Customized Leadership Development 

• Achieve lasting retention of highest potentials and current leaders
• Enhance organizational capacity for innovation, change, and growth
• Assist senior executives in developing an action plan for change
• Empower participants to constantly assess their own business performance

A Linkage Leadership Academy is a customized leadership development program, typically delivered to high potentials ranging from director-level to executives over several months in chunks of 3- to 4-day sessions.  The program is designed via interviews with key stakeholders, enabling identification of the specific leadership competencies that need special attention.

Our commitment is to partner with you to create maximum learning and behavioral change within your organization. Our objective: Strengthening your organization’s current and future leaders through a best-in-class leadership development experience.

The High Impact Leadership Model™, a proven leadership competency model co-developed by Linkage and Warren Bennis, serves as the foundation for the Academy. If you and your organization are committed to developing a program that yields positive, measurable changes in leadership effectiveness, we urge you to contact Linkage to learn more about tailoring this signature learning experience to fit your organization.

Our customized designs include many of the cutting edge leadership
development practices below:

• Leaders Developing Leaders
  Blending of the perspectives and experiences of your leaders where they become the program faculty, mentors, and coaches.
• Assessments delivered through personalized reports
  Creates awareness of leadership style and its impact on others and the organization. Full 360° and powerful personality assessments available.
• Confidential one-on-one executive coaching
  Linkage recommends intensive coaching as an option. We can provide experienced coaches all over the world or train your leaders as coaches and mentors.
• Action learning
  Ensures that high potential leaders learn to address critical business challenges using case studies and team work.
• Signature learning experiences
  Simulations, compelling case studies, proven tools, and best practice approaches from around the world.
• Best-in-class facilitators
  Linkage partners and senior consultants are experienced business leaders, most with 15 or more years of experience. Leadership Development Academy participants constantly evaluate our facilitators at between 3.7 and 4.0 out of 4.0.

Linkage’s Event & Meeting Management Services

Linkage’s team of highly experienced Event & Meeting Planners can efficiently streamline the planning and execution process of your Leadership Development Academy. We specialize in the organization and logistics of destination events by finding the perfect venues and suppliers to suit your vision and travel/transportation needs. From site selection and overall itinerary planning, to the hundreds of small but important details, employing Linkage’s Event & Meeting Planners means that you have an extension of your own team, fully dedicated to the success of your program.

For more information, call 781.402.5555.

 “Linkage’s Leadership Development Academy is the best overall approach to leading I have ever been a part of internally. I was re-energized as a leader, learned applicable tools, and learned about myself.”

                               --Jeff Patton // Senior Director, Kraft Foods

The Global Institute for Leadership Development
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