WHY CHOOSE TURKNETT FOR EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT

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Why should you choose Turknett Leadership Group to coach your senior executives?

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 - Client is 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 (the Individual Assessment, 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 and to achieve them using an in-depth action plan.

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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 so many different snapshots. You can't rationalize; you must confront."

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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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Follow-up 360 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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