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Organizational Excellence through immersive Corporate Training
Leadership development programs are deemed as a powerful force for developing superlative managerial and leadership skills that serve as the foundation for a successful organization. It means creating leaders who can take on challenges of any kind without feeling intimidated, connect better with their teams, believe in effective decision making, and be a role model. However, most leadership training programs resemble learning environments at school where a trainer lectures on a particular topic while the attendees half-attentively jot down notes.Lacking an interactive edge, these training programs often fail to catch the attendee’s interest, resulting in unresponsive and impact-less sessions that neither help business leaders build solid leadership skills nor inspire them to drive employee engagement . But Washington-based Driven Leadership is on a mission to change this status quo.
“We work in cohorts with business leaders to provide an assortment of profoundly immersive corporate training programs that enable them to bring behavioral change across an organization faster, and improve their bottom line,”says Eric McGrath, Chief Excellence Officer of Driven Leadership. With highly skilled trainers backed by years of experience in working with business leaders, Driven Leadership takes company executives through a series of hands-on, compelling training experiences. The programs require the leaders to self assess their strengths and weaknesses, get involved in collaborative tasks and uncover their true team dynamics and communication proficiency.This helps them enrich their ability to lead people and teams and thereby boost business growth.
Driven Leadership adopts a top down methodology to leadership development training, demarcating its programs into four steps. The company’s primary focus is on enhancing the all-round capabilities of the organization’s top-tier members in a way that creates room for other talented employees to step up and fill the gap. It is followed by the development of mid -management and high-performing employees,which creates a vacuum for low-performing employees to up their ante and perform better. Subsequently, the objective of the third stage is to get the combined effect of leadership and team development training to raise the bar of operational efficiency across the client’s organization. Lastly,in the concluding stage, Driven Leadership emphasizes the need to sustain the mindset of top-down growth and management development to ensure their client’s business is always up and running at its fullest potential.
"We work in cohorts with business leaders and present an assortment of profoundly unique corporate training programs that enable them to bring behavioral change across organizations their bottom line"
A success story further exemplifies how organizations are leveraging Driven Leadership’s cutting-edge training programs.Despite high turnover,one of their esteemed clients faced serious employee disengagement issues. The detachment between the management and the employees reached a level that the management group not only held the subordinates but also each other accountable for non-performance. From employees showing up late for conferences to not being able to meet project deadlines to leaving clients dissatisfied, the disengagement started taking a toll on the business. This was when Driven Leadership came to the rescue. The company immediately deployed a complete evaluation process called ‘Organizational 360.’ It involved a series of assessments and surveys that Driven Leadership conducted in order to pinpoint specific areas of improvement . Subsequently, they first focused on training the leadership team in terms of behavioral changes, management tactics, cooperative capabilities, accountability, and conflict handling before moving on to all the other teams. Based on these training sessions, they identified gaps in the company’s team building skills, talent management, and employee retention tactics and guided the leadership team to analyze these key areas of improvement to accordingly formulate a strategy for each of them. Within a year, the client started reaping the dividends of Driven Leadership’s programs, recording massive improvement in their bottom line due to transparent and efficient communication between teams- leading to 53 percent business growth, with unfaltering employee engagement.
Gearing up for the corning days, the company is planning to diversify its client base after targeting service-oriented businesses all this while.”As more and more organizations keep reaching out to us, we will continue serving them with the same agility and dexterity to not only provide a variety of interesting training programs but facilitate them by lending ears to all their challenges,” concludes McGrath.
Offering training programs designed to inspire greatness in your team
Leadership training is essential for current and future leaders, managers, or supervisors. These pieces of training offer new insights and perspectives to help you succeed. However, some of these training programs are mundane and have less than an amazing impact that lacks deliverables to produce lasting change. Mary Belden- McGrath, the Chief Relationship Officer of Driven Leadership, was motivated to make a difference in the training programs and have people walk away ready to create the change they are looking for immediately.
Mary is a veteran in the industry with over two decades of experience working in the field of leadership and development. She has trained and developed leaders globally from the Fortune 100 to small organizations. Mary has written the book, “Someday Is Now” and is an exceptional keynote speaker on topics of leadership and personality development. Mary is the co-founder of Driven Leadership and uses her expertise in the workplace as a top sales performer, business owner, a certified master trainer in leadership skills. She has also sat on the board of non-profit organizations.
Driven Leadership is a trusted leadership development partner for SMMEs throughout North America. For more than a decade, Driven Leadership has been helping these companies develop new leadership skills while enabling them to build strong and healthy team cultures.
In our recent encounter with Mary Belden-McGrath, she walks us through the journey of Driven Leadership and how the company’s programs helped the clients improve their culture and drive better results.
"We offer unique training programs that challenge the participant to think, problem solve, and experience the outcome of their choices."
It's been a long challenging and rewarding ride. Driven Leadership began in 2010 with a vision, a lot of networking, cold calling, and grit, with only a couple of key contracts in place. We hit the ground running with a belief and passion for what we could provide as well as a fear of how the heck are we going to do this. Courage isn't the absence of fear… it's the ability to do it afraid, and that's what we did. The belief was greater than the fear and adversity. During our first year in business, I ran into severe health challenges and it was a struggle to work for several years. As I started getting healthy, my focus was on restructuring the organization to feature some of the most powerful, processed-based experiential training out there.
Our flagship product, BOLD: Advanced Leadership has been groundbreaking. Mixing personal breakthrough with business application in a hard-hitting process-based 2.5- day whirlwind. People who are truly looking to be challenged and grow are never disappointed. This led to several other immersive style training and process-based organizational development programs such as our management academy.
Driven Leadership's portfolio includes immersive 2.5-day programs –BOLD: Advanced Leadership, Forge: Team Execution, The Advantage: Engaged Communication.
Organizational Development Programs 4-8hr programs - Conflict Management using the TKI Conflict Assessment Tool, Communication using DISC and Innermetrix ADVanced Insights, Organizational Engagement, Leadership For Managers. We also offer a full array of HR Consulting Services.
Most recently we have seen amazing results from our Leadership For Managers Program. This is a 12-week online course that brings management development to a whole new level. It covers a range of topics from broader skills such as emotional intelligence and enhanced communication to specific topics such as giving/receiving feedback and delegation. Participants walk away with the ability to problem-solve and respond to the challenges of management at a completely different level.
Our big difference maker is the process-based experiential nature of our programs. People take away so much more because they get to not only learn but feel the material and how to apply it. It's like learning to swim, if all we did was show a PowerPoint on swimming it wouldn't be that impactful. Instead, we drop you into the deep end and coach you while you are in the situation. We don't let you drown and we do make sure you experience success before you leave the water.
We start from the top down in expanding each leader's ability to perform, make decisions, and build healthy relationships and cultures. The result is more productivity with a happier and more engaged workforce.
I think most people like to assume that because we teach leadership development we have it all figured out, well we don't. We make mistakes just like every other company. One of the biggest has been hiring based on qualifications versus a clear cultural fit. We teach people how to do this right, but have overlooked it internally from time to time. Now we have processes in place to make sure that they not only are great facilitators but excellent cultural fits as well.
When your training is different from everyone else it's a double-edged sword. It's our biggest contributor to long- lasting client relationships and it is also often a deterrent to new clients as they have never experienced anything like what we do. However, being different and having great customer relations is what sets us apart.
Great customer service, caring for the outcomes of the client,believing and living what we teach, and having training that can be measured to create lasting outcomes.
This year we are being recognized in several publications, most recently we were awarded HR Tech Outlooks Top 20 Leadership Development Training/Coaching Companies of 2022. Our Virtual Management Academy will be coming online towards the end of the year. We are excited to be a part of the up-and-coming and look forward to the journey ahead!
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