Leadership program

Lead with Transparency

Coach and lead with values that hold under pressure

Transparency is the leadership commitment that costs the most when it is tested. This program rehearses the moments where transparency conflicts with comfort, the bad news to a senior stakeholder, the ambiguity you would prefer not to admit, the team member you have been protecting from feedback, and builds the practice of choosing transparency anyway.

Senior LeadersMid-level Managers

What participants will be able to do

Outcomes, observable from the participant’s line manager.

Each program is delivered with a participant-and-manager outcome rubric. Six weeks after the program, the participant’s line manager rates observed behavior change against this rubric.

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Deliver the unwelcome update upward without losing the relationship
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Give the developmental feedback you have been postponing
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Make the trade-off in your decision visible rather than rationalized
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Build a team norm where transparency is the default, not the exception

Capabilities this program operationalizes

Leadership Development

Where this program has been delivered

Engagements that featured this program.

Africa, Regional

Decision-making under volatility for a regional product-marketing leadership team

African regional product marketing leadership, multinational medical-device organization

A regional product-marketing leadership team operating across multiple African markets faced compounding volatility, currency, regulation, channel structure, at a pace that exceeded the organization's central decision rhythm. Senior leaders were defaulting to wait-and-see decision postures because the cost of being wrong felt asymmetric to the cost of waiting. Regional performance was suffering for it.

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