Develop Your High Potential Leaders Quickly
This innovative program builds the leadership capabilities of your organization by systemically addressing the development of your high-potential leaders in the context of their roles, responsibilities, and environmental realities. It has been designed to support the professional development of those with potential to advance quickly given the right tools and an awareness of their own potential, particularly junior leaders reaching transition points in their careers.
Especially effective for leaders who lead other leaders, Leader Accelerator blends workshops, coaching, and organizationally important action learning projects, which have measurable impact, into a powerful mechanism for strengthening organization capability.
Retain Top Talent
Your organization is competing for a limited supply of talented young leaders who look to their employers to help grow and develop. By building on the participant’s individual leadership role, we provide an intense learning experience that combines an assessment of the emerging leader’s style and skills with your organization’s unique demands and practical realities.
Each participant’s learning experience is customized to the individual’s level of readiness and the needs of your company. This ensures that the skills developed in the workshop rapidly strengthen organizational leadership effectiveness and capabilities in measurable ways.
A Scalable and Affordable Program
By combining distance learning, an intense four-day workshop, and supportive coaching, the participant quickly acquires and masters leadership skills that are strategically important. Workshops are grounded in our outcome-focused leadership competency model, derived from a combination of expert research and practice. The incorporation of an Action Learning Project, which is important to the participant’s employer and includes measurable outcomes, provides the participant with the opportunity to apply the skills learned during the workshops with the ongoing support of a coach. You’ll see rapid growth and progress in each participant.
Program Format
• Online support for project development, discussion, and supplementary reading
• A four-day intensive workshop held at our downtown Chicago Campus or on site in your training facility
• Individual coaching throughout the program
• Final transition workshop
The Leader Accelerator Program is for executives who have decision-making responsibilities and direct reports who themselves are leaders. This program provides upwardly mobile entry-, mid-, and senior-level managers with the tools to move effectively into a position of broader scope and wider organizational responsibility. These leaders will reframe their role into one that is more strategic and influential.
Participant Outcomes
• Moving from a tactical to a strategic approach by leading through others, integrating objectives and feedback, and optimizing organizational communication
• Developing leadership in others, building bench strength, promoting ethical decision making, and leveraging diversity
• Adding value, delivering results, and driving quality and continuous improvement by setting high standards and effectively managing expectations
• Leveraging organizational strengths to enhance sustainability and nourish growth
• Driving commitment, ownership, and accountability for achieving strategic goals
• Developing future leaders and networks that will strengthen the future of the organization
Leadership Competencies Learned
This 13 week leadership development program focuses on 11key leadership competencies in a workshop environment:
• Leveraging Self-Awareness
• Communicating the Vision
• Building an Ethical Organization
• Setting Sustainable Goals
• Managing Diversity
• Building Productive Teams
• Coaching and Developing Junior Leaders
• Motivating Others to Perform
• Managing the Core Business
• Assessing the Organization and Its Environment
• Managing Organizational Culture to Facilitate Healthy Growth
Coaching Leaders — optional advanced workshop
This additional workshop is designed for leaders who wish to learn advanced coaching techniques based on proven coaching models that will help them to enrich the development of senior direct reports within their agencies as well as to become a strong mentor for others.
Leader Accelerator puts your high potential leaders on the fast track—you’ll see 18 months of progress in 13 weeks. The Chicago School helps today's leaders–people like you who are pulled in a million different directions and expected to get more done with fewer resources. These tougher times call for creativity and innovation in leadership. The Leader Accelerator Program allows those in management to take stock of their leadership style, become more effective coaches and mentors, and use fresh strategies to open up the communication pipeline and keep ideas flowing freely.
Our interactive workshops provide personalized coaching and customization that result in enhanced professionalism and skills that can be implemented immediately in your current role. The topics covered will help you keep your team productive and on target, while building system capacity and bench strength.
Classes Forming Now—Contact Us
To learn more about the Leader Accelerator Program or to register please contact Michael Barr, Director of Executive and Professional Education , at 312.329.6620 or by email at leadership@thechicagoschool.edu.
What Our Participants Have Said About
Leader Accelerator
“Several of our division's directors have participated in the Leader Accelerator program. The feedback we've received has been very positive: the content is relevant, focuses on core leadership competencies, and reflects a true blended learning approach that includes online course work, peer discussion, leadership assessment, and individual executive coaching.”
Mary Jo Burfeind
Vice President
Subscriber Services Division , Health Care Service Corporation
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois
“The experience is very different than any other training program
I have attended. It is not taught by giving hypothetical situations, rather they are interested in your everyday so it can be incorporated into skills we can use.”
Maria Sepulveda
Vice President, First American Bank
“To date, this experience has been invaluable! Our managers/supervisors have learned so much about their own leadership qualities and skills both from the results of their personal leadership assessment, and from the professional guidance of the entire coaching team. The value of this collective effort is already visible, as participants continue to work through to completion of their projects.”
Linda J. Overbey
Senior Vice President for Human Resources
First American Bank
“What I found that struck a chord with me was how this program came at it from a psychological angle. It explored my interactions with others and their perceptions of me. I was then able to identify those things I thought I should improve upon, as well as know what skills my managers saw as important to my development and the growth of the company. Because of this approach, I can see long lasting changes in both my business and personal interactions.”
Jill Spiller
Vice President, First American Bank
