Transforming People in the Places They Work Since 2000
You cannot strengthen what you do not understand. Our deep-dive Leadership Assessment gives you precise insight into what drives each leader and what drives your team as a system.
"I've been in business for 26 years now and have recently engaged Keen for a variety of tasks including workforce optimization and overall strategic planning. The assessments done on staff were right on the money and provided a clear direction of how to manage moving forward. Their wealth of knowledge and insight into personnel and how to plan and execute a strategic plan for our business has become invaluable."
John Allen, President, Product Safety Consulting
Understand What Makes Your Leaders Tick
Every leader has patterns.
What energizes them?
What drains them?
What triggers them under pressure?
This assessment reveals how your leaders think, communicate, learn, and make decisions, individually and collectively.
Clarity eliminates guesswork.
The 3-Day Alignment Reset
Three days. One objective.
Create organizational transformation at the leadership level. This immersive executive offsite eliminates internal drag and aligns your leadership team around execution.
Day 1: Surface Operational Reality
You cannot transform what you won’t face.
Day One creates a shared, fact-based view of how the organization is actually operating.
No narratives.
No deflection.
No politics.
Executives work through:
Putting the past in the past
Understanding and accepting current state
Human dynamics under pressure
Cross functional bottle necks
Establishing healthy go forward norms
This is where organizational transformation begins. With truth.
Day 2: Install the Execution Architecture
Alignment without structure collapses.
Day Two installs the operating architecture required for performance.
Executives Experience:
An Uplift of individual & Team Energy
True Team Cohesion
The Power of Flow
Generative Conversations
Accountability in Action
Personal Connection to What’s Needed Now
Team members leave with a powerful Relationship to Ownership
Alignment removes friction and coherence generates flow.
Day 3: Pressure -Test the Leadership Team
Alignment must hold under pressure.
Day Three moves leaders into experiential challenges designed to reveal real operating dynamics.
Communication gaps surface quickly. Trust patterns become visible. Leadership instincts reveal themselves. Ownership is tested in real time.
This is where a transformational executive offsite shifts from conversation to behavioral change.
Leaders see exactly how the team performs when stakes are high.
According to SHRM's report on Toxic Workplace Cultures, 76 percent of employees said their manager establishes the culture of their workplace. (SHRM)
Emergent Culture Readiness Leadership Benchmark
To have an aligned team, there must be a high-level understanding of the individuals making it up and the strengths and weaknesses they bring to the table. KeenAlignment’s Emergent Culture Readiness Leadership Benchmark is a way to comprehensively and thoroughly examine the core competencies and gaps of your leadership team and the individuals that make it up.
With this information, we can help you identify patterns that are keeping your team from being truly aligned, efficient, and successful.
Leadership Benchmark Assessment
The Benchmark Service includes an assessment that analyzes your leadership team's 10 strongest and 10 weakest competencies. Once known, a customized recipe is developed for very specific and targeted leadership development.
In that same SHRM study cited above, 36 percent believe their supervisors don't know how to lead a team.
The assessment shows you the missing links in your leadership team and how well you work together. What results is an actionable and data-backed plan of improvement. The plan will play to your team's strengths and overcome the individual weaknesses of each member and the collective team.
True change starts from a grounded understanding of the present and a strategically mapped-out plan. Choose KeenAlignment to help you shape the future of not only your leadership team but your entire organization by bringing all into alignment with your organizational goals.
"I've been in business for 26 years now and have recently engaged Margaret for a variety of
tasks including workforce optimization and overall strategic planning. The assessments
done on staff were right on the money and provided a clear direction of how to manage
moving forward. Her wealth of knowledge and insight into personnel and how to plan and
execute a strategic plan for our business has become invaluable."
- John Allen, President,
Product Safety Consulting, Bensenville, IL
The Leadership Benchmark Process
Step One:
Meet with the executive leadership team to understand what they want and need from their team
Step Two:
Each leader takes a detailed assessment
Step Three:
We compile data from each leader who took the assessment, then learn the patterns of strengths and weaknesses
Step Four:
We map the core competencies and gaps
Step Five:
We meet with the leadership team and report what we see
Step Six:
We lead a collaborative inquiry about how these strengths and weaknesses show up and affect the team
Step Seven:
We provide recommendations for targeted leadership development in the areas most impactful in the company
Step Eight:
Work with a coach to ideate a solution that allows you to integrate learnings into action
What makes this comprehensive process so unique? It is not just a needs review, leadership assessment, gap analysis and competencies report. The real insights for leadership development and next steps for impact and growth come from the executive coaching that you get. This guidance helps you blend the unique inventory of leadership talents into a cohesive team ready to lead an aligned, emergent culture.