Empower your Functional Leaders to Lead at their Level and Drive Success
This training program helps functional leaders excel in their roles by clarifying key work values, skills, and time management. It addresses common team dysfunctions, often caused by functional leaders not fully embracing their roles, which hinders their integration with peers in the management team.
Program Overview
The Leadership Pipeline Transition Program for Functional Leaders equips leaders with the tools, insights, and practical training to excel in their roles. Based on "The Leadership Pipeline," it clarifies responsibilities, enhances skills and work values, and helps leaders create unique value. The program focuses on the challenges and responsibilities functional leaders face, offering interactive sessions and practical exercises to develop essential skills and strategies for success.
Who should attend?
The Functional Leaders Program is designed for:
Leaders with Full function Responsibility
This program is ideal for leaders who hold complete responsibility for a specific function within an organization. They may oversee a corporate function or a function within a business unit. They report to Enterprise leaders, business leaders, or other senior functional leaders.
Diverse Function Sizes
This program is ideal for leaders who hold complete responsibility for a specific function within an organization. They may oversee a corporate function or a function within a business unit. They report to Enterprise leaders, business leaders, or other senior functional leaders.
Newly Appointed and Experienced Leaders
The program is beneficial for both newly appointed functional leaders and those with five or ten years of experience in the role. It has a proven track record of creating lasting change in terms of knowledge, attitude, and behavior, ensuring valuable development for leaders at different stages of their career.
Broad Audience
Recognizing the significance of functional leadership, most organizations design programs to capture the diverse audience of functional leaders. This program provides targeted support and development for this critical group within the organization.
Typical transition issues of functional leaders
In the functional leader development program, we will support leaders overcoming the typical transition issues for functional leaders. As you will probably notice, these are behaviors you also see with more experienced functional leaders.
- Focuses primarily on own function instead of being truly interested in peer functions
- Prefers spending time with people from own function rather than with his/her peer functional leaders and the business leader
- Fails to contribute actively to the business strategy
- Considers primarily well-known areas of the function to be important
- Primarily takes care of short-term results without preparing for long-term results
Empowering your leadership journey
Dynamic 2-day program
Our program can be conducted onsite, offsite or blended, accommodating your preferences and availability.
Action Learning
The program is designed to focus on real job challenges, allowing participants to explore leadership while developing key skills for greater efficiency in their current roles. Participants will work on setting business objectives, developing leadership talent, giving feedback, and making fact-based assessments, while also reviewing their own goals, development plans, and learning how to give and receive feedback.
Tailored Approach
We offer a flexible delivery model tailored to your organization's needs and learning culture. Our proven programs address key leadership transitions and are easily customizable. We combine our expertise with your organization's experience to create high-impact, blended learning journeys that engage leaders and specialists at their own pace. The programs focus on real-day challenges, with participants' managers involved in the process, ensuring that learning is directly applied to their roles.
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