Experience the impact of effective leadership
The consumer products industry faces a challenging time for talent.
The nature of shopping is changing, leaving many companies rethinking their storefront model and staffing. The labor market is also evolving, with fewer workers — particularly experienced leadership — available, and industries like healthcare and technology outcompeting consumer products for the remaining talent.
Your business needs an effective way to become an employer of choice and build a workplace environment that drives retention and engagement — and it starts with leadership.
Strong leaders don’t just focus on the functional aspects of their roles; they focus on people. They know how to develop high-performing teams so that they can delegate tasks and focus on high-value work. They also contribute to a better workplace environment so that you can effectively retain existing staff and attract new talent.
If you’re ready to develop leaders capable of transforming your business, Wipfli’s leadership development for consumer products can help.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli has over 40 years of experience in leadership training, giving us a deep understanding of how to create systemic and lasting behavioral change. We also have extensive experience working with the consumer products sector, so we understand the workforce challenges and critical leadership needs you face.
Whether you want to build up promising talent or fill existing leaders’ skills gaps, we can help your people reach their full potential.
How we help you
Wipfli focuses on the foundation of effective leadership: how well your leaders can build relationships and support the growth of others. And with our program, participants can incorporate new skills into their daily work and reflect on their progress.
With Wipfli, you get leadership development that:
- Reaches all levels of leadership: Our sessions resonate with all leaders, including executives, and encourage authentic leadership based on trust.
- Integrates into your flow of work: With engaging, four-hour sessions biweekly for 16 weeks, Leadership Essentials is designed to minimize disruption while still driving transformation.
- Incorporates regular practice: Our program helps leaders apply training directly to their work as they are learning.
Our essential topics
We take up to 24 leaders on a journey that covers:
- Defining leadership and being an authentic leader
- Communicating effectively
- Partnering for performance
- Delivering feedback
- Coaching for growth
- Delegating with purpose
- Building a high-performing team
Your results
Participants leave with:
- The skills to produce clear performance expectations, reduce turnover, navigate change and meet your business objectives.
- Practical knowledge about developing stronger relationships, communicating effectively (including having hard conversions) and building trust.
- A tailored action plan aligned to individual needs and designed for continued growth.
Wipfli’s team development services help you create higher-functioning teams by removing barriers to effective collaboration and driving improved decision-making and shared accountability for outcomes.
We take a three-phase approach, with each phase focusing on and developing a key aspect of organizational health:
- Understanding your operating style: Participants learn to appreciate the fundamental differences in their operating styles and the obstacles to achieving both personal and team goals.
- Acquiring the attributes of a high-functioning team: We help teams achieve fundamental trust, allow for constructive disagreement, establish a shared commitment to goals and create true accountability for their outcomes.
- Creating organizational clarity: We help teams maintain absolute alignment on the most critical goals of the business and harness the tools and resources of the team to help ensure effective execution.
Transforming your business requires leadership that transcends.
Leaders who transcend go beyond their current limits to find ways to grow people and the business. They know how to leverage their strengths and curiosity, empowering them to drive strategy and change.
Wipfli’s leadership coaching services are ready to help your senior leadership and executives reach that state.
Our services help leaders excel by addressing specific skill deficits and focusing on the key aspects of leading others. We help develop high performers, new leaders in transition and leadership who aren’t fulfilling their potential with a three-step process:
- Discover: We help leaders understand how they operate, identifying their core values, beliefs and strengths, as well as the behaviors acting as obstacles to their success.
- Conquer resistance: We challenge individuals’ beliefs and assumptions about their leadership and recruit a team that can support their development.
- Transcend: We help leaders find their edge and leverage it so that they can transcend their limitations, and we enable them to foster an ongoing, relentless curiosity through a growth mindset.
Our approach
We offer two coaching options to match your organization’s needs:
- Rise: This accessible, 90-day approach can help critical leaders reach the next level in their growth. If your business is in the process of transformation or innovation, Rise helps leadership rapidly realize their capacity to own and drive change.
- Transform: This approach provides leaders with the long-term support they need to develop their skills and better guide their organization. Over the course of six to 12 months, we support leaders with one-on-one, personalized coaching to help them develop critical skills such as executive presence and EQ.
For both Rise and Transform, our coaches use proven talent assessment tools and in-depth guidance to help leaders transcend and create a lasting impact.
Talent is a vital resource, but acquiring and retaining the right people can be challenging in a competitive labor market.
Assessments can help your business make data-based decisions about hiring individuals who fit your culture and placing them in roles where they can thrive. Wipfli can help you leverage your people data with assessments, including:
Behavioral assessments
Hire the right people, retain them and develop them by using the Predictive Index (PI).
PI is a talent optimization platform that has helped thousands of organizations gain greater insight into their people. As a certified partner of PI, Wipfli helps you leverage PI’s assessments and data-driven strategies so that you can confidently hire the right people and design effective teams.
Emotional intelligence assessments
Wipfli can support you in facilitating the emotional quotient inventory (EQ-i) assessment process and applying the results to your people strategy. By leveraging EQ-i, we help you create effective development plans and boost leadership readiness by identifying individuals with the necessary leadership qualities for your business.
360–degree assessments
Help your leadership gain a new perspective on their impact with 360-degree assessments.
360-degree evaluations focus on gathering feedback to help recipients better understand how others perceive them and identify ways to improve their leadership.
Wipfli helps you facilitate evaluations so that you can build more effective and personalized development plans for your people. With our support, you can uncover new ways to increase productivity and engagement and ultimately drive better organizational performance.
Our team
Steve Hopkins
Steve Hopkins is a leader on the organizational performance consulting and client experience team that supports the transformation of clients through the development of their people, their culture and, ultimately, their organizations.
Tom Cox
Tom Cox leads Wipfi's leadership development programs. As a partner with 35 years of experience, clients benefit from Tom’s demonstrated ability to develop leaders and teams, cascading plans and accountability throughout organizations.
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