Our world is challenging us in entirely new ways. How we lead, collaborate, organize and govern our organizations needs to be in constant evolution. At Gaia, we have the privilege of working with hundreds of organizations and thousands of leaders every year who want to succeed with questions that will have a crucial impact on our common future.
We believe the world needs even more leadership. Leadership that creates organizations worthy of future generations.
”Since the start the program has become a winning concept that creates value in the form of new business opportunities and insights in continued business development.
What do you want to succeed with?
What source of energy will carry us into the future? Too often we see a focus on problems and challenges. We like to turn the perspective around and start with the question: What do you want to succeed with?
Based on the answer to this question, we work in close partnership to create your in-house leadership programs. An in-house leadership program is a tailor-made training designed and implemented specifically to develop leadership within your business. The program is tailored to your unique needs, culture and strategic objectives. This is integrated with Gaia’s more than 25 years of experience working with leadership integrated with business and operational development. The programs that we co-create combines practical tools, modern research, reflections, and training to develop leaders equipped to succeed at the next level.
Together with you, we always work with a strong link to your business and operations:
- Placing the leadership training in the context in which the leader operates and to the results, changes and progress that should be created
- Clear links to highly prioritized initiatives/projects within the organization
- Focus on real behavourial changes, that is working with the participants mindset
The aim of programs of this nature is often to support leaders to create strong organizational results by reconciling business objectives with people engagement and development, while strengthening their ability to lead consciously and balance short-term results with long-term sustainability.
The aim of this kind of program often is:
- Stronger results in relation to strategy and established goals
- An integration between the business or business development and the individual’s driving forces
- Strong impact on the desired effects in both hard control parameters and leadership / culture
- Increased confidence in management
- A more developed leadership
What our customers say
Our starting points for partnership and design
We want to be your long-term partner where we co-create, interact and learn together. For us, the starting point is always what you as an organization want to succeed with. It is of course about both the individual and the context. You have your direction, strategy and ways of working. You have the culture and values of your organization, your managers, management teams and all the employees who contribute to success. We aim to work with a keen curiosity about your current situation, desired state and development journey – so that we can contextualize and design interventions based on what is relevant at any given time.
Gaia’s experience clearly indicates that successful and sustainable change is created when these perspectives are integrated and used consciously to achieve what you want to succeed with. We also know that the reverse is true.
We want an interaction where both parties give and contribute the best of their own knowledge and experience – i.e. a meeting between two qualified and competent partners with the common intention of creating success. We believe in investing in a trusting relationship. This is expressed, for example, through close dialog and continuous meetings between key representatives of you as a customer and the project team both at the overall level and before, after and between different development efforts.
Our experience of running leadership development for over 25 years has provided a number of insights on effective pedagogical components such as: increasing participants’ complexity and perspective awareness, stimulating self-reflection and a learning and dynamic mindset. We also always work on including a creative mix of different ways to facilitate and to take care of the necessary implementation in everyday life.
New perspectives on leadership
The traditional view of leadership as something that primarily happens hierarchically downwards is outdated. We believe in leadership that takes a holistic approach and builds strong partnerships, both internally and externally. A leadership that challenges and seriously harnesses the power and potential of managers and employees. A leadership that focuses on learning, development, co-creation, creativity and a new view of leadership where every person is a leader. We see that resilient organizations are built by thriving people.
As leaders, we need to understand that what has gotten us to where we are today, what we are already doing very well, is not necessarily what will take us to the next level. It requires us to reflect inward, adapt and embrace the changes that are constantly taking place.
In our leadership programs, we aim for participants to develop their leadership in relation to:
- the world around them
- the whole of which they are a part
- key internal and external partnerships
- the organization they are responsible for and
- themselves, their self-awareness, and inner development
