Better numbers, elevated teams.
Scoring higher on your business metrics and strategic initiatives takes a strong coaching culture. And, a special kind of Outfitter.
How can you ensure that your priorities actually happen, every day, over time, across teams, in ways that align and activate everyone to bring their best, all without increasing overwhelm and burnout? It is possible with the right support.
Upwardly is coaching on high-impact practices + a behavioral App (tracking, daily nudges, feedback) + data for this purpose. We call this type of relational support Social Scaffolding. It supports managers in being more effective coach-leaders. It supports teams in elevating their performance and wellbeing. It supports leaders in improving business outcomes. Social scaffolding is to orgnizational culture as mechanical scaffolding is to physical construction.
Business benefits are directly shaped by your specific priorities. Want to sustainable pull-through on strategies that require consistent attention and action? Want to increase the ROI of new systems and processes that require mindset and behavior changes? Let's get you the support you need.
See SERVICES below for detailed offering descriptions.
Services
Bespoke options to elevate the business impact of your managers and teams.
Leadership Dyads
- 1:1 Executive Coaching -
CORE VALUE
For managers to elevate their unique leadership approach & effectiveness
Investment:
$2500
per block of 4 sessions
CORE BENEFITS
- Scale your personal influence and improve its ripple effects on and through your team
- Understand your unique strengths in action
- Apply your strengths to goals, challenges, and opportunities
- Examine unhelpful ruts, fears, and limiting beliefs
- Practice new ways to see, think, intepret, and lead your team
Q3 Pilots Scheduling Now!
Team Activation
- Pilots & Programs -
CORE VALUE
For managers to ensure daily action & excellence on strategic priorities
Investment:
$7500
per quarter, per manager
CORE BENEFITS
- Understand and activate the team's unique strengths
- Understand and socialize your collective strengths, gaps, and imbalances
- Apply strengths to goals, priorities, challenges, and emergent opportunities
- Sustained support to integrate strengths, strategic priorities, and team development into the flow of daily work
Team Motivation
- Talks & Workshops -
CORE VALUE
For leaders to ensure teams are primed to adapt, perform & innovate
Investment:
By Quote
per instance
CORE BENEFITS
- Discover and explore team innovation topics (ex: data sense-making, strengths paradigm, business model change, customer development)
- Enhance special events like quarterly business reviews, team retreats, sales meetings, etc.
- Distill a business model, external factors, and innovation opportunities
- Clarify criteria to evolve and evaluate innovations
- Imagine new models, collectively rank, choose, and build consensus
- Prepare for sustained innovation leadership and change support
- Scale your personal influence and improve its ripple effects on and through your team
Approach & Philosophy
Whatever we put attention to together, these themes will guide how we do so.
Servant-Leader Mindset
Like a tree trunk, leaders are the central support for branches of an organization. Resources move upwardly, including attention. We use this mindset to raise the quality of leadership at all levels.
Right-Brain Values Lead
Humans have a split brain, each half offering starkly different values and capabilities. This trait allows us to choose which value set has final authority. We elevate the wiser, socially attuned, reality-based half to preeminence.
Positive & Social Psychology
Noticing how people naturally function well is a resourceful and respectful way to raise creativity and productivity. We invest in talents and pro-social practices, build them into strengths, and use them to flourish.
Individualized Engagement
Nothing engages and brings peace of mind like being seen, understood, and valued for our unique qualities and contributions. We uphold individuality as a reliable basis for excellence, teamwork and innovation.
Renaissance Spirit
Leadership, team building, and innovation are complex and nuanced. To do them well is a blend of Science, Art, and Philosophy. We use this rich mash-up to inspire new views, creative collaboration, and growth.
Joie de vivre & Tempo Giusto
Zest for life is a potent source of intrinsic motivation for action. The "right tempo" for action is superior to bulldozing at top speed by default. We use both in dynamic tension as a useful governor of our energy.
What's the impact?
Participants report quick value and sustained benefits:
- Correlations to business impacts and results
- Measurable impact on team performance
- Highlight progress and success with data stories
- Reinforce daily action on business priorities
- Uplift teams to reduce burn-out and turnover
- Activate individual and team strengths
Feedback
"Burned out to Fired-up!"
Talk to 300 changemakers:
"...we were transformed. It was one of the most moving, affirming, and inspiring talks I’ve ever witnessed – precisely the message of hope and agency everyone needed in a world so often overshadowed by crisis. If I were leading any company or conference and needed to truly motivate a team... Frankie Ridolfi would be my first call."
— Exec. Dir., Climate Ride
"Thanks to your Teamwork"
Talk to biotech Operations team:
"...Frankie is a gifted orator who naturally captivates his audience. I found myself hanging on every word as he told his incredible story. By the end of Frankie’s talk, there wasn’t a dry eye in the large room and I felt a tremendous renewed sense of purpose. Everyone in the room was clearly moved and inspired."
— Dir. of Training & Acct. Dev., Vericel
