WHY CHOOSE TURKNETT FOR EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT
Expertise
Our Executive Development Programs are the most effective program
for maximizing an executive's ability to add value to your organization
Proprietary Analytical Tools
Insight,
development plans, coaching based on objective data
Continuing Research on Leadership
Empirical leadership benchmarks for advising executives
Consultants with Management and
Behavioral Sciences Backgrounds
Insights into behavior and
practical management advice
Confidentiality
Clients
feel safe to address issues head on.
Customized
One-on-One Work with the Individual
The individual learns
what s/he needs to do to become a better manager
Combination of Objective Data and
Long Term Coaching
Clients are able to process and integrate data
into an actionable plan yielding sustainable development.
Systematic
Approach
Creates insight, facilitates action planning, ensures
goals can be accomplished, and maximizes sustainable development
Multiple Sources and Modes of Feedback
The feedback gets through.
Follow-Up, Long Term, Individualized
Coaching
Sustainable change and development
An Objective Progress Report
Sense
of progress achieved, strategy adjustment
Expertise
Our Executive Development Programs are the most effective program
for maximizing an executive's ability to add value to your organization
Since 1987, leadership development has been the primary focus of
our consulting practice. Our individual work with over 1000 executives
and senior managers has given us unique insights into the characteristics
of successful managers and leaders, and has enabled us to build
a large empirical database on factors contributing to managerial
success. This database enables our clients to evaluate themselves
relative to an actual, not theoretical, benchmark of leadership.
In addition, we are experts in understanding the factors that can
lead to career derailment for a key executive. Our Executive Development
Programs have been used by over 100 organizations for developing
their key executives. It has benefited from many years of research
and improvement, and is one of the most comprehensive, structured,
and effective programs for increasing the value added to an organization
by a key executive.
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Proprietary Analytical Tools
Insight, development plans, coaching based on objective data
Our proprietary analytical tools (Leadership Character, 360
Degree Feedback, and others allow our clients to objectively evaluate
their strengths and areas for development to help them create highly
targeted development plans. A Turknett consultant's feedback to
a client is based on concrete, objective data, and not just the
consultant's subjective opinion.
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Continuing Research on Leadership
Empirical leadership benchmarks for advising executives
Turknett Leadership Group has become well known for its continuing
program of research on leadership. Our research is based on personality
and 360 data from actual leaders. Our understanding of leadership
is therefore based on current, empirical data about key factors
in executive success.
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Consultants with Management
and Behavioral Sciences and Backgrounds
Insights into behavior and practical management advice
The advice we give is only as good as the insights our consultants
have developed about human behavior, the management process, organizational
culture and effectiveness, leadership and how people change. Our
consultants have both extensive business backgrounds and expertise
in the behavioral sciences. This allows us to provide participants
with insights into their motivation and behavior, as well as practical
advice on management and organizational survival.
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Confidentiality
Clients feel safe to address issues head on.
All data and conversations are confidential. Feedback and assessment
results go only to the participant. S/he controls who these results
are shared with. This provides the participant with the needed confidence
to feel safe to face their issues head on and not worry about the
political consequences.
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Customized One-on One Work with the Individual
The individual learns what s/he in particular needs to do to
become a better manager.
Many clients consider the most valuable aspect of the process to
be the fact that it is completely focused on them as individuals.
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Combination of Objective Data and Long Term Coaching
Client is able to process and integrate data into an actionable
plan yielding sustainable development.
The balance between the insight and credibility of the analytical,
data-oriented feedback and the long term support provided by the
personal mentor relationship with the Turknett consultant ensures
that a client is able to process and integrate the data into an
actionable and effective plan. Many other programs provide only
a "data-dump" with minimal follow-up, which can be more damaging
than helpful to the client. Others provide only supportive counseling
based on no data. We have learned that it takes both to have maximal
impact.
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Systematic Approach
Creates insight, facilitates action planning, ensures goals can be
accomplished, and maximizes sustainable development
Our development processes provides participants with a systematic
approach to changing their behavior to become more effective leaders.
Each element of the structured, objective feedback clients receive
has been carefully designed to create insight. Our comprehensive
and systematic processes have been carefully designed and sequenced
to lead the participant to develop a few specific behavioral goals
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Multiple Sources and Modes of
Feedback
The feedback gets through.
Participants receive feedback from multiple sources: Coworker ratings
(360), personality testing, and a video taped interview, as well
as one-on-one consulting sessions with a Turknett consultant. Because
people learn in different ways, participants also receive written
reports, graphic summaries, videotapes and audiotapes of many counseling
sessions. As one client put it: "There was no way in the Turknett
process you could avoid seeing yourself as you are because you get
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Long Term, Individualized Coaching
Sustainable change and development
While assessment, feedback, and the development of a realistic action
plan are critical parts of the process, individual coaching is the
key to sustainable change. Coaching begins with the first session, and
continues intensively throughout the process. This long term, individualized
coaching facilitates the transfer of insights into the workplace and
is the key to making this kind of development so rewarding for the individual
and the organization alike.
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An Objective Progress Report
Sense of progress achieved, strategy adjustment
"How do I know I have really changed and improved?" Turknett includes
a short Follow-up 360 to measure progress toward goals. This assessment
measures how much improvement has been made in the specific areas
targeted in the original 360.
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