Beacon Leadership Academy for Experienced Leaders

Experienced / Mid-Level Leaders face a unique set of challenges as they navigate their roles. These challenges often stem from the evolving nature of leadership, changing organizational landscapes, and the need to continuously adapt and grow. Beacon Leadership Academy will help Experience Leaders deal with these common challenges:

Adapting to Change: As industries and technologies evolve, experienced leaders must stay current and adapt to new trends, strategies, and tools to remain effective. This may require them to learn new skills and adjust their leadership style.
Managing Multigenerational Teams: Today's workforce can consist of several generations, each with its own values, work habits, and communication preferences. Effective leaders need to bridge these generational gaps to foster a cohesive and productive team.
Nurturing Innovation: Encouraging a culture of innovation is crucial, but it can be challenging for experienced leaders who may be used to more traditional approaches. Finding ways to foster creativity and embrace new ideas is essential for staying competitive.
Dealing with Burnout: As experienced leaders take on higher levels of responsibility, they may face increased stress and burnout. It's essential to recognize the signs of burnout and implement strategies to maintain work-life balance and mental well-being.
Succession Planning: Experienced leaders often need to plan for the future by identifying and developing potential leaders within their organization. Ensuring a smooth transition of leadership is critical for the long-term success of the organization.
Managing Remote Teams: The rise of remote work brings new challenges for experienced leaders. They need to find effective ways to lead and communicate with remote teams while maintaining a strong sense of connection and collaboration.
Navigating Organizational Politics: As leaders move up the ladder, they may encounter complex organizational politics. Balancing the needs of different stakeholders and maintaining ethical leadership can be challenging in such environments.
Developing a Diverse and Inclusive Environment: Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential for innovation and employee satisfaction. Experienced leaders must actively promote diversity and ensure that all team members feel valued and heard.
Maintaining Personal Growth: Just because someone is an experienced leader doesn't mean they can stop learning and growing. Continuous personal development is crucial to staying effective as a leader.
Leading through Crisis: Experienced leaders may face unexpected crises, such as economic downturns or public relations challenges. Leading through difficult times requires resilience, quick decision-making, and effective communication.

Beacon Leadership has developed an amazing learning journey for Experienced Leaders that combines on-demand training with one-on-one professional coaching. This unique combination will provide highly practical training with the power of an International Coaching Federation certified coach that will help you better understand the concepts and apply what you have learned to solve real challenges you are experiencing today.

Your Leadership Academy includes a 360 Degree Assessment to provide invaluable feedback from your team that will reveal how you are performing against core leadership dimensions.

Beacon Leadership Academy for
Experienced / Mid-Level Leaders Curriculum

MONTH 1

Objective: Get to know your own tendencies and what it's like to be on the other side of you. Based on the MBTI, 5 Voices will help you understand how nature, nurture, and choice makes you who you are today. To lead others, you must first know yourself and value the differences you'll recognize in others.

5 Voices Assessment

Understanding your Voice can help you better understand yourself and your own strengths, weaknesses, preferences, and values.
Make better decisions about your career, education, and relationships.
Communicate more effectively with others and build stronger relationships.
Overcome challenges and difficulties and find ways to cope with stress and difficult situations.
Develop a better understanding of other people and their personalities and improve your ability to interact and work with others.

Discover Your Leadership Voice

Get an overview of each of the 5 Voices and what makes each one unique.
See which Voices are present-oriented and future-oriented, and why it's important to hold space for both perspectives.
Identify what each Voice champions and understand their strengths.
Learn the challenges and growth opportunities for each Voice.

5 Voices Personal Development Plan

Learn to develop each of the different 5 Voices
Learn the key barrier for each of the Voices
Learn how each Voice can thrive

Voice Order Collection

Deepen your understanding of yourself and how to develop and improve your skills and talents.
Understand how you prefer to communicate and receive information so you can tailor your communication style to be more effective in the workplace.
Get insights into how you make decisions and what factors are most important to you in the decision-making process.
Identify your preferred approach to problem-solving, and how you can best collaborate with others to find solutions.
Learn how you tend to cope with stress and what strategies may be most effective for you.

Professional Coaching Session #1

MONTH 2

Objective: Learn how your tendencies influence actions, and your actions have consequences. You'll understand how your actions may have an unintended negative impact on others. Then you'll learn how to create a safe environment that values others so that each person can be liberated to bring their best to the team through a balance of high support and high challenge.

5 Voices Weapon System

How to prevent your weapon system from being used to create harm to others
Learn what triggers the weapon system of each voice under stress.
Why every Voice has a weapon system that gets triggered under stress

Recognize the warning signs of each Voice's weapon system

5 Voices Rules of Engagement

Learn the specific rules of engagement for each foundational voice.
Learn the purpose of the Rules of Engagement.
Learn the Rules of Engagement order.
Learn the power behind using the Rules of Engagement.

Liberating Voices

Learn what the Guardian Voice needs to be liberated.
Learn what the Connector Voice needs to be liberated.
Learn what the Pioneer Voice needs to be liberated.
Understand how to create an environment where everyone can bring their best.
Learn the framework for Voice liberation.
Learn how to liberate the Nurturer and Creative Voices.
Learn how to liberate the Guardian, Connector and Pioneer Voices.

Professional Coaching Session #2

MONTH 3

Objective: Learn the importance of assessing and becoming more physically and emotionally healthy. You'll be more prepared to bring your best to your team when you recognize and improve the stressful areas in your life that may be prohibiting you from being 100% healthy.

Peace Index Assessment

This assessment will help you identify your overall Peace Index percentage
How fulfilled you are in your purpose right now
How healthy your relationships are with those that matter most
How financial provision is affecting your peace
How personal health, including emotional, mental, and physical well-being, is impacting your peace level

How your environment is increasing or decreasing your sense of peace and balance right now

The Peace Index

The 5 part framework to assess your peace level at a given time.
Find out which area of life is pulling your peace levels down and create a plan to counter the negativity.
Establish a daily regimen to manage your emotions so that others don’t have to manage your emotions.
Help others increase their peace at work or at home.
Develop inner peace even if there doesn't seem to be any external peace.

Managing Stress

Learn how different Voices manage stressful situations.
Learn the various triggers certain Voices have during stressful situations.
Get insights from a wide range of individuals within different roles.

Professional Coaching Session #3

MONTH 4

Objective: Balance your skills intelligence (IQ), your self-awareness (PQ), and become more others-aware (EQ) to better handle conflict.

Leveling Up Your Emotional Intelligence

Learn the aspects of what a healthy Emotional Intelligence is and assess where you're at.
Learn to raise your self-awareness and social awareness and how to manage yourself under pressure.
Learn how to become more Emotionally intelligence through ways of managing relationship stress.

The Art of Emotional Agility

Learn healthy ways to deal with conflict.
Discover what a healthy, liberated emotional person is like.

Learn a new way to process your emotions.

Professional Coaching Session #4

MONTH 5

Objective: Become more present and productive by recognizing the need to care for yourself, invest in personal and professional relationships, complete tasks, and carve time to tackle strategic projects. You'll also learn why great leaders not only get proficient at their own tasks but then intentionally multiply what they know to help others reach higher levels.

5 Gears Masterclass

Learn how to get into gear.
Learn each of the 5 Gears.
Discover your Gear order.
Learn to identify healthy and unhealthy Gears
Discover how to master your settings.

100X Leader Essentials

Learn what a 100X Leader is.
Learn to develop the mindset of a leader.

Learn to effectively use the Core tool to process your learning opportunities.

Professional Coaching Session #5

MONTH 6

Objective: Use your self-awareness to increase your influence with others. You'll learn how to communicate more effectively and build great cultures in a world where digital tools must be balanced with face-to-face methods.

How to Become a More Self-Aware Leader

Learn the importance of becoming a self-aware leader.
Learn how to be a responsive leader.

Learn how to process through your self-awareness.

Increasing Your Influence

Discover how your unique foundational voice wins or loses influence and why it matters.

Taking Team Communication to the Next Level

Learn how to create healthy cultures.
Learn how to communicate vision to those you lead.

Learn the 5 components of the Communication Code and when to appropriately use each one.

Leading People in the 21st Century

Learn what healthy culture looks like and how to adapt.
Learn why leadership has changed in the digital age and the importance of growing with the changes.
Learn what mediums are the most effective in which situation.

Professional Coaching Session #6

MONTH 7

Objective: Harness the power to lead both face to face and virtual teams. You'll also learn how to delegate and use amazing tools that will dramatically increase your team's performance.

Leading in a Hybrid Work Environment

Discover the Challenges of Leading in the Digital Age.
Discover how ingenuity plays a major part of the post-pandemic world.
Learn how to become more intentional and set clear expectations.
Learn how to prioritize to execute.
Discover how to have effective meetings.
Find out the best medium to use for effective communication.

How to Delegate Effectively

How to establish healthy expectations.
How to use tools to delegate effectively.
How to effectively multiply out your delegation learning to those you lead.

Team Exercises

Learn how the Leader Mirror tool can help maximize your team's performance.
Learn how the Provisional, Plan, or Promise tool can help maximize your team's performance.
Learn how the Discretion & Discipline tool can help maximize your team's performance.
Learn how the Power of the Medium tool can help maximize your team's performance.
Learn how the X-Factor tool can help maximize your team's performance.
Learn how the Go to the Source tool can help maximize your team's performance.
Learn how the 5 Gears tool can help maximize your team's performance.
Learn the importance of implementing Team Exercises.
Learn how to Use the Core Process to identify areas of growth and action points to improve.
Learn which medium is most appropriate to use when bringing challenge

Professional Coaching Session #7

MONTH 8

Objective: Acquire foundational management skills that will help you build and maintain high performing teams.

Management Essentials

Help your new managers develop the skills they need to step confidently into their new roles with Blanchard Management Essentials®. Based on the best-selling business book, The New One Minute Manager®, by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, the program covers the foundational skills that generate positive communications, improve morale, and increase productivity.

Team Leadership

Teams frequently fail to accomplish goals because of a lack of shared purpose, unclear goals and roles, and ineffective leadership. The Team Leadership program teaches team leaders how all teams develop and how to provide clarity, manage conflict, and build trust to break through barriers and sustain high-performance teams.

Team Performance Assessment

Learn to assess your team's performance and:

Identify areas for team improvement: Get an objective evaluation of your team's strengths and weaknesses, helping to identify areas where the team can improve.
Increase efficiency and productivity: By improving in the areas of Communication, Relationships, Alignment, Execution, and Capacity, teams can become more efficient and productive, enabling them to achieve their goals more effectively.
Strengthen relationships: Teams that perform well have strong relationships, fostering a positive and supportive team dynamic that helps members to work together effectively.
Improve decision-making: A high-performing team is better equipped to make informed and effective decisions, leading to better outcomes for the organization.
Measure progress over time: Schedule regular assessments on a consistent basis to track progress over time and measure the impact of improvement efforts.

Professional Coaching Session #8

MONTH 9

Objective: Learn how the best leaders in the world assess the development needs of their people and then provide the proper amount of Support and Direction to instill competence and commitment in others. You'll also learn how to assess trust and increase your influence by utilizing coaching skills to help your people reach their full potential.

SLII

The world’s most-taught leadership framework, SLII® teaches managers how to unleash the potential of their direct reports by leading situationally: giving the right support and direction at the right time. This leadership style enables employees to develop faster, succeed more, and reach their full potential. It also gives managers a common leadership language.

Building Trust

Trust in the workplace is a prerequisite for success, so when it’s missing, there’s little collaboration and a lot of suspicion. Building Trust teaches how to cultivate trust and repair it when it’s been compromised. Using the Elements of Trust Model, learners discover how to inspire engagement and commitment.

Coaching Essentials

The ability to coach is one of the things that separates great leaders from the rest. Coaching Essentials® teaches managers the four critical skills needed for effective coaching and provides opportunities for practice. When managers can coach effectively, their direct reports are more productive, loyal, and engaged.

Professional Coaching Session #9

MONTH 10

Objective: Lead in a hybrid world where you aren't always face to face with your people.

Leading Virtually

Leading Virtually™ is a highly engaging solution that focuses on three key practices proven to boost manager effectiveness in a virtual environment: Be Present and Mindful, Foster Community, and Accelerate Performance and Development.

Professional Coaching Session #10

MONTH 11

Objective: Develop a culture where people are empowered and motivated to take care of your valuable customers.

Legendary Service

Keep your clients coming back by building a culture that delivers stellar customer service. Legendary Service® teaches your people how to create a personal service vision, take initiative, resolve problems, and ask for what they need to serve their customers better.

Professional Coaching Session #11

MONTH 12

Objective: Communicate more effectively by conducting challenging conversations. You'll also learn to hear and value the unique contributions that each person brings to a team. Dealing with constantly changing situations is a top challenge for senior leaders so you'll also learn to guide others successfully and efficiently through change initiatives.

Conversational Capacity

Organizations move at the speed at which people communicate effectively and solve problems collaboratively. That can get tricky when the pressure is on or when people have different opinions. We teach people how to balance candor and curiosity to benefit from the most challenging conversations.

Courageous Inclusion

Achieving true diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace isn’t easy. Many people want to make progress on DEI topics, but don’t have a plan or skills to carry it out. Courageous Inclusion™ teaches people a mindset that promotes diversity and inclusion, and a process to become more knowledgeable and active proponents of inclusion in their workplace.

Essential Motivators

When individuals better understand themselves, they can bring their best skills and talents to their work. Essential Motivators™ teaches a framework to help learners identify their pattern of core psychological needs, values, talents, and behaviors so they can better understand themselves and others, be more effective, and appreciate different perspectives.

Leading People Through Change

Change initiatives are notoriously challenging. Leading People Through Change® takes a unique and proven approach: It teaches a high-involvement, collaborative solution that invites all parties into the change process. This inclusive method draws on research and our 30+ years of practical experience in the field.

Professional Coaching Session #12

MONTH 13

Objective: Flip the normal hierarchical model where leaders are at the top of a power pyramid and those below them serve their leader. You'll develop into a leader that sets a clear and compelling vision for where the organization is going but then flips the pyramid so that the leader serves their people to ensure they have what they need to serve their customers.

Servant Leadership Essentials

Servant leaders are consistently interested in providing what their people need to be successful. They want to make a difference in the lives of their people and, in the process, benefit the organization. We believe servant leadership is both a mindset and a skillset that focuses on serving others first. Blanchard’s Servant Leadership Essentials™ program teaches leaders how to build trust, listen, and give and receive feedback in ways that lead to higher levels of engagement, performance, and human satisfaction.

Professional Coaching Session #13

MONTH 14

Objective: Explore and define what made you the person you are today. By reflecting on the people and situations that provided your core values, you'll learn to clearly communicate what people can expect from you as their leader, grow your influence, and increase organizational performance.

Leadership Point of View

Today’s leaders balance relationships and results under great pressure, making difficult decisions every day. When leaders are clear on their leadership values and principles, they can make tough trade-offs and lead their people with more intentionality and authenticity. Blanchard’s Leadership Point of View™ is an immersive experience that helps leaders uncover their values, write their leadership point of view, and create trusting relationships with their people.

Professional Coaching Session #14

MONTH 15

Objective: Receive feedback from people in your organization that know you best. You'll gain insights that will show you how you are doing against core metrics that make senior leaders successful and you'll create a development plan to address areas of opportunity.

The TruScore 360 Degree Assessment for Experienced Leaders will assess your:

Envisioning Opportunities
Establishing Goals
Risk Taking & Innovation
Market Insight
Business Acumen
Collaborative Planning
Customer Focus
Clarity of Communications
Cross Team Collaboration
Empowering Employees
Building a Team Environment
Coaching for Performance
Managing Conflict
Openness to Feedback
Standards of Performance
Persuasiveness
Goal Pressure
Recognizing & Rewarding Others
Trust
Tension
Effectiveness

Professional Coaching Session #15

What can you expect in your Beacon Leadership Academy experience?

Each month you'll utilize our robust online learning library to complete your assigned coursework or attend live virtual training. At the end of each month, you'll have a private coaching session with a certified professional coach to establish goals, enforce what you have learned, and apply your insights to achieve your outcomes.

Most participants complete the program in 15 months. However, you may customize your journey at a pace that best fits your schedule.

Participants may complete the Leadership Academy as individuals or you many choose to join as a group to create a learning cohort. If an organization registers 5 or more individuals to this program, a complimentary group coaching session will be provided every other month to allow your participants to share how they are developing, build a support network, and explore opportunities to benefit the entire organization.

Beacon Leadership Academy for Experienced / Mid-Level Leaders
is only $450 per person per month.
Get started today or schedule a chat for group pricing or to discuss more details.

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Beacon Leadership Academy for Experienced / Mid-Level Leaders Curriculum

What can you expect in your Beacon Leadership Academy experience?

Beacon Leadership Academy for Experienced / Mid-Level Leaders is only $450 per person per month. Get started today or schedule a chat for group pricing or to discuss more details.

Beacon Leadership Academy

Beacon Leadership Academy

Beacon Leadership Academy for
Experienced / Mid-Level Leaders Curriculum

Beacon Leadership Academy for Experienced / Mid-Level Leaders
is only $450 per person per month.
Get started today or schedule a chat for group pricing or to discuss more details.