Young professionals
They are good at their job. That is why they were given more responsibility. But leading is a different craft from the one they are good at, and nobody learns it by accident.
Why it goes wrong with your best people
You give your best technician, salesperson or engineer more responsibility. It makes sense: they know how the work is done. But exactly what makes someone good at the craft, doing it yourself, moving fast, solving everything personally, is what gets in the way the moment there is a team underneath.
The work simply comes on top
Doing it yourself feels faster than explaining it. Until the team is waiting and that person is structurally the last one to turn off the lights.
Steering on tasks, not on behaviour
What people do is visible. Why they do it is not. That undercurrent is the difference between a group and a team.
Still a colleague
Leading people you had coffee with yesterday asks for different conversations. Those often do not happen, or they happen too harshly.
Nobody tells them what they do not know
Driven, ambitious, and without sight of what is missing. Without a mirror that lasts for years.
What we do about it
We take young leaders out of their own company and put them next to peers from other companies and other sectors who run into exactly the same things. That is where the recognition happens that never comes from inside your own walls. Confrontation, insight, action, in that order.
Leaders of Tomorrow
The multi-year development track for young leaders and successors. Group sessions, personal guidance, assessment and a network that stays.
Cut to the Chase
Sharper communication and conversations that get to the point. For those who notice they circle around the difficult part for too long.
Incompany programmes
A whole cohort of young leaders inside your own company, with your own practice as the case material. In English or in Dutch.
Dealer leadership
For young leaders in dealer and importer organisations, in mixed international groups.
What it gives you as an employer
They stay
98% of our participants still work at the same company two years later. Development is the cheapest form of retention there is.
Your directors get time back
When the layer below actually steers, the owner no longer has to sit in the middle of everything. You notice that in your own calendar first.
Culture changes from below
Young leaders take behaviour back to the shop floor. That travels faster than any culture programme announced from the top.
You become visible to the next ones
Companies that develop their young people get talked about. Students and starters notice long before they apply.
Who in your organisation is ready?
Usually you know the answer immediately. That one person who can do more than they do now, and who you will lose if nothing happens. Tell us about them and we will say honestly what we would do.
Marco de Vrind · marco@eiopeners.nl · +32 486 80 83 83 (also WhatsApp). We reply within two working days.