“We’re spending entirely too much time trying to get our supervisors and managers to walk the talk, exert some leadership, and to get things done around here.”

Does this statement sound familiar? We shouldn’t have to wrestle to get our leaders on board with the mission of the organization. Too often we’re seeing:

	Endless hours spent in meetings with little bottom-line impact
	Leaders tangling with the same old problems and issues
	Recurring customer complaints or returns
	Leader behaviors that have a negative backlash
	Communications that fall on deaf ears
	Leaders working against each other instead of pulling together
	Employees feeling uninvolved and unsupported
	Leaders not promoting the right things
	Lack of trust between employees and management
	Business measures not where they need to be
	Leaders not dealing effectively with performance management issues

The Leader Team Front End Alignment addresses these problems and more.

How does the Front End Alignment work?

The Leader Team Front End Alignment is an assessment and intervention exercise in which members of your leadership team learn how to implement and manage a continuing culture of successful leadership in the organization.   The Leader Team Front End Alignment process starts with a Leader Team Self-Assessment and succeeds by the effective implementation of intervention strategies the whole team endorses and promotes that will actually make a difference to bottom-line results (click here to see an overview of the entire process).

Building Involvement and Ownership

How do you get a room full of leaders to solve their own leadership problems? Easy! Just have them take the Leader Team Self-Assessment survey from Cornelius & Associates, show them the results, and help them put together an Alignment Plan that will achieve your desired business objectives. 

Experience shows that awareness comes before change. We have found that the best way to get leadership teams motivated for change is to have them be drivers of their own change process. This exercise starts with each member of the leader team individually assessing the team and its effectiveness against 15 critical leader team “best practices.” The results are then presented to the assembled leader team (click here to see a sample of one of the reports). A targeted and prioritized Alignment Plan is developed during high-impact work sessions. Individual meetings and follow-up sessions make sure that the momentum continues over time and that real results are achieved.

Benefits of Using the Leader Team Front End Alignment

Leader Team Self-Assessment

1. The leadership team takes ownership of their strengths and weaknesses because the Leader Team Self-Assessment report is based on their own perceptions of the team’s effectiveness.

2. The report generated from this tool is grounded in proven leadership principles and the feedback generated is actionable.

3. Once the initial benchmark results are established, the leadership team can do a periodic self-assessment to measure progress without any additional outside help.  They are empowered to be able to measure progress themselves, and thusly continually create improvement plans to target areas that will have the greatest impact on business measures.

The Feedback and Work Session

1. Since the assessment exercise is based upon 15 proven critical success factors for leadership teams, the Alignment Plan will have a positive impact upon your critical business measures and bottom line success.

2. The leadership team takes ownership of the plan and is motivated to see the plan implemented and succeed because they created this plan based on their own perceptions and ideas. 
3. The employee population sees that the management group is setting the example for continuous self-improvement. The momentum opens the door for similar improvement opportunities within the employee ranks and culture.

Front End Alignment Success Stories
Front  End Alignment Process
Front End Alignment Sample Report
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Teamwork Leadership Style Range (TLSR) Survey
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This is a 360-degree feedback individual leader feedback tool built to compliment the Front End Alignment Self-Assessment.  The first section of the TLSR matches the 15 behavior competencies used in the Team Self-Assessment.  This tool is particularly useful to develop individual leaders in conjunction with the leadership team.

Surveying the Workplace Culture
This is an immersion exercise into the workplace experience of your employees that gathers information about a diverse number of social and transactional dimensions of the culture. With the help of resulting expert analysis and interpretation, the leadership group is able to perform a gap analysis in order to close the gap between what is desired in the workplace culture and what actually exists.

Leadership 2010
This is an intense training workshop for managers and supervisors.  The course teaches leaders how to increase their personal effectiveness with people. When leaders learn that their primary role is not to be a motivator but to be a facilitator of the motivation of others, they will be ready to grow and succeed.

Supervisory Leader Course
This is an intensive skills-packed course for supervisors and managers that changes behavior and improves your organization’s talent base.  This course identifies five roles of a supervisory leader: influencing people, supervising work, communicating effectively, coaching and managing through conflicts.  Participants will learn to excel in these roles and are given tools to help them back at work. 

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Elizabeth Johnson
phone: 1.800.200.1104
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