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Are you the best you can be?

Anna Rowley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:48:37 +0000

Have you ever wondered what type of leader you are? Or how you stack up against the best? Perhaps you’ve reached a plateau in your career, the behaviors you rely on don’t seem to be working anymore. Maybe you want to have more impact. Let’s face it there is always room for improvement. At Rowley Associates we specialize in taking you where other coaches don’t - the ‘last mile’ of behavioral change. We focus on the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that will accelerate your effectiveness, impact and influence. It’s hard work and not for the faint of heart, but we get results – fast. Just see what some of our clients have to say.

Leadership Therapy is Designed to:

Assess your leadership strengths and vulnerabilities
Benchmark your profile against our Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 data base
Provide individual coaching sessions and at-work shadowing
Create sustainable behavioral change
Link to your business objectives
Track progress against agreed objectives – we are a firm believer in what gets measured gets done.
Be time-limited – we realize our time is your money

Developing a Resilient Team in 30 days

Anna Rowley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:44:48 +0000

Research indicates that changes in team structure are one of the most frequent and significant events experienced by managers and their employees. In any six-month period a manager can expect to lose or have to integrate several new team members. This churn can stall momentum, delay execution and impact relationships. As a result, teams and organizations struggle to perform at high levels.

At Rowley Associates we recognize that teams have to be able to adjust easily to frequent organizational changes as well as the disruption caused by market forces. Our definition of a successful team is one that is resilient – able to absorb changes in personnel and strategy whilst maintaining focus and delivering results.

Our 4-step method to creating high performing, resilient teams include:

Measure – the current capability of your team
Set Direction – creating a shared understanding of vision, objectives, metrics, meaning and accountability
Build relationships – Resilience is a combination of the belief in the direction of the team and the quality of relationships between team members
Reach out – Most teams recognize that morale is important and customer satisfaction essential but only a few understand that reaching out to internal company partners and stakeholders is critical. Resilient teams are integrated and have good quality, productive relationships with internal partners and stakeholders

Leadership Diagnostic

Anna Rowley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:45:23 +0000

Our 360-degree diagnostic identifies your effectiveness as a leader based on your self-perception, and the assessment of peers, superiors and subordinates, customers and partners. The result is a comprehensive report summarizing the results from these different stakeholders and a comparison of your data with leaders from our Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 database. Our diagnostic measures:

Leadership Conviction	Leadership Connection
Vision	Self Awareness
Passion	Communication
Reality Sense (connection to your customers and industry	Values & Beliefs
Commitment to Continuous Learning	Developing People
The Ability to Manage Change

Once your results are available we conduct an extensive debrief to identify your strengths and vulnerabilities and complete your Development Blueprint. The ‘Blueprint’ is a 90-day program that identifies the behaviors you need to change, how these link to your business objectives, and who might help you achieve these goals. To get a flavor of the process, we invite you to take our Leadership Therapy Light diagnostic, which is an abbreviated yet powerful version of our methodology and only takes five minutes to complete.

Click here for a sample Leadership Diagnostic report PDF.

Click here for a sample of the Development Blueprint.

Leadership Therapy for Organizations

Anna Rowley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:52:44 +0000

Rowley Associates recognizes that in order to be truly successful, it is imperative to know how your internal partners and stakeholders perceive you. Why? Because if these groups don’t recognize you as a capable, reliable and trusted partner there will be little cooperation from them, their confidence in your ability to execute will wane and your credibility will suffer. As a result customers will be dissatisfied, employees frustrated and you will fail to achieve your business objectives.

Until Rowley Associates’ unique Business 360 diagnostics was developed, companies were not able to gain visibility into this critical success metric. This uncovered feedback will provide you with a complete picture of your business’ capabilities from the other groups that really matter – the internal partners you need to be successful and the stakeholders who bankroll your business.

Our on-line Business 360 provides measures of:

Brand awareness: The image and reputation of your business
Relationships: The quality of the relationships with stakeholders and partners
Capability: Perceptions of your organization’s capability and contribution to the broader company
Leadership: Ratings of leadership effectiveness and decision making in your business
Benchmark: Compare your results with our Fortune 500 database

Click here for more information or call for a consultation – 301-681-0125.

Living Your Leadership Brand: A Step-by-Step Approach

Anna Rowley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:48:42 +0000

How do people describe you? You need to know, as your brand is your most important commodity. It shapes how people perceive you, talk about you, and respond to you. If you’re not in control of this message then someone else is. Would you leave any other aspect of your business to chance?

Living your leadership brand is a unique approach to identifying your brand. This brief program will help you:

Determine your core beliefs,
Identify behaviors and link them to your business objectives
Weave your beliefs and business objectives into a story to communicate your brand.
Identify key stakeholders who need to evangelize your brand
Identify opportunities to market your brand
Decide where you will be spending your time to maximize visibility and communicate your story

To get a flavor of our approach here is an example of the program.

Leadership Therapy Bootcamp

Anna Rowley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:51:31 +0000

Our Bootcamp is designed to explore the 5-Essential Truths of Leadership Therapy.

Self-Awareness – Do you know how your behavior impacts others? Do you often ask for feedback on your performance? Leaders with high self-awareness are unusually aware of how their behavior effects others and are able to adapt their actions to bring out the best in whatever person or situation they are dealing with at any time.
Confidence – Do you stand up for you ideas even if they are unpopular or express confidence that goals will be achieved? Confidence determines our relationship with success. Do we avoid it or embrace it? Our confidence impacts our passion, whether we boldly move forward or hold back, and the quality of the decisions we make.
Power and Ambition – Do you use expert power or do you rely more on the power inherent in your role? It’s not enough to be in command; you have to feel in command. Power can inspire and encourage or create fear and uncertainty.
Trust. – Do you manage expectations? Do you find it hard to trust? When people trust each other and their leaders they can work through disagreements faster, take smarter risks, work harder, have greater loyalty, and contribute better ideas.
Belief – What do you believe in? Our beliefs shape our perceptions of our world, influence how we make decisions, what we pay attention to and what we choose to ignore. Beliefs also shape our Brand.

Our program can be run for intact teams, businesses or virtually.

Team Diagnostic

Anna Rowley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:46:23 +0000

If you feel you’d like to learn more about how to improve your team’s performance then our ‘Team Diagnostic’ is all you need. This web-based survey is quick to administer, simple to complete, yet powerful in its ability to diagnose where to focus your efforts to get the most bang for your training dollar. The diagnostic measures:

Belief and commitment to strategy
Trust and conflict
Expectations of leadership
Team promoter score – level of attachment to, and degree of evangelism of the team
Perceptions of the teams brand
Barriers to success

The outcome of the diagnostic is a bespoke report summarizing the data, how you stack rank against other teams, and an action plan describing the steps you can take to improve the performance and resilience of you team.

Teams that Mean Business

Anna Rowley — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:37:40 +0000

If you want ‘kum-by-ya’ or ‘Trust Falls’ this program is definitely not for you. We believe you’re in business so you need to mean business. Our 1-day team development program focuses on making your team better. With our uncompromising approach we focus on the problems to be solved, processes to be improved or relationships needing to be strengthened. We offer solutions in real time that are practical and sustainable. We have a strong track-record of building teams that perform in Microsoft, Yahoo! Fluke and Cigna.

Our team development program can be used in conjunction with the Team Diagnostic.

Tele-Therapy

Anna Rowley — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:55:16 +0000

A state of the art video and tele-conferencing alternative to traditional face-to-face consulting that maximizes leadership performance while minimizing budget allocations.

Tele-Therapy:

Reduces travel budgets
Eliminates the complexity of geography and time zones
Broadens employee engagement
Reduces your carbon footprint

Click here for more information on this innovative approach to leadership development.

Swift Solutions. Sustainable Results.

Anna Rowley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:13:09 +0000

Rowley Associates helps individuals, teams and organizations navigate complex changes with proven approaches that are applied efficiently and effectively to produce long-term measurable results.

Whether change needs to happen in a day or within a year, Rowley Associates has a comprehensive suite of products and services that will improve leadership effectiveness, build the capability of an organization or team, and strengthen corporate relationships.

Rowley Associates helps individuals, teams and organizations navigate complex changes with proven approaches that are applied efficiently and effectively to produce long-term measurable results.