Relational skills as measurable technical competencies.
A diagnostic and practice lab that treats relational skills as observable, behavior-anchored, trainable technical competencies. For working leaders, not for theory.
Leadership programs teach about relationships. Few build the capacity to navigate them.
Mark Murphy's Leadership IQ study (Hiring for Attitude, 2011) tracked more than 20,000 new hires and found that 49 percent of failures stem from inability to accept feedback or manage emotions, not technical skill gaps. The mechanism does not change when those hires become managers; it intensifies.
Most leadership programming teaches the language of relational skill. This workshop builds the diagnostic and practice loop that turns language into observable behavior.
Participants self-assess across five core competencies using a 1 to 5 proficiency scale anchored in specific behavioral indicators. Each leader identifies their highest-leverage development area and commits to a 30-day structured intervention with built-in accountability. Re-assessment at 90 days returns measurement data against the same rubric.
Five core competencies.
Diagnostic Interpersonal Awareness
Adaptive Communication Architecture
Conflict Navigation and Repair
Collaborative Sensemaking
Relational Endurance and Maintenance
- A diagnostic baseline across all five competencies with documented behavioral evidence
- One concrete 30-day development plan matched to current proficiency level
- An accountability partner and a pre-scheduled 30-day check-in
- A repeatable practice protocol applicable to any future competency gap
- A structured leadership development intervention with pre and post behavioral baselines
- Differentiation from leadership programming that still sells conceptual frameworks
- An early indicator of managers operating below the proficiency threshold their roles require
- A natural pathway to targeted follow-on coaching
- Standalone workshop. 60 to 90 minutes as part of leadership development programming.
- Extended engagement. 60-minute diagnostic plus 30-day check-in plus 90-day re-assessment.
- Pilot before series. Single-cohort engagement to assess facilitation fit and outcome quality.
- Coaching follow-on. Diagnostic identifies leaders ready for focused 1:1 work; coaching engages on monthly retainer.
- Series entry. First workshop in the Technical EQ series. Series bundle $20,000.
Simone Harvey
PCC-credentialed executive coach (ICF, Georgetown) with 12+ years coaching executives, founders, and senior leaders through high-stakes transitions. At Airbnb and Wells Fargo, designed and ran leadership development programs across thousands of people, including the Black@ Emerging Leaders Sponsorship Program at Airbnb (five 18-month cohorts, 60 percent promotion rate). Twice sponsored for Airbnb's Critical Talent Award.
She has trained and coached leaders in the relational competencies at the heart of this workshop across thousands of participants in corporate and executive cohorts.
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