ELEVATE Foundation: Taking Responsibility

Accepting full responsibility for your thoughts, decisions, and actions is the first step in personal mastery.

Stephen Covey's 7 Habits come alive in this program, customized for business leaders in fast-paced technical organizations. You'll apply these principles to amp up your productivity and guide your team more effectively. You will get a shared toolkit for better teamwork that will reshape how you collaborate.

During this Sprint, you and your colleagues will become fluent in the common language and skilled with the common practices of succeeding that echoes from individual tasks to team victories.

Learning Objectives

Core Principles and Practical Applications

To analyze the seven habits and their relevance to leadership in your role and company
To evaluate personal effectiveness through the lens of Covey's habits of highly successful people
To explore the concept of the "Emotional Bank Account" in professional relationships with colleagues and external partners
To examine the principles of synergy and creative cooperation
To create a personal mission statement that you find engaging and meaningful
To implement a priority matrix for managing daily tasks and long-term projects
To expand and apply "win-win" strategies in everyday negotiations and project planning
To develop a personalized growth plan for continuous learning and skill development

Primary Audience

Designed to address the professional development of managers reporting to a COO, CIO, CEO, or other senior manager at a growth-oriented tech organization.

Your managers participate as a cohort of up to 4, 12, or 25.
As with any group of professionals whose performance counts, you learn and develop together as a team so you build your relationships and experience with each other.

Prerequisites

Onboarding – Required for new companies and/or first time ELEVATE sprint participants. 90 minutes.

Can be taken as a first ELEVATE Sprint? Yes

Technical Requirements

Laptop or mobile with Internet access
Any calendar system.
Any email system.
Any work environment project management system with Kanban capability (such as Trello, Asana, or others).

Enrollment Period

Once enrolled, your company cohort will have access to the training portal for onboarding prior to the start of the Sprint.

Once the Sprint begins, you will have access to the live support calls for the Sprint, as well as for 30 days following the completion of the Sprint for review and reinforcement. ELEVATE program participants have access and follow-up support for 1 year.

Why Taking Personal Responsibility Matters in Leadership

Reclaim lost productivity: US tech companies lose an estimated $37 billion annually due to ineffective meetings. For a 500-person company, that's approximately $18.5 million a year. This program can help recapture up to 20% of that lost time, directly impacting your bottom line.
Accelerate innovation cycles: According to a McKinsey study, tech employees spend 35% of their work week in meetings. Streamlining these sessions can speed up product development cycles by up to 15%, giving you a competitive edge in the fast-paced tech market.
Enhance cross-functional collaboration: Break down silos that cost tech organizations up to 25% of their productive capacity. Learn techniques that other top tech managers use to make meetings a catalyst for interdepartmental synergy, crucial for complex tech projects.
Boost employee retention: 67% of workers cite unproductive meetings as a major source of job dissatisfaction in a recent Korn Ferry report. Improve meeting effectiveness to increase engagement and potentially reduce turnover costs, which average 100-150% of a tech employee's salary.
Optimize remote and hybrid workflows: With 76% of tech companies adopting hybrid models, learn how to run engaging virtual meetings that bridge the gap between in-office and remote team members, ensuring consistent productivity across all work environments.

Curriculum for this Sprint

What You Will Learn

Proactivity is about taking initiative and responsibility for our life and the results we produce
Personal mission statements align actions with values and long-term goals
Effective prioritization focuses on important, not just urgent tasks
Win-win thinking creates mutual benefit, trust, and safety in professional relationships
Continuous improvement across important areas of life is what sustains high performance

Tools, Frameworks, Systems

Personal Mission Statement Template
Circle of Influence vs. Circle of Concern
Time Management Matrix (Urgent vs. Important)
Maintaining Emotional Bank Accounts
Win-Win Performance Agreement

Enrollment is Easy

My Team is Ready to Grow

This Sprint takes place: 1x per quarter.

Send us a message to be notified of the next open enrollment date or to discuss a custom delivery. The details will be speeding your way once you send us a message using the form below.