As a result, we partnered with organizational network thought leader Rob Cross to offer a series of opportunities to develop your leaders—most notably, your frontline managers—in a way that aligns more closely to reality:
The most effective leaders build and rely on strong networks—and help their employees do the same.
Enroll your managers in a five-week learning experience that explores how to develop and manage a personal network based on proven strategies of other successful leaders.
Participants progress through the course supported by activities, videos, articles, discussion forums, and live sessions, and conclude with a detailed action plan to more purposefully develop a network that supports their needs.
The Connected Leaders virtual course enables you to:
The strategies in this experience are based on findings from one of the most significant social network analysis research projects undertaken. Directed by Rob Cross, the project included in-depth interviews with 160 people across 20 organizations from around the world.
Participants explore specific strategies and approaches the research found to be successful.
Take an online self and team feedback assessment that helps leaders assess their personal networks and identify targeted areas to improve their network strategies to innovate, execute, and thrive.
Applied in a group workshop or individual coaching, these highly popular cards—which use QR codes to link to additional resources and insights online—are designed to help users see the subtle ways personal networks and relationships impact innovation, execution and your sense of thriving and well-being.
Based on extensive research and interviews content in these cards are appropriate for any level professional who are focused on how to: