DEVELOP YOUR NEXT GENERATION OF
LEADERS
Great leaders don't avoid the storm.
They charge into it to get to blue skies faster.
If your organization is experiencing one or more of these things,
the ITS Leaders program is what you're looking for:
- A need for Emerging Leaders to step up
- Rapidly growing team where it crucial for new leaders to emerge
- Concerns about succession planning due to personnel
- Challenges with capacity or competency of mid managers
- Bottlenecks of leadership at the top of the organization
- Lack of inter-department or inter-office collaboration
- Lack of Emerging Leader peer group within your organization
Build Leadership that
Takes Your Team Further.
Pick a Path Designed to Meet Your Team's Needs
With our Into The Storm Leaders development programs your team learns smart leadership skills that help get real business results and overcome growing management hurdles.
Explore our 5 & 10 Day Programs, 1-on-1 Coaching Solutions, Large Team Workshops, and proven solutions each tailored to your company's unique needs.
What is ITS Leaders?
A facilitated program that accelerates your Next Generation/Emerging Leaders in developing the critical skills necessary to lead, learning from and with their peers, and solving real issues in your organization.
Each phase is comprised of 5 full-day sessions, but the entire program is modular in nature which makes our curriculum ideal for exposure to larger groups of your organization in shorter sessions at conferences/meetings. Speaking engagements and 1-2 day workshops are often how companies will test us out before enrolling a cohort, and can also be leveraged to accelerate transformation once you see the results from one of our other programs.
FOUNDATION PHASE
Five courses designed to build leadership skills
1.1 | Accelerate Trust
Introduces The Into The Storm (ITS) Mindset and how it can be applied both personally and professionally as well as expectations/commitment for the program to work. Participants will connect trust with intentional efforts and vulnerability, leaving with an approach and tools to accelerate trust in their relationships.1.2 | Real. Simple. Communication.
Discusses the importance and art of active listening while helping participants acknowledge their own communication styles, devising an actionable plan for communicating more effectively with their teams, other members of the company, and outside parties.1.3 | Positive Accountability
Shifts the perception of accountability from a negative to a positive, acknowledging the disservice that comes from silence and arming participants with a framework for setting clear expectations, delivering direct criticism with compassion, and instilling an ownership mindset in one’s self and others.1.4 | Delegate & Innovate
Lays out proven methods for effective delegation and challenges conventional thought by introducing creative ways to "delegate" through automation, Al, and outsourcing. Participants leave with clarity around where they're currently investing time and steps towards putting more of it into areas that leverage their unique talents.1.5 | Commitment Over Compliance
Addresses the real reasons why employees become complacent, how to give teams more meaning in their work, and challenges learners to reflect on what it means to truly commit to something. Increases the self-awareness of participants through exercises around perception of behavior.Graduation from the Foundation Phase of the program includes a capstone presentation at the end of this session.
MASTERY PHASE
Five courses designed to grow ITS Leadership Skills
2.1 | Intentional Life Design
Inspired by our coaching program, this session challenges participants to take a clarity break. They'll leave with identification of personal values, short & long-term goals, insights from a S.W.O.T. analysis, and a proven process for forming and keeping healthier habits.2.2 | Earning Influence
Deep work around emotional intelligence & increasing EQ, this session arms participants with a framework for better communication and positioning themselves to earn more influence. They'll leave with a collective action plan for influencing and owning positive change to a real issue their company is facing.2.3 | Curiosity-Led Coaching
Calling back to the Peak Leadership exercise from the Positive Accountability session in Foundation, this session levels up participant's coaching abilities through exercises and discussion of the advantages of being curiosity-led instead of advice-driven, arming participants with when ands how to leverage different approaches.2.4 | Real. Change. Sustained.
Following through on the action plan from the Elevating Influence session, this workshop gives participants a deeper understanding of change management and the tools to sustain change at scale. After running a simulation through the ITS Change Process, participants use the DICE Framework to appraise the success of iniitatives they've formed.2.5 | A Leader's Legacy
Challenges participants to be 100% honest with themselves about the legacy they want to leave at their place of work and in their personal lives, reflecting on the impact their behaviors make on others and connecting the learnings from all other sessions to their commitments in becoming the leaders their people and families deserve.Graduation from the Mastery phase of the program involves the proposal of a change initiative or plan to sustain momentum with learning to the participant's Sr. Leadership Team.
Core Values
HELP
FIRST
without the expectation of reciprocation.
BE A
BUFFALO
by charging into your storms to reach blue skies faster.
RELENTLESS
GROWTH
starts with a learner mindset; grow yourself, grow your clients, grow your business.
UNCOMMON
LEADERSHIP
means leading authentically, from wherever you are.
OWN SUCCESS
and be unapologetic about high standards for yourself and others.
Why Does it Work?
RETAINING KNOWLEDGE AND SUSTAINING CHANGE
Our facilitator's approach, and every session, is constructed to maximize engagement and knowledge retention in four ways:
Professional Facilitation and Coaching
ITS Coaches provide a mix of high-energy content sharing, application of tools to real scenarios, facilitation of productive discussion, and 3rd party accountability to leaders in the program.Group Discussions & Exercise
Every tool, model, or concept that we cover is brought to life through either a small group discussion or exercise using our professionally printed ITS Playbooks. This is where much of the real problem-solving takes place.Accountability Partner + Passport
Each session wraps with the assignment of Accountability Partners to support each other in following through on commitments they capture in the ITS Passport. This document allows leaders to capture their commitments/areas of focus and track their progress. To begin the following session, we review each pair's success in both their outcomes and their effort.Training Teach Back
The last challenge for participants after each session is conducting a teach-back session with their peers or direct reports. By utilizing a resource or tool and taking this approach to cascading learnings with others, it allows for natural disruption of communication patterns, taking a collaborative approach to sustaining change. All participants are given access to the materials needed to do so.
What is the Ideal Outcome?
THE RESULTS
- Communicate & Collaborate as One Team
- Change Agents Who Drive Innovation
- Grow Leaders Who Grow More Leaders
- Stronger Skills, Awareness, & Confidence
- Attract & Keep More of the "Right People"
- Accountability & Ownership from Within
Real Results, Real Clients
“Our Emerging Leaders participated in the Foundational ITS Leadership Program and gained concepts & strategies that unlocked their full potential... The investment we have made in our Emerging Leaders has had a positive impact on our organizational goals and overall success.”
“We attribute much of our company’s recent growth to the implementation of the Traction EOS Model... Additionally, Pete has provided me with 1-on-1 executive coaching... He has been an invaluable resource as I work to become a better leader each day.”
“It has helped me in all aspects of my role... not just in management but how I interact with other departments and leadership... I found each session beneficial and walked away with one or two things I could apply today... It has been a valuable program.”
“Pete did a great job providing valuable, practical tools and strategies that our team could use everyday. Overall, it was an awesome experience for our team.”
“By charging into the storm... you can correct [issues] through trust, radical candor and coaching... The diverse curriculum, real-world applications, and open discussions allow for a highly productive atmosphere.”
