In full partnership with company executives, we develop custom programs that address industry-specific challenges, support major change in industry direction, and ensure managers share a consistent interpretation of the company's vision and values.

How a Custom Program can benefit your organization:

• The collaborative process ensures the program is grounded in the organization's strategic goals.
• Content is designed to mirror your current issues, challenges, industry, and functions.
• All managers share a common, consistent understanding of direction and growth.
• Programs can be delivered any time, anywhere—attendance is convenient, and work disruptions are minimal.
• Managers gain an understanding of terminology, models, and concepts that make the transition from learning to action much more effective.
• Applicable knowledge and solutions can be immediately implemented upon returning to work.
• Ongoing evaluations ensure learning is consistent with expected outcomes. Measurable objectives are set, enabling a clear assessment of results.

Our custom programs integrate with your culture, to use your language and familiar concepts. We will:

• Work with your competencies profile, or a 360-degree survey methodology, if you already have one. Or we will develop one with your help.
• Blend with your Six Sigma, Lean, TPS or some other form of operation excellence platform.
• Integrate an industry best-practices study into your program.
• Have your executives work with us to develop customized case materials.

Our process begins with finding out all about your needs, and then designing and delivering an action-oriented program that can be evaluated for its effectiveness:

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No two Ivey custom programs are the same. We can provide a wide array of learning solutions:

Targeted Issues Workshops

Sessions addressing specific issues such as:

• Changing a management culture from cost containment to profitable growth.
• Breaking down silos among business units.
• Building higher performance in intact teams.
• Assisting executive groups to become higher-performing executive teams.
• Preparing for the transformation from a "rapid growth" to an "operational excellence" organization.

Competencies-based Programs

Focused on specific competencies such as:

• Raising the financial competence level in a selection of next-generation leaders who have never been exposed to the finance function.
• Transforming sales representatives into professional account executives.
• Developing performance and developmental coaching skills in all levels of leadership.

Strategic Reorientation

Programs, workshops, and retreats geared to strategic reviews and the implementation of changes resulting from newly adopted strategies. Areas covered include:

• Competitive analysis.
• Core competencies assessment.
• Development of key performance indicators and other metrics.
• Programs focused on becoming more effective implementers of strategy and leaders of strategic and operational changes.

Corporate Universities and Leadership Academies

Characterized by multi-program, multi-year partnerships in which courses, action-learning projects, coaching, and other developmental experiences evolve to meet new challenges and opportunities. These universities and academies ensure that successive generations of leaders share a common language of leadership. They also establish and maintain a valuable organizational culture and ensure transfer of knowledge, understanding, skills, and judgment.

Accreditation Programs

Ivey has worked with professional and trade organizations to develop programs that meet or exceed the standards required for professional accreditation and recognition for continuing education credits.

Ivey Consulting

Ivey consults with organizations to assess and define their leadership development needs and, when necessary, prepare and evaluate RFPs.

Ivey Coaching

Ivey can provide expert coaching for individuals or teams on either a pre or post-program basis. These coaches may be faculty subject-matter experts or more generalist executive coaches.