Today’s successful organizations thrive because of their people … period.
At TopDog, we define “leadership” as anyone who has the ability to move others in one direction or another. So, frankly, everyone in your organization is a leader in one way or another: be it with “formal” direct reports or as an individual contributor.
We help you determine what’s the best strategy for developing all of your leaders — from front-line employees to middle managers to the C-Suite — and the best way to measure that success. We help you hone in on the best competencies that make sense for your team members and your business, and help you benchmark where your leadership competencies currently are, what interventions could be used to “close the gap,” and help you determine how you’ll measure success with your efforts.
Plus: we’re not limited to leadership training, but cover the gambit on all facets of “soft-skills” learning events to help make your workforce even more awesome than the already are.
Many people can share ideas, but a true professional facilitator can help bring content to life and link it back to your learners’ everyday experience — regardless of the deliver medium.
At TopDog, our online learning delivery isn’t that annoying, passive “Oh! A Webinar where I can check my email!” kinda gig. We use the best-in-class engagement strategies to deliver content online like it should be: as close of an experience to the face-to-face workshop as we can.
We also carry this into our Executive Coaching services: be that one-to-one or one-to-many, our TopDoggers aren’t just reading a script but true consultants who listen to the “coachees” and then ask the right questions to spur thinking, reflecting, and an “ah-ha!” moment.
“Diversity is being invited to the dance, but inclusion is being asked to dance.”
At TopDog, we take helping our client-partners create an inclusive organizational culture very seriously. Whether that’s through delivery of our highly engaging and participative off-the-shelf D&I programs, to sharing our popular “Diversity & Inclusion: It’s Our Business” self-paced training modules (in partnership with ITD), to help audit your policies and procedures in a variety of workplace areas, our focus is to provide that external eye to ensure your being as inclusive as you can in today’s competitive workplace.
In addition, we focus on programs that deal with mitigating unconscious bias in the workplace. Whether that’s strategies for Leaders to be more consciously inclusive to for employees to begin to be aware of how hidden biases may impact their daily work, adding this additional focus on inclusiveness helps your organization reduce barriers to success and overall employee engagement and satisfact
Training programs are great, but they rarely facilitate true organizational change.
We pride ourselves on taking a holistic approach to the learning strategy, and really start each learning and development project from a true change management perspective. While that does include learning strategy, it also looks at your communication strategy, executive sponsorship engagement, middle management engagement, and program measurement strategies.
Human’s don’t change their behavior after a one-day workshop, but through a concerted effort that helps keep the key change messages top of mind, that shows all leaders within the organization support the change, and have a clear understanding of the “end state” when the change finally happens.
In addition, we like to think about change as building individual and organizational resilience. Changes to your workplace aren’t one-offs, but part of a complex system of influences that, well, facilitate the need for your business to make changes. By helping our client partners build up their resiliency muscle to change (through several of our off-the-shelf programs on individual resilience to change), we help your organization be ready for when those “big changes” are a-coming.
How do you know if that $10,000 expense on a new workshop was worth it?
What about what you’re already spending on that 3-day leadership program all leaders attend within your organization? We’re experts at helping you think “Learning ROI” for your training expenses.
Whether it’s face-to-face sessions, online orientation programs, or training for your sales team, we work with out client partners to think through what does “success” look like, using existing organizational metrics as well as custom made tools to give you that “high-level dashboard” approach to the impact of your training dollars / euros / yen / etc.
If you don’t have direction, you don’t know where you’re going … or when you’ve gotten there!
At TopDog, we help you think about your organization’s true learning strategy. From focusing on exactly what behaviors need to improve to change within your team to what delivery strategies you should use to effectively measure the results of your training, we help you maximize your development resources so you get the maximum return on your investment, all while engaging your learners and helping the learning “stick”.
Often we’ll simply be that “thinking partner” in a one-day workshop, where our fabulous TopDoggers ask the right questions to help you determine what truly is your learning and development needs. Don’t waste time and money guessing at what could work for your team; let us do a “Learning Blueprint Workshop” to get you to nail down what you need in that learning strategy, and craft a document you can shop with any developer (not just us!) to get the right learning solution to your people to improve performance and success.
