Scott Blanchard, PresidentThe post-pandemic world is witnessing a drastic technological shift. Digital and remote solutions have become the norm rather than the exception. Over the past 18 months, training sessions in most companies have transitioned from being primarily face-to-face to being mostly virtual. Organizations must strive to keep up with continuously evolving trends and stay competitive in the market but without a reliable partner, the task of reinforcing learning for leaders and teams while focusing on core business is difficult.
A globally recognized leadership training and development organization, The Ken Blanchard Companies® is one such partner. Blanchard®, at the forefront of the digital revolution, has had remarkable success in enabling leaders throughout the world to achieve better results through people. The company offers robust leadership development programs with state-of-the-art content to train and develop the great leaders organizations need right now.
The Ken Blanchard Companies was started by Dr. Ken Blanchard, his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, and six of their colleagues from the University of Massachusetts. When they started the business in the 1970s, they brought a new, revolutionary, and potentially disruptive approach to leadership. They championed the idea that leaders should serve their people and enable their success rather than police their performance. Forty years later, the company is still leading that charge—and it’s great to see that what was once revolutionary has become fundamental and proven. “Our enduring purpose is to help leaders in organizations develop the right mindset and skillset to help people drive performance and feel great about their jobs,” says Scott Blanchard, president of The Ken Blanchard Companies.
Our enduring purpose is to help leaders in organizations develop the right mindset and skillset to help people drive performance and feel great about their jobs
The unique aspect that makes Blanchard a go-to partner for clients is the company’s dedication to leadership training delivered in flexible formats to help meet learner and business needs. Offering a vast library of research, high quality content, and brilliant design modules, Blanchard is committed to creating caring, inspired leaders, productive, engaged employees, and truly measurable results for their clients.
Blanchard has a portfolio of ten core products designed to work together seamlessly. The company’s success is attributed mainly to its design thinking approach based on client needs. “We dip into our content to create a customized experience for clients by configuring different components together for their specific purpose,” says Blanchard.
The Ken Blanchard Companies’ flagship leadership development program is SLII®, one of the world’s most widely taught leadership models. A situational approach to leadership that builds meaningful connections between leaders and their people, the SLII® framework is built into most of Blanchard’s leadership development curriculums. “SLII® teaches leaders a collaborative process for setting goals and diagnosing exactly where the employee or the team sits today in terms of their ability and motivation to perform a task successfully,” says Blanchard. “It shows leaders how to apply a matching leadership style with the correct amount of direction and support each person needs to succeed.”
With such unparalleled capabilities and services, The Ken Blanchard Companies has helped their clients go virtual under the pressure of the pandemic. “We are very proud of our partnerships with clients at a time when effective leadership has never been more important. Across a wide variety of industries, we’ve seen our collaborative approach to leadership yield great results,” says Blanchard.
“I see our company going wherever our clients want to take us in the pursuit of creating extraordinary leadership. We are following our customers and bringing our design expertise and capabilities to whatever they need to get done. I think we will see that manifest as continued investment in leveraging new and existing technologies with a focus on the learner experience.
“Due to COVID, the methods Blanchard uses to work with clients and individual managers have gone through significant changes—from face-to-face to almost entirely virtual and from analog to digital. The medium has changed in terms of how we deliver education, but the things we do every day that enable leaders to be great haven’t changed. Although the context continues to evolve, the fundamentals remain the same— helping people become magnificent so they can produce good results,” says Blanchard.
