For the L&D lead running a six-month program for the people your organization is counting on next. Send this to groups of five or six a phase at a time, each group with a leader who reads its reflections before they meet, and finish with evidence you can take to your executive team.
Start here
The six months on one page: what goes to the groups and when, who reads what, what group leaders and managers are asked for, and the report at the end.
Running the program
Your own work, in the order it happens: choosing who takes part, the launch, the closing in front of the executive team, and the report upward.
The six months
What you add to the groups, a phase at a time, each folder on its date. Everything here is written to the participant.
Launch
Week one: the welcome, and the moment log that starts together at the launch session.
Leading yourself
Month one: where each participant is starting, and what they believe about leading, tested against real decisions.
Leading across
Months two and three: asking across teams without authority, the stakeholder map, and a stretch project each manager backs.
Leading the wider organization
Months four and five: the numbers the executive team watches, forty minutes with a senior leader, and a recommendation on one page.
Closing
Month six: ten minutes with the executive team, and the six months read back in each participant’s own words.
For group leaders
Send these to each group leader directly, never to a group: the role and what they see, and the monthly session they run.
For their managers
Send these to each participant’s manager directly: the time, three conversations and the project, and the manager’s own two rounds of ratings, one copy per participant.
When it is not going well
Reference, reached for one at a time: a cohort that is stalling, and a participant who wants to leave.
