Our next Emerging Leader cohort launches Monday March 4th, 2024. Email Brie at brie@tomcuthbert.com for more information or to hold a spot for your leader.
“After spending over 1,000 hours per year with CEO’s I have an observation, companies break in the middle. To build a healthy and growing company the middle must be strong and resilient. ”
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.
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The Vistage Emerging Leader Program prepares your rising stars to become your next generation of senior leadership. Under the guidance of Vistage Chair Tom Cuthbert, participants develop the core leadership competencies and confidence, empowering them to deliver on company goals.
“High-potential employees tend to know their potential and will move on to another organization if they are not recognized, motivated, and challenged.”
The Vistage peer group experience
• Facilitated by Vistage Chair Tom Cuthbert, group meetings are held every other month, with each meeting focusing on a single leadership competency to encourage mastery.
• Top-performing managers and individual contributors collaborate with peers from inside and outside their companies toward the common goal of preparing for greater leadership roles.
• Expert Vistage speakers lead interactive workshops on the 12 core leadership competencies.
• Participant’s Vistage Chair and peers serve as a sounding board for new work challenges and opportunities.
“Simply adding a star performer to a team boosts the effectiveness of other team members by 5-15%. No wonder, then, that study after study shows stronger financial performance in companies that make proportionally greater investments in identifying and developing top talent.”
Emerging Leader Speaker Topics
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.
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.
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.