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Leadership Team Consulting
60 percent of executives fail to achieve the strategy they were hired to execute within 18 months of taking the job. What if there was a way to guarantee leadership success from day one?
Great leaders aren’t born. They’re built.
Leadership training for new managers
Your managers and leaders are the key to employee engagement and retention. According to Gallup, organizations thrive when their leaders do:
Employees are 4x as likely to be engaged when they trust the leadership of their organization.
Employees are 7.5x as likely to feel connected to their company culture when leaders help them see how their changes today made an impact on the future performance of the organization.
Employees are 73% less likely to feel burned out at work when their leadership teams communicate effectively with the rest of the organization.
Our program addresses the unique challenges that many of today’s leaders and managers face, providing them with the tools to lead effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
The Leadership Team Development Program
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Management Foundations:
Mastering Human Relationships
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Understand the unique role of a manager in the startup world.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Deeper self-awareness around your natural management strengths.
✔️ Your management blind spots.
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Learn how to give performance-changing feedback and appreciation.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Proven frameworks for giving and receiving feedback.
✔️ Templates, tools, cheatsheets, and more.
✔️ You’ll practice. A lot!
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Poor communication creates more work. Communication becomes increasingly more important as level up in your career.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ What remote managers do differently, including communication shortcuts and hacks.
✔️ The difference between B- listening and A+ listening.
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People cannot read minds! Set clear expectations, delegate effectively, and build a high-performing team. Time management included!
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Set clear project expectations with different frameworks.
✔️ Manage workloads (self and team) confidently.
✔️ Avoid expectation hangovers.
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Master 1:1s, how to performance manage, coach, and develop your people.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Lead performance reviews and development conversations.
✔️ Recognize how to conduct powerful 1:1s as a mentor-coach.
✔️ Address challenges and ask questions with low performers.
✔️ Interpret PIPs and how they should be used.
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Build the confidence to have difficult conversations to dial down conflict.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Proven frameworks and secrets to managing conflict at work.
✔️ How to reframe conflict.
✔️ How to manage clashes.
✔️ Templates, tools, and cheatsheets.
✔️ You’ll practice. A lot!
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Management Foundations:
The Technical Toolkit
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People cannot read minds! Set clear expectations, delegate effectively, and build a high-performing team. Time management included!
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Set clear project expectations with different frameworks.
✔️ Manage workloads (self and team) confidently.
✔️ Avoid expectation hangovers.
✔️ How to delegate with confidence and build a culture of accountability. -
Set yourself up for success. Learn how to recruit and hire the best team.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Examine how to assess tradeoffs associated with hiring decisions.
✔️ Explore a hiring and job interview framework that will ensure you hire the right fit.
✔️ Recognize what to look for in technical interviews for startups.
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Effective decision-making can be the difference between success and failure in any leader. Learn the most popular frameworks used at startups.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ How to build a strategic plan.
✔️ Describe different strategic decision-making mental models to drive results.
✔️ Assess tradeoffs associated with decisions and develop strategies for effective risk mitigation.
✔️ Describe how to predict challenges before they arise.
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Management Foundations:
Unspoken Challenges
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Success as a manager is not just about managing down!
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Skills for positive relationships with your superiors and your peers.
✔️ The best way to communicate up and across.
✔️ How to sell your ideas to others.
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How to advocate for yourself, and your team, and how you can grow into the next phase as a leader.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Clarity around your current role and your future goals.
✔️ How to advocate for yourself.
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Navigate change, uncertainty, and challenges inherent to the startup environment.
What you’ll learn:
✔️ Change management frameworks; lead through constant change.
✔️ Tools and strategies to set yourself up for success.
✔️ Support your team members in becoming more comfortable with uncertainty and change.
Let’s build a team that leads together.
Strong leadership teams don’t happen by accident. We help you build the structures, conversations, and accountability that make alignment real.
Credentials checklist
✓ Worked with 100+ teams
✓ Worked with over 1200 StrengthsFinder profiles
✓ 3x Marketing Director at fintech startups
✓ Certified in Gallup’s CliftonStrengths
✓ Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with ICF
✓ CPA, CA from KPMG (active CPA)
✓ Graduate of Landmark Forum
✓ Graduate of Non-Violent Communications course
✓ Graduate of The Corker Co.’s Facilitator Training
✓ Graduate of Conscious Leadership’s Introduction
✓ Graduate of Radical Candor’s Feedback Course
✓ Mental Health First Aid Certificate
About your coach
Who is Alice Ko?
For the past 20+ years, I’ve worked for innovative organizations, tech startups/scaleups, agencies, non-profits, the Big 4, and corporate conglomerates. I’ve worked on every type of team imaginable - and experienced the good and the bad.
I’ve been an IC and people manager at multiple organizations so I feel your pain. Working as a new manager has a different set of challenges and you don’t always get the support you need.
How I started
I built this program for myself when I sought ways to make my management easier and my team more productive.
I even became a certified coach to improve my management skills!
That’s how I accidentally discovered my passion and skill for coaching, facilitating, and training.
So, I launched a CliftonStrengths consultancy.
Then, companies asked me to train their startup teams and new managers.
And just like that, this program was formed.
Why I love doing this
➜ This is the program I wish I had when I started managing.
➜ There’s nothing I love more than supporting people through one of the most challenging transitions in their professional lives.
➜ That’s why I run small, curated group cohorts that are customized to the participants.
➜ Everybody gets the attention they need to succeed.
➜ This is not a webinar or lecture series. I know each manager’s name and unique challenges.
➜ Each manager has direct access to me between sessions.
➜ All groups are high-touch, personalized, and you’ll feel like you have personal coach on your side.
➜ Together, we mimic the environment of a team forming trust and working through challenges together.
➜ We learn how to create safe spaces where people share real challenges, give real feedback, and learn together.
➜ Participants gain a new mindset with frameworks and tools to excel as people managers.
Don’t just take our word for it.
True stories of transformation from individuals and teams.
The core competencies of effective leadership
1. Build relationships
It’s up to leaders and managers to create strong connections with team members and to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive work environment.
2. Develop employees
The best leaders and managers invest in the growth and development of team members through training, mentorship, and career advancement opportunities.
3. Spearhead change
Managers and leaders must spearhead organizational change initiatives effectively, ensuring smooth transitions and team buy-in.
4. Inspire teams
An organization’s best-performing leaders motivate and energize teams by setting a clear vision, providing encouragement, and recognizing achievements.
6. Utilize critical thinking
Motivational skills are great, but good leaders employ analytical and strategic thinking to solve problems, make decisions, and drive business success.
7. Remain accountable to work
Leaders and managers must uphold responsibility and accountability for personal and team performance, ensuring goals and standards are met.
5. Communicate clearly
Transparent and effective communication within the team (and cross functionally) enhances employee understanding and cooperation, which helps promote engagement.
Invest in a better future for yourself, your company, and your team.
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