For the organization that has invested in its people and knows more return is possible.
Few organizations look there.
The Leadership Capacity Workshop is an in-person, brain-based program for leadership teams. Leaders learn what puts them on guard under pressure and what drives the people around them, so the team builds trust and collaborates with less defensiveness.
Sara Stockinger | Executive Coach | ICF-ACC, MBA
For many employees, pressure has become the baseline they work from. Leaders who spend their days on guard run on willpower. That leaves little room to learn or collaborate.
Leaders who stay calm under pressure close the gap.
Only 10 to 15 percent of what employees learn in training programs transfers back to the job.
Blume, Ford, Baldwin & Huang, meta-analytic review, Journal of Management (2010)
72 percent of leaders report feeling used up at the end of the day.
Managers account for at least 70 percent of the variance in employee engagement across business units.
Leadership development usually focuses on skills. This workshop focuses on what decides whether those skills are available when the stakes are high.
The brain keeps scanning for safety. When it senses risk, leaders go on guard. They second-guess their first answer and over-check their work. Collaboration breaks down. This happens automatically, which is why telling people to communicate better or trust each other more rarely produces lasting change.
Every leader on your team has different triggers and habits. What puts one person on guard leaves another unaffected. When a team understands those differences, friction that looked like personality conflict finally has an accurate explanation. Once the explanation takes the blame out, teams can work with it instead of defending against it.
When a team sees what puts each person on guard, defensiveness drops and contribution rises.
I'm Sara Stockinger. I spent 18 years at Deloitte, much of it leading teams through high-stakes, high-pressure conditions. I know what it costs an organization when the people leading it run on willpower, because I was once that leader.
My approach is grounded in applied neuroscience, ICF-accredited coaching methodology and the NeuroLeadership Institute's brain-based frameworks, built on an 18-year career inside one of the most demanding professional environments in the world.
Organizations with a capable team where daily pressure keeps leaders on guard and training hasn't changed how the team works together.
Sessions are delivered in person and spaced out, so leaders have time to try new defaults between sessions and build habits that stick. Engagements usually begin with three sessions of two hours each, adjusted for team size and the complexity of the challenge.
Yes. The Leadership Capacity Workshop is built for teams and delivered in the room together. For private one-on-one brain-based coaching, visit mycognitivesolutions.com.
No. Training and culture work still matter. This workshop is what makes them stick.
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