Cultivare Leadership Development is committed to helping brilliant leaders with razor-sharp analytical skills realize their potential by enhancing their people skills.
As a result of working with us:
- Executives become more effective in dealing with key stakeholders, whether they be clients, direct reports, peers, or managers.
- Leadership teams develop the ability to capitalize on the strengths of each member and provide comprehensive solutions to complex challenges.
- The effect of these changes ripples through the organization, positively impacting all those who interact with the leaders.
- Organizations are able to harness and fully utilize high-level talent to advance their goals and objectives.
Founder’s Personal Experience
During my early years as an achievement-oriented introvert, I experienced the frustration of being:
- Isolated in conversations
- Forced to sit through endless meetings going no where
- Unable to influence others when the correct path was obvious to me, and
- Overlooked for opportunities that perfectly aligned with my technical expertise.
Over many years of observation, reading, and a fair amount of trial and error, I learned how to:
- Make other people feel comfortable and valued
- Truly listen to others and try to understand their perspective
- Incorporate others’ views into solutions that I proposed
- Become more comfortable in social situations, and
- Become recognized for my expertise.
The lessons I learned for developing and maintaining effective teams include:
- Recognize and value the individual strengths and contributions of each member
- Determine where the team is vulnerable and take steps to limit exposure
- Establish and act on priorities
- Model and reinforce courtesy, cooperation, and collaboration
- Encourage opinions (and disagreements) that widen the perspective and clarify the situation
- Deal with problems promptly, and
- Recognize and reward the team.
Our Differentiators
- Natural analytical orientation and focus on results
- Breadth of leadership knowledge, informed by science and refined by experience
- Use of scientifically-proven assessments, observations, and narrative 360 degree interviews to understand the client’s strengths, derailers, and developmental needs
- Create customized baseline performance report that provides realistic ideas and suggestions for improvement
- Customize and adapt work in real time to meet client’s evolving needs, and
- Measure improvement at the end of the engagement and provide a customized final report detailing the observed change.
