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ASCENT Leader to Leader


The Leader to Leader Program brings leaders together to learn and discuss key leadership concepts in a guided setting. It starts with a Leadership Circle Profile™ to help leaders understand themselves better. The program builds awareness and practices that are important for strong leadership. Leading is a lifelong journey, and great leaders keep learning and growing to improve.

 

​Leader to Leader Program Flyer

Leader to Leader engages participants in peer-to-peer coaching, shown to powerfully reinforce and accelerate development with a work context. The session content is directly linked to real organizational issues raised by participants, allowing the cohort to simultaneously work issues as they grow their leadership capability.

*The Leadership Circle Profile™ and Workshops were developed and are owned by The Leadership Circle®, leadershipcircle.com​​.​

Outcomes for Self
  • ​Learning focused on specific individual and organizational challenges
  • Ability to deliver on leadership commitments through social accountability
  • Enhanced coaching and feedback skills, including the capacity to be coached

Outcomes Others and System
  • Focused energy on development opportunities with the greatest potential to impact organizational results
  • Ongoing accountability for leadership ​development
  • Authentic and creative leadership
  • Greater organizational effectiveness created through a powerful network of trust, relationship, and accountability
  • Leaders who actively model the desired organizational culture
  • Increased coaching bench strength in the organization
  • The only durable competitive advantage in organizations today; effective leadership​

The Leader to Leader™ journey begins after receipt of a Leadership Circle 360 Profile. Small learning cohorts meet in facilitated half-day sessions, either in-person or virtually, every 4-6 weeks.  Each Leader to Leader session focuses on a specific leadership topic to support and grow leadership effectiveness. The first three sessions introduce the cadence and builds upon a foundation of awareness and development action planning.  

Session topics include:
  • Mapping Your Leadership Journey
  • One Big Thing and Leadership Development Plan
  • Awareness: Moving Toward Your Vision
  • Trust
  • Courageous Conversations
  • Leading Through Change
  • Relationship Building 
  • Achieving 
  • Systems thinking
  • Integrity
  • Sustaining Focus, Energy, and Commitment
  • Prioritization 
  • Creating a Culture of High Accountability
  • Listening as a Leader
  • Transformation 
  • Taking Stock

Register with Workday Learning or contact the ASCENT Team.

*The Leadership Circle Profile is a prerequisite, please learn more by visiting ASCENT Promise of Leadership​.​​