The Listening Way
Leadership that helps others climb
Leadership is a finite resource. The Listening Way helps managers hear and direct change where it creates the greatest leverage. Where are results derived? Where is your limit to change? It’s in your frontline staff. Listen. Learn. Allocate.
We pride ourselves on attracting talented people to run our small business locations. However, it took many years to configure a system to operate it consistently. Out of this came “The LEV Way” –and recently rebranded to “The Listening Way.” We exist to help others climb!
Our system provides us with more management capacity than we have money to deploy into acquisitions. So we asked ourselves: How can we help develop more new managers?
“General Manager Training” is our first half-day workshop that teaches current or would-be managers how to become world-class managers –instead of bad bosses. Our certified installers teach The Listening Way and conduct role playing and more.
Our installers then join your managers as they install a consistent meeting cadence with each teammate that draws world-class results from your frontline employees and enables your managers to manage more people.
We encircle this with a listening platform that equips your managers and their managers with data regarding the ability of each person, and each team to withstand higher rates of change. It’s like a pressure guage that estimates the power, or untapped power within your team.
We help your team run at each individual max rate of change –driving toward your strategic outcome at max power. And along the way driving worldclass managers, who earn high marks while carrying more people per manager. Our managers earn a 9.66/10 employee net promotor score!
What is it?
The Listening Way: Unlocking Individual Performance
Small business owners often say, “it’s hard to find good people.” We refused to say this and blamed ourselves. We either needed to pay up for someone who already knew how to run a business, or we had to figure out how to develop managers amongst our team. We tried both. The reality of hiring someone who already knows everything is that they won’t run their location the same way as the next manager over in the other location. And then we had a problem. We needed a way to get consistent and get management leverage –that is, more managers of managers.
Whether you are an owner-operator of a 15 person team or the CEO of a 250 person team you are ultimately struggling with management. How do you get results from your team?
Instead of hiring a COO you can install The Listening Way. One workshop (up to 15 people) followed by tactical installation of our meeting cadence. It becomes the heartbeat of your organization. It’s not EOS or strategic planning. This is all about how to get max rate of change from each person on your team.
Launch Quarter: A 90 Day Sprint
In the Launch Quarter your leadership team joins us for a half day workshop where you learn the ins and outs of The Listening Way. One of our certified installers helps you get Daily Huddles going. Then, health stat monitoring. Follow this with Weekly 1:1’s. Hold each manager accountable to knowing each teammate –and adjusting their rate of change. See it in action, then scope out how quickly you want to install the remainder.
Pricing
Launch
$4,500/quarter.
No annual commitment to start. Decide after 90 days.
16 Listening Credits/quarter.
64 Listening Credits/year.
Ideal for teams 15-40 people.
Use Listening Credits to get an entire team of 15 people installed in one year. Allocate credits across workshops, executive coaching, and personalized installs per employee, plus get platform monitoring for the year.
Growth
$16,250/quarter.
250 Listening Credits/year.
Ideal for teams 40-120 people
Get all of Launch, but go bigger with a larger team, or go faster –if your team can handle it.
Enterprise
Call for Price.
1,500 Listening Credits/Year
Able to transfer between businesses.
Ideal for teams 120-500 or distribution partners.
It’s cheaper than hiring a COO. And, it’s a great add-on to your fractional CFO or strategic planning coaching business.
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We use Listening Credits so executives can adjust their installation needs quickly. Unused credits roll forward quarter to quarter, but expire within a year.
Certification
Installations are performed by LEV Certified Installers. These are people who have learned it and then done it under the observation and approval of an Installer Examiner. I do. We do. You do. Learn it. Practice it. Teach it.
Do you want to become an Installer? Or, want to explore fit for your company? Please book a Discovery Call.