Initiative Based Development™
We believe that the ability to develop and fully engage great leaders is the real, sustainable competitive advantage for a successful organization. Third River Partners has developed a highly effective method for simultaneously developing great leaders and achieving breakthroughs in strategic projects.
Our Initiative Based Development framework is a powerful methodology that links leadership and team development to critical strategic projects. We work with teams comprised of proven and emerging leaders to create strategic project objectives and leadership development objectives. Team members create business breakthroughs while developing and coaching each other as leaders.
With senior sponsorship and coaching from our consultants, teams build a compelling business case and a plan to achieve it. Mid-course evaluation ensures that corrections are made just-in-time. We work with the teams on a regular basis on project management, and coaching, and offer leadership development interventions. During the project all leaders get direct, constructive feedback and the opportunity to reflect on their performance within the teams. They also receive highly relevant, just-in-time educational components that help them employ best of class ideas and knowledge to meet the challenge.
The financial improvement from project success exceeds the cost of the initiative by a significant multiple. Leaders carry the experience of winning with them to future initiatives.
For many, this will create the best and most lasting leadership development experience they have ever had. Leaders report to us that this kind of intensive experiential development, even for seasoned executives, can elevate them to next level of leadership effectiveness.
Our Framework:
1. Discovery of Strategic Imperatives
Examination of your current strategy and initiatives to define success in
meaningful terms- Qualitative and quantitative assessment of your strategic
leadership development needs as the basis for measuring the impact of the
Initiative Based Development efforts
2. Initiative Assessment & Selection
Selection of a small set of key initiatives that will most effectively help you achieve your
strategic imperatives while developing the pipeline of leaders needed for your future success
3. Talent Assessment & Selection
Clear commitment of individuals to initiatives. Baseline data for leader development
and coaching
4. Initiative Charter & Launch
Compelling launch of initiatives with clear outcomes, timeline and team member commitment
5. Coaching and Follow Through
Continuous performance feedback and coaching from peers and consultants. Reflection,
introspection, and behavior change on the part of leaders involved. Adjustments to the
project plan and approach to ensure initiative success and leader development
6. Success Review & Lessons Learned
Strong, successful conclusion of the initiative and individual development effort with
commencement of significant and lasting performance improvements in the organization
Leaders who experience Initiative-Based Development™ will:
- Collaborate with, develop, support and coach other high potential leader peers
- Obtain project management, coaching, and leader development techniques, tools, and skills
- Receive Just-In-Time educational components, best of class ideas and knowledge to meet strategic project and individual objectives
- Reflect, offer and receive feedback on team and individual performance
- Carry this powerful experience of winning with them to future initiatives
Initiative-Based Development™ delivers compelling benefits to your organization.
Financially, project success consistently exceeds the cost of the initiative by a significant multiple. Developmentally, Leaders report that IBD provides the best, most lasting leadership development they have ever had, and one which has elevated them to higher levels of leadership effectiveness.
Shared Goal Achievement
Talent Management - Strategy Facilitation - Goal Alignment |
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Translate purpose into compelling goal-based statements capable of exciting employees, attracting talent, aligning initiatives and focusing on doing great things for customers and community Create strategies capable of achieving top level goals, developing breakthrough initiatives, plans and teams to achieve strategic breakthroughs Align multiple strategies, goals and tactics into a coherent and powerful action plan. Assign best talent to best breakthrough opportunities |
Performance Management - Team Development - Collaboration |
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Teams set the stage for high performance by aligning to Corporate goals, creating shared goals, and committing to mutual success Teams achieve sustained high performance through learning and applying the Five Foundations of Shared Team Performance; Clarify, Commit, Create, Collaborate, Celebrate Goal-Based Coaching is a unique and effective approach for leaders and teammates to coach themselves and others to high performance to achieve goals together and celebrate success
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Leader Development - Coaching - Succession Planning |
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Individuals perform better and improve faster when they work through their strengths. We help individuals to discern and align their strengths to goal achievement Individual growth and engagement accelerates as performers develop goals that are aligned with the greater goal of the organization Initiative-Based Development is a powerful process that is used to simultaneously develop leaders in the context of achieving significant breakthrough projects critical to the company’s ongoing success |
The Serving Leader
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Leading Differently and Gaining Real Results Based on the National Best Seller |
Seminar led by the co-authors of the book The Serving Leader, Dr. Ken Jennings and Dr. John Stahl-Wert. In the seminar, you will hear of the real-life serving leaders depicted in the book.
You will hear their strategies, leadership development approaches, successes, challenges, and practical advice, while putting the principles of The Serving Leader to work for yourself.
Our day together is full of practical exercises for you to assess your own capabilities as an effective leader, then plan specific actions back home with your team. Our faculty will challenge you with just-in-time coaching during the exercises, stretching you to set high goals for leadership development for yourself, your team, and your community.
At the same time, we will help you develop practical applied projects for the application of the leadership approach proven so effective in organizations throughout the country.
A Message from KEN BLANCHARD
Minute, Raving Fans®, Gung Ho!®, Whale Done! and Full Steam Ahead
"Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert have crafted a singular message for leaders in businesses, communities, churches, and nonprofit organizations.
"From two very different life paths have come a unified vision of leadership and an understanding of human change that will make a lifelong difference for you and the people you lead and serve."
Creating Coaching Capability™
Great leaders are great coaches!
Almost every encounter your leaders have with others is an opportunity to positively influence the overall performance of your organization and individuals. Third River Partner’s Creating Coaching Capability™ approach, owned by Harburg Consulting, will uniquely equip your leaders to coach others to superior performance, creating immediate breakthroughs in problem solving, innovation and strategy execution in your organization.
Creating Coaching Capabilites approach highlights:
Focused monthly time with cohort group of colleagues to learn and practice proven coaching principles, mindsets, frameworks, and leading practices. Additionally, discuss actions, wins, roadblocks, opportunities, ideas and techniques for future success
Implement learning in actual performance situations leaders are experiencing, supported by a powerful peer coaching and accountability structure
Small group time with experienced coach to consider challenges and opportunities, gain insights about behavior, and implement actions to realize improvements in leadership performance
Leaders who experience Creating Coaching Capability will:
- Discover barriers to individual and team best performance
- Identify specific actions to achieve breakthroughs in areas previously thought unchangeable
- Build on individual and group strengths to achieve key goals
- Reflect and forward plan for continuous success and growth
Creating Coaching Capability delivers results that are immediate and enduring.
When a leader masters a coaching process and skills that can be applied to help others fully employ their capabilities, it is empowering for all and provides a lasting basis for thriving in the challenges of leading.
This philosophy is at the very heart of our Creating Coaching Capability approach.