Transform your Leaders, Transform your Organization

Executive Leadership Assessment & Corporate Leadership Training - Pennsylvania

A well-executed leadership development program has the power to change relationships, build a solid peer support network, deliver outstanding results through others, and foster a culture of trust and teamwork throughout the organization. These are the results you can expect when working with Sherpa Higher Performance.

We'll help your leaders create and sustain positive change throughout your organization via:

  • One-on-one executive and leadership coaching
  • Group coaching
  • Facilitation, training, and customized sessions to address what is most important to the individuals and the organization

The most effective program will be comprised of regularly scheduled group sessions combined with one-on-one coaching. Each group session provides an "immersion experience" and keeps the leadership team on the same page. The coaching is essential to reinforce the learning and customize the support for each individual.

Our engagements begin with an initial discovery process to help us both (Sherpa and the client) get very clear on what is wanted/needed and to design a path forward together.

Leadership Assessments

Sherpa uses various tools and assessments to gain a full understanding of:

  • The organization's core leadership competencies.
    • What are the tasks and behaviors expected of your leaders?
  • The organization's leaders' current capacities.
    • Where are the gaps between expectations and performance? What is needed to fill those gaps?
  • The organization's mission critical activities.
    • How do the activities of your leaders create strategic advantage for the organization?

With answers to the above questions, Sherpa will customize a leadership development program to foster transformational leadership throughout your organization.

Client Case Study

Client ABC engaged with Sherpa to design and deliver a leadership development program. Our needs assessment revealed the following key challenges to be addressed through our work:

  • High employee turnover
  • Low employee engagement and morale
  • Wasted time and energy managing and avoiding "conflicts"
  • Lack of alignment within management team
  • Too few formal business procedures
  • Deficit of success measures (success measures were solely financial with no customer metrics or employee metrics)

The following objectives were developed:

  • Greater alignment within management team (more trust, more openness with each other, better clarification of decisions made and actions to be taken, etc.)
  • Greater effectiveness in leading and influencing others
  • Improved methods of handling conflict
  • Higher employee engagement and morale
  • An increase in formal business procedures
  • Better-defined success measures
  • Higher overall productivity
  • Reduced turnover

Sherpa's program included the following:

  • One-on-one bi-weekly coaching sessions for the senior leaders
  • 360-Degree feedback evaluations for the senior leaders
  • Bi-monthly group training sessions with the senior leadership team. Content areas included: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, High Impact Communication, Building Trust, Effective Conflict Handling, and Coaching for Performance
  • Business strategy consulting for CEO: determine priority areas and establish growth plan goals, oversee the creation and implementation of formal business procedures and success measures, explore leadership style and how to maximize personal impact for the organization
  • Facilitation of the annual strategic planning session

Results of Sherpa's program (duration was 9-months):

  • Increased openness and greater amount of productive dialogue within the senior leadership team.
  • Individual leadership development through the coaching process has directly impacted productivity and revenue.
  • Reduction in turnover from 22% to 15%.
  • Members of the senior leadership team with a long history of interpersonal conflict have begun to get together and dialogue about how to work together more effectively for the good of the team.
  • Skills and content taught have enabled members of leadership to develop and implement much needed formal processes in various areas of the organization.

Contact us to learn more about fostering transformational leadership throughout your organization.