Like you Kip Backscheider has seen Talent Development take many forms and definitions over the years. Is it technical training in unique process technologies? Is it soft skills training? Is it techniques and scripts to use in various situations? Is it meant only for the high potentials in your company? Or is there something more here?
With over three decades of coaching managers, group facilitations, speaking, and most significantly, in the trenches business experience, his approach is radically different.
Kip knows that managers who get the best results from direct reports also have a deep knowledge of their own particular abilities. Strong managers focus on the needs and potential of direct reports.
People who’ve worked with Kip have called him a “master of powerful questions” and “relentlessly focused on business results and improving the condition of people who need to achieve them.” His probing questions lead people to discover their business success. Kip’s low key, conversational style and stories from the field connect intimately and intensely with people.
A personal message
We work at the intersection of Faith, Professional Development, and Profitability. Faith here means that we are all children of the same God and each have unique gifts and abilities which, when accessed and developed, help us each thrive.
Professional Development is all about the people side of business—inspiring others, developing and leveraging their strengths, listening and driving accountability
Profitability is the essential outcome of a responsibly run operation. If your enterprise doesn’t earn a profit, nothing else works.
I’ve been there….
…and have seen managers who couldn’t hold people accountable and who made excuses for the poor performance of others.
…and seen the damage inflicted by managers who constantly repeated their past mistakes and so couldn’t build trust the others to lead them forward.
…and painfully watched excellent employees leave because their manager always took credit, blamed others, and was willfully blind to the damage caused.
These, and others situations like them, ruin businesses, hurt the lives of employees and their families, give free enterprise a bad name, and leave disaster in their wake.
OUR GOAL IS TO IMPROVE THE MANAGER'S WORK WITH THEIR DIRECT REPORTS AND SO IMPROVE THE STRENGTHs OF YOUR BUSINESS
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT:
Your managers will:
Be excellent communicators
Hold direct reports accountable
Be eager to take on new assignments
Will become strong managers
Be committed to excellence
Model the desired behavior
Let’s talk to see whether we are a great fit