Vistage Austin is expanding to offer new Leadership Development Programs:
- Advanced Leaders – Open enrollment – New Group starts March 2024 with chair Randy Targhetta (randy.targhetta@vistagechair.com)
- Emerging Leaders – Master Chair Bill LaRosa (bill.larosa@vistagechair.com) is in his 4th year. See below as one example of how Vistage LDPs will develop your rising stars and key employees into their next leadership role.
- https://myvistage.com/build-my-chair-practice/emerging-leader-program-portal/
- Vistage Inside – Select your own competencies (3 to 6) the 1st year from our 12 leadership competencies.
The Emerging Leader Program is in it’s 4th year. Each year in February open enrollment takes place to fill the seats back towards 30 rising stars and/or senior executives.
Customer focus, emotional intelligence, performance management, and communication are just some of the emerging leader topics covered in this series.
This program is designed for Austin small business owners, start-up entrepreneurs, healthcare/hospitals managers, individual contributors from our growing Fortune 1000 and family-owned enterprises, all needing to prepare you or your rising stars in becoming your next generation of senior leadership.
Under the guidance of Vistage Master Chair, Bill LaRosa, (bill.larosa@vistagechair.com) participants over a 2-year track develop the core leadership competencies and confidence, empowering them to deliver on company goals.
Questions? Talking with Ed can help shed more light on the benefits.
Focused mastery for developing leadership skills
Unlike other leadership programs that squeeze material into a few back-to-back days and leave implementation at risk, Vistage emerging leaders focus on one topic at a time to encourage mastery. Participants will be challenged to take the next step in their careers within your company, rather than seek outside opportunities. Develop a proven team of senior leaders equipped to take your company to the next level.
High-potential employees tend to know their potential and will move on to another organization if they are not recognized, motivated, and challenged.
Association for Talent Development
The up front cost is $5,800 per participant per year for two years, with six meetings a year from 8am to 430pm. That’s just under $500 per month you will invest in developing your key employee .
The day will consist of a morning “content expert” workshop with the afternoon focused on the morning content as we move into small breakout groups, taking a deeper dive into your personal value add and take-aways.
Better leaders make better decisions
Since smart people want to be around smart people, this training is for A players: those individuals that want to make a difference in becoming better leaders, making better decisions. I will ask each of you to be the mentor or designate a mentor for your mentee.
— Harvard Business Review —
Emerging Leader – Topics:
Emerging Leader members will receive training in 12 core leadership competencies over a two-year period. The topics will span Personal, Interpersonal, Team, and Organizational leadership.
Self-Awareness
Leadership Assessment | Leadership Style | Personal Growth | Stress Management
Identify your strong suits and blind spots in order to develop a management style that maximizes your impact and reflects your unique personality. See yourself and others in a new way that will accelerate your effectiveness in communication and bring out your highest potential.
Execution
Focus | Results-Orientation | Time Management | Productivity
Develop excellence in execution by learning how to effectively link people, strategy and operating plans together while navigating through the complexity that can derail your plans. Cultivate habits that support, rather than hinder, your concentration and productivity.
Communication
Meaningful Conversations | Presentation Skills | Motivating Others
Enhance your influence by projecting confidence and articulating a clear leadership point of view for maximum impact. Confidently motivate others to accomplish your company’s goals.
Performance Management
Performance Reviews | Mentoring | Goal Setting | Conflict Resolution
Learn to recognize the potential in others, match talent to task, define and align performance goals, and handle difficult management situations with greater certainty.
Team Management
Building Effective Teams | Delegation | Empowerment | Meeting Facilitation
Gain a broader understanding of team dynamics, managerial best practices and the role of the manager. Learn the principles that will motivate employees, strengthen trust, and build a cohesive and constructive team.
Business Finance
Financial Objectives | Key Metrics & Ratios | Financial Drivers | Key Performance Indicators
Understand the key metrics and financial drivers for your business. Learn new ways to think about strategy and how to communicate financial objectives more clearly with financial professionals. Learn how to track leading and lagging indicators as KPIs.
Executive Presence
Credibility | Authenticity | Clarity | Professional Influence
Learn to align your body language and word choice to articulate the greatest clarity of message and degree of influence. Identify your natural tendencies that distract from your message and obtain greater vocal variation, power and authenticity to enhance your leadership standing.
Personal Accountability
Resilience | Courage | Ownership Mentality | Efficacy
Identify victim thinking and adopt strategies for developing a personal accountability formula for success. Learn to communicate more effectively with internal and external clients in order to demonstrate professionalism, reliability, courage, and dedication to your work and to the people around you.
Emotional Intelligence
EQ vs. IQ | Empathy | Listening Skills | Adaptability
Finding success in leadership requires emotional intelligence, and the higher you go in an organization, the more it matters. Learn techniques, strategies and an action plan to develop the emotional intelligence necessary to achieve maximum personal and business results.
Change Management
Leading through Change | Continuous Improvement
Learn the stages of concern that individuals experience when dealing with change and the reason why people resist change. Gain the tools needed to help make change comfortable or even exciting for your team.
Business Strategy
Vision | Design Thinking | Innovation | Strategic Planning
Learn to identify company strengths and weaknesses, evaluate competitive threats and opportunities, and develop sustainable competitive advantages. Understand the importance of strategic positioning and building a learning culture within your organization.
Customer Focus
Customer-centric Approach | Sales Management | Brand Ambassadorship | Customer Service
Identify steps to improve customer satisfaction by seeing your business through the eyes of your customers. Learn how to increase brand loyalty by embracing a customer-centric approach in the design of your business processes.
So again let’s connect and see if we can make a difference in raising your brand awareness and retaining your top talent in Austin, Texas.
Austin Vistage | Ed Stillman 