process.
Follow-up for sustainable results.

To design a retreat that fits your specific needs, please contact Leigh@LTR-NYC.com.

Client Comments

Seeing my behaviors translated to numbers has a positive effect on my performance. When you quantify how I act, this feedback is real. — Vice president, Wall Street firm

Our conversations helped me identify my strategy and lay out a path to effectively communicate my ideas. — Vice president, Wall Street firm

I wish the workshop was three and not just two days; I learned so very much from you that I can take right back to my job. — Vice president, technology division, federal government

The program covered a well-defined area of topics and inter-related them to practical workplace situations. — Vice president, financial services firm

The time in Ms. Henderson’s seminar was extremely valuable. Excellent presenter. I’m looking forward to using this information with my team. — Vice president, communications company