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Developing
Diverse Leaders
Upfront is welcoming Strive to LA with an exclusive developmental opportunity geared towards empowering diverse leaders in Upfront’s portfolio.
About Strive
Strive is an Upfront portfolio company that helps high growth startups and large tech companies implement personalized and practical leadership development. This September, Strive will be launching its Leadership Circles in LA.
Program Overview
Strive’s Leadership Circles are seven week-long community-based leadership development programs to help you become the leader you and your team want.
Circle Kick-Off Dinner
Meet the other 10-15 members of your cohort in-person to discuss your leadership goals and challenges, and to explore the demands of leading with the nuance of race and gender in the workplace.
Coaching Kick-Off
Meet 1:1 with your executive coach to define your values, share your personal and professional path, and kickstart your 360 inventory.
Classes meet every other week for 2hrs from 6-8PM
Class 1: Conducting Critical Conversations
The most important conversations to have are often the most difficult ones. At work, this leads to frustration and dashed expectations. However, having difficult conversations around performance, compensation, mentorship, feedback, and more is a learned skill. We work through several scenarios and share frameworks for approaching those conversations.
Class 2: Managing Up
Great leaders are advocates for themselves and their team, pushing for promotions, resources, opportunities and fighting scope creep. In this class, you’ll learn both how to advocate, and how to develop high-leverage relationships with advisors, mentors, and sponsors to set a foundation for future advocacy.
Class 3: Career Development
Helping reports navigate their careers is often the most high-risk/high-reward part of management. Circle participants will learn to have conversations around the 3Ps of career development: promotions, performance improvement plans, and pathing.
360 Reveal + Personal Development Plan
Meet with your executive coach to discuss your 360 results. You will discuss how others perceive your professional personality and leadership competencies, and develop a personalized professional development plan.
Circle Closing
Wrap up the cohort experience with another in-person dinner with your community. You will summarize your learning experience and practice what you’ve learned in role plays with professional actors.
Strive's Program Combines Live, Instructor-led Classes with Asynchronous Online Learning
Strive’s Learning Platform is Intuitive and Engaging, Building Community and Ongoing Commitment
Skills Developed
Strive’s Circles combine self-discovery and skill development to help managers become leaders. The self discovery occurs through community engagement and executive coaching (including the 360), while the skill development is largely during the three remote classes.
During the program, you will complete one class on each of the below skills. These skills are essential for both high performing individual contributors and new managers to reach the next level at work.
Engaged Learners
Strive participants love the unique combination of exceptional instructors, relevant curriculum, and modern product experience.
Source: Customer Guru
Net Promoter Score by Program Provider
Strive
Wharton
HBS
Franklin Covey
Devry
54
51
41
10
8
5
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