Telos launches new Leading Great EO masterclass for leaders and boards
Leading in an employee-owned (EO) business is different. It brings specific challenges as well as opportunities to make your ownership model a commercial (and cultural) strength.
So how do you ensure your senior people have the practical insight and skills they need?
Telos Partners' new Leading Great EO masterclass has been specifically designed for company boards and senior leadership teams to help equip them with insights and best practice on how to leverage the business benefits of employee ownership.
It also provides EOT trustees with reassurance or focus to carry out their role.
Building on the eoa's EO Framework
'The Leading Great EO masterclass [gives] participants a clearer understanding of the link between employee ownership and improved business performance'
Delivered by experts on employee ownership from the Telos Partners team, the Leading Great EO masterclass is a one-day, in-company workshop for up to 20 people.
It builds on the eoa’s framework for Great EO through the highly practical use of the eoQ™ diagnostic, giving participants a clearer understanding of the link between employee ownership and improved business performance – and insight into key areas of best practice within the EO Framework.
It also enables them to identify key actions to improve the adoption of employee ownership within their business and clarify how the eoQ™ can help them to monitor and further enhance their performance.
Find out more about the Leading Great EO masterclass and book a consultation here.
Leveraging the competitive advantage of being EO
Our EO consultant Jeremy Gadd has been part of the Telos Partners team that's helped to develop the masterclass.
As he explains: 'At this time of immense uncertainty and change, our Leading Great EO masterclass – created out of data from successful lived EO experience – enables leadership teams to explore, align and drive value out of a shared understanding of where their business is leveraging employee ownership and where further opportunities lie.
'All this is achieved through an immersive one-day workshop – the commercial impacts of which can be significant.'
He adds that the Leading Great EO masterclass is suitable for leadership teams regardless of the company's stage of EO.
'However, feedback suggests it can be most impactful after the EO transaction where the value of the employee ownership model is yet to deliver the commercial results which are possible,' he says.
'It can also be particularly effective ahead of – or shortly after – the EO transaction as a way to align leadership teams around a common understanding and behaviours that can build engagement in your new employee ownership model and enhance commercial success.'
Creating a tangible difference in thinking and behaviour
'We have everything we now need as a leadership team to take our employee ownership to the next level'
The feedback from those who have attended our first Leading Great EO masterclasses has certainly been positive.
'I’ve been talking about employee ownership to the team for the last two years,' says one senior leader. 'However, it's only after attending the Leading Great EO workshop that I really understand it myself.'
Another explains: 'We had a team meeting a couple of days after the workshop which gave me an immediate opportunity to try some of the ideas in practice. The result? A tangible difference in the thinking and behaviour of the team.'
A third leader says: “We have everything we now need as a leadership team to take our employee ownership to the next level.'
Leading Great EO – what to do next
Find out more about the Leading Great EO masterclass and arrange an in-company workshop for your leaders and company board here.
Want to know how Telos Partners can help to embed, grow and/or renew employee ownership in your business?
Visit our employee ownership support pages and watch our podcasts on our YouTube channel here.
