The typical evolution of an individual contributor who becomes a manager/leader is an all too common tale. Companies reward their best performers by promoting them into leadership roles without regard for aptitude or desire to lead. It’s one of the only ways companies have to retain their top talent. Those companies provide very little (if any) leadership training, and in most cases, those new leaders are simply tossed to the wolves and hope to survive. Many don’t. Frustration, burnout, and skinned knees are very common. Every now and then, innovative companies will pair up the newly promoted leader with another leader as a mentor (who also learned on their own), and the problem is now exacerbated twofold.
Fast forward 20 years, and those self-made leaders are now senior executive leaders. They’ve now accumulated a lot of experience (and scars from mistakes along the way). The problem is this: now they’re playing a different game called “Executive Leadership” that has a new set of rules and expectations. The saga repeats……
Those same companies will spend millions of dollars on technical training for their engineers, or sales methodology training for their revenue generating sellers, but will ignore the people they need the most to lead the business into the future. This conundrum leaves leaders to fend for themselves. The impact of not investing in our future leaders is tangible and real.
According to research studies completed by Gallup, Society for Human Resource Management, and the Work Institute respectively:
These challenges are completely solvable simply by offering a proven, effective leadership development program created BY executives FOR future executives. Latitude 40 Leadership will build you a development program that will help your front-line and executive leaders:
Delivered in a group setting, this course is designed for front-line managers who are new to their leadership roles or who may never have led before.
Delivered in a group setting, this course is designed for directors/vice presidents who have led before, but need the skills that an executive needs at the next level.
Designed for current leaders (can be front line managers OR c-level executives), and gives them a forum to work on specific challenges unique to them in a 1-1 setting.
Delivered in an offsite group setting, this course is designed for teams of people who need to come together as a unified group, build trust, and improve team performance.
We have been Executives in the Tech Industry for 25+ years, and we believe passionately that leadership is learned, and like any other skill, must be practiced to become effective. We designed Latitude 40 to teach the things that we wished someone had taught us 25+ years ago – saving us from many skinned knees and missteps along our leadership journey. Our leadership approaches come from CEO backgrounds and from CHRO backgrounds where we’ve learned to balance business outcomes with fulfilling programs for our people.
