Elevate Your Leadership Pipeline: Custom Development Plans for Middle Managers

Transform Your Managers into Visionary Leaders. Reclaim Your Strategic Time.

1. The Critical Link: Your Middle Management

You understand that true leadership isn't about control; it's about empowerment, growth, and transformation. As a leader who delegates, coaches, and inspires, you know your middle managers are the vital bridge between strategy and execution.

They shape culture, drive results, and ultimately determine your organization's agility and success. They are also your eyes and voice in the organization, their influence ability in your name is your strentgh -or weakness.

Yet, are they truly equipped to lead with the strategic foresight, decisive action, and inspirational influence required in today's dynamic landscape?

Do they possess the deep capabilities to truly transform their teams and initiatives, allowing you to focus on the highest-level strategic imperatives?

2. Montse Monllau's Solution: Bespoke Leadership Development Plans

You and me, we don't believe in generic training; do we?

We believe in precision-targeted development that resonates deeply, drives measurable change, and scales your leadership impact.

My Custom Leadership Development Plans are meticulously designed to:

  • Cultivate strategic thinkers: Equip your middle managers to move beyond day-to-day operations and contribute to broader organizational goals.

  • Enhance influential coaches: Empower them to inspire, mentor, and foster high-performing teams, mirroring your own leadership philosophy.

  • Ignite transformational agents: Develop their capacity to champion change, innovate, and lead through complexity, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

3. How we deliver impact: A tailored process

My approach is highly collaborative, ensuring every plan aligns perfectly with your organizational objectives and the unique needs of your managers.

Deep Dive Assessment:

  • We begin with a comprehensive understanding of your company culture, strategic goals, and current leadership challenges.

  • This includes individual interviews, team surveys, and analysis of challenges/resistances in the current context for each participating manager.

  • Expected duration of assessment phase: 1-2 weeks with 2-3 online assessment sessions of 45’.

Custom Curriculum Design:

Based on the assessment, we co-create a bespoke curriculum focusing on 6 key development areas such as:

Core Module 1, Diagnosis of BOTTLENECKS, GAPS and RESISTANCES
We identify frictions or critical aspects and the manager becomes aware of what's draining her power so she can take control of the situation and anticipate time-wasters and workflow blockers

Core Module 2, Definition of STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Critical thinking guided activity that helps the manager put frictions in order or importance and create a set of lists of TO DOS and NOT TO DOS.

Core Module 3, Design of FEASIBLE STRATEGIES
The manager learns to think strategically as an intrapreneur who sees the path of least resistance, facilitates the behavioural changes of the team needed to achieve the prioritized strategic objectives. The output is to identify 1-5 achievable objectives and define a strategy to achieve them in small feasible steps.

Modules 4-6: CUSTOM FOCUS AREAS
—After this point is the manager who decides which ones of these 3 interventions seem most appropriate for her own current priorities and challenges.
She chooses her curriculum next interventions for FOCUS AREAS 4-6 among this 3 Leadership Development objectives and modules:

  • Executive Communication & Influence with the intervention titled CLEAR MESSAGES
    Design effective messages to connect with her teams and stakeholders with strategic and tactical clarity that facilitates buy-in and influence.
    e.g., Define your quality communication principles; Application of your communication management principles to your to generate buy-in with my strategic spine communication tool.

  • Leading Through Behaviour Change & Innovation with the intervention ALIGNED EMOTIONS
    To define a leadership communication system that aligns the emotions of everyone involved in execution. e.g., Overcome limiting attitudes and beliefs, Emotions that get in the way of organizational change, etc.

  • Advanced Team Empowerment & Delegation with the intervention POWER WITH CONTROL
    To inspire staff in the workflow, controlling time and with a persuasive communication style. e.g., Control the workflow with planning & project management; Trust, engagement & Culture relationship hacking; etc.

Each plan integrates 1-on-1 executive coaching sessions with me, action learning assignments adapted to her real workflow, digital worksheets and tools modules, Generative AI support, and can also include group workshops.

Dynamic Delivery & Engagement:

  • Program Duration: Typically, my plans run for 6 to 10 weeks to ensure sustained growth.

  • Session Frequency: Weekly coaching sessions of 45’ when remote or Bi-weekly 90’ when in-house; Bi-monthly strategic reviews.

  • Delivery Format: Fully remote via video conferencing, and/or in-person at your premises (hybrid model).

  • Participants will apply learnings in real-time, with structured accountability and support.

Measurable Outcomes & Reporting:

We track progress through SPECIFIC METRICS, e.g., pre/post assessment scores, team feedback improvements, team performance KPIs.

Regular progress reports are provided to top management, outlining achievements and next steps.

Reporting Frequency to Top Management: Monthly.

4: The Unrivalled Benefit: Reclaiming Your Strategic Focus

This is where the true value for leaders like you becomes evident:

Maximize Your Time: Offload the intensive, individual coaching and development of your middle managers to a seasoned innovative expert. This frees your invaluable time to concentrate on high-level strategy, vision setting, and critical decision-making that only you can do.

Scalable Leadership: Effectively multiply your own leadership impact. By investing in Montse Monllau's expertise, you're not just developing individuals; you're building a robust, self-sufficient leadership ecosystem.

Enhanced Organizational Agility: Empowered middle managers lead to quicker, smarter decisions at every level, fostering a more responsive and resilient organization.

Cultivate a Culture of Growth: Demonstrate a tangible commitment to your talent, fostering higher engagement, retention, and a strong internal pipeline.

Have an efficient system for doing what successful managers do:

  • Scaling themselves up as inspirational leaders

  • Managing operational execution, balancing team execution with planning

  • Aligning team goals with company objectives

  • Making operational decisions impacting team performance and efficiency –also for reconfiguring strategies when unpredictable problems and complexity arise and adapting human interactions is needed

  • Communicating effectively across teams and departments ensuring alignment, cooperation and influence

100% practical development of core skills that WEF2030 highlights as the most demanded and in which humans will not be replaceable by Artificial Intelligence: Creative thinking, Leadership and social influence, and Motivation and self-awareness

With the use of generative AI tools for self-management assessment and support

I will suggest 3 objectives and you will define the Key Results to measure ROI:

    • Decrease number of frictions —In the business case with PEPSICO: a reduction of 62%

    • Time saved —In the business case with PEPSICO: accomplishing deadlines in 95%

    • Increase teams’ wellbeing, feeling of comfort —via team qualitative surveys

5. Who Benefits Most from These Plans?

My custom programs are ideal for organizations and leaders who:

  • Are ready to invest strategically in their next generation of leaders.

  • Have high-potential middle managers or team managers poised for greater responsibilities and eager for achieving their own transformation

  • Are undergoing specific organizational changes, e.g., rapid growth, digital transformation, market disruption requiring adaptable leadership.

  • Value a hands-on, personalized approach to leadership development over generic training.

  • Seek to tackle inefficiencies, diminish risks and enhance their teams’ capabilities to thrive in a “Eyes on, hands off” top management delegative approach

  • Would hire my expert aid for Leadership Development activities that are for them highly time consuming

6. Partner with me: Your Strategic Advantage

Ready to transform your middle managers into the strategic, coaching, and transformative leaders your organization deserves, while freeing up your most precious resource—your time?

Contact me for a complimentary Strategic LD Needs Analysis and Q&As call.

Let's discuss how a custom leadership development plan can revolutionize your team and amplify your own impact.

Montse Monllau, Senior Leadership Advisor

Email: news @ montsell.com

Phone: +34670431227

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7. Testimonials

"The return on the time I've dedicated to the program is very good, not only for me but also for the teams where I'm based. Today, I see far fewer obstacles in my daily life, and I'm sure a lot of it is a result of the program. Because I've changed my approach to certain topics and interactions with the team after my reflections on the Custom Plan, whether those I've done with the materials or later in the sessions with Montse.” —Feedback to Montse from Andreia Sousa, Process Excellence Assoc Manager, PEPSICO.

“By sharing information as Andreia does now, I think all the team is calm regarding the project. She improved the way to communicate and the objectives are clearer. More confidence in what she communicates, how she communicates it, and the decisions she makes." —Feedback from her team after taking the Custom Plan

Shall I tell you about the Business Case with PepsiCo? The manager who trained with me has been promoted from the role of Control and Reporting Sr Analyst to Process Excellence Assoc Manager🚀 after taking my LD Custom Plan.

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