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LINX Leadership

Build leaders who own the work

Development for the managers you already have, anchored on a diagnostic and measured against it. Programs start at $5,000.

At a glance

Price

Starts at $5,000, scoped as a program

Format

Coaching, team sessions and the Compass diagnostic

Best for

Companies whose managers are not yet deciding

Your time

Three to five hours a week

Length

Three to twelve months

The problem

Your leaders are waiting

You hired capable people and gave them titles. They still bring every real decision back to you, and the questions are getting more frequent rather than fewer.

Leadership is a set of habits rather than a personality: decisions made cleanly, hard conversations had on time, commitments held without a reminder. Habits come from practice and feedback, and an org chart supplies neither.

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Coaching and team sessions, anchored on the Compass diagnostic and re-measured so you can see what moved.

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The program

A program built around the team you have

It starts with where each person stands today, sets what they need to be able to do, and stays with them until the new behavior holds.

  • 01

    A program designed for your team

    Built around your people, your problems and your timeline, not a course you slot into.

  • 02

    The Compass diagnostic

    Fifteen dimensions per leader, taken at the start and again at the end, so development starts from evidence and finishes with a number.

  • 03

    Practical tools

    Ways to make a decision, hold a hard conversation and run accountability that a manager can use the same week they learn them.

  • 04

    Individual coaching

    One to one work on the moments where each person's development is actually being tested.

  • 05

    Team sessions

    Shared language, shared standards and shared accountability across the group.

The four phases

Assess, design, develop, reinforce

Programs run three to twelve months depending on scope and team size. Each phase is built on what the one before it found.

01

Assess

Every leader takes the Compass diagnostic. Strengths, gaps and development priorities arrive as data rather than gut feel.

02

Design

A program built on what the diagnostic surfaced, with specific outcomes for each leader and for the team, and dates you can hold us to.

03

Develop

Coaching, sessions and real work running in parallel. Skills get practiced on live problems, not in a room.

04

Reinforce

We stay past the point where it feels finished, then re-measure against the baseline. That is how the standard holds after we leave.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it is not

A strong fit

  • You have managers on paper who are not yet leading in practice.
  • The owner keeps getting pulled into problems the team should be holding.
  • The company is growing and the management layer has not grown with it.
  • A promotion, a succession or an expansion is coming and the bench is thin.

Not the right fit

  • The honest answer is a structure problem rather than a development one.
  • The honest answer is a hiring problem. The diagnostic tends to say so in the first few weeks.
  • The real hope is that a program will move somebody out of a seat. Development does not do that job.

Development, embedded operators and assessment solve different problems. Which one you need is easier to see side by side.

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Choosing

Leadership, or Performance?

Both run three to twelve months and both develop leaders. What separates them is whether the way the company runs is on the table too.

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LINX Leadership

Starts at $5,000

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LINX Performance

Starts at $10,000

The scope

Develops the managers you already have
Runs three to twelve months
The business keeps running the way it does today
The operating model itself gets rebuilt
Money, revenue and operations inside the scope

How the work is done

The Compass diagnostic at the start and again at the end
One to one coaching for each leader
Team sessions across the group
Senior operators on site with your team

Questions

Questions about the program

How long does a program run?

Three to twelve months, depending on scope and team size. It runs in four phases, each built on the last, and stays engaged until the new behaviors hold without prompting. Expect three to five hours a week from your leadership team.

What is the LINX Compass diagnostic?

A behavioral assessment every leader takes at the start of the program. It surfaces each person's strengths and the areas that need the most work, objectively, and it sets the baseline the whole program is measured against. You see what improved, what did not, and why.

Is this going to be too soft? I need tools, not conversations about feelings.

The program is habits and structures, not trust falls. Ways to make a decision, hold an honest conversation and run accountability without prompting, usable the same week your leaders learn them. Progress is measured against the diagnostic baseline, not against how the room felt.

My team is the problem, not me. Do I have to participate?

The program is built for your existing leadership team, and it works best when the owner is in the room for the alignment sessions. Shared standards have to start somewhere. Your leaders take the program seriously when they can see that you are in it too.

We have read the leadership books. What is different about a program?

Reading tells you what good leadership looks like. A program is practice with feedback: individual coaching for the moments where development is actually tested, sessions that build shared language and standards, and metrics that show movement. Knowing and doing are different skills.

Do you replace leaders who do not improve?

No. LINX Leadership develops the people you already have; it is not a leadership replacement service. Staffing decisions stay yours. The diagnostic and the program metrics simply give you honest data if a hard role conversation ever becomes necessary.

What does the starting price cover?

Programs are scoped and priced around your team size, your problems and your timeline, starting at $5,000. Coaching, sessions, the Compass diagnostics and the measurement all sit inside the program price. You approve the scope before anything starts.

Start the conversation

Which of your managers should already be deciding this?

Bring that name to the first conversation. Thirty minutes, and it is free.

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