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Leaders are made, not born. Birkman gives you the tools to make them great.

For many employees, leadership skills are just beneath the surface. Birkman lets you bring them to life and build your organization’s future now.

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Create self-awareness

Helps leaders understand themselves so they can best guide others.

Leading people effectively requires an immense amount of self-awareness. After all, how can you lead a team to greatness if you’re not aware of your own blind spots?

Birkman helps leaders understand perceptions that shape their leadership style, strategies to best manage their own behaviors, and the best ways to create a trusting relationship with their team.

Develop New Leaders

Identify your high-potential employees. Then turn them into leaders.

Birkman helps you prepare your employees to switch from a technical role to a people-centered role focused on communicating ideas, motivating employees, and managing many different personalities.

When emerging leaders understand how diverse personality traits may impact the team dynamic, they’re able to turn individual differences into collective strengths that ignite team performance.

Lead Hybrid Teams

Develop leaders who keep teams connected across locations

Whether teams are in the office full-time, operating remotely, or somewhere in between, the ability for leaders to establish meaningful connections plays a key role in team performance. 

Birkman helps leaders create a connected culture – up, down, and across the team – so employees stay united around a common purpose from any location they open their laptops.

Drive Performance at Every Leadership Level

Executives

Even the most seasoned executives can improve themselves as leaders. When leaders are aware of their behaviors and how they impact the organization, they can be more effective at inspiring their teams, making decisions, and driving organizational success.

Through Birkman insights, leaders can adapt their behaviors to foster positive team dynamics and organizational growth. Watch the inspiration as it flows from the top throughout the entire organization.

Middle Managers

Managers are on the front lines of ensuring their team is performing as expected. As a leader, you’ll get the best from your teams when you work with them based on their unique preferences and workstyles.

Birkman teaches you how to tailor interactions with individual contributors to ensure high trust, more engagement, and less workplace stress.

Individual Contributors

Many organizations find that the best leaders come from within. If you’re looking for future leaders, you probably don’t have to look far. But every contributor needs guidance when they start their path to leadership.

That’s why it’s important to focus on developing leaders before you formally change their title. Birkman can help you develop the future leaders of your organization so when the time comes, they’re ready.

Conflict resolution

Keep workplace conflict constructive

Constructive conflict and healthy disagreement are helpful for every team. But when team members have vastly different workstyles—and no way to resolve their differences—it can create a stressful or even toxic workplace.

Birkman gives leaders awareness of how differing workstyles might lead to unhealthy conflict that affects the team dynamic. Armed with data and tailored personality insights, leaders can help employees constructively assess a conflict and resolve it diplomatically. 

Manage Workplace Stress

Reduce turnover by coaching leaders on intentional stress management

Stress is what happens when our needs aren’t met. Burnout is what happens when we power through stress. And turnover? It’s what happens when you add the two together.

Birkman helps leaders reduce stress by using personality insights to proactively address employee needs, helping to head off stress before it starts.  But if employees do drift into stress behaviors, our coaching tools equip leaders to shift them back to a more productive frame of mind.

Elevate your leaders so they can elevate your teams

Understand the impact you make to your organization

The impact of your mindset, behavior, and workstyles trickle down throughout the rest of the organization. Your focus should be on making a positive impact and creating a culture of continuous improvement. After all, you set the example for the entire organization.

By developing leaders through Birkman data, you equip them with the ability to guide members towards shared goals, navigate complex challenges, adjust their behaviors, and take accountability for their workstyles. 

Uncover how your behavior drives your decision-making

How do you lead? Do you make gut decisions, rely heavily on processes and data, or lean on talking things out with other people?

Birkman can help leaders understand their decision-making process, risk tolerance, and the role that their perspectives play in those decisions. The result is greater trust from team members – an important factor in effective collaboration and a team’s ability to be at its best.

Aid in succession planning for high potentials

Feedback only works if it is understood and accepted. The same message can motivate one person and discourage another depending on how it is delivered.

Birkman helps you tailor your communication so feedback is received the way you intend. This improves performance, strengthens trust, and makes conversations more effective.

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