Needs assessment

It all starts with a conversation that allows us to understand your needs, opportunities, challenges, and goals.

We ask questions like:

• What are the main opportunities you see for your organization in the next several years?
• What issues with your organization keep you up at night?
• What skills do your managers need to move the organization in the right direction?
• What training and development efforts are currently being used to build those skills, and where do you see any gaps in those efforts?

Program design

Next, we provide you with a written proposal for a custom leadership development program that addresses the needs you've shared with us. This proposal focuses on:

• Recommending content, learning objectives, and educators that match your needs with our expertise.
• Showing how we will build an active, application-focused learning approach into the program.
• Providing options for how the program will be delivered (e.g., number of participants, location, modality, length, and frequency).

Once program content, delivery, and other price-determining factors have been finalized, a formal letter of agreement is sent to you.

Program delivery

We deliver the results of our collaboration via a custom education program. Here are some ways that our delivery approach differs from other learning and development providers:

• Each educator gets to know your company and its unique challenges before he or she teaches.
• We can engage participants in person or online depending on your needs, preferences, and constraints.
• In-person programs are available where it suits you best—at your worksite, another place of your preference, or at any of Tippie’s locations in Iowa City or Des Moines.
• We deliver programs that vary in length and audience depending on your needs anything from one-hour workshops and half-day seminars to multi-year, multi-layered programs.