Leadership Incubators

What is a Strategic Leadership Incubator?

Become a member of a group of leadership peers who, like you, are seeking to inject new momentum, access to broader networks and diverse lenses into their leadership trajectory.

The Leadership Incubator is all about having access to your own “brains trust” where you can test ideas, seek different perspectives, unpack concerns or doubts in a safe place and be held accountable to your goals and supported with the latest leadership coaching framework.

Leadership Development Outcomes:

• Gain leadership confidence from being a peer among peers at a leadership level
• Understand the value ofbeing vulnerable and opening up about the challenges of leading
• Learn to provide and receive honest, transparent and insightful peer feedback with sincerity
• Understand how a team of peers brings opportunities, influence and accountability to the growth of everyone on the team
• Practice the art of excellent facilitation through the demands of rotating chair
• Understand the value of diverse views, experiences and strengths around a leadership table
• Build an interoperable leadership network that expands your reach

1. Harnessing the power of the Incubator

Uncover the limitations of working in leadership silos by learning to connect with, and trust in a small group of leadership peers.  Inject momentum into your own leadership skills and practice framework.  We know that when our own teams operate as silos productivity suffers and this is reflected in outcomes.  The Leadership Incubator is the antithesis of siloed leadership - the greater the network the greater the result. Power up your leadership and your career.

Development:  The Power of Incubation vs Silo

• Experience the power of a team of peers in contrast to a team of one
• Learn a strengths-based leadership framework that builds trust among peers
• Generate shared insights into leadership that are strengthened through peers
• Expand your capacity for expert facilitation of meetings
• Develop your ‘accountability’ muscle

2. Accountability

Expand your self-confidence and capacity to pitch ideas and table initiatives for rigorous peer review, feedback, challenges and ultimate accountability.

Development:  Holding, and being Held to Account

• Explore the power of accountability partners on your leadership journey
• Learn how to trust and discern the wisdom on multiple lenses
• Expand your capacity for laser focus and momentum
• Practice peer coaching to derive enhance performance for self and peers
• Learn to monitor and measure changes in your performance each month

3. Self-Awareness

Explore your personal values, strengths and how they show up in your leadership.

Development: Self-Awareness – Where I Go, There I am

• Understand how your values underpin your strengths and show up in your leadership
• Expand your self-awareness – what are your drivers? triggers? blind-spots? biases?
• What are you willing to change to be your best self?

4. Influencing and Communicating

Explore how to influence and communicate through narrative.

Development: Leadership Narrative

• Deep dive into when you are operating in one of the three performance settings
• Develop insights into your personal triggers for each of these settings
• Set your stretch goals and develop the capacity to stay in the stretch zone and hold yourself accountable.