Navigating Your Leadership Influence: Improving Organizational Effectiveness

June 23, 2026

Navigating Your Leadership Influence: Improving Organizational Effectiveness

Tara Lalonde | 2025

Abstract

Leadership development offers a strategic opportunity for organizations to obtain a competitive advantage. This hybrid leadership development curriculum design blends traditional course instruction grounded in extensive research with one-on-one leadership coaching over the course of eight layered sessions. Each week builds upon the previous topics to create a framework for rising leaders to improve their influence through elevated self-awareness and a comprehensive understanding of dynamic organizational factors. This course incorporates key tenants of adult learning theory by integrating the learner’s experiences with individualized coaching and topic sequencing that allows for immediate implementation.

This curriculum guides the learner through the multiple ways that leaders influence organizational outcomes; specifically, it explores leadership influence through the lenses of leadership style and characteristics, values, culture, systems thinking, organizational learning, intergroup relationships, psychological safety and belonging, and communication, trust, and credibility, while providing opportunities for application and reflection of learned concepts in between each session. Upon completion, learners are able to: 1) identify effective leadership qualities, 2) understand personal leadership values and vision, 3) assess situations and apply appropriate leadership behaviors, 4) understand how to use feedback as a tool for learning, 5) relate leadership to organizational performance, 6) take on leadership roles with a sense of excitement, 7) recognize one’s impact as a leader on the motivation and commitment of others, and 8) identify a strategy for continued leadership development.

Through this iterative framework and blended coaching-curriculum approach, participants gain improved capabilities to influence greater organizational effectiveness. This unique design offers a strategic leadership development capability for emerging and mid-level leaders, which can fill a vital succession planning gap, and subsequently, create a competitive advantage for organizations.

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