Customize your talent development platform by combining The Ken Blanchard Companies’ world-class leadership content (Situational Leadership II® ) with a map and tools for sustained organizational and individual growth.
Leverage the best leadership and management training from The Ken Blanchard Companies without leaving the comfort of your office or home. SLII® is a strategic and effective method for managing and developing people. Bring your organization a common language of leadership and a strong foundation to ensure your leaders focus on growth and development in day to day interactions. Teach leaders and individuals to analyze, diagnose, think, and apply leadership concepts effectively in any situation. Help all leaders be more accessible and responsive. Increase the quality and frequency of conversations while building trust and sharing accountability. Select lessons from the KBC Leadership Manager Curriculum or the KBC Individual Contributor Curriculum that meet your organizational outcomes. Online lessons are constructed using rich multimedia interactive simulations and discussions, and end with an assessment, providing instant gratification as users measure their success.
The CD2 Talent Development Toolkit is a set of tools that are intuitive, easy-to-use, and accessible to all team members. Using this designed-to-scale toolkit organizations can:
- Create an interactive map of organizational and departmental goals
- Set individual SMART goals and tasks that can align to department and organization goals
- Enable more effective communication between key stakeholders to discuss goals and performance in a confidential system
CD2’s Talent Development Toolkit provides a documented, real-time system that supports team members to improve overall communication and organizational effectiveness.
Make world-class leadership training accessible, affordable, and flexible using a Leadership Process Map (LPM). This map helps users navigate a series of lessons and activities related to a specific learning outcome or competency. Lessons and activities are easily tailored to meet training needs. Gamification allows users to gain recognition by earning badges and points. A leaderboard promotes engagement and shows at-a-glance progress. The CD2 Talent Development Toolkit can be incorporated as activities in the LPM. After finishing the Leadership LPM, the toolkit is designed to support a culture of continuous learning and engagement.
Leadership Content
Intro to Temperaments
Temperament describes the aspect of personality concerned with emotional dispositions and reactions. This lesson will help with understanding temperaments and their behaviors.
Goal Setting
Write goals that are SMART—Specific, Motivating, Attainable, Relevant, and Trackable. Learn how organizational SMART goals and individual goals can have purpose and an observable outcome.
Self Leadership and Diagnosis
This lesson will help develop a key skill of self leadership—diagnosis. Learn how to assess each stage of development for goals or tasks and use this information to ask for support and direction.
Needs and Values
This lesson contains information, exercises, and tools that will help identify and understand individual needs. Recognize what is important and discover personal decision-making standards.
Relating to Temperaments
This lesson will address issues and opportunities when relating to people whose temperaments are different. Explore why others “rub you the wrong way” or react in emotional ways.
Diagnosing Others
When responsible for someone else’s performance, it is important to be able to diagnose what that person needs. This lesson will help describe what people need during their stages of development.
Matching Your Leadership Style
Using leadership styles that match direct reports’ development helps with better management. Learn to adapt from one situation to another giving each person the individual direction needed.
Interpersonal Communication
Become equipped with skills to communicate effectively and avoid misunderstandings. Learn how to clearly communicate with others, influence them, and make an impact.
One on One Conversations
Frequent meetings with managers and other key partners are keys to being successful. This lesson will describe how to set up and get the most out of these meetings.
Alignment Conversations
This lesson will help managers effectively partner with direct reports for optimal results. Learn how to reach agreements about goals or tasks as well as the amount of direction and support needed.
Listening for Results
Listening is a skill that can be developed with effective techniques and practice. This lesson helps with listening more deeply for useful information in a conversation and ask questions that yield the best results.
Temperaments and Careers
This lesson contains information, exercises, and tools that will help with understanding how temperaments affect careers. Each temperament can work in any career and help in hiring and building strong teams.
Understanding Career Development
Explore what it takes to chart an individual career path. Build a plan identifying the steps from today, where to go tomorrow, and set long-range goals.
Standard Tools
Impact Map
Increase organizational efficiency by creating a “line of sight” from an individual’s goals to departmental and organizational goals
Goal Setting
Use a wizard to guide users through the process of creating goals that meet SMART criteria.
Diagnosis Wizard
Assess competence and commitment on a goal or task to help leaders know what leadership style is most effective.
One on One Conversations
Plan, schedule, facilitate, and document employee-driven coaching sessions to support communication between stakeholders.
Alignment Conversations
Begin the performance planning process by identifying goals/tasks and getting agreement on those between the manager and direct report.