A focus on growth and development has a powerful impact on employee engagement. Being challenged, growing new skills, and being pushed to try new things makes your people feel invested in and valued.
Here are some of our most popular solutions:
True transformation doesn’t happen overnight – it takes hard work, perseverance and practice.
This learning experience is spread over six months so we can work together to embed the EXACT leadership tools and tactics Captain Mike Abrashoff used to drive culture change that ultimately skyrocketed engagement, performance, and profitability.
Through our highly coveted six-month journey your leaders will receive:
Insightful assessments and debriefs that dive deep into how your style impacts everything you do
Powerful feedback since no one works alone, and it’s critical to know how your impact affects others
Interactive mix of classroom and/or virtual sessions so leaders can come together to gain new skills, practice new approaches and grow relationships with peers
Potent weekly micro-assignments so leaders take action back on the job
Journey-Mates who will travel alongside you to drive accountability and results
Capstone Project participants band together to tackle a real-life challenge identified by their senior leaders impacting their organization
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
Resilience + Burnout
Engagement + Innovative Thinking
Career Development
The "Nav Guide" is a self-guided leadership program based on Captain Mike Abrashoff’s Wall Street Journal bestselling book, It’s Your Ship.
Powered by micro-learning, it’s delivered in short, digestible bites to fit into your busy life. The Nav Guide correlates directly with Mike's ‘It’s Your Ship’ book.
The Navigation Guide provides:
Bonus content and never before heard stories and lessons of Mike’s time on USS Benfold
Actionable assignments, exercises and resources for you to follow along with and apply to yourself and your organization
Tactics to drive engagement, ownership and accountability
(Optional) Facilitated "Squad Meetings" where your people come together to discuss lessons learned and take a deeper dive into Mike's leadership tactics
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
Engagement
Innovative Thinking
Leadership development
Ownership
Accountability
Trust
Communication
The bottom line for engagement is that leaders matter. As a leader you have more control over your employees' engagement levels than any other contributing factor—more than senior management, more than benefits and perks, and even more than money! Come fill your toolbox with ways to reduce turnover, increase productivity, and build an engaged workforce that is aligned with the goals of the organization.
This experience provides:
Uncover what we like to call their “Holy Grail” – the reasons your people get out of bed in the morning to work for you.
Focus on their “stealth development” so you can grow and challenge your people every day.
Change the “well, what do I do next” employees into empowered critical thinkers who are always on the lookout for the first steps to a better way.
Leave with a practical plan to implement these concepts right after the session.
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
Engagement + Retention
Employee experience
Trust + collaboration + innovation
Executive Presence! It’s a term that’s often shrouded in mystique, whispered as if it’s something magical, and many people struggle to understand it.
Executive presence is “the ability to project gravitas – confidence, poise under pressure and decisiveness” as well as “communication – including speaking skills, assertiveness and the ability to read an audience or situation – and appearance.” While this definition may seem vague, it is an important skill for rising leaders.
This experience will equip you to:
Understand what makes up executive presence, how to develop it, and project it
Discover strategies for building confidence in handling business/social situations
Know how to actively listen and connect with others
Recognize the impact of non-verbal behavior
Learn how to cultivate your brand
Identify the four keys to developing and sustaining powerful relationships
Leave with a practical plan to implement these concepts right after the session
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
Personal development + branding
Trust + credibility
Influence + communication
Presentations are not just for extroverts, salespeople, and management.
Everyone needs presentation skills to get their point across articulately and visually. Strong presentation skills can connect people to purpose, drive vision, and rally around strategy/goals. You will have the opportunity to practice and refine your skills by practicing with a real-life, real-time upcoming presentation.
This experience will help you:
Identify essential components of a presentation
Describe an audience analysis and why it is a necessary step
Organize information in a clear and compelling manner
Create attention-grabbing introductions
Implement techniques to vary the tone and body language
Develop strategies for handling disruptive participants
Use visuals in a manner to impact and enhance presentations that do not overwhelm
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
Influence + Communication
Presentation skills
Problem solving
Every organization is different. Let's talk so we can learn about your organization's needs.