Why work with ICL?

Companies and organizations work with ICL to help address major organizational leadership challenges. 

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Reasons companies and organizations choose to work with ICL include: 

  • To strengthen and build those critical leadership skills needed to increase personal and organizational effectiveness.
  • To explore the role of shared power, collaboration, and communication in group interactions, and how each affects an organizations reach and results.
  • To help teams deal immediately and effectively with specific challenges they face (ie, siloed, geographic dispersion, cross cultural, product development, etc.)
  • To help leaders learn how to revitalize and re-energize themselves and others in their organization
  • To develop those skill sets and mind sets crucial to advancing an organizations mission and productive aims
  • To build a framework for creating, influencing and guiding an ethical institution
  • To facilitate understanding of the degree to which one's leadership style, personal power, and influence impacts organizational effectiveness
  • To build those leadership skills that create a team-based workforce, with emphasis on personal awareness and growth, effective working relationships, improving team performance, handling conflict in the workplace
  • To create more inclusive, effective and innovative workplaces/educational settings in a way that recognizes and draws upon the diversity of background, perspective, and opinions of the group membership
  • To explore the degree to which one's own ignorance, biases or self judgments limit an organizations ability to foster an inclusive workplace
  • To enhance the quality of worklife by helping organizations build and support an environment of trust
  • To help stimulate personal and career growth through self-directed development

ICL's Key Points of Distinction

ICL's training and development programs include research-based qualities to assure maximum learning. These values include:
  • Experiential learning: ICL pioneered and advanced adventure based learning with roots in innovation and deep impact; leads the way in setting new standards in adventure based training
  • Soft Skills Instruction: Integration of conscious/unconscious human dynamics that contribute to effective leadership and team function
  • Asset driven: Programming that creatively integrates community- based assets to enrich the learning process
  • Expertise: A diverse cadre of credentialed facilitators who have been with IC for decades and who share a passion for leadership renewal

ICL's "Staying Power" Assets

Pioneered and advanced experiential learning as a best practice in the leadership development industry; its success enabled the development of experiential learning as a mainstreamed management tool for building leader, team and cultural competence.
  • Long and well documented history of working effectively with the northeast Ohio region and beyond; over 75,000 individuals served from more than 500 client organizations; approximately 100 retreats/conferences/meetings are facilitated annually
  • Strong reputation for helping cross-sector organizations achieve their productive aims
  • Loyal, diverse, and collegial client base – a 5 – 25+ year client relationship is not uncommon
  • ICL's deeper and unique value is reflected in the real time feedback gathered at the end of each session; feedback consistently shows high degree of client satisfaction
  • Long-term board of trustees and facilitator involvement results in creative training direction and sensitivity to client needs.
  • Expertise at the board of trustee and facilitator level that responds to a wide range of organizational needs and requests; over 300 years of collective intelligence contributed from CWRU and JCU Masters and PH.D organizational development professionals
  • Knowledgeable of community-based assets and resources that creatively enhance program aims
  • Highly experienced in portable training for clients desiring ICL's involvement out-of-state (25 states + international)
  • For interested clients, proven track record in combining corporate leadership training with social responsibility to meet community need
  • Recognized and supported by area foundations for special projects and service; community awards and recognition for excellence
  • "Home-grown and home based' organization culture....not canned, umbrella, headquartered somewhere else, a satellite/spin-off of another
  • Reputation for being a high energy, sophisticated, responsive, trusted results, process oriented, culture conscious, and 'gusty' organization willing to put itself out there