The Glassdoor average company culture score is a D- (3.1 out of 5).

U.S. businesses alone spend over $160 billion dollars on leadership development each year, yet only 1 in 4 senior managers report that short-term trainings are critical to business outcomes.

If you aren’t asking for outside help developing your people, you may be neglecting your culture. If you are, you may be wasting your time.

At Palæstra we believe that leadership development is an inside job. Rather than offer trainings that start and stop, we help businesses build coaching in-house so that everyone in the company develops as a leader over the long term.

Learn more about what it takes to build a Deliberately Developmental Organization (DDO) that helps people grow together at work, every day.

IN-HOUSE PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES GET RESULTS:

Companies who make a deliberate effort to develop their entire workforce realize 26% more revenue per employee and benefit from 40% less turnover among high performers. 

We believe that people grow together when they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP) much like you see “on the mat” today in martial arts, yoga, or Crossfit. While most coaching is reserved for leaders or hi-potenials, peer coaching helps democratize access for the entire organization: everyone has a coach because everyone IS a coach. Since the manager ALONE accounts for over 70% of the variance in employee engagement, we start at the top to build the kind of executive alignment and high-performance teamwork that sets the tone for the entire company.

Practicing Together Builds Trust.
Learn more about how to scale leadership and create a high-trust coaching culture at every level of your organization.

For nearly two decades, Gallup data has shown that 70% of employees feel disengaged at work

Companies who have programs that address engagement achieve a 26% greater increase in annual revenue compared to those who don't.

We believe learning leadership is a lifelong journey. Since meaningful weekly feedback can increase employee engagement by 3.5x, we coach everyone in the company to give and receive feedback so that learning & development occur in the flow of work. With time and with practice, a more agile culture of feedback replaces the old, static model of quarterly or annual performance reviews.

Learn more about why our clients report that “Just two hours of live feedback with Palæstra is worth 6 months of classroom leadership training.”

Mastery takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice: continuous improvement through exposure to live feedback.

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself. To be is to be related.”

– Bruce Lee