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Excelitas
Excelitas, a highly technical engineering company, sought a competitive advantage by focusing on the “people side” of leadership and enhancing its leaders’ capabilities and effectiveness.
Overview
Situation: As a means to enhance its organizational climate and create competitive advantage, Excelitas wanted to enhance its leaders’ knowledge and practice of the “people side” of performance.
Solution: Excelitas’ leadership team partnered with Six Seconds to develop a unique, customized, and high impact program focused on leadership and how leaders relate to and connect with others in the workplace, utilizing the Leadership Vital Signs 360 assessment.
Results: A remarkable 73% of program participants measurably improved their leadership effectiveness – based on objective, multi-rater feedback from others.
“Without a doubt, the best leadership program I’ve attended… It gave me tools that I actually use.”
Situation
Excelitas Technologies is a global leader in optoelectric and photonic solutions. The executive team, including the Chief Human Resources Officer, recognized that sustaining and developing people and relationship-based leadership capabilities would help support an improved work climate and engagement, and, in turn, improve performance.
Solution
Excelitas’ leadership team partnered with Six Seconds to develop a unique, customized, and high impact program focused on leadership and how leaders relate to and connect with others in the workplace. The program utilized the Leadership Vital Signs, a powerful 360 feedback tool for leaders, to gain actionable data. The LVS combines a self-assessment with anonymous feedback from peers and subordinates. They blended that hard data with a program of 1-on-1 coaching support from certified consultants and experiential group learning. At the end of the program, participants completed a post assessment to measure the results.
Results
Across 3 global regions in a highly technical engineering organization, more than 73% of program participants measurably improved their leadership effectiveness – based on objective feedback from others. Participants and subordinates reported a dramatic increase in trust, openness and collaboration, and the program earned wide acclaim.
Some comments on the program included the following:
“Without a doubt, the best leadership program I’ve attended…”
“In 32 years, the best training I’ve attended. It gave me tools I actually use…
“Excellent… expertly delivered!”
Products & Services Delivered
EQ Skills
Six Seconds’ Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI) is a validated psychometric tool for measuring emotional intelligence, used with over 250k people worldwide. Read more about SEI.
Vital Leadership
Leadership Vital Signs (LVS) is a powerful online 360 feedback tool used for accelerating change and strengthening leadership. Read more about LVS
Coaching
Six Seconds’ coaching methodology blends neuroscience with the International Coach Federation competencies, supercharged with the power of EQ. Read more about Six Seconds’ Coaching
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