Leadership Development

Strengthening Todays Leaders, Building Tomorrows

Incorporating many of the core principles and foundations that have established the Marine Corps as the best leadership development program in the world. IDG equips leaders at every level with the tools and strategies to take initiative and execute, for high performing teams to thrive, for employee retention and engagement to increase, and a growing internal talent pipeline of proven and effective leaders ready to step into their next role as you grow and scale.

The Why

ROI

The ROI of effective leadership has been written about extensively. Low retention often indicates leadership and management problems, and the cost to replace an employee is many times greater that the investment in the team you have now.

Effective leadership leads to increases in productivity, reductions in turnover, and revenue growth, as well as better communication and succession planning, just to name a few of the areas effective leaders positively impact an organization.

Set the Backbone of Your Organization Up for Success.

Imagine having a new employee start in your organization, with no experience or specific education with what the job and role require, and providing no training to them for 10 years.

While this may be difficult or even impossible to imagine, that is exactly what Jack Zenger found when he evaluated over 17,000 participants that took part in leadership training - leaders on average spent more than a decade in a leadership role without getting any leadership training.

Different Generations, Different Needs, but… Quality of Manager and Management are More Important Than Overall Compensation for all Generations.

Recent research and surveys suggest that the generations joining the workforce today highly value opportunities to develop and grow. An HBR study showed that opportunities to learn and grow was more important to them than any of the other categories on the survey, including overall compensation. Additionally, more than 50% of all generations surveyed indicated that the quality of manager and quality of management was more important to them than overall compensation. One study showed this is valued more highly than salary. Additionally, the quality of their manager scored just as high, and above other.

Common fallacies about leaders and leadership

  • Leaders are born

  • All leaders are extroverts

  • Leader is a role you are promoted to

  • Leaders have all the answers

  • Leadership is about command and control

  • Growth as a leader doesn’t take work

Building Blocks

  • Designed to cover the foundations of leadership, this program is custom tailored to your specific leadership development needs and creates an awareness of the necessary elements needed for effective leadership.

  • More detailed and with greater depth, this custom program based on your specific leadership development needs builds on the foundations of leadership and incorporates a variety of approaches and strategies for leaders to increase their effectiveness.

  • Emotional Intelligence, first introduced decades ago, has become the sine qua non of effective leadership. Individual and 360 emotional intelligence assessments are used in conjunction with coaching, peer groups and guided discussion to help leaders strengthen their EQ and increase their impact across their team and organization.

  • Highly interactive with a bias for action, these custom tailored workshops designed to address specific leadership needs and goals for teams and organizations.