Program Components
Accelerated Competency-Based Learning
 The foundation for GILD is the High Impact Leadership ModelT,
a proven leadership competency model that was co-developed by Linkage and
Warren Bennis.
The High Impact Leadership ModelT is the result of an in-depth, longitudinal
study into what constitutes high performance leadership. The GILD curriculum is
designed to develop the leadership competencies, skills, and responsibility
areas that differentiate superior leaders from average leaders.
The GILD Faculty
 Guided by the High Impact Leadership ModelT, we have recruited a
diverse, world-class faculty that provides the expertise and coaching necessary
to drive growth and development in all of the core components of the model.
The faculty is a formal mix of the world's greatest leaders: current and
past CEOs, politicians, philanthropists, and humanitarians; world-renowned
teachers: academics/thought-leaders, musicians, and practitioners; and expert
coaches and team facilitators. You will not find a more qualified and
more comprehensive faculty at any other leadership development program.
A 360° LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT
Several months before the program, you will complete
Linkage's 360° Leadership Assessment InstrumentT. This multi-dimensional
assessment of the components in the High Impact Leadership ModelT will provide
you with the heightened self-awareness that is necessary to catalyze and fuel
significant and sustainable behavior change.
How can you improve as a leader, manager, colleague, or direct report? How does
your team become high performing? How does your entire organization get to the
next level? In making these crucial front-end determinations, there is no
substitute for data-tangible feedback that leads to insight, direction, focused
action, and measurable improvement.
By providing this data in a focused and leveragable format, the Leadership
Assessment InstrumentTT personalizes the GILD experience for each and every
participant, and it serves as the penultimate step to the exponential growth
that will be experienced onsite at GILD.
EXECUTIVE COACHING AND BEHAVIORAL
CHANGE
Directed by the results of your 360° Leadership Assessment
InstrumentT, you will work one-on-one with an Executive Coach that you have
selected from the world's most experienced faculty of Executive Coaches -
Linkage's own executive coaches as well as top professional coaches from our
partners, Marshall Goldsmith, A4SL Coaching & Consulting, and Career
Systems International.
These coaching sessions will provide you with a support system for making real,
accelerated, and measurable improvement in your behavior as a leader. Our
Coaching Process engages participants with two, one hour private coaching
sessions onsite at GILD where you will interpret your Leadership Assessment
InstrumentT results, focus your GILD learning goals, and create a personal
development plan. In addition, three months after GILD, you will receive a
follow-up assessment call where your coach will help you consolidate your
learning and apply it to your job.
LEARNING TEAMS
At GILD, you will work as part of a team to synthesize your
learning from the program and apply it to your real work leadership challenges.
These Learning Teams are facilitator-led peer teams of 12 to 15 participants
that meet together for several hours daily to foster critical introspection,
discovery, and open exchange among participants with similar experiences.
Through your Learning Team, you will build a life long network with executive
level peers from a variety of organizations around the world. You will exchange
ideas, best-practices, and leadership lessons, both crystallizing your
learnings and expanding your perspectives.
All GILD participants are assigned to Learning Teams except for those
participating in a Customized Off-site
Retreat.
CHANNELS FOR CONTINUOUS LEARNING AND
IMPROVEMENT
To help alumni continue their development following the
program, GILD offers several tools and resources that you can use to keep
growing as a leader:
1. The GILD online leadership resource center
An online collection of articles, book recommendations, interviews, and other
leadership resources that are available for your reference and use as a member
of the GILD alumni network.
2. Extended coaching contracts with your GILD Executive Coach
You may choose to continue your coaching program after the week ends in order
to ensure the achievement of your long- and short-term development goals. You
can negotiate this directly with your GILD coach anytime, either onsite or
after GILD (additional costs apply).
3. The Excellence in Management and Leadership Series
This valuable tool (1) enables you to continue learning from GILD faculty at
regular intervals throughout the year and (2) connects leaders and
high-potentials who could not attend GILD with low-cost, high quality
leadership development programs.
GILD's Excellence in Management & Leadership Series provides you
with access to today's top leaders and leadership development thinkers via
satellite, video-conference and/or the web. By participating in this series,
you and your organization will:
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Continue to learn from GILD's world-class faculty in a convenient 90-minute,
live and highly interactive format that maximizes your time and monetary
investment
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Build a common understanding for leaders at all levels about what distinguishes
exceptional leaders from average leaders
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Maximize your limited education and development budget by eliminating travel
and lodging expenses for large groups of participants
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Substantially increase the probability that large-scale organizational change
will occur by expanding the number of leaders involved in the leadership
development experience while providing them with a common context
 View a sample demo of one
our previous presenters.
CUSTOMIZED OFFSITE RETREAT
Customize GILD to meet your team or organization's specific
offsite retreat and leadership development needs:
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Strategic Planning and Implementation Retreat
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Team Building and Development Retreat
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Culture Change Retreat
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Creativity and Innovation Retreat
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Leadership Team Retreat
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Board of Directors Retreat
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Sales Leadership Retreat
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Action Learning Leadership Development
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High-Potential Leadership Development
GILD offers the perfect opportunity to hold an off-site strategic planning, team building, action learning, and/or executive retreat. The combination of leadership and team assessment tools, world-class faculty, expert facilitators and coaches at a highly affordable price and ideal location produces dramatic results.
Consider these past examples (additional examples and customer referrals available upon request):
CASE STUDY 1:
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The CEO, CFO, head of marketing and sales, and SVP of HR from a Canadian
consumer products company came to GILD specifically to redefine the company's
mission, vision, and operating principles and to rediscover their competitive
advantage in the marketplace. During GILD, they participated in targeted
learning sessions, which generated new ideas and perspectives. In addition,
they met frequently with their GILD facilitator and worked expediently through
an Agenda For Change process. The GILD retreat experience produced exciting
breakthroughs in the business strategy, a blueprint for change, and a renewed
commitment at the top to their organization's future goals and objectives.
CASE STUDY 2:
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A Fortune 15 pharmaceutical and distribution supply company came to GILD
to strengthen their IT senior leadership team. They used a customized GILD
retreat to confront the issues of disaster recovery, driving innovation,
reducing costs through insourcing and outsourcing, and working together as a
team. The team created a new organizational framework for driving IT's
strategy, processes, systems, and leadership. They also developed a major
proposal for reducing service delivery costs to the businesses by 10%. Overall,
the team came together with a defined code of conduct and a greater connection
as an operational team.
CASE STUDY 3:
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Each year a major university health system sends 10 cross-functional leaders to
participate in a customized GILD Action Learning process. Over the past five
years, over 50 leaders have tackled critical business challenges through the
GILD Action Learning process. These annual Action Learning Teams have
transformed their health systems culture and produced the highest return on
investment of any leadership development program.
Are you interested and qualified to facilitate your team's GILD retreat? Call 781.402.5555 for more details.
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