Conversant
Solutions

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Conversant Solutions

Solutions That Feel
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Leadership Development & Coaching
Leadership Development & Coaching

Common Challenges

  • Untapped employee talent
  • Lack of clear development plans
  • Low employee engagement

We develop leaders who make every conversation an occasion for leading, producing long-term, meaningful results. It’s been proven time and time again – effective conversations lead to higher performing teams who provide with less time, money and stress.

Our customized programs are designed to uniquely fit your current values, culture and strategy so your people can put them into immediate and practical action. We offer extensive leadership development programs to grow and develop existing talent, create succession readiness, improve decision making skills and enhance employee engagement and management skills.

In collaboration with you, we co-design a process that includes:

  • Design and facilitation of customized leadership programs for every level.
  • 1:1 coaching to empower confidence, lower turnover and increase team engagement.
  • Group and individual 360 assessments, designed to reflect your organization’s values and expectations, so leaders can use their strengths with greater impact.
  • Options for leaders at all points of their career, from new managers to mid -level leaders to executives. We design custom solutions for their specific needs, and develop needed skills so they can be great in their role today and in the future.

Common Challenges

  • Unresolved obstacles between teams
  • Stalled goals with no actionable solution
  • Delayed and over-budget outcomes

We align teams and refine their skills so they can accomplish results with less supervision and rework. Our approach focuses on your purpose and priorities, deepening commitment, trust and collaboration so your team can collectively answer “how will we achieve this together?” The outcome of our work is fewer, yet more productive, meetings with highly engaged teams and a clear follow up action plan. Or as our clients tell us, there is more joy in the work being done by their team with less time, money and stress.

We optimize team performance with custom programs including:

  • Conversational skills to address challenges and increase team capabilities to do work on their own.
  • Alignment methods to create a clear path to success.
  • Custom meeting design and facilitation to meet specific goals on time and budget.
  • Performance-based coaching to build self-supervising and sustainable teams.

Common Challenges

  • Pushback against new initiatives
  • Unclear link between role and strategy
  • Daily work misaligned with strategy

We create a clear, meaningful and personal relationships to strategy, leading to highly productive implementation. Other consulting firms give clients logical strategic priorities, but often lack the human side of making that strategy actionable. We generate commitment to your strategy so your people can see their roles and be inspired to join in strategy development and execution.

Our methods use human connection-based tools and methods such as:

  • Storytelling techniques to convert strategy into a fulfilling experience that strengthens culture and accelerates success
  • Hosted conversations to clarify, prioritize and resolve conflicts, gaining executive team alignment
  • Conversational tools to cement the basis behind strategic decisions, delegate decision making and strengthen relationships

Common Challenges

  • Current approach no longer delivers
  • Current behaviors hinder progress
  • Past experiences block new change

We enable your team to own and lead successful change. Change leadership is a key part of leadership development. We take the approach of crowdsourcing the habits, values, systems and processes from the people who do the work, then align their efforts needed for change. Because the work is done alongside your team, the outcome becomes rapid adoption of your organizational change by a team that takes authentic responsibility for its success.

Highly customized to your own systems and teams, our methods include:

  • Co-designing cycles of learning and experimentation, leading to faster improvements in the ultimate implementation
  • A focus on the timing of change to support the right people with the right initiatives, decreasing time to success
  • System mapping to understand current state and root cause, so people work ‘smarter’ on the right things, accelerating progress

Common Challenges

  • Cross-functional friction
  • Competing priorities
  • Deep differences in perspectives

We unite divergent organizations to solve problems together, even when they appear to be competing or conflicting. We work with challenges that are larger than a single organization or individual leader’s sphere of control, bringing together people who don’t normally collaborate to solve the ‘unsolvable’ by building leadership and partnership capabilities that did not previously exist.

Our proven methods to unite internal and external groups include:

  • Cooperative negotiation skills to strengthen and preserve relationships, and create new solutions with shared commitments.
  • System mapping for identifying and committing to mutual action for all parties.
  • Large group process design and facilitation for creating important foundational relationships to launch coalitions with strong purpose and guiding principles that ensure ongoing alignment.

Head of Talent, Global FinTech

The Conversant team is authentic, guiding us by example. They ARE what they are asking us to be, and they DO what they are asking us to do.

Conversations are the Work

We help you navigate challenges and offer new perspectives.

Working with
leaders at every level
Conversations are the Work