Team Development

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Coaching for Leaders

2-day targeted, in-person experiential development offering to build and enhance Check-in and Coaching skills into leadership style as a leader.

FOR WHOM

Nominated Senior Managers and Directors and above, who have secured business funding.

WHEN & WHERE

3rd & 4th May, Maidenhead.

ENROLLMENT

You will receive a calendar invite if you have been nominated and business funding has been secured.

Leading @ Adobe Live

2-day face-to-face experiential workshop that builds on the 4 Learning Connect Sessions (Selecting Top Talent, Check-in Excellence, Communicating for Impact and Breaking Bias) and has been designed to focus on the real world application and role modelling of Adobe’s Leadership Capabilities.

Day 1: Building High Performance Teams

Part I: Breaking Bias - Be an Inclusive Leader

• How to identify bias (i.e., favoritism, intolerance, unfairness)
• Strategies and tactics for better decision making
• How to speak up when it shows up

Part II: Selecting Talent - Build a Great Team

• Why we are unwavering on: Culture complement, Customer empathy, Critical thinking
• How to mitigate potential bias when selecting talent
• Ask the experts

Day 2: Accelerating High Performing Leaders

Part I: Check-in Excellence - Lead Your Team to Success

• The power of frequent Check-ins through clean expectations and impactful feedback
• How to navigate difficult conversations when needed
• How to have meaningful career development discussions
• How to manage and empower employees so they can achieve their potential

Part II - Communicating for Impact

• Point of view: How to take a stance and know your audience
• Poise: How to show up
• Pace: How to follow through

FOR WHOM

All Managers. T&E costs to be covered by the cc manager.

WHEN

Managers are welcome to attend in any of the below locations. All Live sessions will be held in English.

Bucharest - 28th & 29th March

Paris - 7th & 8th June

Munich - 28th & 29th June

Maidenhead - 26th & 27th September

Leadership Pods

Flexible learning system structured in a way to help people leaders make time for your own leadership development by:

• Agreeing frequency of recurring Pod meetings of groups of 8-10 leaders (no direct reporting line in the room),
• Running 90-minutes Pod meetings via Adobe Connect AND Webcam,
• Addressing your real-life leadership challenges during Pod meetings and
• Creating room for best-practice exchange with your peers on solutions to those challenges.

FOR WHOM & WHEN

Leadership Pods are designed upon request and tailored to a specific group's development needs. EMEA WWFO & CSMB Leadership Pods are currently in design phase with planned Go Live in H2FY17.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

If you are not part of EMEA WWFO & CSMB, yet are interested to launch Leadership Pods as mechanism for leadership exchange and best practice for your organisation, please contact Heike Diakhate, EMEA Talent Development Partner at diakhate@adobe.com.

Becoming world class at Selecting Talent as one of Adobe's 5 Leadership Capabilities is crucial to setting teams up for success and helping EMEA achieve its growth plans. Hiring mistakes aren't just costly, they can also impact otherwise performing teams.

Therefore, as behaviours are the best predictor of someone's future performance at Adobe, develop your skills and learn how to assess the right behaviours in candidate interviews in this 4-hour highly practical workshop. You will focus on:

• Why behavioural assessment matters,
• How to create a measurable profile of great behaviour for the role,
• The difference between Behaviours and Experience and implications for your questioning technique,
• How the Behavioural Assessment technique works, and
• The range of Adobe Talent Selection tools available to help you prepare for and better structure behavioural assessment-based interviews.

FOR WHOM

Managers who are interviewing candidates in the recruitment process.

WHEN

• Maidenhead: 22nd March 9am - 1pm GMT
• Munich: 30th March 9am-1pm CET
• Paris: 4th April 9am - 1pm CET or 2pm - 6pm CET
• Hamburg: 10th April 12.30pm - 4.30pm CET
• Basel: 25th April 1pm - 5pm CET

ENROLLMENT

Send an email to Heike Diakhate via diakhate@adobe.com stating your preferred date and location. You will then receive a calendar invite.

Building on your knowledge gained from the Behavioural Assessment Workshop and approximately 3 months after attending, you have the opportunity to join this 90-minutes in-person session to help you practice, practice, practice of behavioural assessment interviewing techniques in small groups.

FOR WHOM

Managers who have attended the Behavioural Assessment Workshop.

WHEN

• Maidenhead: 10th April 2pm-3.30pm GMT
• Munich: 30th March 2pm - 3.30pm CET
• Bucharest, Basel, Dublin, Hamburg, Paris: as this interviewing practice session builds on your learnings from the Workshop, dates will be offered in later quarters of FY17 following the WS. Stay tuned.

ENROLLMENT

You will receive a calendar invite.