Custom Coaching To Help You Perfect Your Personal Platform
To be a successful leader, you need a platform.
Put simply, your personal platform is both a metaphorical structure and a practical scaffolding that allows you to rise above all the peripheral noise and daily workplace distractions so that you can magnify your visibility and amplify your vision, ideas, and strategic priorities.
And don’t kid yourself.
Without a legitimate way to cut through the clutter and confusion, you are at a severe disadvantage as a leader—especially if you are relatively new to the position. In fact, researchers tell us that more than HALF of all leaders will fail or struggle mightily within their first 18 months and perhaps their most significant stumbling block will be their inability to get their messages heard.
But this not the case for platform-driven leaders.
In fact, when leaders are both visible and vocal, they are perceived as more authentic and personable; more open, trustworthy and honest; and more visionary, energetic, and effective.
This is why your leadership platform matters.
Developing Your Personal Leadership Platform For Next-Level Performance
Our approach to helping you build your customized leadership platform is a carefully-crafted, three step process.
Priority #1: The Leading Out Loud® Leadership Audit
If you want to be a great leader—someone’s who’s both highly visible and engagingly vocal—you can’t just fake it until you make it. Working side-by-side, we’ll take you on a remarkable journey of self-discovery to help you better understand who you are, how you lead, and why anyone should care.
And if you are like the other leaders who’ve experienced the power of our Leading Out Loud® Inventory, you’ll discover more about your approach to leading in just few hours than you’ve probably learned in a lifetime—including what leadership priorities matter most to you, which of your communication approaches best resonate with others, and the strength of your leadership presence.
But it doesn’t end there.
Once this information is unearthed, we’ll show you how to refine and refashion all of your findings into a simple, sensible, and systematic personal leadership philosophy.
It is out of this framework that your personal leadership platform will begin to take shape.
Priority #2: Fashioning Your Vision; Finding Your Voice
Having completed the assessment of your personal leadership strengths, style, and tendencies—as well as having created your personal leadership philosophy—it’s time to put this game-changing information to work by helping you to find fashion your vision and find your voice.
Essentially, your ‘voice’ is what makes your vision and message believable. And when both are harnessed effectively, you'll touches hearts and ignites passion and energy.
To help you fashion your vision and find your voice we’ll get to work helping you translate your leadership philosophy into powerful words that work that work for you.
Then, through meticulous scripting, storytelling, guided repetition, and deliberate practice, we’ll exponentially grow your confidence in comfortably and charismatically articulating your approach to leading in a way that energizes and enlightens everyone around you.
Priority #3: Translating Strategy Into Results
Last but not least, we’ll work with you to create an insanely detailed, step-by-step plan for successfully unveiling and sharing your personal leadership platform—including your vision, values and new vocabulary—to all those around you.
This is when the magic happens.
Indeed, when you care enough about those around that you make it a priority to authentically and boldly share your most important leadership priorities common ground is created because your colleagues, co-workers, and customers can immediately begin blending their talents with yours—and vice-versa.
And when listening to, learning from, and appreciating one another’s strengths and styles becomes the norm, your trajectory as an effective leader is assured.
Your Tomorrow Starts Today!
There are those bold leaders and forward-thinking agents of change who love to walk the road less traveled.
They love making today’s ideas tomorrow’s reality. They love fixing stuff before it’s broken. They love making hard things happen. They love transforming organizations and changing lives.
And we love helping them.
If you’re interested in learning more about expanding your sphere of influence by developing your own personalized leadership platform through our Leading Out Loud® initiative, simply drop us line through the form below.