More about the ‘A+’ Leadership Development Program and Mastermind

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The Year-Long ‘A+’ Leadership Development Program and Mastermind

Building a high-performance team begins with developing your KEY LEADERS – the ones who can take meaningful responsibilities off your plate, deliver results, and lead, manage and develop others to do the same.  But developing leaders and team is the type of competency that most entrepreneurs do not possess – if they did, they probably wouldn’t be entrepreneurs. At the same time, poor leadership and an undeveloped team is a show-stopping limiter of growth for these companies.   However, most entrepreneurial companies can’t afford the custom consulting work and PHD level trainers that can actually get results.

We developed our ‘A+’ Leader Development Program and Mastermind to address exactly this Entrepreneurial company need.  It’s a twelve-month training program in which Annie and her team train your key leaders to step up, take ownership of, and actually drive the operations of your business – while also learning to lead, manage and develop a team.

Leadership is best learned in an interactive setting, where students share experiences with others in similar roles and learn from real life examples, while also gaining valuable outside perspectives not available in their day-to-day role.  At the same time, leaders need individualized support to address their specific needs and business situations.  Therefore, we’ve organized the ‘A+’ Leader Program into the following 3 major components:

• Group Curriculum Teaching and Tools
• Individual Executive Coaching
• Peer Mastermind

Group Curriculum Teaching and Tools

We deliver the program virtually, through a structure of classes, hot-seat sessions, group implementation sessions and virtual summits.   The ‘A+’ Leader Program curriculum covers fundamental business strategy, infrastructure, leadership & team performance, including:

• The Business Part- Outcome Focus and Team Operations
• The People Part- Self-Leadership and Your Leadership Impact
• Developing Secure Business Relationships
• Advanced Agreement Making- Effective Delegation and Beyond
• Team Meeting Design and Leadership
• Working with Ongoing Challenge and Change
• Decision-Making, Renegotiating, Resetting Expectations
• The Critical Thinking that Matters and How to Share it with others
• Priorities, Managing your time, Realigning to Outcomes
• Performance Management- Developing Yourself and Others

Individual Executive Coaching

Each student receives monthly one-on-one Executive Coaching, plus additional sessions for urgent and high stakes issues, with our highly experienced coaches who are business leaders themselves.   We’ve found that coaching support and direction greatly accelerates leaders’ ability to integrate and apply their learning to their own unique and specific company situations.

Peer Mastermind

The Mastermind Group component of the program offers an incredible opportunity for leaders to engage with peers who are in similar roles from companies at like stages of growth and often in related or complementary industries.  The collective learning, creative problem-solving and support in this type of network is often available to CEO’s, but rarely to entrepreneurial business leaders.

The ‘A+’ Leadership Development Program and Mastermind is a proven program going into its 8th year.  This program enrolls almost exclusively through referrals, and open spots are limited because of the high renewal rate.

We are happy to meet with anyone interested in learning more about the program and if it might be a fit for your leader(s) and your company.