THE MISSION
The mission was to create a modern leadership program for all leaders at Södra Skogsägarna, Sweden's largest forest owners association, within a three-year period and encompass approximately 600 leaders.
The program would be based on:
New science around learning and leadership
New group strategy and leadership competences
The need to create a continuous learning culture that future-proofs the company's development and value creation.
Client: HR Director
“With Colearns professionalism, passion and science-based approaches, we have together created a movement that changes our business and our people. Through many small steps, with roots in the forest, we have strengthened learning in everyday life, developed our leadership capacity and accelerated action towards our strategy.”
Kamilla Svensson, Strategy leader at Södra
Colearn had a central role in the entire project from start to finish.
We facilitated an inclusive and challenging design process that resulted in a brief. In the development phase, Colearn was responsible for program design and content production in collaboration with Södra.
Upon the delivery phase, we were program managers together with Södra and facilitated and coached the leaders together with Södra's former leadership supplier.
SERVICES
- Leadership development
- Culture and strategy movement
- Strategy for learning organization
- Activation of learning behavior and habits
- Modernising learning design
- Facilitation and coaching
- Activation of self leadership
SOLUTION
We designed and delivered a 21-week hybrid accelerator, based on Colearn's research-based Hybrid Learning Methodology®. The accelerator was created as a training camp in behavioral change and could accommodate up to 80 leaders at a time (to date we have completed 9 cohorts).
We focused on creating ownership and action by having each leader define their own strategic and personal development goals. The leaders acted on these through weekly reflections and small challenging steps. The setup created direct change in the business and gave us the conditions to support the leaders' internal and external resistance to change when it appeared.
The accelerator integrated the learning and change into the leaders' existing infrastructure instead of simulating experiences within a traditional education.
Psychological safety was created in smaller groups where the leaders coached each other in their development and change management and exchanged experiences.
We had the CEO and group management translate the strategy into communicative and personal material and established a common language and tools for learning, change and leadership. Together, this created momentum for a cultural and strategic shift.
The accelerator achieved an on average 4x increase of the effect goals from the pre-launch measurement.
The organization reports increased experimentation, increased psychological safety and increased ownership/self-leadership.
It has also led to a common language and methods for learning and change in everyday life, which are also used by the CEO and Group management team.
feel confident to act on the group strategy
feel confident to live the leadership competences
has established learning habits and has a personal development plan
Case Session RECORDING (in SWEDISH)
Accelerating Learning, Leadership & Strategy (60min)
Learn from Södra how they’ve strengthened learning in everyday life, developed their global leadership and created a movement towards their strategy.
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