Leadership Development

Leadership skills do not always come naturally and can take time to develop. Understanding how individuals’ competencies and behaviors can impact business results is an essential element when companies are considering the effectiveness of their current leaders in addition to who their next generation of leaders will be.

Building Leaders
Thompson Technologies Leadership Development program helps businesses establish the assessment and coaching needed to ensure the success of their leaders. Our programs provide a safe and comfortable environment to evaluate individual leadership and personality style while evaluating how they are perceived by their peers and how predictable their behavior is under stress.

We utilize a variety of assessments and self awareness tools to help expose strengths and weaknesses while providing coaching and tools that will help them develop areas so that they are better equipped to lead, influence, build relationships, communicate more effectively and handle conflict both in and out of the workplace.

Our specific Leadership Development programs include:

On-boarding

Ensuring Success
Just because you’ve found the perfect candidate and the interview was impeccable doesn’t mean the transition into a new company or position will be an easy one. The most effective next step to a great hiring process is an equally strong on-boarding strategy. Organizations are able to accelerate the time to performance and success of new employees by integrating them in to their new environments effectively and thoroughly.

Thompson Technologies On-boarding programs help organizations establish specific training, metrics and milestones—setting clear expectations for both the manager and employee, while ensuring that perfect candidate isn’t lost in the hustle of day-to-day work. By getting the employee assimilated to a new culture with clear goals and a feeling as though they are part of the team from day one, helps to ensure they are on the same page and sets them up for success.

Our On-boarding programs include:

  • In depth coaching with an experienced counselor
  • Self-assessment tools and feedback
  • Education on company culture
  • Establishing the measures and metrics of job requirements
  • Best practices training on communication with boss and peers
  • Strategies for moving ahead and growing career
  • Skills for transitioning from trial period to fully integrated employee
  • Leadership training

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Performance Coaching

Investment for Success
Ensuring an organization’s highest performers feel valued and invested in is an essential element to retaining top talent. These individuals are often the lifeline to organizational effectiveness and provide the strategic direction of an enterprise, so it is essential they are well-equipped and well-perceived throughout the entire organization for success.

Thompson Technologies’ Performance Coaching program provides top level executives the personal coaching needed to help them perform at optimal levels. Even when executives appear to be successful, having an outside resource that allows them to bounce around ideas and get feedback without retaliation, ambiguity or fear of being “exposed” within the workplace is essential for helping them grow as a leader.

Our Performance Coaching provides:

  • Personal one-on-one coaching with experienced executive consultant
  • Self-assessment tools and feedback
  • 360-degree feedback from peers and subordinates
  • Mentoring methodologies

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High Potential Coaching

There are many internal and external elements that can negatively impact an individual’s performance. A recent promotion, a challenge within the organization, an issue at home and suddenly a one time superstar stops meeting expectations or missing their goals. Companies recognize their potential and do not want to lose the individual, but getting them back on track is a business imperative.

Thompson Technologies’ High Potential Coaching assists organizations and individuals in this scenario by providing personal coaching that helps employees get back to full productivity without sabotaging their career or leaving the company.

Our program includes:

  • Personal in-depth coaching
  • Self-assessment tools and feedback
  • 360-degree feedback from peers and subordinates
  • Mentoring methodologies
  • Strategies for coping mechanisms and functional environment

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