70% of variance in employee engagement scores are directly tied to a person’s relationship with their immediate leader. Change the way you develop leaders and you change your whole team.
77% of companies are currently experiencing a leadership gap. With 10,000 baby boomers retiring from the workforce daily across North America this gap is only set to widen.
Leaders have a 95% likelihood of completing a goal if they have a specific accountability appointment booked to discuss it.
Retention rates of soft skills training jump from 5% to 90% when the requirement to teach and coach others is present. Peer coaching accomplishes both.
CultureSmith is the only organization to synthesize all three theories of Psychological Safety, EQ and Servant Leadership into one holistic model.
We've helped countless organizations forge their leaders and are now making our process available to individuals.
Gathering a group of leaders together to share experiences is not a new concept. Giving them access to professional facilitation rooted in evidence-based approaches to emotional intelligence and organizational psychology is.
The average disengaged employee costs a company $18,974 per year. Forge costs $495 per month. How many employees can one leader influence within your company? The ROI on our program is substantial and grows as you do.
Not all Executive Forums offer professional facilitation, instead opting for forum members to 'take turns' leading the group. The issues you bring to these sessions are real. Would you not want a professional in the room when it comes time for solutions?
Other groups limit membership on arbitrary metrics like company revenue or ownership status. We've never understood why help becoming a leader needs to be reserved for those who've already made it?
Forge is the only program rooted in validated theories of organizational psychology and the only one with unlimited support between sessions.
As we say, we didn't invent peer support forums, we just made them better.
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A proprietary process designed to uncover unconscious issues of EQ preventing you from solving the challenges in front of you.
Once grounded, and the collective EQ in the group at its peak, members coach each other through the challenges identified, under the guidance of a CultureSmith facilitator. We are confident in saying this is the only peer coaching format that ensures Safety so that you can leverage your Discomfort into Growth.
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All coaching and feedback will be distilled into practical steps that you can take back to your organization whether that 'organization' is the company you work for or the family waiting for you at home.
Safety is often confused with Trust. Trust is a feeling if security between two individuals. Safety is that feeling scaled across an entire team of people. Many leaders have pockets of Trust in their organizations. Few have the Safety required to achieve peak Growth. Forums become a place where leaders can experience that Safety, while learning how to develop it back at their own organizations.
A 2014 Harvard study shows, people not only crave feedback, they specifically crave critical feedback over positive. The problem is, the same study showed most people fear giving feedback. Many people receive token advice from their colleagues, but few receive true feedback. Forge ForumsTM are designed to not only provide feedback, but actionable feedback, delivered by a group of peers. The perspective of other leaders from diverse organizations with diverse backgrounds cannot be undersold.
As previously mentioned, the cost of the average disengaged employee is $18,974. Gallup estimates that 85% of employees are disengaged globally. This is why companies routinely hire CultureSmith as we’re able to show them a sizeable ROI on our fees. Forge members get the same access to everything our corporate clients do. The ‘fractional access’ they receive being a member of a group simply allows us to offer ‘fractional pricing’ to match.
Leadership represents the transition from Impact to Influence. It is no longer about what you can do, it is about what you can do through others. You've worked hard to establish your technical acumen, but now it's time to build what really matters. the good news is, every hour spent in Forge, qualifies as Verifiable Professional Development Hours for a variety of Professional Designations. Forge is a unique way to maintain your PD by growing your EQ.
Download the 26 page Forge Forums overview. In it you will learn:
- more about the challenges facing leadership in modern era,
- the science behind the CultureSmith Flywheel model and how we've applied it to the Forge program,
- answers to FAQs, proposed ROI, details on how to get started, and much, much more.
After your strategy session you will be sent a registration link for the program. Upon registering you will instantly receive your Behavioural Profile as well as access to SPIRAL, the web-based coaching tool that will connect you to your CultureSmith facilitator for real-time coaching between sessions.
We host Values sessions several times per month. During these 60 min online sessions, a CultureSmith facilitator will help you determine your Functional & Frictional ValuesTM which will be used by your forum-mates to aide with accountability and coaching.
Immediately upon registering, the CultureSmith team will work on placing you within the optimum Forum based on everything from Behavioural profiles to industry to tenure to ensure the time spent in session are the best three hours of your month.
Many companies benefit from having more than one member of their leadership team in a Forum. This allows for each person to gain the individualized support they need, while building a common language and set of skills to benefit the organization.
