Leadership Development

At AJO we believe in asking good questions.......questions that clarify the essential skills, knowledge, and behaviors that drive success in your organization. Once we fully understand the difference between where you are now and where you want to go, we’ll use that information to offer powerful development ideas and approaches, coupled with contemporary learning tools that give your organization the strongest development impact for your investment. Let us partner with you to turn your strategic intent into desired business results.

Leadership Development in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

If you are an emerging, small or mid-sized business, download our complimentary report on The State of Leadership Development in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses (SMBs).

Gain a quick insight through an overview of key study results. Twelve infographics provide important takeaways at a glance.
Acquire insights to the importance, maturity and key talent management challenges of SMBs.
Explore the goals, programs and current initiatives reported by SMB study participants.
Gather insights to critical success factors, best practices and ideas to leverage.

If you are an emerging, small or mid-sized business and need help figuring out how to develop your leaders and their teams, contact us for a complimentary consultation.

Our Approach

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Our partnership begins with understanding and clearly defining your business goals and needs.

How important are strong leaders and teams in the attainment of your organization's business goals?
What is the impact of current resources (expertise, time and budget) on efforts to develop your leaders and their teams?
What behaviors are limiting results within your organization?
How do your initiatives compare with other organizations when it comes to creating high-performing, inspirational leaders and teams?
How strong are your leadership pipelines? Are you leveraging best practices when it comes to identifying and developing your new and high-potential leaders?
Are your current leadership efforts fragmented, ad hoc or even non-existent? Are you clear about where/how to start?
To what extent is your senior leadership committed to making investments in team and leadership development? What are the barriers to leadership development investment?

Our 4-step approach will explain how we will partner with you to explore ideas and options and to deliver extraordinary solutions and desired results. Whether you are seeking to augment your in-house capabilities or looking for design, development and program management support, you'll find us flexible to work with and ready to tailor programs to meet your unique needs.

Leadership Impact

Your organization is only as strong as your leadership. If you want extraordinary performance you must have extraordinary leaders. Let us demonstrate how we can partner to make a leadership impact.

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Personal Impact

Leadership is personal. It starts with the leader’s knowledge, beliefs, and practices. So let’s begin there…helping leaders develop themselves from the inside out by strengthening their self-awareness and self-management.

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Communication Impact

Communication is complex. How do leaders and teams successfully navigate the complexity in order to get work done? Through a combination of self-awareness, social awareness, strong tools and best practices – making it more powerful and less uncertain.

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Team Impact

Have a good team and want a great team? Or have a great team and want to take it to the next level? Whatever your goal, learn how we are strengthening team behaviors and cohesiveness to better position our clients for greatness.

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Organization Impact

While it’s difficult to predict how the future will shape your organization, if your leaders are prepared to respond to changes, trends, and opportunities, they’re better positioned to shape the future – rather than be at the mercy of the unknown.

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Need something unique?

As an agile learning organization, we’re continuously adding to our suite of capabilities. Don’t see what you’re looking for? Or, are you hoping to find a learning session that can be integrated into an offsite meeting? Let’s talk about it!

Impact Series^TM

With 40+ distinct Team and Leadership Development modules available to you (click graphic to download the PDF), we offer a variety of approaches to partnering with us.

If speed is a prime consideration, we can deliver an existing single module very responsively.
Take an existing module and let us help you tailor it to meet your specific organizational goals and needs.
Combine two or more modules to create a custom, targeted development experience for your high-potentials, leaders and/or teams.

Let’s talk!

Whatever your development needs, we will partner with you – just as we’ve done with many emerging, small and mid-sized businesses, as well as Fortune 500 organizations to solve your needs through innovative, learner-centered development that addresses specific business goals and objectives.

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Leadership Development