Frequently Asked Questions

What is different about LeadershipTools from other solutions?
What does your “ideal” customer look like?
What levels of management does your leadership development program target?
Why is the program so affordable?
What is the profile of your leadership e-coaches?
What does your curriculum look like?
What is Cleaver International’s relationship with LeadershipTools?

What is different about LeadershipTools from other solutions?
LeadershipTools believes that effective leadership development is a process not a training event. Changing behavior takes time and tends to happen when leadership skills are learned, applied, and reinforced- over time. Our one year leadership development program is about the same cost per person as many two day training events yet only takes a little over an hour a week. And leaders don’t have to travel to take participate in our program.

What does your “ideal” customer look like?
Our ideal customer has leaders in more than one location and the company recognizes the strategic value of leadership development to their business. The company has thought about training or has tried some leadership training but the results were short-lived and little behavioral change happened. Previous costs of leadership training have restricted development to only a small number of top executives rather than all the managers and leaders who need it.  The company may want us to work with as few as six of their leaders or as many as two hundred; we don’t need to be the only leadership development initiative going on within the company.

What levels of management does your leadership development program target?
Our program has been designed to develop professional management and leadership skills with “high potentials”, long-time managers, and first time managers who are ready to go beyond the basics. This is not an “introduction to management 101” program.

Why is the program so affordable?
Costs of most leadership development programs include the cost of internal trainers or external resources paid to provide training. Costs also include travel to and from the training site, lodging, meals, and lost work productivity during the training and while traveling to/from the training. Our one year program costs about the same as just one two day training event but by design does not require any travel; this saves thousands for each participant in the program.

What is the profile of your leadership e-coaches?
Our leadership e-coaches have extensive business and leadership coaching experience. Our coaches have a passion for working with and helping develop leaders. We select coaches who understand that the program is not about them being the center of attention but rather being a skilled facilitator asking the right questions at the right time. All of our coaches go through an eight week certification program in our methodologies and then are assigned to a number of teams of leaders that they work with for at least a year. We call our coaches leadership e-coaches because they don’t get on a plane to provide training face to face but rather work with their teams remotely.

What does your curriculum look like?
Our curriculum is built around an Action Development methodology. There are education, application, and reinforcement exercises throughout the program. Whenever a new skill is learned, exercises apply the skill and then discussions clarify and reinforce it. Action Development Plans, created by each leader, help them continue to use the newly learned skill as the program transitions from that skill to the next skill module.

We can send you a detailed curriculum overview and would also recommend having one of our leadership e-coaches walk you through one of our skills modules and share examples of how they have implemented the curriculum with their teams.

What is Cleaver International’s relationship with LeadershipTools?

Frank DuMar is both the CEO of Cleaver International and LeadershipTools. Where Cleaver International is a recognized people development consulting firm with a wide range of human capital services, LeadershipTools is just focused on providing affordable and effective leadership development solutions.

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